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City Arts’ 35-year history has given the organisation a deep understanding of the important role that creativity plays in an individual’s sense of place and value in society. Over the last three years City Arts has been working in partnership with care homes and Nottinghamshire County Council to produce several practical toolkits to support care homes to embed creative expression and participation within their care provision. Download copies of these toolkits from the publications section of our website.
The Creativity in Care programme is currently piloting a number of different approaches:
Artist Residencies
In 2012 Rebecca Beinart worked as artist in residence with staff and residents at Eastgate Care Homes at Alexandra House in Eastwood. Together they made a number of creative items celebrating and sharing the residents’ knowledge and experience, including an historic map of Eastwood, a home remedy recipe book and a number of radio recordings.
Creative Mentoring
Rebecca is currently providing support to activity staff from a further four homes in the County through a creative mentoring project to help staff plan, devise and evaluate creative activity in their settings.
Training
The programme also provides a number of free training days open to care staff in the County to increase knowledge, skills and confidence in using the arts to improve wellbeing for residents in care.
For more information about this work please contact Kate Duncan our Creative Programme Manager: kate@city-arts.org.uk or Tel: 0115 9782463
Creativity in Care is part of a programme delivered by City Arts with funding from Nottinghamshire County Council’s Arts Service.