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Identifying innovative approaches to participatory art programmes/projects for children in hospital.
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Hi,I am mapping the use of multi-disciplinary and participatory arts with children in hospital in the UK. I am based in Ireland. Can anyone recommend hospitals with high quality…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Helene Hugel Apr 8, 2010.
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"Great idea Hazel. I am based in Ireland so can't take part, but would like to hear how this initiative develops. Please keep me posted.
All the best,
Helene"
Stuart Bennett left a comment for Helene Hugel"This is a very important area I've worked in developing.
Contacts :
London
- Spanner In The Works Company run a programme at Guy's Hospital with short / long term and psychiatric child patients / (spannerintheworks.org.uk).
- Great…"
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"Other programmes I have come across:
Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool: http://www.imagineappeal.com/about/art.asp
I am also researching Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and
Alder Hay Children's Hospital, Liverpool.
Any further information…"
"Thanks for this. Yes I have heard of Evelina Children's Hospital through the Welcome Trust. They funded a project there called For the Best which was based on children's experiences of dialysis and which ran as a promenade performance for…"
David Harradine replied to Helene Hugel's discussion Identifying innovative approaches to participatory art programmes/projects for children in hospital."Have you checked out the Evelina Children's Hospital at St Thomas's in London? There used to be a great person there called Manual Barroso (I think) who ran an interesting arts programme..."
Identifying innovative approaches to participatory art programmes/projects for children in hospital.
Hi,I am mapping the use of multi-disciplinary and participatory arts with children in hospital in the UK. I am based in Ireland. Can anyone recommend hospitals with high quality programmes/projects? (I am not looking for examples of environmental enhancement and I am also aware of Clown Doctors.)Thank you! Helene from www.helium.ieSee More
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- Helene Hugel is a puppeteer, children's theatre maker, and social entrepreneur. The Bedmaker is her most recent performance and travels bedside-to-bedside, empowering children to transform their hospital beds into an imaginative, storytelling landscapes.
She is also artistic director and founder of Helium, children's arts and health company based in Ireland.
Helium produces creative art interventions for, with, and by young people in health care settings.
Helium aims to uphold the Arts and Health field as a creatively charged environment with which artists can engage, where art-forms can be challenged, enriched, and extended to produce ground-breaking, inventive new work which engages with the development of children’s arts in Ireland.
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Please give what you can and support the power of the arts to bring joy to sick children.
Help Helium's story come true for children in hospital - Support our project, receive a personalised gift and be in with the chance to win tickets for Mary Black in Concert, Big Maggie at The Gaiety, a voucher from award-winning Zeba Hairdressers, recipe books and Mothercare vouchers plus other prizes.
The Storytellers' New Gambit is a storytelling and technology performance project for children in hospital in which the artists will design storytellers' costumes with embedded…
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 13:24
Would you have 1 minute to vote for Helium as Mykidstime.ie Charity of the Year?
Would you have 1 minute?
Helium (the Irish children's arts charity working to improve the lives of children in hospital) has been shortlisted for 2012 Charity of the Year with Mykidstime.ie and we need your vote.
The winning charity with the most votes by midnight 29th January will become Mykidstime.ie Charity of the Year and receive support and advertising throughout the year.
This is a great opportunity to help build awareness around the positive difference…
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 1:12
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ContinuePosted on October 7, 2010 at 19:56
The Puppet Portal Project - Call for Artists
Helium, children's arts and health company, Ireland, invites applications from multi-disciplinary artists working in the Dublin, Letterkenny, and Cork areas to collaborate with children across 5 participating hospitals in the next phase of this arts and health and technology project. Contemporary puppetry techniques, storytelling and technology will be explored to create live, interactive, puppetry performances via the hospital web portal, Solas, an online community for children and young… Continue
Posted on July 15, 2010 at 21:25
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- At 8:58 on November 4, 2010, Stuart Bennett said…
- This is a very important area I've worked in developing.
Contacts :
London
- Spanner In The Works Company run a programme at Guy's Hospital with short / long term and psychiatric child patients / (spannerintheworks.org.uk).
- Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital have a school attached for their child patients and would be keen to receive a theatre programme.
Northern Ireland
- Cahoots Theatre in Belfast has a touring programme touring children's wards (Bedside Theatre). They have a CD showing the programme in operation.
Stuart Bennett / London Drama (www.londondrama.org)
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