Weston-super-Mare FRIDAY 3 – SUNDAY 5 APRIL 2020

Co-produced by The Arts and Culture Programme, University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Culture Weston.

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CULTURE WESTON is a pioneering UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS initiative that places outstanding BRISTOL AND WESTON NHS Health Weekender! cultural and heritage-based FOUNDATION TRUST will come activity at the heart of Weston’s into being on 1st April 2020 This inaugural festival celebrates wholeness and daily life and future development. (subject to regulatory approvals) togetherness; the anticipated joining of two hospital It supports and illuminates all that when University Hospitals Trusts to form University Hospitals Bristol and Weston makes Weston ‘Super’ through a Bristol NHS Foundation Trust st partnership-led programme that and Weston Area Health NHS NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April, and the launch dynamically develops people and Trust merge to form a combined of Culture Weston, a new initiative that develops, places. Ambitious new events organisation of over 13,000 supports and promotes cultural and heritage-based such as The Weston Arts + Health staff. Building on many years of activity as a vital part of the town’s life and growth. Weekender shape a thriving town and partnership working between the destination that reverberates with two Trusts, the merger will help At a time of new beginnings and new This is a whole community collaboration. opportunity, optimism and energy. bring stability to Weston General partnerships across placemaking, Creative workshops, walks and talks, Hospital so that it remains at the the arts and healthcare, we look back visual arts, performances, music, medical Culture Weston is being led by North heart of the community. The new at Weston’s truly super history as a seminars, hospital based arts activities arts organisation Theatre Trust will provide exceptional health resort, celebrate the many and and much more, magically mingle across Orchard, in collaboration with North services that meet the needs of varied opportunities to get creative the town to create a unique programme that are on offer now, and look forward with something for everyone. Somerset Council, Arts Council local people as well as delivering to establishing Weston as a beacon and the local community. specialist services across the for Arts and Health in the future. South West and beyond. THE HOSPITAL’S ARTS AND NotFromUtrecht Image by CULTURE PROGRAMME operates As well as Weston General across all ten hospital sites, working Hospital, the Trust comprises The arts are good for you, it’s official. So go on, dip your toe in partnership with civic and cultural Bristol Royal Infirmary, in waters new this weekend, and feel wonderfully refreshed! organisations to apply research Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol and encourage best practice in Haematology and Oncology Anna Farthing arts and health. By improving Centre, Bristol Royal Hospital Fiona Matthews ARTS PROGRAMME DIRECTOR the aesthetic environment and for Children, St Michael’s CULTURE WESTON DIRECTOR University Hospitals Bristol and providing opportunities to engage Hospital, Bristol Eye Hospital, Weston NHS Foundation Trust with creative activity, we support Bristol Dental Hospital, South the well-being of staff, students, Bristol Community Hospital, volunteers, visitors and patients. and Central Health Clinic. Full details and booking at cultureweston.org.uk Artist, Luke Jerram, will Creative Ageing be creating a bespoke artwork for The Weston Convention Arts + Health Weekender Friday 3 April All weekend | By the Grand Pier 1-5pm | Weston College Conference Centre, Knightstone Road, BS23 2AL £10 (tea and coffee included) Advance booking required. Age: 16+ Blakemore Paul Photograph Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Artists and creative activity Living in the UK but working internationally since 1997, For anyone who works with co-ordinators working with older people are welcome Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects or cares for older people to bring a small display and which have excited and inspired people around the world. leaflets about their work. A lively afternoon of presentations, provocations and discussion Further information will With many of his artworks in permanent collections about how creativity can transform the ageing process, inspired by be provided on booking. including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New The Baring Foundation’s research and recent report on the health and the Wellcome Collection in London, he also tours his benefits of arts activities for older people.baringfoundation.org.uk art installations to art festivals and museums. Gaining extensive international media coverage he has exhibited GEMS of wisdom from acute care with many of the established cultural organisations Hear from the artists and medical staff who have been devising interventions for long stay patients around the world. In 2019 alone, he had 117 exhibitions in at South Bristol Community Hospital; learn more about the Frailty teams working across University 22 different countries.In 2019 Luke Jerram was made Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust; and celebrate the best practice of Weston a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 2020 he General Hospital’s Geriatric Emergency Medicine Service (GEMS), the specialist team who care for was given an Honorary Doctorate from the University of older patients living with frailty and their carers. GEMS are the 2019 NHS Parliamentary Awards, Bristol and made an Honorary Academician of the RWA. South West Regional winners in the category of Excellence in Urgent and Emergency Care. His artwork the Museum of the Moon is one of Luke’s most successful arts projects that has caught the public’s imagination which so far has been presented in different Presenters confirmed to date include: ways, more than 150 times in 30 different countries and John McMahon, Isobel Jones, Amy Creech, experienced by more than 10 million people worldwide. Arts Council England Alive, Lighting up Later Life & Once Last year it was presented at Glastonbury Festival and Arts and Therapies even on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing in . Matt Lenny, Adam Rees, Director of Public Health, St Monica Trust Michael Prior, Learning from each artwork and moving on, Jerram Council The Reader is continually re-inventing his arts practice. As his Ruth Charity, practice is well known yet quite diverse, Luke Jerram Alex Coulter, Artlink, Oxford University Hospitals Stephanie Jalland, Arts and Health South West Hoodwink in Hospital Theatre Company was described by Bloomberg Television as “probably Laura Waters, the most famous artist you’ve never heard of.” Alison Teader, Air Arts, University Hospitals Beth Calverley, Arts in Care Homes of and Burton The Poetry Machine

