Community Arts Projects / Art Exhibitions / Community Engagement
Supporting Adults with Mental Health Problems
in Birmingham and the West Midlands
Arts All Over the Place provide community arts projects & exhibitions, and community engagement events, for adults with mental health problems in Birmingham. We celebrate the creative talents of those who have or have had mental health problems across all aspects of the arts as well as promoting the value of the arts in Mental Health recovery.
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Since its creation in 2007, AAOTP has celebrated the creative talents of those who have or have had mental health problems across all aspects of the Arts. Our main aim is to promote the value of the Arts in Mental Health recovery.
It gives free exhibition space to people who might otherwise have no opportunity to showcase their talent, and provides free workshops during the event for people to experience a huge variety of Art forms. It also provides information on mental health to the general public and acts as a way of reducing the stigma and discrimination many people with mental health problems face.
Our committee is run on a voluntary basis by service users and professionals in the fields of education, community, and health settings. Every year we look to put on a major event that can showcase the artistic talents of people with lived experience of mental health.
The main aim of Arts All Over the Place is to encourage participation and promotion of the arts in mental health recovery and self-care.
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To do this we hold an annual arts and health festival, as well as other exciting and creative events, this is all dependent on funding. We do this by:
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Raising awareness of the creativity of people with mental health experience across The West Midlands.
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Actively engaging with all sectors of mental health provisions.
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Demonstrating and showcasing the therapeutic benefits of all the creative arts through a range of artistic mediums.
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Being committed to ensuring equality and endeavor in the work processes.
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Ensuring that Arts All Over The Place is user centered and accessible to people at all stages of their mental health and recovery.
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Encouraging participants to develop their skills and ideas by making sure that at least one piece of work will be exhibited by each participant at our annual Festival.
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Reducing stigma by holding as many events as possible in venues where anyone (including the general public) can join in.
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Striving to overcome disadvantage experienced by people with disabilities, people facing discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender and religious beliefs.
