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SUMMARY:Critical Hope - Creativity and Wellbeing Week launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person to hear from Creative Health sector experts from across the country as part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2026 organised by London Arts and Health. Our Arts\, Refugees & Mental Health producer Maren will be one of the panelists for this important conversation. \n\n\n\nDay one of Creativity and Wellbeing Week sets the tone for the national programme under the theme of Critical Hope for Acute Times. The theme acknowledges the increasing precarity in the health and care sectors including the impending NHS redundancies\, ongoing instability in funding for Creative Health and the rising pressures linked to planetary health and climate change. Hear from cutting edge speakers\, network and re-energise at this free event to kick start our festival for 2026. \nRead more about the festival theme\, Critical Hope here. \nThis event will gather the sector in a space of critical hope\, reconnecting practitioners with their passion and inviting visions for the future of Creative Health. You can expect exciting panel discussions\, Q&A\, artistic activity and networking. \nAt the National Theatre. London Arts & Health anticipate the event to sell out with practitioners\, NHS colleagues\, artists\, funders and policy makers joining to mark the opening of the festival. \nAll attendees will be able to take home a unique Critical Hope badge created by the Badge Cafe! \nFeaturing: \n\nChair and host: Thahmina Begum\nAnna Woolf: London Arts and Health\nYamin Choudury: National Theatre\nEmmanuella Morsi : Artist\, Production Manager and Researcher\nMaren Ellermann: Counterpoints Arts\nDan Hopewell: Bromley By Bow Centre\nDr Simon Opher MP: Chair of the APPG on Creative Health\nRachel Millward: Deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales\nWith resident artist from Hoxton Hall: Aaron Appiah-Anderson\n\nAbout the venue: \nArrive from 10am in the foyer of the National Theatre and follow the signs for the event which will take place at the Buffini Chao Deck. You can purchase a hot drink to bring up from the cafe to enjoy during the event. The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. \nGet your tickets here \n 
URL:https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/critical-hope-creativity-and-wellbeing-week-launch/
LOCATION:National Theatre\, National Theatre\, Upper Ground\, South Bank\, London\, London\, SE1 9PX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Creativity & Wellbeing Week,Mental Health
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