The Weston Arts + Health Weekender!
This inaugural festival was a celebration of wholeness and togetherness; the joining of two hospital Trusts to form University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust on 1st April, and the launch of Culture Weston.
At at time of new beginnings and new partnerships across placemaking, the arts and healthcare, the festival looked back at Weston’s truly super history as a health resort, celebrated the many and varied opportunities to get creative that are on offer now, and looked forward to establishing Weston as a beacon for Arts and Health in the future.
The Weston Arts + Health Weekender was designed as a whole community collaboration. Creative workshops, walks and talks, performances music, medical seminars, hospital based arts activities and much more, magically mingling across the town to create a unique programme with something for everyone.
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Whilst lockdown due to Covid-19 meant the festival could not go ahead in its original form, we instead launched with an online event on 3 April 2020, and events such as Boredom Buster and Poetry + Health sprung from the Weekender partnership to maintain a spirit of creative connection whatever the circumstances.