Creativity and Wellbeing Week
For this year’s Creativity and Wellbeing Week (10-16 June), Vital Arts, the Trust's Arts and Wellbeing service, will be holding two events in the Stepney Way atrium of The Royal London Hospital where patients, staff and visitors can exercise creativity.
On Monday 10th June join Artist Educator Sam Ayre for ‘Board of Discussion’, an ongoing series of active, lively, philosophical conversations.
Engage in philosophical enquiry and discussions about roles, jobs, ambitions and generational similarities whilst creating posters, signage and sculptures.
As an extension of the Vital Arts collaboration with Art Night Legacy, Sam has been running a series of intergenerational creative workshops with older patients and children from The Royal London Hospital School. This project saw participants explore careers and societal roles, encouraging collaboration and communication across the generations, and across the wards.
On Friday 14th June an exhibition of artwork made by children from The Royal London Hospital School will be on display in the Stepney Way Atrium of The Royal London Hospital.
The project ‘My Journey and Other Stories’ led by artist Shiraz Bayjoo has seen young patients explore emotional storytelling through drawing, painting, and collage-making. Engaging both long and short-term patients, the artist invited participants to create maps that represent psychological, emotional and real-life journeys which their families–or they themselves– have taken. Through these painted, abstract landscapes, students have had the space to unravel and reflect upon moments of hardship and courage, as well as moments of wonder and celebration.
The resulting works will be collated by Shiraz Bayjoo and reproduced as framed prints for this exhibition and will be on display between 10am-4pm.
Read more about Vital Arts' patient participation projects
Find out more about Creativity and Wellbeing Week