Arts All Over The Place

Arts All Over The Place is a festival of arts for mental health.  A month-long programme of events kicked off on 7 June and runs through until 10 July.

The festival is organised by The Creatives Network for the Arts and Health, enabled by the Social Inclusion team of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust.  Events are taking place at The Spottd Dog, the Custard Factory, the airport and the Crescent Theatre, among others.

You can see the programme of events here (I’ve been kind and stuck the PDF on Scribd myself) and, er, apparently here.  If you happen to have superhuman levels of perseverance.

Anyone who contributed to the recent discussion about how to present festival listings might be interested in having a quick browse through these.

3 Comments

  1. The festival sounds really interesting – but it’s so difficult to decipher what’s on, where and when. (On the PDF for example; a few simple-ish design changes would dramatically help legibility.) If people have to work too hard to find out what’s going on, there’s a danger they might just give up.

    I understand, however, that there’s not always the time or budget to spend on things like design …

    I wonder then: is there any kind of funding available to organisers of events promoting, for example, community cohesion or wider participation in cultural and creative activities? Funding that could be used so these events can be more effectively and efficiently promoted, and so that the organisers – who obviously work really hard to co-ordinate everything – can get a bit of support and advice?

    All of which has led me to pose the question – would an ‘Available Funding’ section on CiB be do-able/useful? (Funding related to the creative/cultural industries, plus other caveats I’m sure but you get the drift.)

    [Apologies for the wordy and slightly off-topic comment – it’s too late for me to be writing, truth be told – but I’m sure there’s a reasonably good point in there somewhere!]

  2. I think the world of funding’s far too tricky for a lad like me to get my head round. I could be wrong though – a nice informative blog by someone who ‘gets’ that whole area might be nice.

    I agree though – this looks interesting but good grief, it’s so hard to make out what’s going on when.

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