Three new podcasts on why Performance Poetry leads to better mental health.

To celebrate the 35th Anniversary of National Performance Poetry organisation Apples and Snakes and 70 years of the NHS, Take Art have been commissioned by Apples and Snakes to make and release three podcasts celebrating Word/Play, a Performance Poetry on Prescription project based in Somerset. 

You can, should and won't regret listening to the podcasts below, starting with episode one.

Listen to the Podcasts

The Podcast Launch at The Rainbow Fish Speak Easy

The podcasts were launched in Yeovil at The Rainbow Fish Speak Easy on Thursday 5 July, where the participants and their friends and families were able to share their poetry adventures and celebrate a project that is making a real difference to people's lives. 

"Had a brilliant time in Yeovil! Congrats on Word Play, the mental health + poetry project, a truly valuable and lovely thing indeed! Inspiring!" Jackie Juno, headline poet

Thanks to everyone for listening to our podcast or attending our launch and also to Apples and Snakes for giving us this platform. At the moment, funding permitted, Take Art aims to run a new series of Word/Play workshops in January 2019, while keeping the Word/Play plus an on-going group that people can join once they have gone through the ten week project.  

The ultimate aim is to run these workshops on a greater scale, in more GP surgeries throughout Somerset, the South West and beyond, creating real change to individual lives and helping shift the way the NHS approaches mental health. So watch this space…  

If you want to find out more about Word/Play please visit www.takeart.org/wordplay

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