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Join in special ‘Feeling Good’ storytime or rhymetime sessions in North Somerset’s libraries – fun, free sessions all week sharing stories and rhymes for The Empathy Room children under 5 and their parents and carers. Claire Hall 10am-5pm | Sovereign Centre, opposite the Food Court Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 Stories in Scrubs Letters in the Leaves Friday 3 April Friday 3 April Award-winning North Somerset artist Claire 9.30-10am | Weston Library, Town Hall 10am-12pm | Weston Library, Town Hall Hall presents ‘The Empathy Room’, a series of Free and drop-in Free and drop-in glass art works about mental illness. These fragile and highly personal artworks are Guest NHS staff in uniform will be installed in a dark room and accompanied by leading a special session for 0-5s, Come for a rest in the library’s indoor original music, inviting visitors to contribute featuring stories that help to promote garden, take a seat, and meet arts and their own responses and experiences. health, happiness and hilarity. Join in health specialist Elspeth Penny, and and exercise your chuckle muscles! medical researcher Alice Malpass. Create your own very special letter using Wider Artworks an otherworldly letter-writing rack, unusual opening times as above Reading Well helps you to pens, homemade inks, and inspiration. understand and manage your health No experience needed. All abilities and Members of North Somerset Arts will also and wellbeing using helpful reading. ages are welcome! Made possible by the be showing a selection of wall based work The books are all chosen and Life of Breath project. lifeofbreath.org endorsed by health experts, as well on the theme of Heath and Wellbeing to as people living with the conditions complement the Empathy Room installation. covered and their relatives and carers. Available in your local library: Get Creative at Lego Club! Saturday 4 April Happy HeArts • Reading Well for mental health 10.30am-12pm | Weston Library, Worle Ebb & Flow by Gail Mason 2pm-5pm | Food Court, Sovereign Centre • Reading Well for dementia Library and Weston Children’s Centre Saturday 4 April • Reading Well for young people Age 4+ • Reading Well for long term conditions A free drop-in visual arts workshop that • Reading Well for children takes you on a journey of self-discovery. Be Find out more n-somerset.gov.uk/ creative and de-stress, relax and unwind. libraries and librarieswest.org.uk Artist Jo Green will help you to discover North Somerset Arts support and the benefits that creative art brings to promote art and artists in North Somerset your emotional and physical well-being. with a biannual open studios plus much more besides northsomersetarts.org

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Arts at Weston Take your teddy to hospital! 10-11am | Weston General Hospital (Saturday only) General Hospital Free, but advance booking required Grange Road, BS23 4TQ Calling all junior (and infant) doctors! Bring your teddies for a health check with the medical staff in the Seashore From 10am-5pm, all weekend Centre for children, learn about the equipment, and find out about the different jobs that people do in a hospital.

The Green Cure 10am–4pm | Weston General Hospital Grounds

Weston General Hospital is set in beautiful grounds and has Creative Writing Music Chat a number of light-filled courtyards. Many of the gardens are Theatre-maker Viv Gordon will A stream of live music will fill Weston Hospital looked after by hospital volunteers, others by school children run a writing workshop with the air throughout the weekend, Radio will be making and local green fingered Brownies. Research shows that patients and staff, linked to with pop up recitals from staff special Arts + Health engaging with nature can reduce stress, and patients and her latest show exploring the choir ‘The Sliding Scales’ and broadcasts throughout visitors are always welcome to use these outdoor spaces. power of breath. See website local volunteers, thanks to the weekend. Throughout the weekend there will be an accessible trail that for details of how to sign up. North Somerset Music Service will take in some of the most relaxing sensory features. and The Piano Shop, Bath.

Art Andy Council, whose famous dinosaur murals stomp splendidly through indoor and outdoor sites across the country, has created a special series of illustrations for Poetry the hospital. Be drawn in by his Beth Calverley and The Poetry exhibition on the ground floor. Machine will be traversing the hospital and creating be-spoke poetry with staff and patients.

