Photographic Exhibition by Amanda Binks - Greenwich, Aug 1st/31st 2012

For More Information Please Contact Amanda Binks blackfoot.photos@gmail.com

PARK ART UPDATE !

We are pleased to announce that Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust have now set the date for their PARK celebration and Event - this will be 1st October.....

For further information please either contact reflectionsart@hotmail.co.uk  or  Kembi.Hannaway@bsmhft.nhs.uk

and RDASH  Rotherham, Doncaster, and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust have also set their date of the 5th September

Again for more information either contact reflectionsart@hotmail.co.uk or Kay.Batty@rdash.nhs.uk

Both will be running a variety of events together with a sponsored walk to raise money for Reflections Art in Health Charity, so please get involved if you can...

CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle - Summer Solstice Midnight walk

Saturday 23rd June 2012 11.45pm

Starts: Tate Modern, Turbine Hall entrance, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Ends: Maudsley Hospital Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ

Join CoolTan Arts for a guided Summer Solstice Midnight walk - an exciting evening exploring the urban psychogeography of south London under the moonlight.

CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle is a guided, stigma-busting cultural walk, designed to encourage mental and physical wellbeing, through art, exercise, humour and history.

Voted one of London’s Top Ten walks by Timeout magazine, the Largactyl Shuffle is fun, free, fully accessible and a great way to meet new people!

Learn more about local history and landmarks, famous night walkers, Charles Dickens, lunacy, and the solstice. Traditionally, the short nights of Midsummer are considered a time of revelry and celebration, with the lighting of bonfires, feasting and merry-making.

A previous walker said about the Midnight Walk: “I’ve never been on such an original London walk; it was so enjoyable to see the city by night and hear stories of historic Southwark”.

Walkers meet at 11:45pm at the Turbine Hall entrance of Tate Modern and finish the walk in the small hours of Sunday morning at Maudsley Hospital, where they can rest at the chapel until we make our way home.

Please wear comfortable shoes and bring a bottle of water and snacks. (no alcohol please). Walk leaders will safely guide the walk, wearing orange high-viz vests and rucksacks. Call CoolTan Arts on 0798 565 8443 if you cannot find the group of walkers on the day.

The walk is accessible to wheelchair users and people with disabilities. All Welcome

CoolTan Arts believes mental wellbeing is enhanced by the power of creativity. It is a pioneering arts and mental health charity run by and for people with mental distress and exists to inspire the wellbeing and creative participation of a diverse range of people through the production of quality arts.

Further information for press and media is available from: Emma Thatcher, Communications Officer, CoolTan Arts, emmathatcher@cooltanarts.org.uk or call 020 7701 2696.

Website: www.cooltanarts.org.uk. 

Arts and Social Network event on Friday 29th June

This is to let you know the details of our next Arts and Social Network event on Friday 29^th June.  We are very fortunate to have some free tickets to the Warhol exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and pending good weather there may also be an opportunity to participate in a mini workshop inspired by the exhibition in the grounds.

  Date:      Friday 29^th June

  Place:     Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 8AD (10-15 minutes by train from either Victoria or London Bridge Stations)

  Time:      2pm

This exhibition will feature some of Warhol’s most iconic print portfolios as well as lesser known sets. Portfolios on display will include the Muhammad Ali Portfolio and the Myths Portfolio produced six years before the artist’s death in 1987. Go to http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_soon/andy_warhol_the_portfolios.aspx for more information about the exhibition.

Please contact us by email or telephone 020 8233 2854/5 to either let us know you would like to attend or if you have any queries.

All best wishes

Belinda, Stephanie, and Kath

Arts & Social Network Team

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mailto: admin@emergenceplus.org.uk

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CoolTan Arts unveils first public sculpture commission on Camberwell Green SE5 London UK.

Sited on the North East corner of Camberwell Green, the sculptural bench is an important landmark for CoolTan Arts and for the local community. Made from oak timber, the design is based on the theme of reconnecting, with each other and with nature. The timely unveiling of the sculpture comes just before Mental Health Awareness week 2012 and aims to create a place of calm contemplation for local people.

Present at the event were Cllr Dora Dixon-Fyle, Cabinet Member for Health & Adult Social Care, who did the formal unveiling, Cllr Norma Gibbes and Cllr Kevin Ahern, alongside a good turnout of local residents and CoolTan Arts participants.

Rossen Daskalov said of the work:- I wanted the bench to stand as an object, a form and an image and its sculptural qualities to reflect the integrity of CoolTan Arts. Essential to this interrelation is how the tensions of the form were resolved in the material. The durability of the oak relates to being able to withstand storms. As a bench on Camberwell Green these trees will remind the community of how the energies of CoolTan artists grow in the creative soil of CoolTan Arts." 

The sculpture forms part of the CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Trail, CoolTan’s participant led, flagship wellbeing public walking project, taking place in Southwark on the third Saturday of every month.  The bench is the first of 10 permanent public sculptures CoolTan Arts will commission to mark the route of the walk.

Saturday’s ceremony formed part of CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Mayday walk which concluded at the green. Attendees were entertained with an impromptu Maypole Dance by the walkers and poetry readings by CoolTan Arts poets.  Alongside the sculpture messages of positivity were tied to a Ginkgo Tree, planted by CoolTan Arts to commemorate World Mental Health Day 2011.

Cllr Dixon-Fyle said of the event: - “The first part of this amazing project was the planting of the Gingko tree.  The second part is this wonderful symbolic installation, which celebrates humanity and the people who use mental health services in the area to show they matter and that we care”.

Michelle Baharier, CEO/Founder of CoolTan Arts said of the commission: - “Six years in the making, CoolTan is thrilled to be able to present the sculpture today to the people of Camberwell. CoolTan Arts wish to open up dialogue about mental health which affects 25% of the population nationally and is 17.5% higher in Southwark. The conception of this Couch on the green was to bring mental health to the forefront of peoples consciousness to de-stigmatise and enable people to get support before crisis. Prevention is better than cure! ”.

The sculptural commission has been made possible by funding awarded by Camberwell Community Councils, Cleaner Greener Safer fund and supported by Southwark Council’s Public Realm Department.