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Living Words Masterclass: How to run Arts & Health projects *April 2024 – Book Now!*
Participatory online workshop providing practical tools to set up and deliver arts and health projects. Are you an individual artist wanting to pursue a career in the arts and health sector? Join award-winning Living Words founder and artistic director Susanna Howard, with 17 years experience. Gain tried and tested knowledge that will put you at an…
Read MoreGaladance raises £6000 for Living Words!
Press Release £6,000 raised to support people living with dementia in Kent Earlier in November businesses, supporters, members of the community and friends came together for Galadance 2023, the event conceived by Jacqui Offen, to raise funds for charities supporting people with dementia. Jacqui met Susanna Howard, founder of the arts and literature charity Living…
Read MoreNormal? Festival of the Brain’s – A Series of Fortunate Events *Book Your Tickets*
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Read MoreNormal? Festival of the Brain: MEET UP *23 Sept 2023, 6-8pm*
All welcome to the Normal? Festival of the Brain meet up, with our partners Screen South! *** This low-key event is open for all to hang out and chat on what would have been the main day of our postponed Normal? FIELD TRIP. We’ll also reflect on Normal? and its future, together. There will be…
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BBC Ideas release new Living Words short doc “Overcoming self-harm”
“Attention needing, not attention seeking” We are proud to have made the film ‘Overcoming self-harm’ for BBC Ideas. Click here to view! Featuring members from our project Living Warriors: Flux, the short documentary shot in our home town of Folkestone, takes a realistic look at ways to support oneself to overcome the need to self-harm.…
Read MoreThank you – Flux: Fest
Thanks to all who attended Flux: Fest! Flux: Fest celebrated arts projects that have taken place throughout 2022: All aimed to give young people new tools for self-expression, so that we might see our futures differently. Thank You to ALL the Flux project members – for being brave, and bringing your whole selves.…
Read MoreFlux: Fest Sunday December 4th!
Flux: Fest Sunday December 4th 1 – 4pm Folkestone Quarterhouse Mill Bay Folkestone CT20 1BN Flux has taken place across Kent & Medway throughout 2022. There’ve been all sorts of arts projects and all sorts of 14-25 year olds taking part. Flux: Fest is a chance to see what we’ve all been up to. And we’ll…
Read MoreWorld Suicide Prevention Day: Saturday 10th September
World Suicide Prevention Day is this Saturday, 10th September. The theme is ‘Creating Hope Through Action’. How does this resonate with you? We know that sometimes hope is hard to find, and taking positive action can also be a struggle. However you are right now, we stand together, united in this strange, tough and beautiful…
Read MoreJoin the conversation about the future of Normal? Festival of the Brain!
Hey! Join the conversation about the future of Normal? Festival of the Brain! Monday 26th September 6pm to 7:30 The Glassworks Mill Bay Folkestone CT20 1JG We’re coming together to chat, and think about what the ‘new’ Normal? might be, for 2023 and beyond. Normal? Festival of the Brain is a Folkestone based festival…
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