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ARCHIVED: 17th November 2009: AHSW Members Showcase and AGM

11am-4pm (10.45am Registration/Coffee)

Click here to download the Annual Report presented at the AGM

Click here to download the draft Business Plan that is currently being consulted on. Please send feedback to Emma Williams: info@ahsw.org.uk

The AHSW Showcase offered a unique opportunity to see and sample some of the exciting arts and health work that is currently happening here in the South West. In addition, AHSW celebrated with you its key achievements over the past four years and gave you a platform to influence its future vision.

Venue : Conference Centre, Somerset College of Arts and Technology, Wellington Road, Taunton, Somerset TA1 5AX

Costs: AHSW members £10 (for lunch). Non members £30 individuals, £45 organisations (includes membership of AHSW until 31st March 2010.

Programme of Events:

10.45 am Registration/coffee

11am-11.10am AHSW Welcome

11.10am-11.25am Tickled Pink

11.25am-12.15pm Arts & Health South West:
Impact, Achievements and Vision for the Future

Click here for the presentation on the development of AHSW so far

Click here for the presentation on the future of AHSW

12.15pm-12.30pm The Word Tree – a writer’s residency at Callington Road
Writer Sue Mayfield shares poems, images and insights from an arts and health project in a Bristol psychiatric hospital earlier this year.

12.30pm-2pm Lunch / Networking and Arts & Health DVDs

12.40pm-1.15pm: Ready, steady, GO! with Penny Robbins
A workshop crammed with examples of warm up exercises to use with groups.
Groups need a chance to meet, let down barriers and share in a safe and inspiring setting – first impressions count and the way a session starts can help to set the tone for the work ahead.

1.20pm-1.55pm: 'Singing for the Brain' Julie Olsen leads a fun vocal workshop - sharing work that she does with groups affected by dementia.
Lunchtime exhibitors include:
Attik Dance
Boex/3D Creative Solutions
Bristol City Council Neighbourhood Arts
Devon Partnership NHS Trust - Firebird Arts Network
Exeter HealthCare Arts
Expressions (Aspects and Milestones Trust)
Get into Reading
Insider Art
Jill Carter
John de Mearns
Live Music Now South West
Lucy Hobbs
nesa
Nordoff-Robbins South West
Openstorytellers
Poole Borough Council (Flourish Arts and Health Programme)
REACH Somerset
Sing For Your Life South West Ltd.
Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust - Art for Life
University of the West of England

Willis Newson

2.00pm-3.00pm AHSW: Shaping the Future, Breakout Sessions

1. Arts and Health Information Service
What information do you want or need from AHSW?
Can we improve how we deliver it at the moment?
Is there more that the website or e-bulletin can offer?
Have you used our enquiries service?
2. Arts and Health Awards
How would an annual high profile awards ceremony help your work?
How do we make it representational of the field and the diversity of practice within it?
How do we ensure the Awards are high profile?
3. Training and CPD
What are your training and CPD needs?
How could training and CPD improve the quality of work and the sector as a whole?
What kind of training and CPD is already being delivered?
What is needed but not currently on offer?
4. Evaluation
What is the value of AHSW to the sector?
What impact is it having and how can we monitor this?
How can we capture its impact in a way that will influence future funders and ensure long term sustainability?

3.00pm-3.30pm AGM - to download an AGM agenda click here .

3.30pm-3.40pm Tickled Pink

3.40pm-4.00pm Feedback / Close