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release via creativity painting in warrawong
Dear Sand Hall,
I am writing to you in regards to my interest in initiating an art project at the Warrawong Community Centre.
Recently the Coomaditchie Centre began and completed successfully a similar group in the same community.
Planetnickolly is a community arts production company that would be delighted in reproducing a painting program should funding allow and be available to it.
Planetnickolly was originally created by Nicole Dennis (myself) and the late Oliver Swabey in order to assist us in releasing our own negative mental illness symptoms via creative outlets such as writing, drawing, acting, self expression, in fact any ability that was artful and positive as a release for symptoms such as mania, anxiety, psychosis and depression.
Planetnickolly was originally created as a website and chat address.
Oliver and I found each other in a pro-suicide chat room and after discussion with Oliver agreed that this was negative release and that mentally ill people needed a positive chat room/outlet.
We engaged seventy-two people across the globe within 3 weeks of uploading the website.
Unfortunately Oliver was very ill and had attempted suicide not long before our meeting. Planetnickolly allowed Oliver to release as much of this feeling as he could by creating and helping to construct a new planet (so to speak) where release was promoted rather than the negative self harm that he was used to.
This allowed Oliver seven more months of life, after which he surrendered to the symptoms and finally took his life. Since then I have been developing an idea for a group. The main objective of the group will be to allow people who live with an illness to release creatively. And so the name of the project is ‘release via creativity’.
The plan is to have two hours a week where participants can just sit and paint. No theme or prerequisites just a space for them to release. Actual canvases allow participants to take their work home if they wish. I am currently looking into the cost for the canvases and paints and any advice would be appreciated.
Please allow a week for me to research this. The hope is for the group to be a six-week program though should the group ask for longer this could be negotiated with the community centre.
My experience in the creative arts is extensive, particularly regarding arts intervention and therapies. I myself have lived with symptoms of mental illness and have found painting to be a great way to release any negative energy that may be in my system at the time.
I feel the group would also give participants the opportunity to meet and socialise with others in the community, therefore encouraging social cohesion and friendship. Often all that is needed is time out; this also could be the reason for some of the participants joining.
The hope is to encourage at least twelve participants. With such a group no participants have to be there each week. They may come and go in any given week; this will allow any one off participants to join on any given day. Coffee and tea will be available, as will crayons for any parents who need to bring their children.
The group is age open and the only requirement is that the participant is dealing with some negativity due to mental illness. Thankyou, Nicole Dennis. ANY DONATIONS ARE OF COURSE APPRECIATED THE ADDRESS FOR POSTING DONATIONS IS ON THE HOME PAGE ON THIS SITE!
thanks all....you guys and galz make it a lot easier to keep the planet spinning
I am writing to you in regards to my interest in initiating an art project at the Warrawong Community Centre.
Recently the Coomaditchie Centre began and completed successfully a similar group in the same community.
Planetnickolly is a community arts production company that would be delighted in reproducing a painting program should funding allow and be available to it.
Planetnickolly was originally created by Nicole Dennis (myself) and the late Oliver Swabey in order to assist us in releasing our own negative mental illness symptoms via creative outlets such as writing, drawing, acting, self expression, in fact any ability that was artful and positive as a release for symptoms such as mania, anxiety, psychosis and depression.
Planetnickolly was originally created as a website and chat address.
Oliver and I found each other in a pro-suicide chat room and after discussion with Oliver agreed that this was negative release and that mentally ill people needed a positive chat room/outlet.
We engaged seventy-two people across the globe within 3 weeks of uploading the website.
Unfortunately Oliver was very ill and had attempted suicide not long before our meeting. Planetnickolly allowed Oliver to release as much of this feeling as he could by creating and helping to construct a new planet (so to speak) where release was promoted rather than the negative self harm that he was used to.
This allowed Oliver seven more months of life, after which he surrendered to the symptoms and finally took his life. Since then I have been developing an idea for a group. The main objective of the group will be to allow people who live with an illness to release creatively. And so the name of the project is ‘release via creativity’.
The plan is to have two hours a week where participants can just sit and paint. No theme or prerequisites just a space for them to release. Actual canvases allow participants to take their work home if they wish. I am currently looking into the cost for the canvases and paints and any advice would be appreciated.
Please allow a week for me to research this. The hope is for the group to be a six-week program though should the group ask for longer this could be negotiated with the community centre.
My experience in the creative arts is extensive, particularly regarding arts intervention and therapies. I myself have lived with symptoms of mental illness and have found painting to be a great way to release any negative energy that may be in my system at the time.
I feel the group would also give participants the opportunity to meet and socialise with others in the community, therefore encouraging social cohesion and friendship. Often all that is needed is time out; this also could be the reason for some of the participants joining.
The hope is to encourage at least twelve participants. With such a group no participants have to be there each week. They may come and go in any given week; this will allow any one off participants to join on any given day. Coffee and tea will be available, as will crayons for any parents who need to bring their children.
The group is age open and the only requirement is that the participant is dealing with some negativity due to mental illness. Thankyou, Nicole Dennis. ANY DONATIONS ARE OF COURSE APPRECIATED THE ADDRESS FOR POSTING DONATIONS IS ON THE HOME PAGE ON THIS SITE!
thanks all....you guys and galz make it a lot easier to keep the planet spinning
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