Now the cold weather is with us even ceramic roses need to be protected from the frost. Once the worse of the weather has passed we will bring them back out again so you will know spring is on its way.
If you would like to see Paul Cummins Roses during December and January slightly smaller versions are on exhibition at Friargate Studios Café in Derby. The Bean Cafe is open Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm.
For more information on Pauls work go to http://www.paulcumminsceramics.com
Following a number of successful pilot projects throughout the hospital, the hospital arts team ‘air’ are now setting up a music residency in King’s Lodge to observe the impact of participatory music making on patients with neurological issues.
Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, percussionist Richard Kensington will visit the ward to deliver music sessions from January – April 2012. This project has been developed as a partnership between the hospital arts team, the healthcare staff and the musician in order to ensure the greatest impact.
Pilot projects have shown participatory music making to be an effective approach in encouraging initiation, speech and improving patient wellbeing, particularly through drumming and singing. Twice a week, patients will be invited to join in with music sessions for a period of 10 weeks with musical activities being tailored to individual patient needs. Patients will be regularly assessed to note any clinical changes as a result of the project.
Tim Hardman (speech and language therapist from King’s Lodge) says ‘We are really looking forward to working in partnership with Richard and Laura on this new and exciting project and to bring music into the ward on such a regular basis. We are really excited about the opportunity of looking at the clinical impact this could have on patients.’
The Spring 2012 Nannagrams project is set to encouraged the celebration of the people we love and are grateful for. Supported by Arts Council England and responding to the challenge of creating some light moments to aid the wellbeing of patients, visitors and staff at Derby Hospitals, theatre company Maison Foo will spend time as “The Nannas” in a series of optional activities, events and performances across the two hospital sites.
Click the link for them to tell you about it http://vimeo.com/user5198812/nannagramms
More detail on the project and how you can get involved can be found on the THEATRE pages of airarts.net or just respond to this post.
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Following almost a month, dedicating much of her spare time to the project, artist Diana Shepherd has completed a series of 3 large scale drawings for the Kings Treatment Centre at Royal Derby Hospital.
Based on scenes from the historic Arboretum Park in Derby the large public wall spaces walls have come alive with detailed expressions of trees, birds and architecture.
Di enjoyed the time spent within the hospital and was grateful for the positive comments she received for patients visitors and staff “I have found it an extraordinarily lovely experience, The power of drawing! ”
Di Shepherd is an East Midlands artist and co-founder of visual arts organisation Artblock. Artist in Residence at Englands first public park The Arboretum and Charles Abbey Workshops.
http://web.mac.com/dianashepherd/iWeb/Site/Home.html
http://www.artblock.org.uk
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Royal Derby Hospital welcomes a beautiful new public artwork that has been created to celebrate the gift of life and encourage more people to sign the national Organ Donor Register.Entitled ‘Life Lines’, the artist Susie describes it as “representing a silver cloud, full of connecting and intertwining lines; A reflection of how our paths intersect and cross, life flowing between us, that we are all a part of a larger whole.”
Many patients who have been cared for in the hospital have transformed the lives of others through the generous donation of their organs following their death. While organ transplant operations themselves are not carried out at the Royal Derby Hospital, patients who have received a transplant are cared for by the Trust.
The donor family advisor to the Organ Donation Committee, whose son became an organ donor following a road accident, said: “The feeling that a little bit of our son is still out there somewhere, helping to give someone a better life, has been the silver lining in our cloud.”
You can join the NHS Organ Donor Register by:
Filling in a form www.uktransplant.org.uk
Calling the NHS Donor Line on 0300 123 23 23
(Lines are open 24 hours a day all year round. Calls are charged at your contracted rate for local calls)
By texting SAVE to 84118
Life Lines has been funded by the Organ Donation Committee from monies allocated to promote organ donation locally and recognise the ultimate gift of life that an organ donor makes.
PULL BACK THE CURTAIN
Derby Hospitals arts programme air commissioned Living Derby photographer Hannah Fox to create a new body of work using the hospitals Hidden Histories archive to discover and interpret some of the stories of Derby’s Hospitals. With the archive as an inspirational starting point and, through a series of meetings and shadowing experiences with staff across the Trust, Hannah explored some of the Hidden Histories within the hospitals own population.
Through a series of intimate portraits, Hannah has uncovered some of the people and places within the hospital, which she particularly identified with. A single image is placed permanently on each floor of the acute building, out of their place the subject and their environment are revealed.
An evaluation of air from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham has just been published. The research was directed by Dr Theodore Stickley and implemented by Brian Crosbie (Research Associate) between March 2009 and April 2010 and explored the impact of the work undertaken to bring art and the appreciation of art to improve feelings of health and wellbeing within the Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over the past 3 years.
It reports that air arts to aid wellbeing at Derby Hospitals …”is on a good footing to expand its activities for future patient benefit.” and demonstrates “a concerted effort and artistic sophistication in what has already been achieved in delivering the promises mapped out in the trusts arts strategy.”
Downloads of the report in full and executive summary available below:
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