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Alice in the Underworld OPEN AIR BA Performing Arts students, University Centre Weston 12-12:30pm | Food Court, Sovereign Centre, BS23 1HL Parklife Free, no booking required All ages Get Down and Dig It Take a journey down the rabbit hole with these talented performing arts with Friends of Grove Park students and discover a land of the subconscious where inner demons 2-4pm | Grove Park, BS23 2QJ rub shoulders with hopes, wondrous desires and a certain white rabbit. OPEN AIR All ages And no adventure with Alice is quite complete without a tea party of cups half-full; come and whet your whistle whilst you watch. By the sea Roll up your sleeves, embrace the earth and help Grove Park get ready for Summer. Enjoy some jazzy tunes to help Big Clean Spring Clean: you whistle while you work, and sample Summit to Sea fun activities for all the family with Play Venus Wild CiC, Warriors of Wellbeing and Dan Watson Presented by Surfers Against Sewerage and Cleaner Coastlines Weston-super-Rocks. Gardening has 7.30-8.50pm (including interval) | Blakehay never felt so good. Spades provided. Theatre, Wadham Street, BS23 1JZ 10.30am-12pm | Meet on the beach by the Grand Pier From £10. Limited number of half price tickets online Free, drop-in, all ages – go ‘Bananaramas’ and grab them quick. Book via cultureweston.org.uk, discount code Bananarama. Help to create a cleaner environment and The Steel Squid Collective All ages breathe in the ozone, whilst working out 3pm-3.30pm | Bandstand, Grove Park those muscles. What’s not to love? Bin bags As a child, Dan lost a British holiday-camp dance and feel good factor on the house. Beachy A group of young musicians who competition. Largely because he totally misunderstood dance moves provided by Weston’s very have learning disabilities. Filling the what competitive dance was, and they didn’t play his own Atomic Rhubarb theatre company. park with good gardening vibes. song of choice, ‘Venus’ by Bananarama. This performance enacts the version of the event that he would have liked to happen, the dance he would have performed had he known better, been braver, had a ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ moment. ENVIRONMENTAL Holly Revell/Risk Rusk Holly Revell/Risk Image by WARRIORS! Don’t forget to check out The End of the Pier show at the end of the “‘Venus’ was a standout show for us... It was a pier on Sunday morning, and find struggle to stay in our seats and not get up and join out about Lindsey Coles’ Mermaid- the 80s Pontins dance competition recreation.” shaped quest to raise awareness êêêê of plastics on Sunday afternoon. PULSE FESTIVAL 2018

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‘Witness This’ turns the spotlight on mental health in a powerful and moving portrayal of how loved ones cope when mental health problems take hold of someone close. Deeply personal, the piece tells the story of choreographer, Kevin Edward Turner, following his journey and struggle with Bipolar. The result is an unforgettable view of mental health through dance and movement. Manchester-based Company Chameleon create powerful and original productions, which tour the UK and the world.

“Beautifully revealing, unforgettably good.” Judith Macrell THE GUARDIAN

Witness This has been supported by Without Walls, Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival and Brighton Festival.

Co-Operation Mufti Games 11am-4pm | Italian Gardens, BS23 1AJ Free, outdoor arts All ages Frantic “So moving and beautiful, I was almost in Acrojou tears… a joy, so gentle, meaningful, speaking 1.45pm and 4.15pm (30 minutes) Mufti Games take on the NHS in a blood and guts version of the human condition. Thank you.” Italian Gardens, BS23 1AJ of the childhood favourite board-game, Operation! Audience member on Frantic Free, outdoor arts Budget cuts are grinding medical departments to the All ages core. One operating theatre has resorted to inviting volunteer surgeons to undertake keyhole surgery, organ Love, freedom, blood, sweat and “One of the finest short dance pieces I have transplants and emergency amputations. Big bonuses rainstorms: Frantic is an explosive acrobatic seen ...an intensely moving experience.” for those that can operate in the quickest time! exploration of our relentless devotion to Richard Ings, Arts Council England on Frantic busyness, the reality of a running mind Co-Operation is an interactive comedy game with and one man’s thirst for escape. the highest stakes on the market. Dose up on some really unhealthy competition. This hospital bed-based Frantic features spectacular acrobatics and Frantic has been supported by Without Walls, and bedlam will have you in stitches in no time. dance-theatre, choreographed around a wheel, commissioned by Brighton Festival, Winchester Hat Fair, with a joyous finale danced in pouring rain. Mintiest and Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival.

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Town Centre Music is life, that’s why our hearts have beats!

