by Amabel Mortimer | Sep 15, 2024 | Flourish Magazine, News
Issue 5 of Flourish Magazine, The Body Issue, is out now! Available to read for free online and in print in health care centres, charities, hospitals, hospices and more across Gloucestershire. A joint venture between Artlift and Yes to Life, Flourish Magazine aims to...
by Amabel Mortimer | Sep 15, 2024 | Flourish Magazine, News
Do you like making art, crafting, taking photographs, writing poetry, stories or blogs? Interested in getting creative? We’re looking for those with lived experience of cancer to submit to our magazine! Eligibility We are looking for artwork, photography, creative or...
by Amabel Mortimer | Sep 15, 2024 | Flourish Magazine, News
As part of each issue of Flourish Magazine, we release digital content alongside our free print magazine, on the Artlift and Yes to Life blogs. This is often content we couldn’t fit into the magazine’s limited pages, or film and music, but that we loved and wanted to...
by Amabel Mortimer | Sep 15, 2024 | Flourish Magazine, News
As part of each issue of Flourish Magazine, we release digital content alongside our free print magazine, on the Artlift and Yes to Life blogs. This is often content we couldn’t fit into the magazine’s limited pages, or film and music, but that we loved and wanted to...
by Amabel Mortimer | Nov 25, 2022 | News
Artlift is one of the founding members of the Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium, together with The Music Works, Art Shape, Cinderford Artspace and Mindsong. Today we are so proud and very humbled to be winners of the Collective Power Award in the...
by Amabel Mortimer | Nov 25, 2022 | News
Our referrals deadline (30th November) is fast approaching, meaning it’s time to get your healthcare referrals in to us to secure that place on a course in January. We know here that attending Artlift really does change lives, so come & join us & find out for...
by Amabel Mortimer | Nov 21, 2022 | News
Create Well participant, 2022 Peter was referred to our Create Well Artlift Mental health support course. We spoke with Peter about how he found his Artlift experience. He attended two Artlift courses, one in Stroud (painting, photography and drawing), then a second...
by Amabel Mortimer | Nov 16, 2022 | News
NEW PAPER RELEASE Artlift are one of the five founding partners of the Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium. Between us we offer a wide range of creative ‘Arts on Prescription’ options to individuals living in Gloucestershire, helping them to manage their health...
by Amabel Mortimer | Nov 12, 2022 | News
Today it’s Charlie’s turn to tell about her experience as an Artlift Trustee: When I joined the board of Artlift I had never had much involvement in the charity sector, and I wasn’t sure what I would be able to contribute at board level. Had the Artlift...
by Amabel Mortimer | Nov 11, 2022 | News
Today Joanna talks to us about her experiences as a trustee with Artlift: I live in Cheltenham and started as a trustee for Artlift this summer (2022). I was diagnosed with late-stage cancer just before the pandemic and decided to study in textile arts at the OCA to...
by Amabel Mortimer | Nov 10, 2022 | News
Muhiba Delkic is currently studying towards a Master’s degree by Research in Psychological Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire and in collaboration with Artlift. Muhiba tells us how she arrived at her research topic, along with her first thoughts around her...
by Amabel Mortimer | Nov 9, 2022 | News
In this Trustees Week 2022 Cath Wilkins, our Executive Director gives us some insight into her experience of working with Trustees, the dedication Artlift has to continued diversity within our board along with a call out for new board members. ‘I’ve been...
by Amabel Mortimer | Oct 28, 2022 | News
Annet is a dance and carnival artist, a yoga, and a FitSteps teacher amongst many other things! She is also an Artlift Artist Facilitator, who is currently co-producing our research project exploring the impact of dance on adults living with chronic pain. Here Annet...
by Amabel Mortimer | Oct 17, 2022 | Flourish Magazine
Alongside the print version of Issue 2 of Flourish Magazine, The Connections Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as music, creative writing and blog posts. This week our...
by Amabel Mortimer | Oct 11, 2022 | News
Ronnie McGrath, Artist Facilitator with Artlift, describes himself as ‘A creator of words and images – a writer and poet who also paints and exhibits,’ discusses with us his experience of being a black artist: ‘Ultimately the term ‘black’, which used...
by Amabel Mortimer | Oct 10, 2022 | Flourish Magazine
Alongside the print version of Issue 2 of Flourish Magazine, The Connections Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as music, creative writing and blog posts. This week our...
by Amabel Mortimer | Oct 3, 2022 | Flourish Magazine
Alongside the print version of Issue 2 of Flourish Magazine, The Connections Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as music, creative writing and blog posts. This week our...
by Amabel Mortimer | Sep 26, 2022 | Flourish Magazine
Alongside the print version of Issue 2 of Flourish Magazine, The Connections Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as music, creative writing and blog posts. This week our...
by Amabel Mortimer | Sep 20, 2022 | Flourish Magazine, News
Alongside the print version of Issue 2 of Flourish Magazine, The Connections Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as music, creative writing and blog posts. This week our...
by Amabel Mortimer | Sep 12, 2022 | Flourish Magazine
Alongside the print version of Issue 2 of Flourish Magazine, The Connections Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as music, creative writing and blog posts. Our first digital...
by Amabel Mortimer | Sep 12, 2022 | Flourish Magazine
Read the Connections Issue here Hello and welcome to the second issue of Flourish Magazine, a magazine by and for the cancer community from integrative cancer care charity Yes to Life and creative health charity Artlift, who are based in Gloucestershire. In this...
by Amabel Mortimer | Aug 15, 2022 | News
We are supporting University of Gloucestershire MA student Muhiba Delkic to explore the impact of Arts on Prescription (what we do!) vs. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). So, if you’ve participated in both over the last few years (and are no longer in, or about to...
by Amabel Mortimer | Jul 25, 2022 | Flourish Magazine
Alongside the print version of Issue One of Flourish Magazine, The Nourish Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as film, creative writing and blog posts. This week’s...
by Amabel Mortimer | Jul 19, 2022 | News
With our referrals deadline (29th July) is fast approaching, it’s time to get your healthcare referrals in to us to secure that place on a course in September. We know here that attending Artlift really does change lives, so come & join us & find out for...
