Arts Derbyshire’s Creatives in Place UPDATE

A trailblazing Creative Health Pilot Programme is soon to begin in Wirksworth and Erewash.

We are delighted to welcome our newly appointed Creatives in Place to the Arts Derbyshire Team!

Our Creatives in Place for Wirksworth is Nick Davis. Nick is particularly inspired by the powerful impact that the arts can have on health and wellbeing. He is committed to building connections and improving lives through access to creativity. Nick’s main art form is music. You can find out more about Nick on our website here.

In Erewash, our Creatives in Place is Bethany Sheldon. As a creative, Beth straddles many roles including Theatre Maker, Story Gatherer, Performer, Arts Facilitator and Producer. Beth loves using creativity to build human connections, grow communities and empower isolated voices to share their stories. . You can find out more about Beth on our website here.

To recap… here’s an overview of the Creatives in Place project…

Creatives in Place (CiP) is a new creative health model that aims to support the development of innovative ways of working in primary care, with a particular emphasis on inequalities. It expands upon the skill and mindsets typically available to primary care teams and their local communities. It pushes frontline collaborative, cross-sector and cross-disciplinary working into new areas of practice, to supplement the spectrum of approaches (medical, non-medical, social, creative) available for developing neighbourhood wellbeing in a responsive and nuanced way.

As a piece of action research, CiP aims to explore whether a creative, bridging role that helps position a GP practice as a central player in local community development, can bring mutually beneficial and meaningful wellbeing benefits to patients, community and the GP practice itself.

Through creative thinking, inquisitiveness and connectedness we seek to explore how we can work towards a preventative model to stay well, happy and to flourish.

Watch this space for further updates!