Join the Free Space Project for our Growing Communities Celebration! When: 14th September 3.00 - 5.30 Where: Kentish Town Health Centre Garden

Sing for Joy Kentish Town is a self-managed community choir of around 25 people with conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis, including active helpers and carers. We also welcome others with long term health issues.

Bibs and Burps is an online group chat from 11.30am to 12.30pm the last Tuesday of each month. Although it is mainly for the expectant and new parents, we would like to welcome parents of children at any age.

Georgie Meadows: Stitched Drawings brings together 24 textile artworks which explore personal experiences of ageing and dementia. Meadows crafts uniquely affecting and compassionate portraits, translating line drawings of people she knows or has cared for into stitched works.

Seeing Sound brings together a partnership between The British Library, the Free Space Project (London) and The Brain Charity (Liverpool) to explore language through natural sounds taken from The British Library’s extensive sound archive. The work created during workshops with people living with Aphasia is now on show in our exhibition space at Kentish Town Health Centre

Creative Wellbeing was an online project delivered through the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, supported by the City Bridge Trust. This new strand of opportunities enabled us to deliver some projects differently using digital tools and online, whilst our building was inaccessible.

Freedom to Be was a creative project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. During the pandemic we were able to redirect funding to deliver a creative project for patients from the James Wigg Practice and Queens Crescent Practice who were shielding over the summer of 2020. The work is on show at Queens Crescent practice and Kentish Town Health Centre

Whilst we continue to wait until it’s safe to welcome back our community groups into Kentish Town Health Centre, we’re seeing signs of spring and change in our very own wellbeing garden.

Drawn Together is a creative community for adults using arts practices to support connection, explore ways of seeing, sensing and experiencing ourselves and one another, and deepening our curiosity.

Suzie Larke is a visual artist and photographer from Cardiff. Her project uses conceptual photography to depict the mental health experiences experiences of a group of participants. She uses constructed imagery, digitally stitching photographs together in such a way that they present as a single, untampered image.

Life on a Spectrum was a virtual exhibition. The exhibition was part of our Creative Wellbeing commissions featuring the work of Mahlia Amatina. The exhibition explores Autism through collaborative painting and video works.

On a scale from 1 to 10 was a virtual exhibition. The exhibition was part of our Creative Wellbeing commissions featuring the work of Liliana Zaharia. On a scale from 1 to 10 explores how it feels living with chronic pain through photography.

Our first virtual exhibition as a part of our Creative Wellbeing commissions featured the work of Hisba Brimah. Hisba’s exhibition Mindful Transformations shares Hisba’s colourful geometric paintings plastered on the walls of our virtual gallery space.

Over the next three months the Free Space Project will be working alongside a number of artists to create virtual exhibitions for all to explore.

With huge commitment from our fabulous garden volunteer Ian, our garden is looking lovely. It’s been a lot of hard work and we had hope we would all be able to enjoy the benefits this summer. That may not happen, but luckily we can share these photos so you can enjoy some of the benefits from home.

Freedom to Express was a 7 week visual arts project for SEND children between the ages of 10 and 15 and their siblings. During the sessions participants spent their time exploring what freedom means to them using a variety of different artistic techniques.

We have teamed up with Shutter Hub to bring you EVERYDAY DELIGHT, an exhibition all about looking for the joy in the small things, finding the magic in what might at first appear mundane, and discovering the beauty in the everyday.

Liz Orton’s project Every Body is an Archive explores the bounds of medical imaging data, entangling the biological, digital and social body. In mis/using professional radiology software, Orton’s work makes visible the spaces and limits of medical data reconstruction.

Freedom to Make was a creative project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. This project was an 8-week knitting and textiles project run by artists Alejandra Picco and Beth Hopkins.

In this solo exhibition Zara shares works from both past and present projects exploring pain. From the ritual of taking medication in The Painkiller Prints to visualising both physical and psychological trauma with her on-going series Distress.