WELCOME TO COOLTAN ARTS E-BULLETIN SEPTEMBER 2010

Events take place at CoolTan Arts Unit B 237 Walworth Rd SE171RL unless otherwise stated.
www.cooltanarts.org.uk www.afunnyfarm.org.uk
info@cooltanarts.org.uk Tel: 020 7701 2696

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY – DON’T MISS THESE EVENTS

4th Sept, 1pm-5pm: Liberty Festival – ‘Anthropology’ Poetry Book Launch
11th Sept, 2pm: Largactyl2Go
18th Sept, 12noon: Largactyl Shuffle: Artist Austin Spare – The 20th Century Blake?
20th Sept 6.30pm: CoolTan Arts Annual General Meeting
21st Sept, 3pm-4.30pm: Community Advocacy Meeting

2nd October: Ruby Wax – Losing It performance Time TBC, check website for updates
1st-31st October: World Mental Health Day Exhibition at Oxford House, Bethnal Green
5th October, 6.30pm: Exhibition Opening and Film Screening at Carnegie Library
9th October 11.30am: CoolTan Arts’ Sponsored Walk - *Part of the Story of London* - SIGN UP NOW!

UPCOMING EVENTS

CoolTan Arts Sponsored Walk – Be part of the Story of London

Join the fun, celebrate Mad Heritage and World Mental Health Day *SIGN-UP NOW*
Saturday 9th October 2010
11.30am for a 12noon start
Where: Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ (by the main entrance)
Finish: Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG
Join CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle, celebrate mad culture and help us raise money to enable CoolTan
Arts to move to a much needed new building and continue running our high quality arts activities!
Celebrate mad heritage, explore the past, present and future of madness and psychiatric innovation. We
will be celebrating World Mental Health Day and ‘mad’ culture by placing disposable public sculptures,
produced in our Sculpture Workshop, along the route of the walk.
Last year 90 people joined the walk, and we raised £3,000. Let’s make it £6,000 this year!
From the Maudsley Hospital to Tate Modern, a sponsored walk to raise money and challenge stigma
associated with mental distress. Go to http://www.justgiving.com/cooltanartslargactylwalkers to sponsor
us, or even better, join the walk, get yourself sponsored and help us all. Sign up now!
Email Clara on clara@cooltanarts.org.uk for a registration form or download it from our website.

‘Anthropology’ launch at Liberty festival

Saturday 4th Sept 2010, 1pm-5pm, Trafalgar Square
CoolTan Arts launches its poetry book ‘Anthropology’, produced by CoolTan Arts’ poets in our workshop,
at the Liberty Festival on 4th September 2010. CoolTan Arts will have a stall where you can buy the
poetry book and our poets will also give you a flavour of their poems in a short performance/poetry
reading in the Comedy & Cabaret space at .50pm and the Red Jesus Tent.
The Liberty Festival celebrates the contribution of Deaf and disabled people to London's culture. It will be
a great chance to meet the poets, buy to poetry book and enjoy performances from a wide range of UK
artists and companies as well as workshops, stalls, food and much more.
Liberty welcomes everyone and is friendly and accessible. Complete programme on
http://www.london.gov.uk/liberty/.

Buy the poetry book at CoolTan Arts, at our events or online (details/links soon available). It is
fantastic! Well done to all the poets, Emile, Trevor and Elizabeth.

CoolTan Arts’ Anthropology for sale at £5.99 (+ posting if applicable), all proceeds go to CoolTan.
Largactyl 2 Go: Olympic-inspired urban exploration walk
Saturday 11th September 2010, 2pm, Hackney Marshes
Join CoolTan Arts for an urban exploration walk of the area where the Olympics and Paralympics will
take place in 2012; find out about the place, people and local community, and how the Olympics /
Paralympics affect the everyday lives of Hackney community. Experience the clash between the former
industrial area and the funky artistic area Hackney has become, and how it changed with the
preparations and constructions for the Olympics. It will be entertaining, with lots of quirky details and
facts you never knew before!
Walkers meet at 2pm at Hackney Marshes in Homerton Road, London, E9 5PF! The walk will end at
Pudding Mill Lane by View tube; some of the walk leaders will be able to take you back to the main
Two2Go event at Hackney Marshes.

Largactyl Shuffle: Artist Austin Spare – The 20th Century Blake?

Saturday 18th September 2010 12pm
Where: Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ (by the main entrance)
Finish: Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG
Discover artist Austin Spare, whose first exhibition was at a place called Walworth Town Hall, explore
the local history of Southwark, and uncover the history of mental health in the borough.
CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle is a guided cultural walk from the Maudsley Hospital to Tate Modern
designed to encourage mental and physical wellbeing, through art, exercise, humour and history, de-
stigmatizing mental distress.
Come along and add to the discussion and exploration, share your thoughts and ideas, enjoy the
company of others and have fun.
Walkers meet at 12 noon at the main entrance of Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ. Call
CoolTan Arts on 07985658443 if you require further information or cannot find the group of walkers on
the day.

CoolTan Arts AGM

Monday 20th September 2010 6pm - 9pm
You are invited to join our AGM on 20th September 2010 starting at 6pm and finishing at 9pm.
All are welcome.
CoolTan Arts will present their annual report and discuss current and future activities. Your chance to get
involved. Join us for a social and informative evening! We hope many volunteers and participants will be
there.
Refreshments will be available. Please RSVP along with any dietary requirements, tell Clara at CoolTan,
call 02077012696 or email clara@cooltanarts.org.uk.

