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Changing Faces And Places (City Arts)
Changing Faces and Places (CFP) is a Nottingham City Council and Nottingham Primary Care Trust initiative that uses leisure and arts activities to address the health needs of the local population of the NG7 area of Nottingham.
Participating groups have been offered various creative activities, including the making of 'scrap art' in Health Centres, craft making sessions at the Art Exchange, and tours of Nottingham's art venues. Young women from ASPIRE (a support group for teenage mothers) are working with City Arts on a stained glass project, creating individual and group pieces. CFP participants have also contributed, through their art work, to the development of the programme's visual identity and profile in the area.
The process of participants acquiring new art or craft skills (for example jewellery making) enables the development of other personal and transferable skills, building self-confidence to tackle challenges in other contexts. Working through the arts in this way can be an effective and rapid way of changing people's perceptions of themselves.
An important aim of the CFP programme is to break down social isolation. Working with other women of different ages and backgrounds has helped participants who may feel isolated - from society in general, or within segregated communities. CFP has responded to research suggesting that the most common barrier to attending leisure activities is "no one to attend with". So the arts work undertaken is designed to build networks of people who support each other's participation.
The programme also fosters an increased awareness of other local opportunities. Information is shared on the provision of activities relevant to further skills development. One attraction (and result) of CFP is greater integration into the fabric of city life by connecting with other Access schemes, such as City card and Leisure Plus services.
Changing Faces and Places is an example of how a service or provision can use the arts directly to achieve its goals in a local setting, supporting the affirmation and development of individuals to improve their sense of health and well-being.
For more information contact City Arts
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EMPAF has a new website which is to be launched in September. Based on the social networking model it will enable users and members to put up profiles for individuals, projects and organisations. There is also an option to link to other profiles, send comments and update with news, events, opportunities as well as engage in debates around current issues affecting the community and participatory arts.
In addition to putting up information and resources EMPAF will also be promoting future CPD events and development opportunities.
The website is aimed at creating a vibrant and engaging online community so please get involved and make use of this site as much as possible.
The site itself in final testing but live and will transfer to the www.empaf.com address at the end of the beginning of next month. To join now please go to http://beta.empaf.com/ (note there is no www) and anything you add now will remain live during the transfer. We welcome any feedback on how to make it even more user friendly, so please email jane@empaf.com with this or any questions.
A free event for artists; arts practitioners; organisations and community groups working in, or interested in working in community and participatory arts.
The day is designed to give plenty of opportunity to network, discuss your work, ask questions, share experiences and find out more information about a range of subjects and issues affecting everyone working in participatory arts.
Including an in-depth session devoted to professional and project development subjects such as negotiating contracts, rates of pay and how to set up and run an event will be covered.
There is also be an facilitated open space session based around working in and across different arts forms, a presentation and open sharing session on International working and a presentation outlining current key trends and influences such as reforms in Public Sector funding, the Cultural Offer and Cultural Olympiad. Plus, this is your chance to influence future EMPAF work and events as each of the sessions is designed to bring out issues that are most relevant to you.
Registration and networking begins at 9.45am for 10.30am start. Lunch is provided and there is lots of time given to networking and finding out more about EMPAF, Cultivate and a wide range of other resources and sources of further information.
Taking place at St James Centre, Derby places are available on a first come first served basis. To book email Jane@empaf.com or call 07984199477 giving your name and a daytime contact number. For more details click on the title above.
EMPAF has been working to support an Arts Council England East Midlands initiative to help demystify recent developments in Local Area Agreements. ACE are running a series of mini events around the region for artists, arts practitioners and local authority arts officers to look at recent changes in terms of how they offer opportunities for arts and creative projects. The first event took place in Leicester at the beginning of June and EMPAF is publishing copies of presentation notes, supporting information and case studies used as part of all the events in the resources / essential publications section of this website (click on the title of this news item to go directly there). The next event will take place in Nottingham on 3rd July. Email info@empaf.com for more details.
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