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Category Inclusion through narrative

The ways in which individuals and societies make and communicate their stories influences identity, builds understanding and resilience, shares diversity and nurtures equality. This theme considers how storytelling can be used to extend cross-disciplinary communities of practice across health, the humanities and the arts. It operates a programme of symposiums that inform our Creative Writing with Wellbeing BA, and a book series with Intellect.

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 →

Panic Response: An Interview with Poet John McCullough

CAW Postgraduate member, Becca Oliver (MA Creative Writing) shares a recent interview with poet John McCullough   “Picture it now so you’ll remember the scene one lonely midnight when your heart assaults your ribs: the galactic light of tiny selves… 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 →

Work in Progress | Sebastián Collado – Performative Narrative Interview Workshop

CAW Visiting Research Fellow Sebastián Collado (PhD student at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile) reports on a recent workshop he conducted on the Performative Narrative Interview, a research methodology developed during his PhD studies.   In the first days of November… Continue Reading →

Work in Progress | Alex Fitch – Researching the well-being of teen superhero comics

CAW PhD researcher, Alex Fitch, provides an update on his recent research and publications With 50% of my PhD research focussed on comic books – I am investigating “What can Sequential Art tell us about interactions with architecture that other… Continue Reading →

Exhibition | OXYGEN: breathTAKING

Curator Jenni Lewin-Turner of urbanflo talks about the breathTAKING exhibition at Phoenix Art Space, and winning two awards from Brighton Fringe Getting two awards for the OXYGEN: breathTAKING exhibition was truly phenomenal but very richly deserved by all the hugely… Continue Reading →

Clothes On Our Back – Diversifying the Curriculum

This film by Willie Robb offers insights into the Community University Partnership Programme 2020 Ignite projects. Centre for Arts and Wellbeing member Jess Moriarty and Tony Kalume from Diversity Lewes have been working with Brighton Museum on devising inclusive pedagogy… Continue Reading →

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