Check Up Check In event

Check Up Check In 2017: National Arts and Health event to take place at The Model, Sligo, Friday 5 May

Check Up Check In 2017, a national arts and health event, takes place at The Model, Sligo on Friday 5 May.  This day-long programme, featuring presentations by some of the leading figures working in arts and health in Ireland and the UK, is for healthcare professionals, arts practitioners and anyone interested in learning more about this exciting field.  Check Up Check In 2017 is organised by www.artsandhealth.ie (Waterford Healing Arts Trust) and Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, with local partner the Arts Initiative in Mental Health - a programme of the Mental Health Services Sligo Leitrim.  The event is supported by the Arts Council, Sligo County Council Arts Service, HSE North West Health Promotion and The Model.  Further details and booking information from www.artsandhealth.ie / 051 842664.  The fee for the full day, including lunch, is €20.

Check Up Check In 2017 provides an opportunity for those working and interested in arts and health to share their experiences, exchange ideas and support and inspire each other in their practice.  The exciting line-up of guest speakers from the arts sector and healthcare in Ireland and the UK includes Patrick Fox, director of the UK agency Heart of Glass, award-winning artist and theatre maker Mark Storor, Dr Regina McQuillan, palliative medicine consultant at St Francis Hospice in Dublin and artist and filmmaker Marie Brett.  Arts and health projects to be showcased on the day will include a 12-year inter-generational project in the UK, a photographic project in a nursing home in County Galway, a community based arts and wellbeing programme and open studio in County Kildare and a theatre project in a palliative care setting in Dublin.

Arts and health programmes comprise a range of arts experiences, presented in healthcare settings, for the benefit of health service users, healthcare staff and artists.  This expanding field of work fosters creativity, wellbeing and access to the arts and is based on partnership between the artists, arts organisations and those working in healthcare and/or the wider community.   Further information about all aspects of arts and health work, including case studies, is available on www.artsandhealth.ie