The Bethlem Gallery - London

The Silence of Sawn Wood

By Phil Baird

The exhibition presents a selection of paintings, drawings, prints and collages combining the artist’s poetic use of materials and his fascination with the imagined landscape. Phil’s work includes story telling and illustration combined with abstract and improvisational drawing techniques.

Opening 16 April 3 - 6pm

Exhibition continues: 17 April - 9 May Wednesday - Friday 11am - 6pm

Bethlem Gallery and Museum Open Saturday 3 May, 11am - 5pm Join us for an audience with the artist at 2pm

For the Bethlem Gallery Press Release, please follow the link. http://gallery.mailchimp.com/9feebc1298f9730b53cdee948/files/Bethlem_Gallery_Press_Release_The_Silence_of_Sawn_Wood.1.pdf
Bethlem Gallery | Bethlem Royal Hospital | Monks Orchard Road | Beckenham, Kent | BR3 3BX | |  | http://www.bethlemgallery.com

Nearest British Rail: Eden Park / East Croydon

Cartwheel Arts - Arts for Well-being

Art for Well being

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Art for Wellbeing begins an exciting new phase with a diverse range of partners, BME Health Matters, Crimble Croft Community Centre, Lighthouse Project, Care homes in Heywood, The Shamwari Project and Rochdale CRI.

Our focus remains on delivering creative and enterprising projects, designed to support people with mental health issues to develop creatively, engage with their community, achieve goals and improve wellbeing.

Our lively blog is updated weekly by practitioners delivering courses and offers a flavour of the range of creativity and impact of our projects on individuals and communities www.artforwellbeing.wordpress.com

Cartwheel Arts - Art and Soul

Art and Soul

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Art & Soul group is beginning an exciting new project based on Film, TV and Theatre.  Supported by NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Clinical Commissioning Group’s social investment fund, the project will run for 12 weeks and be exhibited locally. 

There is still time to catch the user-led group's stunning exhibition at Touchstones Rochdale, Landscapes of the Mind which runs until May.

cartwheel arts update

New team, new times   The new team Cartwheel is almost complete. Kerry and Rick bade farewell to Emma, Vik and Lucy last Autumn, and we have now welcomed Gordon Banks as Darnhill Festival Co-ordinator, Gala Pujol Freixer (it’s pronounced ‘fresh air’) as Development Manager, Sue Shaw as Finance Worker and Danny Fahey as the new Project Co-ordinator for Tell Us Another One.

We have one vacancy – for an intern on the Creative Employment Programme. The details for that are on the staff page of our website, where you can also find out more about the new members of the team.  So it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster, constructed mainly out of very steep learning curves, but we are now set for an explosive period of creative invention. In fact you’ll be hearing a lot about Invention from Cartwheel this year. So buckle up and prepare for take off!

CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Welfare and Architecture Walk

CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Welfare and Architecture Walk

­­­­­­­Date: Saturday 19th April 2014

Starting: Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ  

Finishing: Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6TE

Times: 11.45am – 4:00pm   

Cost: free/voluntary donation

 Join us for this month’s CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Welfare and Architecture Walk, a fun guided cultural walk for mental and physical wellbeing.

The walk will take us through the main thoroughfares, back streets and green spaces of Southwark, where we will be able to enjoy the local architecture and the hidden social history that lies behind it.

There will be talks about the Heygate Estate (below), whose neo-brutalist architecture towers over the surrounding buildings, local asylums, St Peter’s Church, designed by Sir John Soane and now providing facilities for the local community, as well as many more fascinating buildings.

CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle is a guided, stigma-busting cultural walk, designed to encourage mental and physical wellbeing, through art, exercise, humour and history. Suitable for all ages and abilities, join us for as long or as little as you like. The walk is accessible to wheelchair users and people with disabilities.

Please meet outside the main entrance of the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill at 11.45am. The walk leaders wear orange high-viz vests and rucksacks.

Call CoolTan Arts on . All contributions are much appreciated www.justgiving.com/cooltanarts