It is now a year since Artlink held our Re-launch event to mark the major achievement of raising the funds to transform the building into a fully accessible state of the arts venue dedicated to working with disadvantaged groups of adults and young people.
In this year so much has taken place. We have delivered all eight of our first year projects for Open Door a Reaching Communities Big Lottery funded project to work with groups in the community who have little or no access to arts participation. We have worked with Barnados REACH with young people at risk of exclusion from school, Shantona women's centre with girls and young women, Feel Good Factor with elderly residents of Harehills, Sikh Elders with elderly Sikh women based at Touchstone, Women's Aid, Studio 3 a group of adults with mental health issues and Together Women a group of women who are at risk of re-offending.
In this year we have also continued our work in ward settings. We are now half way through our three year project with the Yorkshire Centre for Eating Disorders, and are slowly transforming the Unit with large scale canvases of the work the patients have produced. We have engaged patients and staff alike and staff are now very keen to participate in workshops as well as deliver some of the artistic techniques themselves.
Our work on the Forensic Ward was both moving and rewarding. One of our artists said that if she lived nearby she would have liked to continue going to the Ward to support the patients on a regular basis.
We are now setting up work in Ward 4 the Acute Male ward, as well as Year 2 of our Open Door Project, and further workshops in the Eating Disorders Unit. For Open Door we will be working with disadvantaged groups from the community in our wonderful building.
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