Escape Community Art in Action working in the community to help people make a difference in their lives. Working with Four Acres staff and residents to create  a Pub/ Café/ Shop within the residency as a stimulating, three dimensional,   interactive environment for staff to engage elderly residents and their family members in stimulating daily activities. This prop to become a background for staff to change the environment from Pub to Shop, to Café,  creating opportunities for residents with dementia  to engage in practical life skills within a safe environment.

Woodleigh Beeches Eating Disorder Unit of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust Pilot Arts Project
2010
A partnership project developed and funded by WCC County Arts Service with Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust and delivered via Escape Community Arts artist Julie de Bastion.

Whilst working on ideas for “The Big Draw” this past October, artist, Julie de Bastion, designed a “story box” project to involve 3D drawing with wire and drawing through monoprinting.  Finding by chance, a discarded batch of drawers whilst looking for boxes, they became inspirational in their use for the project, as well as lacing a comical thread through the ideas in the work itself due to the pun.

In2 Theatre Group Collaboration
2010
Jackie Lines jaxlines@hotmail.com

Literary Festival Installation
April 2010
Stratford Civic Hall

Studley Youth & Community Centre Mural
2010
Working with Sybil Robertson

Future Projects
2011 ONWARDS
Working with Cultural Consortium and Nottingham University Escape will develop a program of Arts projects in the Nuneaton area in order to engage in rigorous research to support the impact or arts on the health & wellbeing of individuals. The objective will be to establish  a regular, ongoing and sustainable integrated project in Nuneaton modelled on the South Warwickshire Escape projects. Starting with the pilot program in Jan 2011 the aim is to establish a regular project by mid 2011.

The projects target people with health and wellbeing issues, with support from health professionals, and is supported by link co-ordinators to ensure full participation for all individuals.

The research and evaluation is being overseen by Dr Glen Williams of Nottingham Trent University, who is a Chartered Psychologist with a specific research interest in wellbeing in society and a deep knowledge of health related research and analysis methodologies.