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"Creativity is the immune system of the mind"
(John Holt, AiM founder)
Wellbeing through the arts

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Dementia Awareness Week
Worrying changes nothing. Talking changes everything.
This week is Alzheimer s Society s Dementia Awareness Week and we want to get people talking about dementia. www.alzheimers.org.uk/TalkDementia



We have just registered AiM (Artists in Mind) on givingabit.com.

Come and join us & you can create donations for us at no extra cost to you just by shopping online. givingabit is partnered with hundreds of your favourite shops, so please sign up today at www.givingabit.com.

You will also get entered into the monthly prize draw to win a £50 Amazon voucher.

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Out of the Blue -- programme for January 2013
Sessions start w/c January 7th: click here for timetable



























"Open Mind" -- a sculptural mosaic for Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield
Service-users and staff are working with professional artist Amanda Wray, to produce a work reflecting the aspirations and unique perspectives of all those involved.

AiM @ 10 / HOST Artists Open Studio Trail

The AiM Open Studios and AiM inSide exhibition were a great success.

Here are some facts & figures about the event:

VISITORS: Friday: 50 Saturday: 99 Sunday: 73 TOTAL: 222

SALES: £417.60 (including art works, books, postcards and cakes!)

COMMENTS

Thank you AiM for being and doing.

Lots of great work!

I agree with him!!!

Very good, friendly, interesting work. Keep it up.

Fantastic. Long may it reign.

Excellent work. I m leaving feeling very inspired by both the work and idea behind AiM. Thank you.

Fantastic! So glad we came :) A good experience to see the work produced.

Very interesting and enjoyable. Thank you.

I liked so much of the exposition, really interesting.

I loved it here!

The graffiti wall was great!

Brilliant art, love the concept behind AiM.

Very interesting, lovely art work. Keep it up!! Thanks.

I always love to come here -- friendly atmosphere, interesting work. Thank you very much!

This is a great place, truly inspiring and a brilliant idea. Thank you.

There is some fantastic work here!

IMAGINING LEAVES

24 leaves were completed, with visitors recording their thoughts about what the future of AiM might bring. You can also see them on our facebook page: www.facebook.com/artists.in.mind


AiM Design Pod open for business
Learn how to creatively manipulate pictures, designs, scenery, portraits, photographs and more. Editing software is now as much an artistic tool as a pencil or paintbrush, and in these workshops you will use computers, digital cameras, scanners and electronic tablets, as well as discovering their many possible applications in art, advertising, publishing and film; bringing art forms into the 21st century.

Click here for more information.





AiM Annual General Meeting
Thursday July 19 @ 6pm
Out of the Blue creative arts space
Milford Street HD1 3DX

All friends of AiM are welcome at our Annual General Meeting on Thursday, July 19 @ 6pm. This will be followed by a buffet, film showing by Lefty Caligari, and readings by the I aM Poets.

Download our Annual Report and the agenda.


The cinema of Lefty Caligari...

The work of Lefty Caligari embraces much of the ethos of AiM (Artists in Mind) in that his unique lexicon of filmic images and sound grow from the bed of his experiences with mental distress. The creative space within which to develop one’s voice, one’s language, is central to the supposition that “creativity is the immune system of the mind”, as declared by AiM founder John Holt.

Lefty’s unique vision is an antidote to his suffering. His films allow him the mechanism to express and articulate issues bound up with his experiences of mental illness.

View Lefty’s films on Youtube

The Creative Sanctuary of Lefty Caligari (article by AiM founder John Holt)
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