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40 Years of Care - MK University Hospital at 40
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Halloween Spooktacular
26 October 2024

The MKUH Art Collection Evaluation Report
17 October 2024

African Diaspora Foundation ‘Summer Camp’
1 October 2024

Supportive Conversations
18 September 2024


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August 2024

Artists’ Health and Wellbeing Booklet
14 June 2024


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04 June 2024


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25 May 2024


New Artwork for MKUH Collection
25 May 2024

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16 May 2024


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07 May 2024


Project Update: Headstart
02 May 2024


Impact of The Collection
01 May 2024


Twenty for Twenty
28 March 2024


New Artworks on Loan from Paintings in Hosptials
27 March 2024

IATE Student Art Therapist - Julie Laugere

26 March 2024

Call for Creative Courtyard Volunteers
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Winter Newsletter 2024
30 January 2024


A Supportive Conversation with Dr Esther Aslan 
26 January 2024


Feel Good Foods Cookbook
21 November 2023


AGM 22nd Nov 2023
2 November 2023


Music workshops
24 August 2023

AHA Inclusivity & Diversity Badge
20 July 2023


Gill Quinnell - degree show
20 June 2023


Summer Newsletter
16 June 2023


Courtyards Update
6 June 2023


Movement and Dance with Kate Taylor - Taster Session
9 May 2023


Artist’s Listening Event
20 March 2023


Winter Newsletter
8 December 2022

Drumming Circle

6 December 2022

Courtyards Update
1 November 2022

MK DAD 2022
14 July 2022

Our First Newsletter
16 June 2022

Art Psychotherapy
20 May 2022

Exploring Identities
10 May 2022


Peter-Randall Page Sculpture 
March 2022


Trustee Vacancy
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MKDAD 2021
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Music4Mindfulness

12th April 2021

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5th February 2021

Exhibition MK Gallery Project Space
Update 1 December 2020
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13th July 2020

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24th April 2020

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March 2020

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and effects on Arts for Health MK public activities

March 2020

New art exhibition from paintings in hospitals
November 2019

Call for Entries:
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September 2019

Call for Artists:
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June 2019


Artist profile: Bill Billings
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African Diaspora Foundation ‘Summer Camp’ – in partnership with The Wisdom Principle

01 October 2024


Image: The artist Amanda with BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) children enjoying the creative workshop.


In Netherfield, there are school holiday ‘camps’ offered to all children but many children of minority ethnic backgrounds who are eligible to attend do not make use of the service due to a range of cultural and economic barriers.


Our project in partnership with The Wisdom Principle provided school-age children from diverse communities with culturally adapted creative activities with the aim of increasing attendance at a ‘camp’ run by African Diaspora Foundation for predominantly black African and Caribbean families. The emphasis was on promoting mental wellbeing, encouraging community cohesion, and intergenerational creative ‘play’.

We were delighted to welcome back artist Amanda Holiday who recently worked with Arts for Health MK on last year’s ‘Creatively Minded, Ethnically Diverse’ project.

Artist Amanda Holiday said of the session “The children clearly enjoyed the activity and felt it was imaginative and freeing. They became engrossed in the communal making and gluing”. Amanda introduced the theme of ‘Hidden Figures’ and asked the children who were the hidden or background figures in their lives – suggestions ranged from grandparents through to relatives who lived abroad, and incidental acquaintances in school settings. Children felt comfortable to talk about hidden figures who had made both a positive and negative impression on them. The children were also introduced to the work by African American artist Kara Walker, and were showed examples of African alphabets, syllabaries and ‘Adinkra symbols’ from Ghana which are symbols or patterns that have the form of a silhouette.

We look forward to being able to provide further sessions for the community next year and are grateful to MK Community Foundation for funding this work.

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