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Arts & Culture
Welcome to the arts and culture pages. Within Bromley, Develop maintains a presence on the Bromley Arts Panel through Credo Creative Ceramic Designs - an independent local charity working to help individuals recover from a period of mental ill health and have the skills and confidence to return to the workplace.
Our representation and input to the panel enables us to tackle issues arising in Bromley with regard to accessing artistic and cultural activities. We have an interest in ensuring people with mental ill-health have welcoming access and the opportunity to express themselves artistically through the visual, performing arts and other cultural activities.
We should all be involved in promoting social inclusion because:
- Common mental health problems affect up to one in six of the general population at any one time. Almost everyone will know someone who has had mental health problems at some point in their lives.
- People with mental ill-health are equally capable of making valuable contributions to the arts. Picasso, Stephen Fry, Robbie Williams and Spike Milligan all lived with mental health problems and made major contributions to the arts.
In this section you will be able to find:
- Services that support welcoming access to the arts and cultural activities for people with mental ill-health.
- Events - mental health, arts and cultural activities.
- Evidence and policy - Research findings on the value of the arts to mental health and wellbeing and how to improve the organisation you work in to be more welcoming and supportive of people with mental ill-health.
- Guidance and tools that can be used to help people plan to get more involved in the arts and how to develop your organisation to offer a warm welcome to people with mental health problems.
- News - stories about people's experiences of participating in artistic and cultural activity in the borough.
If you would like more information about social inclusion and mental health, Develop can also offer you:
- Discussion Forum - A place to ask questions, find support and obtain advice about finding welcoming and supportive local arts activities or about issues relating to mental health matters in your organisation, group or society. (Available to registered site users).
- Training events about social inclusion and promoting involvement in the arts and about mental health matters generally (from handling stress and promoting mental wellbeing and recovery through to awareness training about mental illness).
For more information about our involvement in the Bromley Arts Panel, please contact: artsNET@developbromley.com
View the national database of arts bridge-building projects
View the National Social Inclusion Programme Discussion Forum on Arts
An evening at the theatre in support of Credo
12th Aug 2010
In the gloom of a November evening, would you like to spend an evening at the theatre, enjoying yourselves with friends, colleagues and family? Then please join us!
The Bromley Little Theatre has offered to Credo the proceeds of their Preview Night of a new comedy which will be performed on the evening of Thursday, 4th November 2010.
(Bar opens at 7.00 p.m. Performance starts at 7.45 p.m. You can order drinks/ice creams upon arrival ready for the interval. Performance should end around 10.00 p.m.) There will also be a raffle for some lovely hand-crafted Credo ceramics.
The production is called “Life x 3” by Yasmina Reza.
Henry and Sonia are at home and have invited his boss and wife to dinner the following night. They turn up a day early and are entertained as best they may, bit it makes for an awkward evening!
This evening is replayed three times, showing small things can make events unfold differently.
The playwright suggests that, with a proper attitude, life can be lived happily and, conversely, with a bad attitude, life is hell. The play has some high comedy and hilarious moments.
HOW TO OBTAIN YOUR TICKETS:
Tickets cost:
£9:00 each (anyone over 12 years of age)
£7:00 concessions (i.e. anyone receiving Benefits, senior citizens and children up to 11 years of age).
Unfortunately, the Theatre is not able to cater for disabled people as it is a very old building. Although there is a wheelchair lift, there is just one space for a wheelchair in the auditorium and for their carer to sit next to them; nor are there disabled toilet facilities.
All seats have an excellent view of the stage.
The Bromley Little Theatre is located close to Bromley North Station and there are good bus links into Central Bromley. There is car parking nearby on the pay and display meters which, at that time of night, will be free of charge.
I do hope to see you there. It promises to be a really enjoyable evening, as well as raising much-needed funds for Credo.
Please complete the attached form and send with your cheque payment (all cheques payable to CREDO) to:
Mrs Jan Lovett
Project Co-ordinator
Credo
Anchor House
5 Station Road
Orpington
Kent, BR6 ORZ
Tel: 01689 862296
E-mail: jan.lovett@tiscali.co.uk
Seats cannot be reserved in advance and the sale of tickets is on a first come, first served basis.
Community Options in Harmony with new choir
22nd Jul 2010
Develop partner Community Options are launching a new choir called Harmony next month and are looking for participants.
Singing has been widely recognised as being a good way of maintaining both physical and mental wellbeing, and this group welcomes all standards, including complete beginners!
First session will start on the 3rd of August 2010 from 5pm to 7pm and then every Tuesday.
Please telephone Community Options on 020 8313 9725 for more information.
It would also be appreciated if you can download the flyer and display wherever possible!
Credo gets the thumbs up!
4th Jul 2010
Develop Partner Credo, a Bromley-based mental health charity, recently conducted a wide-ranging survey of all those who have benefited from Credo’s support, both current and past members of Credo; those who have been involved in our outreach projects in the community and healthcare professionals who have worked with Credo.
An amazing 97% of healthcare professionals within and outside Bromley said that Credo’s work is of the highest standard and should continue – and that Credo’s work should extend beyond its current Bromley boundaries and stretch into the other Oxleas’ areas.
Said Dr. Hashim Reza (pictured right), Oxleas’ Clinical Director: “Credo adds a wonderful dimension to activities available in Bromley. All service users gave excellent feedback on their experience. The quality of the work produced is superb and a delight to look at.”
Says Jan Lovett, Credo’s Project Co-ordinator: “We are thrilled to receive such a positive response from all those with whom we work and to know that so many people want us to continue and develop the services we provide”.
Credo’s audit results were presented to Oxleas and the survey was a partnership between Credo and the Multi-Disciplinary Clinical Audit Team.
Anyone in Bexley or Greenwich interested in Credo establishing services in Bexley or Greenwich (or any other neighbouring boroughs) should contact Jan Lovett on 01689 862296.
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