Arts and Health Check Up, Check In is an annual networking event for arts and healthcare practitioners and artists who work in healthcare settings. Join us at this unique arts and health get-together brought to you by artsandhealth.ie, Create and Arts Initiative in Mental Health, Sligo.

The event will promote solidarity among arts and health practitioners, enable networking and peer support amongst practitioners, inspire practitioners to develop their practice and facilitate the exchange of ideas.

• With this in mind, the keynote speech curated by Create will take the form of a conversation between Patrick Fox of Heart of Glass UK and Mark Storor, an acclaimed and award-winning artist, who works in the space between live art and theatre.

• There will be a series of paired presentations exploring the nature of collaborative working between artists and healthcare professionals.

• Highlighting the issues and hot topics from the morning's talks, attendees will have an opportunity to meet their peers in facilitated discussion groups. The artist Naomi Draper will employ various creative devices to allow entry points into conversations that invite participants to listen, share and exchange with one another.

Join us for this special Arts and Health networking event and keep the conversation going.

Arts and Health Check Up, Check In is funded by the Arts Council, Sligo Arts Service and HSE North West.

Full programme here.

This event will among other things be an opportunity to share your practice and learn about the practice of others in an informal way. Therefore we encourage you to bring information about your projects that you are working on to put on a joint information table for sharing with others. Please don’t bring anything that you are not prepared to let go.

To aid networking, we would like to share the list of attendees in advance. Please let us know if you don’t want to be on this list.

Finally, artist Breda Burns has been commissioned by Bealtaine festival 2017, in partnership with Sligo Arts Office and Mayo Arts Office, to develop a sound and radio-based work, Archiving Activism. This commission has developed in response to the Bealtaine 2017 theme of collectivism and the exhibition will be launched at 6pm in The Model on the 5th May. All Check Up, Check In attendees are welcome to attend.

For further information, contact Claire Meaney, Acting Arts Director, WHAT at claireA.meaney@hse.ie or phone 051 842664.

Admission is €20 per person including lunch.

See www.artsandhealth.ie for further updates.