A range of musical recitals presented by North Somerset Music Service Holistic Space Food Hall, Sovereign 2pm-5pm | Food Court, Weston Artspace Centre, BS23 1HL Sovereign Centre, BS23 1HL Saturday and Sunday, 11am-4pm | Hatha Yoga session for 73 High Street, BS23 1HE 10.30am-11.15am Stayin’ Alive all abilities at 4pm Weston Wishes Open Studios North Somerset Free, but book in advance Concert Band Dance Flashmob! Sovereign Centre, BS23 1HL 2pm and 2.30pm | Food Court, Weston Artspace is a place Sovereign Centre, BS23 1HL Immerse yourself in a host Hunt out the zingy green for Weston-super-Mare’s 11.45am-12.15pm of free holistic experiences Weston Wishes postcards creative community to meet, North Somerset Groove on down to the including massage from around the Sovereign Centre. work, develop skills and share Swing Band Sovereign Centre and join Armonia Olistica, healing arts, Completed by residents ideas. Anyone is welcome to young and old alike in a spot meditation by Equilibrium and young and old, through words, become a member and it’s 12.45am-1.30pm of Saturday Afternoon Fever Back in Balance Collective. drawing and poems, these free for Weston-based artists. North Somerset that’ll raise temperatures To end the afternoon with state what the people of Artspace will be throwing Concert Band in the right way. Carry on a happy stretch, be sure to Weston want for Weston. open its doors throughout the beat of Stayin’ Alive by book onto Do Yoga’s session at the weekend, with exhibitions Have a honk! learning how to do CPR. 4pm. An altogether different and workshops for all to Friends of North Somerset Medical experts will be on kind of shopping experience. enjoy. For the full programme Music Service help you try Samaritans hand to show you how. please check terrestrial. out an instrument between 2pm-5pm | Food Court, And don’t miss Do Yoga’s org.uk/weston-artspace the bands. Pluck, toot, bang Sovereign Centre, BS23 1HL Friday and Saturday classes – find out what instrument elsewhere in Weston, makes you smile. Samaritans work to make absolutely free of charge during sure there’s always somebody The Weekender if pre-booked there for anyone who Seek out the in advance. More information needs someone. Find out miniature sand on cultureweston.org.uk sculpture that has how they can support you That Creative Thingy and how you can become been specially involved as a volunteer. created for The Wotsit are setting up camp Weston Arts + in the Italian Gardens all Health Weekender weekend to promote their by Weston Sand North Somerset Dementia Friends 3000 Challenge. 14 | BOOK AT CULTUREWESTON.ORG.UK Sculpture Festival Saturday 4 April Heritage Spa Spangled Weston Air Like Wine! A glug of Weston-super-Mare’s vintage health history Song at Sunset Sing with Soul “Two decades before the arrival of Brunel’s railway, 7.30-8pm | Car Park Roof, Sovereign Centre, BS23 1HL doctors were encouraging fashionable (and Free, but advance booking required wealthy) Bath visitors to escape ‘the stewpot’ of that licentious and polluted city for the invigorating Take a moment. Pause awhile. See the freshness of Weston’s unpolluted air. bigger picture from one of the highest Once in Weston, amidst the welcoming charm of viewpoints in town. Gaze out across the BUBBLE- ‘rusticated inhabitants’, Mr Griffith’s ‘Essence of Weston’s History of Health sea as the glowing sun goes down over TASTIC OFFER! Sea-Weed’ would be sure to cure numerous A talk from historian, panoramic Weston-super-Mare, soothingly FREE ailments including ‘general rigidity’. John Crockford-Hawley washed by the acapella sound waves of pool and healthaccess suite to at the Weston’s swimming Hutton Saturday 5 April Sing with Soul. If this moves you to Oooh Moor Leisure Centre throughout April for Weather was idyllic since sunshine was 4pm-5pm | Weston Museum, and Aaaah, there will be opportunities all Bubble Schmeisis ticket holders – show ‘abundant’ and rain only fell ‘in the daytime‘, Burlington Street, BS21 1PR to join the choir in a sing-a-long. your ticket at the leisure centre reception. taking ‘the form of easily avoided passing Free but online pre-booking required showers’. What’s more, in the Winter, many Register in advance at leisurecentre.com/ 12 years + people did ‘as well at Weston as on the register (Health Suite, which Riviera... where wind is often troublesome’. Bubble Schmeisis Air Like Wine: Weston-super-Mare. Nick Cassenbaum includes sauna, steam and Come the 20th century’s jazzy 20s and 30s, An intoxicating insight into Weston’s 8.30-10.30pm | The Stable, spa for 18 years+). the health resort stakes went up a notch with esteemed history as a health resort. Wadham Street, BS23 1JY the creation of a new Marine Lake and Open Air A light-hearted and fact-filled hour £10, book at cultureweston.org.uk Pool pandering to the body beautiful craze. That’s in the fine company of Councillor when we coined the ‘Air Like Wine’ poster blurb...” John Crockford-Hawley. Welcome to the steam baths. In fact to a schvitz – a Jewish steam bath where old men go to wash, relax, complain and rejuvenate, to exchange jokes and gossip and to swap Bubble Schmeisis. From Village to Town: Writer and street performer Nick Cassenbaum Weston-super-Mare’s invites you into the warmth of the Canning Town Built Heritage This exhibition, created by the South West Heritage Schvitz, East London’s last authentic bath house. Weston Museum, Burlington Trust in partnership with North Somerset Council and Amongst the steam and ritual Nick will take you on Street, BS21 1PR Historic England, celebrates a complex and remarkable a journey to find the place he belongs. Schlepping Open all weekend from heritage which reflects Weston’s transformation through summer camps, barber shops and Spurs 10am–5pm (and until 9 May) from a small village to a busy seaside resort. games. Will he find what he was looking for? Bubble Schmeisis is full of intimate and personal true stories about identity, home Creating a seaside and getting schmeised (washed) by old men. resort: in the footsteps of Hans Price Hans Price was the architect responsible for much “This is a warm, informative, lovely show, and you A guided walk through Weston of the development of Weston-super-Mare during its would do well to spend an hour at the baths” Includes Sunday 5 April, 10.30am Victorian heyday. Join expert Johanna Roethe from êêêê Meet at Weston Railway Station Historic England on what promises to be a fascinating BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE klezmer gig and Walk ends with shared lunch in Sunday stroll. Hear how the town embraced new-fangled dancing after Sovereign Centre at 12 noon ideas about leisure and recreation, and see how his the show! Free, but advanced booking required buildings were designed to create health and harmony. 