Events

The praXis team is committed to providing a number of events, workshop and seminars each year for its members as well as interested people from the arts, health and community sectors.  Over the past two years each event we have run has been well attended and we pride ourselves on providing these unique opportunities for people to meet, share experiences and debate the future of arts and health - at no or very low cost. 

For further information contact
Sarah-Jane Watkinson, Praxis Events Coordinator 
Email: sarah-jane@praxisartsandhealth.org.uk 
Mobile: 07971 234752

 

Forthcoming events

Towards a Charter for Arts,
Health and Wellbeing
Friday 27th January 2012, 9.30am – 1pm
Birmingham City University, School of Art,
Margaret Street, Birmingham

praXis is one of ten regional organisations that are working together to establish a new, National Alliance for arts and health. As part of this process, a series of events are taking place across England to develop a Charter that will set out the mutual values for those working in arts, health and wellbeing and embody the founding principles for a National Alliance. The event will address a series of questions being debated at other regional events:
Why are the arts important to health and wellbeing?
How do the arts contribute to the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities?
How do we maximise the impact and value of the arts?
Contributors will include Damian Hebron, Director of the London Arts and Health Forum and Kate Broom, Course Director MA Art, Health and Wellbeing at Birmingham City University.

For more information and to contribute to the debate online, please go to the Praxis Community Pages
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An Introduction to Personalisation
Tuesday 28 Feb 2012, 1.30 – 4.30pm,
Oakengates Theatre, Telford

The personalisation agenda in Social Care means that service users are being given their own personal budgets, effectively becoming individual commissioners. It is predicted that by April 2013, over a million people will have a personal budget.

The opening up of service provision means that artists now have the opportunity to develop and offer services that creatively meet the needs of individuals. This event offers an introduction to personalisation and how to prepare for this growing micro market.

Contributors will include Tony Nottingham, independent consultant and support broker working in the area of personal budgets.
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