FREE Arts & Health Event!
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.
When: Wednesday 5th November 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm (refreshments from 9:30am)
Where: NSCG, Performing Arts Building, Knutton Lane, Newcastle-under-Lyme. ST5 2GB
Access: BSL interpreter and Audio Description available on request at booking.
FREE – though donations are very welcome.
Booking closes at 10am, on Wednesday, 29th October 2025
REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1764337754719?aff=oddtdtcreator
Parking: Free parking is available in the student car park at NSCG.
We’re thrilled to welcome Rosetta Life, an Oxfordshire-based organisation known for its impactful work in hospitals and community settings, to co-host this event. This gathering will bring together:
- Local artists
- Arts and health organisations
- Educators
- Hospitals and health bodies
- Social prescribers
- Funders
- Third sector representatives
We can’t wait to explore how we can collaborate to make the arts in health care and community settings accessible to those with health conditions. Please invite anyone else you know who might be interested in attending.
About the day:
You will hear about the what, how, and why, ‘FRONTLINEdance’ and ‘Rosetta Life’s’ work influences the patient experience, how it supports staff wellbeing, aids rehabilitation, and brings joy, specifically to those at life-changing times of their lives. The event will also feature:
- Two artist ambassadors from Rosetta Life Arts will share their stories and experiences.
- A practical workshop
- Discussions, provocations, and conversations
- Lunch – provided free of charge
- Films by both Companies
- Opportunity to network
Any questions please contact: rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk
Thanks in advance for joining us. We look forward to welcoming you!
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/
FRONTLINEdance in hospitals:
Royal Stoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_oSIPYtkr4
University Hospitals of North Midlands –
Cancer Ward: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qd_hMEMHcVs
Haemodialysis Unit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TU1OMRMGvS4
Happenchance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJyGpLUNrzU
Forget Me Knot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_zqKmD9mjg
FRONTLINEdance currently provide workshops at the Haywood Hospital, on the specialist inpatient rehabilitation wards. They’re also in residence at the Royal Stoke Hospital, performing and facilitating workshops on wards for patients, staff and visitors.
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
