Month: October 2025

 FRONTLINEdance is offering training with Rosetta Life.

Who is it for:

Those interested in facilitating arts and creativity with individuals who have chronic and life-changing conditions, such as brain injury, stroke, and those receiving palliative care. This includes in hospital settings, as well as in the community. This can include, but is not limited to, those who work in the Arts, in Health and in Social Care. 

Examples:  

Artists (all art forms and genres) | Activity Workers | Creative Enablers | Volunteers | Physiotherapists | OTs | Speech and Language Therapist | Carers | Health Care Assistants | Support Workers | Play Specialists | Art(s) Therapists (all art forms) | Artistic Directors | Choreographers | Nurses | Performers | Musicians | Singers | Story Tellers | Faciliators | Evaluators | Doctors | Students. 

Places are limited! No previous dance experience is required.  Please also share with your networks. Thank you.

Details: 

Dates: 12th, 19th, 25th & 26th November 2025

Priority will be given to those attending all four days. If you can’t attend all four, select the individual days you’d like to attend on the registration form (link below). We’ll notify you by 5pm on 7th November if a place is available for you on your selected day(s). 

Times: 9:30am – 4pm each day. 

Cost: 

£140  (4 days) for freelance/low income / £50 daily rate if not attending all four sessions

£200  (4 days) for others / £65 daily rate if not attending all four sessions

These sessions are heavily subsidised, due to FRONTLINEdance being an Arts Council England funded, National Portfolio Organisation. 

Venue: TBC

To Register: https://forms.office.com/e/72BXypwBMa (Deadline 4pm, on 7th November 2025). 

Overview:

Day 1, Wednesday 12th November – Introduction to performance and arts health, delivered by Lucinda Jarrett. 

• History and possible futures for arts and health practice. 
• Introduction to principles of practices of Rosetta Life in palliative care, stroke and brain injury, unpaid care and climate justice. 

Day 2, Wednesday19th November – Practical workshops of dance & performance in clinical and community settings:

Lucinda Jarrett – Devising dance and theatre performance making 

Miranda Tufnell – Working creatively with and through the body

Both artists will then co-lead a session with a ’taster group’ to see the work in action. 

Opportunity to hear feedback from the participants and facilitate a discussion around co-design and co-creation workshops. 

Day 3, Tuesday 25th November –  Creative Health:   The NHS and the community context 

The day will be spilt into two:

1. An opportunity to hear from a range of health organisations about what is important to them, why creative health is needed, and why it is commissioned.
2. Lucinda Jarrett and Melanie Pappenhiam lead discussions and practical workshops about delivering to clinical needs through dance, music, voice and songmaking:

• Developing sustainable embedded practice in clinical settings
• Developing sustainable embedded practices in community settings
• A creative care pathway for recovery from stroke and brain injury 

Day 4, Wednesday 26th November: Planning, Devising, Reflect and Conclude:

Training participants will work together in small groups to plan and devise a workshop, then deliver it to each other as a group. Volunteers from the FRONTLINEdance Moving Together programme will attend co-devising, support, and join in the workshops.

There will be an opportunity for reflection, evaluation, celebrations, feedback and questions.

Reminder that our creative health day with Rosetta Life as co-hosts, takes place on 5th November  – we hope you make it? You need to book by 29th October: https://shorturl.at/3Z0ig 

A Creative Approach to Health: Co-designing high-quality, inclusive and engaging creative programmes and artworks.

FRONTLINEdance would like to invite you to join us for a special event aimed at making Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire a place where people with chronic and long-term health conditions — including hospital patients — can easily access and enjoy the arts in inclusive, engaging, and meaningful ways.

For those new to us: FRONTLINEdance is an artist-led company based in Stoke-on-Trent, placing disabled people and those with long-term health conditions at the core of our organisation as leaders, dancers, artists, and audiences. By co-creating and co-producing in community and healthcare settings, we can offer high-quality live performances, film and workshops that are relevant, inclusive, and engaging. Rachael Lines is, and has been the co-founder, Artistic Director and CEO, since 2001. She regularly makes dance work for hospitals and facilitates dance sessions for those with long-term health conditions, including cancer, brain injury, stroke, and those diagnosed with MS and Parkinson’s. https://frontlinedance.co.uk/

Rosetta Life are a community of artists, activists, and technologists with experience of life-altering health conditions and care. Together they co-design creative programmes and make artworks that drive social change. Lucinda Jarrett is the Creative Director of Rosetta Life. She is a writer, independent dance artist, and performance maker who co-founded Rosetta Life in 1997. https://rosettalife.org