Saolta Arts and Croí art workshops

A new programme of arts workshops for patients and people living with heart conditions launched in Galway City on Sunday 29 September, as part of World Heart Day. Led by Galway City Council, in partnership with Galway County Council, Saolta Arts, and Croí, the heart and stroke charity, this project helps patients in their journey through cardiac care through participating in arts activity.

Through a series of art workshops across Galway City and County, including University Hospital Galway, Merlin Park, and Portiuncula University Hospital, as well as rural locations in County Galway, the project seeks to widen arts engagement in healthcare. It aims to build capacity through training and upskilling artists to work in healthcare settings, and building a sustainable model of arts in healthcare that can be extended beyond Galway to the wider West-North West Health Region and beyond.

“Following a cardiac event, be it surgery or otherwise, there is a huge psychological component which can be alleviated through activities such as art sessions.” – Marie Cloonan, CNM 3 Cardiothoracics and Cariology, University Hospital Galway

This project builds on a smaller-scale pilot initiative between Saolta Arts and Croí, which brought the two organisations together to develop a successful arts programme last year.

Mending heARTS is funded by Creative Health and Wellbeing Fund, an initiative of Creative Ireland, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

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