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Find out about Live Life Aberdeeshire’s Arts Service.

The Creative Arts Service recognises creativity as a fundamental aspect of living a full life and a team of experienced artists support high quality, patient-led creative engagement, that enhances a sense of wellbeing and brings positive health benefits to patients, carers and families.

Ignite Theatre works with children and young people aged 6-24 from diverse backgrounds who live primarily in the North and West of Glasgow. Our members come from across the globe: Scotland, Somalia and Syria. Many of our members face multiple challenges, whether that is poverty, discrimination, being a young carer, or having additional needs.

From grass-roots youth work to award-winning music productions, Tinderbox is building a vibrant and eclectic community of young musicians and artists in Scotland. We have a number of programmes that are open to children and young people aged 10 – 25, from complete beginners to young professionals and all levels in between.

Youth Theatre Arts Scotland transform lives through youth theatre. We support inspiring experiences for young people by connecting and training the people who work with them.

Tonic Arts Programme creatively enhances environments and enriches experiences at NHS Lothian. Part of Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation.

The Art at the Start project is a collaboration between art psychotherapist Vicky Armstrong and experimental psychologist Dr Josephine Ross. We are interested in the impact participation in art can have upon the social well-being of young children and how shared art experiences may help to build strong attachment relationships.

The national intermediary and network for voluntary health organisations in Scotland.

Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust was established in 2002 to develop the role of the arts in healthcare across Tayside, working to improve the health and wellbeing of people with a variety of Long Term Conditions and enhance the quality of healthcare environments.

Artlink places artists and performers within wards and departments of 4 hospitals across Edinburgh and the Lothians, collaborating with the artists, patients, relatives, hospital staff and the local community to make positive changes within hospital and their grounds.

Museums Galleries Scotland is the National Development Body for the Scottish museums sector.

ECHC supports an extensive Arts Programme, providing fun, creativity and distraction by delivering a wide variety of arts activities for children throughout the hospital.

The NHSGGC arts programmes aim to create safe and welcoming environments and positive experiences for patients, visitors and staff. The programme is based on growing evidence of the positive psychological, physical and biological effects of arts participation and is inspired by the creative talent of Scotland. All our work is developed in collaboration and supported by arts, education and voluntary sector partners.

GHAT arose from the simple idea that improving the hospital environment by displaying art made everyone who spent time in the buildings feel better. GHAT strives to highlight culture as a central component of wellbeing and is a sector leader in developing bespoke arts projects for people visiting, working or utilising the services within hospitals and healthcare.

The vision of the arts programme is to improve the health and wellbeing of staff, patients and visitors through the provision of high quality arts in the healthcare environment and patient experience, to conserve the artistic assets of NHS Lothian and to foster a culture in which the benefits of the arts and the skills of the artist are valued across the service.

Music in Hospitals & Care spreads Joy Through Live Music across the length and breadth of the UK, from the Shetland Isles and the Highlands of Scotland to Northern Ireland, the Valleys of Wales and down to the south coast of England. From lullabies for premature babies to old favourites for those living with dementia, we operate in a wide range of healthcare environments including hospitals, hospices, care homes, day centres, special schools and community settings.

Dance Base in Edinburgh encourages & celebrates the potential for dance in everyone. Join a class to experience the physical & emotional benefits of dance.

Arts for older people...better than medicine. Genration Arts work to ensure that all people in West Lothian over the age of 50 have local and low cost access to a regular programme of good quality creative activities that promote independence, confidence and good physical and mental health.

Transforms Scottish healthcare settings with our extensive art collection, support artists and provide art workshops in a wide range of care environments.

Live Music Now works with a very diverse range of people that rarely, if ever, have the opportunity to experience live music - some of whom are very disadvantaged. They often face difficulties in communicating, cut off from the joy and pleasures of participating and sharing with others. LMN's approach to overcoming these barriers is through the quality of our musicians and the way we deliver our music.

I believe that everyone is creative and that engaging in creative activities greatly enhances our sense of wellbeing. My workshops offer you the opportunity to slow down and explore your thoughts and feelings using Free Writing or Stream of Consciousness Writing in response to poetry and art. I also conduct writing workshops in nature. I work with children and adults across a variety of community settings as well as providing workshops at Maggie's Cancer Care Centre in Aberdeen. I also facilitate labyrinth walks either as stand alone events or combined with writing for wellbeing workshops.

We run workshops that are relaxing, creative, person-centred, therapeutic, inclusive, empowering and fun!

We believe that creativity has the potential to act as a positive agent for personal, social and cultural transformation. This has led us to develop a person-centred approach to creative practice which is based on the principles of empowerment and equality.

The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a national organisation representing everyone who believes that cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing.

Offers local residents a place to relax, explore, learn, meet, share, volunteer and have fun in. Creative workshops are on offer each week, most with a family focus, alongside a wide range of other events to include exhibitions, dance shows, circus skills workshops, community theatre, poetry readings and film clubs. The venue is also home to Muirhouse Link Up and Tinderbox Orchestra who are working and connecting creatively with young people, families and adults living across the area.

Our ethos is that all arts practice is a conversation: a conversation between the creator of the work and the consumers; between the themes of the work; between the mediums used to express the artistic vision; between the practitioners delivering the vision; and between the multiple layers of relati…