Creativity and Wellbeing Week

Tickets have now gone on sale for the opening and closing events in the London Creativity and Wellbeing Week. The opening event, a lecture by acclaimed writer and broadcaster Bonnie Greer, will explore the impact the arts can have on health inequalities. It takes place on the evening of Monday 17 June at Tate Modern. Tickets are available via the Tate website and cost £12 each (includes refreshments)

The deadline for events to be included in this summer’s London Creativity and Wellbeing Week is Friday 17 May 2013.

The opening and closing events for London Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2013 have now been announced. We are delighted to announce that theatre maker and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer will deliver the second annual lecture to open the week on the evening of 17 June. Once again the lecture is a collaboration with Community Learning at Tate Modern and will build on the success of AL Kennedy’s lecture last year. The title of the lecture and details of how to book tickets will be announced shortly – but save the date!

Alongside material from three years of blog posts for The Guardian are a collection of essays  and transcripts of live performances including “To Save Our Lives” the opening lecture of last year’s London Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

w: www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/on-writing/9780224096973

You can also listen to the original lecture on Soundcloud here https://soundcloud.com/lahf/to-save-our-lives

This year’s London Creativity and Wellbeing Week will take place from 17–22 June and we have just opened the Week for the submission of events. Click here to enter details now! 

Planning has begun for the next London Creativity and Wellbeing Week to take place next June. Building on the success of the first ever Creativity and Wellbeing Week earlier this year, LAHF has begun preparing for next year.

For those of you who weren’t able to make it in person, or for those of you who did and want to hear it again, you can now listen to the truly fabulous and inspiring London Creativity and Wellbeing Week opening lecture by A.L. Kennedy in full here: http://soundcloud.com/lahf/to-save-our-lives

Poetry workshop and evening event to accompany the Coming of Age; the art and science of ageing exhibition.

Poetry Workshop for family and professional carers of those with dementia, bringing poetry to the process of ageing

Monday 18 June, 2–4pm

Swing Night is the culmination of an exciting intergenerational dance project involving school children, senior citizens and the general public. Presented as part of Clod Ensemble’s Extravagant Acts for Mature People, a sensational programme of free arts events for over 65's. Swing Night is presented in association with London Arts in Health Forum’s London Creativity and Wellbeing Week.

The deadline for submitting events has now passed and the full exciting programme of events is now available on the website – and you’ll be hearing much more about this (and all the organisations and events involved) from us over the next couple of weeks. We’ll also be adding some new tools, including a calendar, to make it easier to find the events you’ll want to see. It’s worth having a look at the events listed as many are ticketed and have limited places available, to be sure you get to see everything you want in the week, get planning now!