Exploring the impact of Creative Arts on Mental Wellbeing

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The impact of creative arts on wellbeing is gaining attention. We continue to plan for an event that provides a high-profile platform for the presentation of current research, new ideas and innovative approaches to re-define sustainable approaches to intergenerational wellbeing for the 21st Century; predicated on recognising that humans and the psychological environment in which they live and function are constantly evolving and doing so rapidly.
 
The event will inaugurate an ongoing programme and vigorous response to urgent global Mental Health issues with an emphasis on preventative as well as exploring social prescriptive approaches to existing and emerging challenges.
 
A core imperative is the coproduction and distillation/utilisation of effective creative therapeutic interventions challenging how mental health is seen and interacted with directed to physicians, nurses, educators, parents/carers  and businesses as well as specifically to consider workforce development for future community based mental health practitioners. A series of  “Sustaining our Sanity” exhibitions will include real-time demonstrations and interactive workshops of creative art-based therapies and wellbeing strategies.  

San Servolo
​Island of asylum

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San Servolo is an Island in Venice Italy.  It was home to a Benedictine monastery for 500 years beginning in the 8th Century.  It became a hospital in the 1500’s and an insane asylum until 1978.  Today the Island contains the campus of the Venice International University, the Museo del Manicomio, and hotel and conference facilities.   

donating 'Blessed' Glass Sculpture to the neurological Department
SS Giovanni e Paolo Hospital Venice Italy

Blessed are the cracked
​for they let in the Light:
Groucho Marx

Museum of Asylum Archivist accepts Blessed Glass Sculpture

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Dear Sir or Madam,
The School of Health and Social Care at London South Bank University extends its warmest greetings. We have travelled to showcase the work of Artist in Residence, Xavier White, during Creativity and Wellbeing Week in London (June 12 – 19th) and to coincide with the 2017 Venice Biennale
Enclosed is a small gift that represents the diversity, inclusion and reflexivity of collaborative endeavours towards improved health and wellbeing for all. It brings our best wishes for ongoing collaboration.We hope you will accept and display the bespoke glass and lead exhibit entitled; Blessed: Reaching Out. This gift comes from Xavier’s Phosphenes of Qualia 2017 exhibition at LSBU. Blessed is a theme that follow’s Xavier’s involvement with Bethlem Royal Hospital’s Museum of the Mind UK’s Museum of the Year Award 2016 shortlisting process. 

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