creativity for wellbeing
Our latest film, Penguintown, launched for Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, was created by our animation group at Ty Canna Outreach Service and User Led Resource Service. “The film Penguintown began in a session of creative writing with service users at Ty Canna. Ideas developed further through discussions about representing mental health issues. The resulting film …
Thanks to funding from Cardiff Council’s Direct Food Support Grant Programme 2023/24, and with support from C3SC and The National Lottery Community Fund, our project ‘Seeds of Hope’ will help vulnerable people in Cardiff who are experiencing, or who are at risk of, food poverty. This funding will help us to expand our current seasonal …
“Doing this art helps me cope with life. It takes my mind off all the stuff inside.” (Participant) Growing Strong was a Creativity for Wellbeing project facilitated by Sarah Featherstone and Alex Bowen from Breathe Creative, with funding from The Arts Council of Wales and The National Lottery Community Fund and working in the Bridgend …
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Growing Together is a Breathe Creative collaboration with Ty Canna Mental Health Outreach Service and is based at the community allotment Growing Green on Bessemer Road in Cardiff. The project is funded by the Arts Council of Wales and The National Community Lottery Fund and we have been exploring the theme of ‘connecting people to nature’ with the aim of facilitating a creative wellbeing journey through the seasons with nature-based activities to support therapeutic outcomes.
Animated shorts created by mental health service users from Cardiff working with BAFTA award winner Jane Hubbard came to the big screen for Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 Service users from Ty Canna Mental Health Outreach Services in Cardiff have worked with us to create a series of honest, funny and moving animated films and …