Arts and Health

Our Arts, Health and Wellbeing programme recognises the value of the Arts within a holistic approach to health and wellbeing.

We believe in the positive effects of the creative process in all our work. These projects have a more specific and direct link to health and wellbeing either in terms of the client group/ setting we are working in or the issues explored creatively in the projects themselves.

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


January 20th, 2012 Mental Health Matters Photo Workshop Mental Health Matters Workshop Blog We all suffer from mental strain at some point in our lives whether through the day-to-day stresses of our jobs or something more profound like the loss of a loved one...
December 12th, 2011 ADHD Drama Project Being Me: Drama and ADHD Over the last 6 weeks we have been working in partnership with Bridgend Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services running a pilot Drama and Creative Arts project with children in the Maesteg area with ADHD.
November 30th, 2011 In Search of Aphrodite ‘What Happened to Aphrodite?’ We have just finished our most recent youth theatre production ‘In Search of Aphrodite’ and it was a huge success... The performance began as an exploration of sexual promiscuity in Bridgend and beyond.
November 28th, 2011 Art of Psychiatry Conference ‘The Art of Collaboration’ Blog So I am sitting on the train back to Bridgend from London, having spent a long day at a conference which explored how patients in psychiatric settings use creative media (arts) in their recovery journey...
November 21st, 2011 Bryntirion Workshop Papiermache Masks Drama for Emotional Literacy Blog We have been looking at Transactional Analysis as a way of understanding our relationships and discussing how we can relate to others using our parent, adult and child ego states, and how by having some understanding of this we can improve the more dysfunctional relationships in our lives.
November 16th, 2011 Peer Mediation Film Peer Mediation in Practice Over the last six months we have been working with young peer mediators from Maesteg and Ynysawdre Comprehensive School and have produced a DVD called Peer Mediation in Practice.
October 31st, 2011 Wellbeing Conference Drama at ESIS Wellbeing Conference 2 We were invited to host a workshop at the Wellbeing Conference for Primary and Secondary teachers in South Wales on 13th and 14th October 2011.
October 27th, 2011 Tondu Transitions School Project Tondu Transitions Project At the beginning of this term two of our local schools have merged: Tondu Primary and Pandy Infants in Aberkenfig. As part of their rolling programme to make the transition as smooth and positive as possible they asked for a Drama workshop to be run with every pupil in the school.
October 27th, 2011 Bridgend Pupil Referral Unit Drama at the Pupil Referral Unit, Bridgend We are working in partnership with Bridgend PRU this year to deliver Drama for Emotional Health workshops across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
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