16 | BOOK AT CULTUREWESTON.ORG.UK Sunday 5 April At the beach... ‘Beach Memories’ installation project Create Together 10am-12pm | sandcastle building 12pm-5pm | come and have a peek on the sand by the Grand Pier! Hungry for Poetry Chapter One, Poetry All ages with Bob Walton Pharmacy and We Are 11am-12pm | Food Court, The Hands – Mash Up! Helen Wheelock of ‘Create Together’ is Sovereign Centre, BS23 1HL 12pm-1.30pm | Waterstones, engaging with a range of community groups Free, drop in Sovereign Centre, BS23 1HL and residential homes in the lead up to the Free, drop in Weekender, to gather visual memories of Join Bob Walton – published being beside the seaside in Weston. These poet (‘Sax Burglar Blues’) Chapter One is a fortnightly, will be made into sandcastle flags that will and founder of Weston’s open access creative writing bedeck a beach installation created across Chapter One writing group group at Big Worle Hub that the course of Sunday morning. Come and – in a fun, drop-in writing is run by Theatre Orchard make your own flag or join Weston Youth session where tasty titbits and led by Bob Walton and Forum and the Mini Police who will be at the of gentle advice will get Sue Hill of the Write Box. forefront of the sandcastle production line! your creative juices flowing. ‘The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried Write, eat and be merry! Following The Weston Arts + Health Weekender, and True Prescriptions for the flags will inform a permanent art installation The End of the Pier Show the Heart, Mind and Soul’ is created by Helen Wheelock of ‘Create Johnny Fluffypunk, supported “I’d heartily recommend it a collection of verse edited Together’ for the foyer of the For All Healthy by Strike A Light as a medicine for anyone Living Centre on Weston’s South Ward. by William Seighart. 10.30-11.15am | Regency Suite, feeling vaguely low: dip into The Grand Pier Walton’s jazzed-up version ‘These Are The Hands’ is a “I like to think I was conceived in Weston-super- Age 7+ of the world and you will poetry anthology that gives Mare, in the Four Winds bed and breakfast. We £6 (no additional pier entry charges). inevitably surface from the voice to the experiences of spent family summer holidays in Weston, having Book in advance online. pages in a brighter hue.” NHS staff and celebrates lunch on the train from Bristol. I remember sand WALES ARTS REVIEW on Bob their creativity and talent. in the gutters of the streets way back from the At the end of a pier in a seaside town, Walton’s Sax Burglar Blues Meet local contributors front, and the beautiful smell of the ozone.” Pierre the pier handyman catches Beth Calverley, Katrina Food Cycle Feast! RICHARD LONG, TURNER PRIZE WINNING fish for his old bedridden mother and Curtis and Rachel 12pm-1.30pm | Food Court, ARTIST BASED IN NORTH SOMERSET makes strange and wonderful things McCoubrie and hear Sovereign Centre, BS23 1HL from the rubbish he finds on the beach. them read their entries Food Cycle support people who Then who should wash into his life but a Members of Chapter Beach Volleyball are hungry and lonely by serving homeless mermaid with a spiky attitude One and Weston’s poetry 10am-12pm | On the sand by the Grand Pier tasty, free healthy meals every and a story to tell! Can kindness lead to collective Word Mustard, Age 14 years+ single day in towns and cities across great things? Can a bit less litter make a along with poets featured the country. Using surplus food Free, drop-in difference? Can the world’s first human/ in ‘These Are The Hands’, cooked in spare kitchen space, mermaid rock ‘n’ roll band make big waves? will gather together in a hundreds of volunteers give up their Weston Volleyball Club offer year-round relaxed environment to time to make life taste better. coaching for all standards from national league Renowned stand-up poet and lo-fi share their own poems Come along in a shared community to a bop on the beach. Whether you are looking theatre maker Jonny Fluffypunk presents and those of others. feast at the Food Court, for fitness, fun or competition, there’s a place at a brand spanking new little show for generously served up by the newly the net for you. Olympic gold may be a long shot families, with poetry, puppetry, story, established Food Cycle Weston. but a pitch of golden sand is calling your name! song and a healthy dose of anarchy. 18 | BOOK AT CULTUREWESTON.ORG.UK 19 Sunday 5 April Letting Stories Breathe: how arts + health Medicine: The approaches may support GP-patient communication Wider Horizon 12pm-1pm | North Tower, The Grand Pier Free to bookers of Medicine: The 2pm-5pm | Regency Suite, Grand Pier Wider Horizon, but advance online £20 all-in-one price, book online booking required as capacity limited Age 12+, pay-bar available Join Elspeth Penny, Dr Alice Malpass and Professor Gene 2pm–2.15pm Feder to explore how arts and Introduction health approaches using letters Good Grief: How to feel better as stories may support patients with words and music to communicate to doctors. Kate Dimbleby and Cathy Rentzenbrink This workshop was initially 9 Million Nobodies 4pm–4.45pm developed as part of the Life of A co-devised production Breath projects (lifeofbreath. with Theatre Lounge and Made in Bristol Kate is a singer and Cathy is a writer. Kate’s org). Never feel tongue-tied Magic and Medicine 2.15pm–2.45pm grandfather was Richard Dimbleby who was at the doctor’s again! Peter Clifford known as ‘the Voice of the Nation’ for his 3pm–3.45pm 9 Million Nobodies is a collaborative partnership broadcasting work during the war. Cathy Age 12+ project between Theatre Orchard’s accessible comes from a long line of nobodies. Since Adult Drama session, Theatre Lounge and they met, they have been exploring what A show which explores and illuminates the Bristol Old Vic’s graduate training programme, it means to find and own your voice, for links between magic and medicine... each Made in Bristol. The idea for the piece sprung themselves and everyone else. Join them with their own spells and potions, used for from a term of research and development for uplifting songs and stories with lots the benefit of humankind. Both are distant undertaken by Theatre Lounge participants. of laughter and possibly a few tears. descendants of Alchemy and pagan ritual with Developed and devised by the groups over roots traced back to ancient Egypt and beyond. “Rentzenbrink offers a huge message of hope for a course of 8 weekly sessions, 9 Million Play with the puzzles of how the world is anyone who is going through grief, loss or trauma” Nobodies uses participant lived experience perceived and how even our bodies don’t THE SUNDAY TIMES to explore the themes of loneliness, social Image by Marie Dominique Demers-King Image by always tell us the truth… Experience the isolation and what it means to be human in fun, feel-good factor of wonders shared... “Stunning vocal virtuosity ...an artist a world of decreasing community and social how you shouldn’t always trust your eyes absolutely at the top of her game” connection. The title of the piece refers to and can’t even believe your mind! BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC ON KATE DIMBLEBY the number of people recorded currently in the UK as having described themselves to Peter Clifford is a consultant magician. an agency as ‘lonely’ or ‘socially isolated’ He works as an advisor to Derren Brown 4.45pm-5pm and David Blaine, and supports doctors Discussion “Great collaborative performance, powerful in training through role-play. personal testimony, do it again and again.” Audience feedback This programme includes an introduction to DECEMBER 2019 medical humanities at 2pm and opportunities for audience discussion at 4.45pm chaired by Dr Anna Farthing, Arts Programme Director, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.

