Youth Arts and Health

We work with young people and children, offering creativity and a safe space in which to explore feelings, emotions and often challenging issues. These activities offer young people both improved physical health (through our performing arts inc. dance and drama) and increased emotional awareness and well-being.

This work is a priority area for our Community Arts programme, bringing young people together and helping them express important aspects of their lives in a range of artforms, as well as sharing the work created with families, friends, peers and stake-holders.

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


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 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.
August 16th, 2011 Girl with her head in her hands Youth Mental Health First Aid Course As part of our training programme for staff teams, groups and organisations we are now able to offer 2 day Youth Mental Health First Aid course. This course is supported by the Welsh Government and is a national initiative.
July 25th, 2011 Shadows of people Reflections on the Mary Immaculate School Drama Project So what happened in that 6 weeks? How do we evaluate that kind of work? If we are communicating on a level far beyond language, how do we identify what is really happening?
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