During the course of four projects, Norwich University of the Arts, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and the mental health charity Hospital Rooms have collaborated together to explore how museum quality arts interventions with national and internationally renowned artists in secure, forensic and inpatient mental health care clinical spaces impact the patients, their carers and families and the staff who work there.

This talk will present the three projects that have happened in East Anglia and how the hospital communities are telling the story of how they have benefitted, not just from the profound change to their environment but from a profound cultural shift too: from redesigning their own ward football team kit, painting the corridors outside their rooms, curating exhibitions to embarking on ambitious multi-media artworks.

Dr Nicola Simpson curates and writes and is a Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts.

Directions: If you stand facing the main entrance to the Cathedral and look left across the playground, you will find the studio. Helpers on the gate will guide you.

Parking: There is free parking at the school. Helpers on the gate will guide you. The car park closes at 10pm so please make sure you leave before then.

Refreshments: Wine and soft drinks will be available after the talk. All attendees are very welcome to stay and socialise.

Members: £5. Non-Members: £8.

UEA, NUA, City College and Norwich School students FREE!