International Winter School Cultural Heritage & Wellbeing

This winter school wants to support professionals working in or with the cultural heritage sector in the development of outreach programs using heritage collections for wellbeing activities. The focus during the winter school is on green spaces of care and community engagement. For five days the participants, depending on their level of experience, are going to be guided in developing an offering ranging for people with dementia in a residential setting to working with communities around mental health issues.
The participants will come into contact with a wide range of methods and instruments that already are been used by inspiring cases were cultural heritage collections are used for the improvement of the wellbeing of specific target groups. The winter school is to be delivered by a highly experienced team of experts who are leading in different fields connected to cultural heritage and wellbeing:
- Bart De Nil, Expert wellbeing, culture and community engagement, Belgium
Developed training programs and published several books about cultural heritage,
health and wellbeing based on this own experience as a practitioner and researcher. Organised and delivered many international training programmes.
- Bart Marius, artistic director Museum Dr. Guislain, Belgium
Is leading an internationally renowned museum about mental health that uses its
museum grounds as a place of care. Their focus is on creative community
engagement in co-operation with neighborhood health centers.
- Zoë Gealy, Community Partnerships and Engagement Co-ordinator, Amgueddfa
Cymru, National Waterfront Museum, UK
Leads on Community partnerships and engagement for disadvantaged and protected characteristics groups. Focusing on health and wellbeing. Leads on GRAFT community garden alongside freelance artist Owen Griffiths.
- Owen Griffiths, artist, workshop leader and facilitator, UK
In his socially engaged practice he works with food systems, land use and
collaborative processes to explore the possibilities of art to create new frameworks, resources and systems. He leads a number of long-term projects including GRAFT: A Soil Based Syllabus.
- Kaat Leeman, director Heritage Centre of the Sisters of Charity, Belgium
Manages a unique collection that she uses for wellbeing activities that combines
object handling and storytelling. Her storages are open to people recovering from
mental health issues, who then choose an object and create a story connected to or inspired by it.
- Andrew Payne, Head Education and Outreach at The National Archives, UK
Leads on the development of programmes and services to engage audiences of all
ages with the collection of The National Archives. Has worked internationally on
programmes using archives for education, community outreach, artistic inspiration
and well-being.

Venue
National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
Who is the training course for?
• Professionals working in cultural heritage organizations (museums, archives, galleries, libraries with special collections)
• Students in the field of creative health, museum studies, etc.
• Researchers in the field of creative health, museum studies, etc.
At the end of the training course, you'll be able to develop a resource for a specific target group, can design wellbeing activities, make a detailed plan of the resource and present the rational of the resource to a group.
Practical information
Location: National Waterfront Museum in Swansea (Wales)
Price: 350, - Euros (including VAT)
More information and How to register
Send an email : winterschool2022Swansea@gmail.com