June 2010
In June we worked with East Lothian Council, providing Open to All training for a range of staff and volunteers, who worked in museums, archives, libraries and local history.
July 2010
In July we were successful in gaining funding through NHS Lothian, to put on an exhibition and workshops as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 2010.
August 2010
In August we worked with the Assisting Artists and the gallery on the corner to plan for the exhibition for the Mental Health Arts & Film Festival.
September 2010
In September we worked with a group of the Artists in preparing to tell part of their recovery story for workshops and training in the future. We also worked with all Assisting Artists to plan what work they wanted to include within the exhibition.
October 2010
The 'Creativity, Recovery and Wellbeing' exhibition was launched at our opening night on 1st October and ran for two weeks. Funded by NHS Lothian, the exhibition space was at the gallery on the corner. The exhibition provided a thought provoking and insightful look at what mental health means to individual artists.
In addition to the exhibition and funded by the Lothian Recovery Network, we provided three workshops which provided an exploration of mental health, art and recovery using personal stories shared by artists with personal experience of mental distress.
November 2010
In November, Open to All training was delivered in Inverness. Working with Highland Council we worked with staff and volunteers in the Highlands a lot of whom worked in smaller museums.
We also had a meeting to celebrate the achievements of the exhibition and workshops in October. We also discussed ideas for the future.
February 2011
In February we were in London, delivering Open to All training at the Geffrye Museum to a range of staff connected with the museum.
March 2011
In March we undertook an evaluation of the Museums of the Mind Project in Nottingham. Commissioned by Renaissance East Midlands, the evaluation looked at the work of five museums working in line to recommendations of the report produced by Culture Unlimited in 2008
April 2011
As we begin April, we are putting together a bi-annual newsletter to ensure all our partners are kept up to date with news of what we have been doing.
