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Read CAW member Alex Fitch’s new piece for The Conversation

Black Panther is a step in the right direction and a diverse audience is hungry for more inclusive roles and storylines Alex Fitch, University of Brighton From Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness to the recent She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,… Continue Reading →

Newsletter | November 2022

The full November Newsletter, including live weblinks, is also available to view as a pdf

Report | Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing International Conference

CAW member and conference co-organiser, Vedrana Velickovic, reports on the success of the CAW-funded conference Common Threads The Common Threads conference was held at the University of Brighton from 21-23 July 2023 at Edward Street, City Campus. It was co-organized… Continue Reading →

News | Open call: Event funding from CAW

Call for Proposals Deadline: 10th January 2023 The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing is seeking to support an event (conference/symposium/festival) that addresses a topic or subject that aligns with 2 or more of our themes: Drawing for health and wellbeing… Continue Reading →

News | Open call: Seed Funding from CAW

Call for Proposals Deadline: 10th January 2023 The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing is seeking proposals on small-scale or pilot projects that link to arts and wellbeing and at least one of our academic themes: Drawing for health and wellbeing… Continue Reading →

Alex Fitch reports on designing games packaging and raising money for LGBTQI+ groups in the Ukraine

A hobby I have outside of my research and teaching at the University is collecting old video games. Specifically, and this is something I started again during lockdown after a number of years, games for a pretty obscure games console… Continue Reading →

Report | Queer Peers, 15 June 2022

Members of the project team report on the many successes of the Queer Peers project in 2022 How is queer wellbeing nurtured locally, outside of traditional ‘mental health’ care? The Queer Peers project, jointly funded by the Centre for Arts… Continue Reading →

Report | Graphic Brighton, 27-28 May 2022

Co-organiser, Barbara Chamberlin, reports on the many successes of Graphic Brighton 2022 Graphic Brighton is a comics symposium that has run annually (aside from the pandemic) since 2014 and brings together comics creators, publishers, academics, students and the general public,… Continue Reading →

Work in Progress | Mark Price – Writing Into Creativity and Interdisciplinarity

Mark Price is a student on the Creative Writing MA. He is undertaking a residency with the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, exploring practitioner-researchers’ perceptions and experiences of creativity and interdisciplinarity.   I’m a student again. Our assignments on the… Continue Reading →

Artist in Residence | Becca Oliver

The Art of Being Queer “When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay, because I could draw.” – Macklemore 2012   Comical as this may be out of context, the implication remains that a proclivity… Continue Reading →

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