creativity for wellbeing
This Breathe Creative music and art project funded by Cardiff & Vale Health Charity provides a positive focus for the patients of Sam Davies Ward, the rehabilitation ward in Barry Community Hospital. Weekly music and art workshops bring patients together and reminds them of their strengths, their resilience, their sense of humour and creativity. As …
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‘Growing Together’ is a Breathe Creative collaboration with Ty Canna Mental Health Outreach Service and Growing Green Community Allotment based on Bessemer Road, Cardiff. The aim is to connect people to nature through the arts, facilitating a creative wellbeing journey through the seasons to support therapeutic outcomes. Over the winter months, we have been making …
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Things are happening at our Growing Green project in Cardiff and Spring is on its way! This short film shows the work undertaken by Growing Green Horticultural Project and Breathe Creative staff and volunteers in building a large summer house (The Art Shed) at the Leckwith Droves allotment site in Cardiff. The work was funded …
In 2023 we facilitated a series of Creative Wellbeing sessions with service users of SHED Service for High Risk Eating Disorders, many of whom were struggling to engage following the pandemic. The project was led by two experienced facilitators – Katja Stiller, our therapeutic arts facilitator, and Abigail Apollonio, an OT and artist from SHED. …
This month the Growing Green Allotment project at Leckwith Droves in Cardiff received welcome help in the form of a community work day from Admiral Insurance staff. The work group (led by James Grant) was organised by our partners Ty Canna Mental Health Outreach Service in Cardiff. A dozen workers supported by staff and volunteers …
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