The Art of Creative Wellness: Recent Episodes
Antoinette Spicer
The Art of Creative Wellness podcast delves into art initiatives and projects which are improving New Zealander’s mental health and wellbeing.
The five-part podcast series covers; creative spaces, art programmes in prisons, arts and accessible performances, art practices and programmes which respond to tragedy and, the funding model of arts initiatives in New Zealand.
In this final episode, Antoinette Spicer explores the arts funding model in New Zealand.
Arts Access Aotearoa, Executive Director Richard Benge and Ōtautahi Creative Spaces Founder Kim Morton say the lack of money for community schemes is leaving some creative spaces out of pocket and struggling to stay open.
Antoinette follows up with Creative New Zealand, Ministry for Health, Ministry of Social Development and Ministry for Culture and Heritage to find out why.
In this episode, Antoinette Spicer explores art following tragedy, from painting to process grief to theatre in disaster zones.
“Sometimes things happen in our world, that words are not big enough for...that’s why we have the arts. The arts...provide us with a process of going inwards...so we might better understand how we have been impacted by the world”. – Professor Peter O’Connor
Featuring; Director of the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation, Professor Peter O’ Connor, Gap Filler Co-founder, Coralie Winn , Christchurch City Council Principal Arts Advisor, Kiri Jarden and Aslan Haj Mustafa, an artist who painted through his grief following the mosque attacks.
The Art of Creative Wellness podcast delves into art initiatives and projects which are improving New Zealander’s mental health and wellbeing. The five-part podcast series covers; creative spaces, art programmes in prisons, arts and accessible performances, art practices and programmes which respond to tragedy and, the funding model of arts initiatives in New Zealand.
In this episode, Antoinette Spicer explores accessibility options across theatres and shows which enable disabled people to take part in the arts.
Featuring; Disability Activist Robyn Hunt, Arts Access Aotearoa’s Access Inclusion and Participation Advisor, Stace Robertson, Court Theatre Programmes Manager, Rachel Sears, and Royal New Zealand Ballet Education, Community and Accessibility Manager Pascale Parenteau.
In this episode, Antoinette Spicer speaks to people and organisations who run art programmes in prisons across Aotearoa, from painting and drawing to ballet behind bars.
Featuring Art Therapist Mark Geard, Corrections Chief Custodial Officer Neil Beales, Zonta Club of Mana Barbara Thompson and Royal New Zealand Ballet Education, Community and Accessibility Manager Pascale Parenteau.
In the first episode, Antoinette Spicer explores ‘creative spaces’ - organisations and places where people who experience barriers to participation such as, intellectual or physical disability, neurological conditions, cultural isolation or poverty.
Find out more about creative spaces: artsaccess.org.nz/creative%20spaces