This week our #LittleLights art cafe artists enjoyed mixed media explorations inspired by work by artists Che Kumar & Danielle Kroll. We ❤️ these cheerful, playful outcomes.

Our art cafes use creativity to support wellbeing & recovery of people living with health challenges 🎨

Wow! Our largest ever gathering for #Gentle #seatedyoga this morning Woodbridge Community.
Huge thanks to the 62 yogis who joined us for a class led by the lovely #ImogenHayward & Maisy Ritchie.

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Made possible by funding from The National Lottery Community Fund

Our new #LittleLights art cafe series kicked off in style today! Huge thanks to The Key cafe in #Ipswich for being such kind hosts. Our Wed morning sessions offer peer support & creative inspiration for people living with long term health challenges. Supported by NHS SNEE ICB - Ipswich and east Suffolk

Halesworth was buzzing today on day 1 of INK Festival 2024 - congrats to Emily Bennett & Francis Goodhand for their 'stunning & moving' performance, & our #audiodrama writers. Catch our pod 10D every day in the Radio Kiln but #mindyourhead on the way in/out! #newwriting #theatre

Today we were excited to be The Cut prepping for this year's INK Festival! On Thurs Emily Bennett & Francis Goodhand will premiere songs from new song cycle Wonderful Things, & our pod of spooky #audiodrama in the dark is on each day of the festival- listen if you dare! 👻🎧😱

We are thrilled to have been awarded a The National Lottery Community Fund grant to support our #CreativeHealth programme which enables people living with health/mobility challenges & disabilities to benefit from the many positive impacts of arts & cultural engagement. Getting creative is good for you!

A hilarious VI drama session today New Wolsey Theatre's NW2 space, exploring mime, memory & kung fu fighting.
Not sure what our bemused #guidedog friends made of all the antics...

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A huge thanks to everyone who attended our #focusgroup today to share their views on how to include more people living with long term health challenges & chronic illness in health research.
Want to be part of this discussion? Join us for tea & cake on 11 March Woodbridge Community

Thanks to Ipswich Museums for hosting our #ArtCafe workshop this morning, produced in partnership with East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust to support recovery from #LongCovid & other l/t heath challenges. We ❤️ these portraits inspired by #ChristchurchMansion artworks. Such a fab session led by #MarieSoul

Amazing to see 60 participants at our #Gentle #seatedyoga session Woodbridge Community yesterday - enjoying accompaniment by Xenia Horne, & a visit from the Woodbridge Integrated Care Team raising awareness of their Falls & Balance clinic East Suffolk Council NHS SNEE ICB - Ipswich and east Suffolk Connect

Lovely memories of our 2023 Unsung Heroes project with Suffolk Archives Britten Pears Arts ASSET Education made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Bringing history to life through the development of creative & performance skills
#community #socialmobility #belonging
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Beautiful artwork celebrating Holywells Park's fab furry resident made in our first Little Lights Art Cafe workshop of the year today. Peer support for people living with health challenges. Thanks for the kind support of Healthy Suffolk
#creativehealth #artforwellness

Huge thanks to markwigley for another great #firstaid training day for our creative associates & volunteers. Enormous fun & highly informative.
#defibrillator #choking #cpr

What a treat for our Gentle #seatedyoga attendees Woodbridge Community this morning - live accompaniment by the wonderful Xenia Horne Xenia Horne Harpist 🎵🎶🎵. Accessible #exercise & #relaxation for all levels. For details of our FREE in-person & online classes visit coherearts.org/gentle/

Yesterday we were excited to launch a new series of #drama workshops for #visuallyimpaired adults of all ages. Theatre skills, creative writing, devising & laughs every Thursday afternoon 13:00 - 16:00 New Wolsey Theatre's NW2 space #Ipswich . New members & #guidedogs warmly welcomed.

Nothing like a cheery collage on a dreary December day! Lovely to get creative with some of the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust #LongCovid clinic team in our #creativehealth training workshop today. Some super ideas about how to start conversations with patients about the potential of arts engagement 🎨

Delighted to be silver award winners in the Compassion category of the Ipswich & East Suffolk Alliance Awards for the amazing work by Marie, Philly & Marianna on our Little Lights art cafe project. In great company with many other Suffolk orgs supporting #healthandwellness

Proud that our Creative Space programme supporting recovery from #LongCovid is included as a case study in the #CreativeHealthReview launching today
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This project, part of our wider #creativehealth programme, is produced in partnership with East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Our faces ache from smiling so much this morning! A stunning pop up exhibition of work made by artists in our latest Little Lights art cafe series for people living with long term health conditions.
Grateful to NHS SNEE ICB - Ipswich and east Suffolk for championing creative routes to #healthandwellness

Loved the positive vibes of todays East Suffolk Connect Conference - a room full of solution-focused organisations dedicated to improving the #health & #wellbeing of local #communities . #Collaboration #cooperation #connection