Art in Eden 2005 - Sculpture by Karen Foulds

Current and upcoming projects

ART IN EDEN 2007

This very popular artists' open studios event is running again this year, from 1 September to 9 September inclusive, inclusive, between 11am and 5pm. A brochure featuring all the artists and their work, with directions to the various studios will be available later in the summer from tourist information centres, libraries and galleries throughout Cumbria.

VOLUNTARY ARTS CUMBRIA PROJECT

Eden Arts manages the Voluntary Arts Cumbria project on behalf of Cumbria County Council. Work to date includes research into the extent of the voluntary arts sector in the county, and ascertaining the training needs of individuals and groups. A series of training opportunities

This project is funded by

WRITING CUMBRIA

Writing Cumbria is the county's new writing development project - offering services to the many published and aspiring writers in Cumbria, which Eden Arts manages on behalf of Cumbria County Council. Writing Cumbria provides advice on all aspects of writing and getting published, advises schools on booking writers-in-residence, etc, has run mentoring projects for writers, works with the library service on joint events, gives support and advice to the county's major literary festival, Words by the Water ncluding the quarterly newsletter for writers and readers, All Write. Eden Arts manages this project on behalf of Cumbria County Council

Other recent projects

CUMBRIA ARTS & HEALTH GROUP
Audit Of Arts & Health Projects In Cumbria

The importance of arts in healthcare is increasingly being recognised, both nationally and regionally. The field can encompass arts projects in healthcare spaces, e.g. in hospitals, GP surgeries or day centres; it can be arts therapy or community or celebratory arts projects, as well as individual creativity. It is all part of the growing realisation that health is much more than absence of illness: it is a resource to enhance the quality of our lives.

Eden Arts is a member of the Cumbria Arts & Health Group, made up of health and arts professionals from all over the county, and was commissioned by the Group to undertake an Arts and Health Audit of projects throughout the county. The audit provides a snapshot of recent and current arts and health projects and possible models of good practice in Cumbria, and has involved both telephone and person interviews with artists and health practitioners and questionnaires completed by voluntary sector groups, NHS staff and artists

The hope is that the Cumbria Arts & Health Audit will inform future arts and health strategies in the county,funding applications for projects and be an advocacy document for clinicians and managers within the health service, in the hopes that that the arts become integrated into health care in some of the ways outlined above.