Arts Uplift
Love Music
Love Music is the monthly music sessions running on the third Tuesday of the month from 2pm-3:15pm thanks to funding from Arts Council England, Bromsgrove District Council, Bromsgrove Lions and Baron Davenport Charity. It’s suitable for older people including people living with dementia. It runs from Bromsgrove Methodist Church and is £5 per couple. Carers are welcome also. Organizers have a variety of musicians that deliver the hour sessions from jazz, folk, drumming, classical and rock n’ roll. They are all professional musicians and perform regularly. The music is mostly familiar to participants but sometimes it is also nice to hear a new piece of music.
The Virtual Choir
Arts Uplift CIC is a not for profit Community Interest Company. Arts Uplift specialises in arts and health and heritage and works with a wide range of the community from children and young people to older people from across Worcestershire, Coventry and Warwickshire. It also uses a wide range of exciting arts in its projects from storytelling to dance to music etc. It aims to use inspirational arts to enhance the physical and mental well-being of its participants and also teaches people about their local heritage as well as preserving it.
Arts Uplift is delivering an online choir for older people and people living with dementia and their carers . It’s being delivered by the Claire Fowler and participants sing familiar songs as well as learning new songs. The sessions are recorded. They perceive a tax for participants.
Arts and Dementia Warwickshire
Arts Uplift CIC is a not for profit Community Interest Company. Arts Uplift specialises in arts and health and heritage and works with a wide range of the community from children and young people to older people from across Worcestershire, Coventry and Warwickshire. It also uses a wide range of exciting arts in its projects from storytelling to dance to music etc. It aims to use inspirational arts to enhance the physical and mental well-being of its participants and also teaches people about their local heritage as well as preserving it.
Arts and Dementia Warwickshire is a new arts programme for people living with dementia and their carers living in Warwickshire in the community, in In Patient wards and also in care homes. It has been commissioned by Warwickshire County Council. It will be a varied programme for 1.5 years including singing, performance poetry, arts and crafts, dance/movement, storytelling and reminiscence therapy. Alongside this there will be some training for care staff as well.
Love Music Leamington
Arts Uplift CIC is a not for profit Community Interest Company. Arts Uplift specialises in arts and health and heritage and works with a wide range of the community from children and young people to older people from across Worcestershire, Coventry and Warwickshire. It also uses a wide range of exciting arts in its projects from storytelling to dance to music etc. It aims to use inspirational arts to enhance the physical and mental well-being of its participants and also teaches people about their local heritage as well as preserving it.
One of their projects is Love Music Leamington through which they offer 9 weekly singing sessions with Claire Fowler, suitable for older people including those living with dementia. For participants there is an hour of singing and also a chance to socialise over a cup of tea and a biscuit. They perceive a monthly tax for participants.