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Theatre Lounge Chapter One Swimming Theatre Orchard’s open access adult Fortnightly creative writing sessions with drama group. A warm welcome for Bob Walton (Creative Writing Tutor Cardiff all and no experience required. University, and published poet) and Sue Hill Every Thursday afternoon at Loxton from The Write Box every other Tuesday at Hub, BS23 4QU. 12.15pm-2.15pm the Big Worle Hub, BS22 6LN, 2pm-4pm. See them in action on Sunday with 9 Million Nobodies. See Chapter One in action at Waterstones for on Sunday as part of Poetry Mash Up. Theatre Orchard Youth Theatre Sing with Soul Discover live arts, discover yourself! Lively Loud and clear, everyone’s voice and light-hearted sessions for 7-11s. Every deserves to be heard. Coming soon, Thursday afternoon at For All Healthy a new singing group for women with Living Centre, BS23 3SJ, 4.15pm-5.15pm Dionne Draper’s acclaimed soul choir. See them in action, Song at Sunset on Saturday evening. Both Theatre Lounge and Youth Theatre are led by Theatre Orchard’s engagement manager Angela Athay-Hunt (Bristol Old Vic, Travelling wellbeing Light), plus visiting professional artists All of Theatre Orchard’s engagement sessions and film-makers throughout the year. are delivered by experienced, inspirational practitioners absolutely free of charge Dance from your Heart! because we believe everyone deserves A lively, toe-tapping dance group aimed to have their inner artist unleashed! at the over 50s; explore a variety of dance styles from swing to disco. Led by To find out more and register interest please Theatre Orchard’s Dance Producer Vic contact [email protected] Hole (BA Hons Contemporary Dance). A talk from adventurer Soup Kitchen, Swim & Sea Art Every Monday from April at the For All Healthy Theatre Orchard’s Engage programme would not Starting at Loves Cafe at 4pm be possible without generous support from BBC Lindsey Cole Living Centre, BS23 3SJ, 10.30am-12pm Children in Need, Quartet Community Foundation, Sea Swim at 5pm lindseycole.co.uk See them in action as part of Saturday’s Dance Flashmob! Nisbett Trust, Didymus Trust and Big Worle. 3pm-4pm, incl. Q&A | Loves Cafe, West Street, BS23 1JR Sea Art at Artspace from 5.45pm Free but advance online booking required Please note that due to health and safety ...and for more uplifting outdoor arts, don’t miss requirements, numbers for this event are Lindsey is an adventurer. She has swum strictly limited. Places must be booked online the length of the River Thames dressed as in advance and disclaimers completed. a mermaid to highlight the current plastic pandemic. In 2019 she swum all over Britain with Kick off your Sunday Swim extravaganza more than 1000 people in over 100 beautiful by making soups and hot drinks at Loves coastline spots, lochs, rivers and tarns. Cafe, perfect fodder to take to the beach Whirligig! for après-swim. Head off together for an 11 July 2020 in Weston’s Italian Gardens outdoor sea swim beside the Pier (preceded Winner of Best UK Small Event, by a safety briefing), followed by soup NOEA Awards 2019 And whilst you are at Loves, dive into artist and hot drinks on the beach. Finally head ’s stunning exhibition that is Nancy Farmer to Weston Artspace for sea themed arts inspired by her love of swimming outside in all weather and temperatures. Studies workshops relating to your experience of the human figure gliding through the in the water. Making Sundays special. inky depths or tumbling through gold leaf bubbles waterdrawn.com. Until 5 April 2020. Image by Nancy Farmer Directory of Community Contributors

