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encouraging art & wellbeing


Friday 5 June and the staff parents and pupils from Airedale High School gathered together with DIVA Staff and NHS Officials to celebrate the launch of the project comics.

These comics have been produced by a group of students from the School as part of the DIVA Comic Project

Students from Airedale High were involved at all stages in the process of creating the comics.


Students attending the ceremony were presented with framed copies of the finished comics and their original photography as part of the ceremony.


funded by the NHS to promote alcohol awareness.

DIVA Comic Project was funded by the NHS to promote alcohol awareness in young people.
 
 

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Want to know more about Diva activities and workshops?
Make sure you see the next copy of
Hands On - DIVA's Official Newsletter
which includes listings for all the performances and exhibitions of DIVA Member Groups!

 

 

 

 

 

 



DIVA has put together a programme of exciting new projects for 2009-2010

a new two-year Arts and Wellbeing project taking place across the Wakefield District with funding from NHS Wakefield District






Diva's prestigous Arts & mental Health Project has been extended into 2010. Discover is a referral-based project and you can find out more about the project and the range of activities by clicking the link above.


A new grant scheme funded by WMDC Family Services providing grants of up to £500. Grants are available to voluntary groups in the Wakefield District for projects that enhance mental health and well being through participation in the arts.


The Comic project is sponsored by the Wakefield NHS Community Alcohol Awareness Service and is giving young people in Airedale an opportunity to produce creative photographic work.

DIVA's Kaleidoscope Project is currently in development - Watch this space for more news of this exciting advance in Art & Mental Health in Wakefield.

And of course DIVA will be continuing in our fundamental role, maintaining the membership network and providing a united voice for voluntary arts groups in Wakefield

 

 

Are you interested in the Arts?

Do you want to find a band to join in Wakefield?
Would you like to know what art groups meet in your district?
Would you like to take to the Stage?
The Answer could be in the DIVA Directory of Voluntary Art Groups!

Take a Look In

Just click on the blue bar above -
The Diva Arts Directory has listings of voluntary art groups across the district with contact details so you can telephone a group member to check with the group and make sure they are exactly what you are looking for.

Groups
Would you like to add details of your group to the online directory?
Then email details to lynda-diva@pop3.poptel.org.uk

Check out the DIVA feature in the latest issue of SCENE & HEARD