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Arts organisation arthur+martha are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant from Awards for All, to work on the project ‘Patience’.

Over the next year we will work with hospital patients, staff and visitors, creating an insider’s guide to illness using poetic language and artworks. Patients can use it to share their experiences of living with ill health and to decipher medical jargon. For staff it will be an opportunity to convey their insights on care.

The poems, drawings, photographs, sculptures and testimonies will be reproduced in individual pamphlets, circulated in wards and GP surgeries, and other venues. The collection, which will focus on the experiences of older people, will be exhibited and published as a book

The main elements of this project will be carried out in various venues in Stockport, North West England. We also invite you to add your experiences of living with ill health, either here, or you can email your thoughts to philipjohndavenport@hotmail.com
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