Armonia Olistica Food Cycle Weston Supermares! The Write Box Revive your spirit with a range of Holistic Tasty meals for those who need sustenance Supermares, Sea Swimmers and Creative writing excellence with Bob Walton treatments armoniaolistica.co.uk/treatments and friendship. Operating from the kitchen Dippers! meet regularly in Weston. and Sue Hill, helping everyone to pick up a at the For All Healthy Living Centre. Find out Check them out on facebook. pen and discover a whole new world. Contact Artspace more foodcycle.org.uk/location/weston via [email protected] A hub for Weston’s creative community. Free to That Creative Thingy Wotsit join. Find out more terrestrial.org.uk/weston- Friends of Grove Park An organisation that takes the arts to residential Warriors of Wellbeing artspace or email [email protected] Dude and dog group, learning how to care homes, and that trains artists and care Group of organisations and individuals look after the environment, creating bug staff in people-centred creative care. Contact that aims to challenge how people Create Together homes…. there is so much you can do in [email protected] think and act about mental health Community based arts and health practice a park, and these guys rock it all. Find out facebook.com/warriorsofwellbeing led by professional artist Helen Wheelock. more facebook.com/groveparkwsm Volunteer at Weston General Hospital Using crafts activities to collaborate with It helps your health service, and Weston Sand Sculpture Festival people who may not otherwise engage Play Wild! it can be good for you too! Since 2006 the Festival has grown from a single in the arts [email protected] Outdoor play and forest school for Typical tasks include: sculpture to a hugely anticipated event that Weston. Breathe it in at playwild.co.uk • Front Desk: greeting visitors and has welcomed over a million visitors, earning Community Connections patients to the hospital. Weston the title of ‘Sand Sculpting Capital Creative connecting project of Social Samaritans • Hospital Wards: helping ward of the UK’. westonsandsculpture.co.uk Prescribers working alongside local healthcare Ensuring that nobody ever needs to feel alone. clerks, nursing staff and befriending professionals in South Ward, Weston Super Always in need of willing volunteers. Contact and assisting at mealtimes Weston-super-Rocks Mare. The aim of the service is to help people the Weston branch at freephone 116 123 • Print Room: photo-copying, binding etc. Creativity and nature play in Weston. to access holistic, non-medical support for • Clerical: supporting the clerical staff Search for painted rocks in your local the social, financial and emotional challenges Sing with Soul around the Trust, in the hospital and park, or paint & hide for others to find that are impacting on their health. Supported “I believe our voice is our super power!” Dionne at our Children’s Services offices facebook.com/WestonSuperRocks by Arts + Health South West, Theatre Orchard Draper, Founder of Singing with Soul, dedicated • Fundraising: helping to raise money to make and the For All HLC. [email protected] to empowering female voices singwithsoul.com a difference to the patients stay in hospital. Weston Volleyball • Green Teams: helping to maintain the many Year round indoor and outdoor volleyball Equilibrium Meditation Sunshine Hospital Radio courtyards within the hospital grounds for all. wsmvolleyball.co.uk Still your mind and embrace calm. If you have a musical request or • Book Service: visiting patients [email protected] would like to know more, contact with the book trolley [email protected] waht.nhs.uk/en-GB/Working-With- or telephone 01934 619252 Us/Volunteers/Volunteering Thank you A grateful shout-out to those writers who are sharing their works through The Weston Arts + Health Weekender: University Hospitals Bristol Thanks also to wider venues Music Service, North & Weston NHS Foundation The Grand Pier, Blakehay Somerset Libraries, Life of The Poetry Machine, Sax Burglar Blues, by Robert Older and wiser? Creative Trust and Culture Weston Theatre and The Stables; Breath, NHS@70: The Story Beth Calverley at Weston Walton (Seren Books) ageing in the UK 2010-19, by Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, would like to thank and to the For All Healthy of Our Lives, The Piano General Hospital These Are the Hands: An NHS King’s College London University Centre Weston Living Centre, Heritage Shop Bath, Weston Museum The Last Act of Love: The Story Poetry Anthology with Michael (Baring Foundation) Read at and Sovereign Centre Action Zone, North Somerset and Weston Town Council of My Brother and his Sister, by Rosen (Fair Acre Press) baringfoundation.org.uk for provision of space. Council, North Somerset for supporting events. Cathy Rentzenbrink (Picador)

