CultureDale Connect Fund Project Updates

Lived and Living: art making that gives voice to mental health lived experience.

Facilitated by Healthy Minds in partnership with Everybody Arts.

Lived and Living invites members of the Calderdale community to create art reflecting the theme of ‘lived experience’ of mental health issues and/or disability.

Project participants will get chance to explore what the theme of ‘lived experience’ means to them, expanding their creative freedom and developing their artistic practice.

Participants will be supported to nurture artistic skills through development sessions and weekly studio access at Everybody Arts in Halifax, where they will be able to use art studio facilities including print making and ceramics.

The project will finish with the opportunity to showcase artwork at the Everybody Arts gallery, as part of a wider creative health initiative for Calderdale. The final showcase will amplify the voices of people with lived experience of distress in order to challenge negative cultural attitudes to mental health.

Contact georgia@healthymindscalderdale.co.uk or call 01422 345 154 to find out more.

This project will run from February to May 2026.