IMPACT Conference: Reflect + Respond with Cartwheel Arts
About
IMPACT: Reflect + Respond conference marks World Mental Health Day 2024 and celebrates Cartwheel Art’s 40th Birthday.
Aimed at health professionals, arts organisations, the education sector, creative practitioners, and voluntary sector partners, delegates will experience inspirational workshops, performances, and presentations, as well as the opportunity to network with colleagues.
Join us to reflect on the changes and developments in high-quality participatory arts practise that support the health and well-being of diverse communities across the North West and explore how we can respond to the challenges we may face in the future and emerging opportunities.
Confirmed speakers include:
Jacqui Wood, CEO of Arc – Arts for Recovery in Stockport
David McFarlane - a Boltonian musician, facilitator and creative technologist - d-mcf.com
Sohail Ahmad JP, Operations Manager at Deeplish Community Centre
Dr Sue Caudle, Artistic Director - DIY Theatre Company
Robin Lyons - Ergon Theatre
Dr Simon Ruding - TiPP
Student and academic presentations, in collaboration with Creative Manchester
and Tony Walsh, one of the UK’s most widely acclaimed poets.
Lunch and refreshments provided.
Cartwheel Arts co-creates inclusive artistic opportunities with diverse communities that enhance well-being and celebrate culture and heritage. We use a wide range of media to initiate and respond to project opportunities across Rochdale Borough and Greater Manchester.
Date
Thursday 10 October 2024 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM (UTC+01)Location
People's History Museum
Left Bank, Manchester, Greater Manchester M3 3ER
Itinerary
We’ll be exploring how past work has shaped the field of Arts and Wellbeing, what’s happening now, and what work will look like in the future.
The conference's menu is carefully curated, and you can select from different interactive workshops, presentations, and performances.
The morning’s breakout sessions include:
- Presentations by Arc, Cartwheel Arts and TiPP on how their organisations have developed best practice and the approaches and projects that have worked best in delivering the Greater Manchester Creative Health Strategy. They will share their perspectives on what works collectively in the sector and what works in their organisation’s on-the-ground delivery.
- Interactive workshops that explore facilitation skills and approaches with Cartwheel Art’s Wellbeing team members Alex Blakey and Gemma Wrigley.
- An interactive workshop with the award-winning DIY Theatre based on its multi-sensory show, 'Hanging By a Thread.' The show was created by DIY’s company of Learning-Disabled Artists and is an intimate performance that invites audiences to connect with the natural world.
Over lunch, an Ideas Market features stalls to encourage conversation between speakers, organisations, researchers, and fellow delegates.
During the day, a roving Visual Documenter will respond to emerging themes and ideas generated. People are invited to contribute to a sculpture that responds and reflects on the day. Archives of the last four decades of Cartwheel Art’s work in the Arts and Well-being arena are available to explore.
In the afternoon, the conference takes a look at the future and how participatory arts and creative health can flourish in changing times:
- Psychotherapist Salma Khalid and Artist Rahela Khan, from our Arts for Wellbeing team, will share Cartwheel Art’s Art for Wellbeing Methodology and Culturally Sensitive Practice. Salma and Rahela will explore their experiences with diverse groups and share their learning and approaches to working in different settings. This presentation responds to the very real need for our sector to be more culturally appropriate and nuanced in shaping, co-creating, and delivering projects.
- Music leader David McFarlane will deliver a music-making workshop. This session invites us - whatever our musical ability, some or none! – Participate in group music-making with different instruments (some more conventional than others!). David’s workshop discusses accessibility and methods for making participatory music-making sessions more inclusive.
- Students, researchers and independent practitioners will share current research in a session developed in collaboration with the University of Manchester’s Creative Manchester project.
The day features networking, panel discussions and live poetry from the award-winning Tony Walsh.
Concession and Pay It Forward Tickets
We know that times are tough financially and have done our best to ensure tickets are affordable.
This includes our concession tickets – a number of tickets are available for individuals on low or no-income (no questions asked).
If you, or your organisation, wish to help cover the cost of these tickets, you can add a ‘Pay it Forward’ ticket at checkout, which will add £12.50 to your ticket price and enable another delegate to attend. Thank you for your support.
PRICES
Concessions Ticket: £40.00
Individual: £75.00
Small Organisation: £100.00
Large Organisation: £130.00
MORE INFORMATION
Arc One of the UK’s leading arts and mental health charities, based at Hat Works in Stockport town centre, we work across Greater Manchester to provide arts programmes and services to improve people’s mental wellbeing and public programmes.
Creative Manchester is an interdisciplinary research platform based at The University of Manchester. The platform champions research in creativity and creative practice, bringing together research communities with external stakeholders to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.
David McFarlane is a Boltonian musician, facilitator and creative technologist based in Greater Manchester. He leads music-making sessions across the region, working primarily in the criminal justice system, with disabled and neurodivergent groups, and in schools. He also currently leads the MA Electronic Music Production course at dBs Institute Manchester, and co-leads Drake Music's DMLab Northwest sessions, a monthly session for disabled and non-disabled musicians to prototype accessible musical instruments. He also works internationally as a sound and installation artist, and plays in an indie pop band called Oh Hippo.
Deeplish Community Centre has been at the centre of the local community in Milkstone & Deeplish, Rochdale, since opening in 1988.
DIY Theatre Company DIY is an established Learning Disability Theatre Company based in Salford, UK.
Ergon Theatre are a UK leading company making performance based work about the climate crisis and futures. They believe in using art as a communicating bridge between the scientific and academic community and the public.
TiPP We are committed to the idea that the participatory arts have the power to transform people's lives for the better. We would like to see the arts playing a part at all levels of the Criminal Justice System.
Tony Walsh poet, performer and writer.