Book Arts and Wellbeing

Overview

The project used book arts as a medium to explore lived experience of The Troubles in N.I and as a mechanism for wellbeing. Interestingly the first workshop at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast was very carefully planned and supported, approved by the ethics committee at UoC etc. Participants were all given information and consent forms to explore memory through book arts. On arrival and initial discussion they elected to not explore memory but just learn to make books, and so we did! More recent workshops focus on the act of making as a means to support wellbeing.

Lead creative

Lynne Connolly

Collaborating organisations

The Linen Hall Library
University of Chester
N.I Mental Health Arts Festival

Participating/ target groups

Cross Community and wider society

Funders

The University of Chester

Key peace-related themes

Commemoration and Remembrance

Violence and Trauma

Economic Justice

Key aims and rationale

Key aims are really to use a craft and art form of book arts as a means of reparation and recovery from trauma. To support wellbeing and social engagement through arts and crafts.

Linked or legacy projects

Migration, Memory, Mimesis, at Linen Hall Library, Belfast, September 5-28, 2018