If you’d like to get involved with Culture Weston, please contact [email protected] Art Trail South Ward Open access throughout the year South Ward is sandwiched between the sea and 1 the Somerset levels. A huge network of drainage channels called Rhynes connect the levels to the sea, cutting through South Ward and bringing unique visual character to this landscape. The Rhynes Art trail starts and ends at the For All Healthy Living Centre, BS23 3SJ. Pick up a 2 map at the For All Healthy Living Centre (closed 3 Sundays) or download at cultureweston.org.uk Some local people still remember the donkey 4 field on Selworthy Road. Artist Sally Matthews was commissioned to create three life sized donkeys 6 7 on the site where the donkeys crossed the road Venue map on their way back from working on the beach. 11 1. Grove Park 10 2. Blakehay Theatre 8

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4. Loves Cafe Shifting Horizons: A 5. For All Healthy Living Centre 9 photographic exhibition 12 Paul Blakemore (paulblakemore. 6. Winter Gardens co.uk) & Theatre Orchard Dolphin Square, BS21 1FF 7. Italian Gardens 8. Grand Pier Weston-super-Mare is a place of big skies and dramatic landscapes. Its heyday history of 9. Beach fun and frolics identified it as a place where imaginations ran free and 10. Sovereign Centre people felt good. Weston’s seafront is still a unique place for residents 11. High Street and visitors to play and to discover 12. Library new versions of themselves. Endless possibilities roll in with the tide. 13. Weston General Hospital This exhibition is a collaboration between Weston-super-Mare based photographer 5 Paul Blakemore, Theatre Orchard and a range of artists who have been N drawn to the town to live or work.

13 Friday 3 Friday Venus p.10 Conference Centre 1pm |Weston College Creative Ageing Convention p.5 |Food12pm Court Alice intheUnderworld p.10 10am |Weston (Town Library Hall) Letters intheLeaves p.6 9.30am |Weston (Town Library Hall) Stories inScrubsp.6 at a All day |Weston General Hospital at theHospitalp.8 Arts by theGrand Pier All weekend |Thebeach, Luke installation Jerram art p.4 From 11am |Weston Artspace and workshops p.15 Open Doors –exhibitions From 10am|Weston Museum From Villageto Town p.17 From 10am|Sovereign Centre Room andGeneral Exhibitionp.7 Somerset EmpathyNorth Arts: All weekend 7.30pm |Blakehay Theatre glance... [email protected]. Programme may besubjectto slightchange Saturday 4 Saturday DO yoga p.14 3pm |Grove Park Steel SquidCollective p.11 2pm |Grove Park Get Down andDigItp.11 From 2pm|Food Court Holistic Space p.14 1.45pm and4.15|ItalianGardens Frantic p.13 2pm and2.30pm|Food Court Stayin’ Alive p.14 and3.15pm|ItalianGardens12.15pm Witness Thisp.12 From 11am |ItalianGardens Co-Operation p.12 From 11:15am |Food Court Have aHonk! p.14 From 10:30am|Food Court Band andSwingBand p.10 SomersetNorth Concert 10:30am |Beach Big CleanSpringp.11 & Children’s Centre 10:30am |Worle Library 10:30am |Weston (Town Library Hall) Get Creative at LegoClubp.6 10am |Weston General Hospital Take Your Teddy to Hospitalp.9 8:30pm |TheStable Bubble Schmeisisp.16 7:30pm |Sovereign Centre roof Song at Sunset p.16 4pm |Museum Weston’s of History Healthp.17 4pm |Food Court For access information to venues, pleaseseewebsite orcontact Sunday 5 the footsteps of HansPrice p.17 Creating In aSeasideResort: 10:30am |Grand Pier The Endof thePierShow p.19 10am |Beach Volleyball p.19 From 10am|Beach Beach Memoriesp.19 5pm |BesideGrand Pier&Artspace Wild Swim&Art 4pm |Loves Cafe Soup Kitchen 3pm |Loves Cafe Lindsey Cole Talk Well-being p.22 Swimming for 4pm Good Grief 3pm Magic &Medicine 2:15pm 9 MillionNobodies 2pm Introduction Grand Pier p.20–21Wider Horizon Medicine: The |Grand12pm Pier Letting Stories Breathe p.20 |Waterstones12pm Poetry MashUpp.18 |Food12pm Court Food Cycle Feast! p.18 11am |Food Court forHungry Poetry p.18 10:30am |Meet attrain station

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