When we started Ayrshire Film Co. CIC, I held a strong belief that film could positively impact our local community. What took me much longer to realise was this; the act of participation often creates a greater impact than the final product itself. Over the years we’ve been involved in many community projects and haveContinue reading “Capturing Wellbeing: Exploring creativity through photography”
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Not an Artist – But the Arts Still Support My Wellbeing
By Karen Lee, Health Improvement Officer As someone working in Public Health, I’ve always leaned more naturally toward physical activity when it comes to supporting my own mental wellbeing. A good long walk, a trip to the gym, or a swim clears my head and helps me feel more able to cope with the upsContinue reading “Not an Artist – But the Arts Still Support My Wellbeing”
Official launch of the Scottish Mental Health Arts festival 2025 and North Ayrshire programme!
🎉 The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2025 programme – @mhfestival – is now live! Taking place right across Scotland from 20 October to 9 November, this year’s festival led by @mentalhealthfoundation explores the theme Comfort & Disturb. This year there are hundreds of events spanning film, theatre, music, visual art, writing, workshops and more.Continue reading “Official launch of the Scottish Mental Health Arts festival 2025 and North Ayrshire programme!”
Check out our North Ayrshire What’s on Guide for 2025
Take a look at our North Ayrshire ‘What’s on guide’ for information about all the amazing events we have in store for you over October and November. Remember and book your place at our closing ceremony on the 6th November and help us celebrate all the fantastic creative projects across our localities. Click on 2025Continue reading “Check out our North Ayrshire What’s on Guide for 2025”
People, not Pie Charts! Finding Joy by Connecting Through Art’
I work in the Learning Disability Service in North Ayrshire, and have been working in Learning Disability services in Ayrshire for over 20 years. A constant theme across those years has been the visibility of people with learning disabilities, or rather, their lack of visibility. All too often, services and communities are designed without properContinue reading “People, not Pie Charts! Finding Joy by Connecting Through Art’”
Meet the team!
As part of the build up and preparation for this year’s festival, we wanted to introduce you to some of our dedicated team members who play a crucial role in making the festival a success each year. These individuals bring their unique skills and passion to the table, working tirelessly behind the scenes to ensureContinue reading “Meet the team!”
The first Creative Connect of the year!
We were delighted to welcome a range of community creatives to our first Creative Connect event last week at the Harbour Arts Centre in Irvine. The afternoon was rich in conversation and connections, allowing us all to learn about individual plans or opportunities to collaborate as part of this year’s festival. It was inspiring toContinue reading “The first Creative Connect of the year!”
Re visioning our creative team for this year’s festival
Over the past year we have seen people come and go from our North Ayrshire mental health arts festival team, each one bringing something unique to the table and making our last 2 years a great success. This year we felt we needed to expand our small but fantastic team to bring in new ideasContinue reading “Re visioning our creative team for this year’s festival”
Looking back on our festival journey so far
The past two years have been a huge learning curve for all of us involved in creating and running the North Ayrshire Mental Health Arts Festival. The process of learning to plan and coordinate a programme of events has been challenging at times, but the rewards have outweighed any stress encountered along the way !Continue reading “Looking back on our festival journey so far”
North Ayrshire Mental Health Arts Festival 