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Author Jessica Moriarty

Decolonising the Creative Writing and Academia with Misha Stories and Diversity Lewes

“Home is where the Heart is.”[1] Dhanusha Ranapurwala is a student on the MA Creative Writing. In this blog post, she offers an insight into her work on a research project entitled Maisha Stories that was funded by the Impact… Continue Reading →

Decolonising Maternity – artists and academics in New Delhi and Brighton creating work on experiences of maternity

    By Ruchika Wason Singh (artist, New Delhi) and Jess Moriarty (UoB)   In the autumn of 2021, the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing funded a symposium led by myself (Jess) and Kate Aughterson, called, Performing Maternities, an event… Continue Reading →

Maisha Stories Project Receives Follow on Funding from National Lottery

The Maisha Stories Project received National Lottery funding from National Lottery Community Fund to develop work on the initial Impact Acceleration Account funded initiative and the Policy Support Fund Project with Sussex Police, and connect Black, Asian and ethnically diverse… Continue Reading →

Abstracts: Exploring Human-Animal and Multispecies Relations: Risk Taking in Research Methods Symposium

The Exploring Human-Animal and Multispecies Relations: Risk Taking in Research Methods Symposium takes place at the University of Brighton 6th and 7th June 2024. The abstracts for the event and details of the programme can be found below.   Abstracts… Continue Reading →

Writer in Residence | Rob Vanston | Mindfulness: How Meditation Can Help With Mind Clutter

Rob Vanston is a student studying a Creative Writing MA at the University of Brighton, and has an unhealthy interest in cosmic horror. He is currently doing a writer’s residency for the Centre of Arts and Wellbeing where his aim… Continue Reading →

AHRC funded project: Trans-sensory storying of gender-based violence

Monday 13 November 5-7 at Grand Parade Building (City Campus), University of Brighton.   This exhibition includes a collection of responses to stories of gender-based violence in the UK and Mexico during and after the Covid 19 pandemic. It is… Continue Reading →

Goodbye Breasts!: What can creativity bring to health care change?

https://www.goodbyebreasts.com/ Jess Moriarty, co-director of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, took part in a roundtable with health care experts and artists discussing Dr Joanna Callaghan’s thought provoking exhibition about her experience of breast cancer which was at South East… Continue Reading →

The Art Listening – 25/10/23 – 6-7.30pm

  The Art of Listening What can creativity bring to health care change? Wednesday 25 October 6-7.30pmm Register The Art of Listening Tickets, Wed 25 Oct 2023 at 18:00 | Eventbrite   The Dance Space | South East Dance A… Continue Reading →

Dr Lou Tondeur shares her keynote workshop from REWILD

Rewilding Your Self: a Mindful Writing Workshop A guided meditation at the Rewild Festival In the Mindful Writing Workshop at the Rewild Festival on 26th May 2023, we focused on the idea that we’re implicated in Matsuo Bashô’s frog poem;… Continue Reading →

REWILD Conference Proceedings – now available

REWILD 2023 (1) (1)   UPDATE Due to technical issues, we have been obliged to rethink the performance of Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay. This event will now consist of: Part A: Storytelling on womaxn mental health: Monologues and discussion on… Continue Reading →

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