Adult Arts and Health

We offer a wide range of Adult Arts and Health projects, encouraging expression through creativity and a collaborative creative process which we believe to be therapeutic and beneficial to the well-being of participants.

All the latest Adult Arts and Health news from Valley and Vale Community Arts:


April 7th, 2011 Sarah's Story Performance Sarah’s Story Exclusive Online Film Premiere Valley and Vale worked with women from Bridgend Women’s Aid and The Genesis Project during this project. The group of women worked through a process of sharing their experiences and devising dramatic scenes based around their own stories.
March 25th, 2011 Rainbow over the Garw Valley ‘Rainbow of Desires’ Course Blog I recently attended a Theatre of the Oppressed Rainbow of Desires Theatre and Therapy training course with Adrian Jackson of Cardboard Citizens in London.
March 2nd, 2011 Yami Popping Workshop Yami Popping Workshop Our last funk workshops were so successful that Community Dance Wales and Valley and Vale Community Arts decided to work in partnership again to get the ‘one and only’ Yami (aka 'Rowdy') back to Cardiff and Bridgend to deliver Popping and Locking workshops.
February 22nd, 2011 Singing the Valleys Singing the Valleys Photo Gallery Singing the Valleys is an informal project; we aim to enjoy some music and singing with the residents of Dan y Mynydd Sheltered Housing in the Garw Valley and Cwrt Gwalia Sheltered Housing in the Ogmore Valley, to spark off and record some memories in the process and to compose some songs and music of our own.
February 18th, 2011 Singing the Valleys Singing the Valleys We are now into week two of Singing the Valleys, our new music-and-memories project in the Ogmore and Garw Valleys, which has been funded by Bridgend County Borough Council.
December 20th, 2010 Y Bont Dance Workshop Ty Pen y Bont Dance Workshop This new Dance Disabilty group with Y Bont has been taking place at Nolton Church Hall in Bridgend. Some of the participants have been involved in dance work with us before, as part of the Split Level Dance Group, and others were new to it and hadn’t tried dance before.
December 6th, 2010 Mental Health Matters Dance Space to Be! (Mental Health Matters Dance Workshop) Valley and Vale Community Arts have been offering Dance/Movement and trust-based exercises at the Nolton Street Wellbeing Drop-in, Bridgend, for just over 2 years.
September 14th, 2010 Caswell Clinic Drama Project Caswell Clinic Drama Project The start of our 3 year Arts programme at Caswell Clinic (a medium secure psychiatric hospital in Bridgend) culminated in a very successful drama piece ('Britain's Got No Talent!' a spoof of the popular TV show)...
April 9th, 2010 Mountain Dew, Garw Valley PCC at Glanrhyd Hospital Glanrhyd Hospital in Bridgend is keen to develop a staff team and patient training project, mentoring the staff at this Pyschiatric Hospital in using creativity techniques in their work with patients.
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