Ruby Wax – Losing It

Saturday 2nd October 2010 TBC
A new show from Ruby Wax, performed at CoolTan Arts!
Ruby Wax’s acerbic wit and worldly wisdom combined with Judith Owen’s touching and poignant songs
create a show that is at once vulnerable and surprisingly thought-provoking as well as being laugh-out-
loud funny.

An exhibition with the Together Our Space Gallery

CoolTan Arts participants from the Visual Arts group (William Ball, Howard Luke, Graeme Newton and
Alusine Shuma) have been selected to exhibit their creations alongside other artists in the ‘Non-Fiction’
exhibition at the Together Our Space Gallery. The oncoming exhibition features the creative narration of
facts and accounts of life, events and experience though art.

Venue: Together Our Space Gallery, 12 Old Street, London. EC1V 9BE. Entrance: free
Date(s): Private View: Thursday 23rd September, 6pm-9pm
Public View: 24th September – 26th November 2010, Monday to Friday: 10.30am-5pm
 WORKSHOPS AND ACTIVITIES – OPEN TO PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MENTAL DISTRESS
Join a regular workshop at CoolTan
Do you need to get out of the house? Come along to one of CoolTan’s workshops to meet people,
learn new skills, have fun, and break out of isolation with like-minded people. Our workshops are
open to any adults experiencing mental distress with access to direct payments or Community Care
Plan CPA. Please contact CoolTan Arts on 020 77012696 or email referrals@cooltanarts.org.uk for
more details or to make a booking.

Workshop Timetable
Day Morning Afternoon Evening
Visual Arts 1-3pm
Mondays Volunteering Batik 2-4pm Volunteering
Sculpture 3.30-5.30pm
Basic / Intermediate IT 12-4pm (please book)
Yoga, Meditation and de-stress 1pm-2pm
Tuesdays Drawing 11am-1pm Movement Therapy: 2pm-3pm Volunteering
Photoshop 2pm-4pm
Video & filming 4-6pm
Visual arts women only 2-4pm
Wednesdays Volunteering Knitting 4pm-6pm Volunteering
Web development 4-6pm
Thursday Poetry 11-1pm Largactyl Shuffle workshop 2-4 pm Volunteering
Friday Visual Arts 10.30am-12.30pm Visual Arts 1-3pm N/A
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Saturday’s N/A Largactyl Shuffle Walk 12noon, every 3 Saturday N/A

Become part of the Story of London – join CoolTan Arts’ sculpture workshop
Mondays 3.30pm-5.30pm
Be part of the story of London in October and make a sculpture in our workshop with Rossen. The
workshops are open to adults experiencing mental distress. For more information, please contact
rosie@cooltanarts.org.uk.

Community Advocacy Meeting

Tuesday 21st September, 3pm-4.30pm
Come along to our monthly community advocacy meeting, meet like-minded people and get your voice
heard, and ask your questions. Please email rosie@cooltanarts.org.uk for more info or call 0207
7012696. We look forward to seeing you then!

Self-Advocacy Training Skills Programme – August / September 2010

Self-advocacy skills training can assist in knowing and accessing your rights and getting your
voice heard in many situations.

*** The programme will start again 2nd week of September. ***
More details and updates available at CoolTan Arts, or phone, email or write to us and ask
for Phil Ruthen, Advocacy Training Coordinator.
Telephone: 020 7701 2696 or
Mobile: 0798 565
8443  phil@cooltanarts.org. News at: http://www.cooltanarts.org.uk/advocacy-2/ and
http://afunnyfarm.org.uk/

VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
Why volunteer? – Need help getting back into work, want to give back to the community
Volunteers do a wonderful job and CoolTan couldn’t exist without the work they do. Volunteering at
CoolTan Arts can help you gain confidence and new skills, get work experience, make new friends.
Volunteer opportunities are available every day. If you would like to help us, please speak to Asia at
CoolTan, contact her on 020 7701 2696, email volunteers@cooltanarts.org.uk or check the website
http://cooltanarts.org.uk/category/voluntary-position/ for more details.
Event volunteers and event photographers
Do you want to help out at an event or with exhibitions? There’s a lot happening at CoolTan and we
need as many helpers as possible. No matter how much or little time you have, please drop us a line if
you are interested in volunteering at an event!

Web and IT volunteer

Are you good with IT and have knowledge of WordPress content management software, HTML and
photoshop? We are looking for a reliable volunteer that can help with uploading text, documents and
images to CoolTan Arts’ website.

Walk Leaders Wanted - The Largactyl Shuffle Group is looking for new walk leaders
Meeting Time: Thursdays 2.00 – 4.00pm at CoolTan Arts
If you enjoy our walks, why not help us with the next walks?
If you are interested in volunteering on the walk, either as a steward, contribute to walk leading or the
research please get in touch. Learn about local history, go on trips, learn new skills, get fit and have fun!
If you’d like to get involved with the group, please contact us on 020 77012696 or email
asia@cooltanarts.org.uk.

Services for Health and Social Care Organisations, mental health practitioners, GPs,
social workers, key workers…
CoolTan Arts can work with GPs and other health professionals to meet the social care needs of their
clients. We are very keen to meet you and your teams and tell you more about the services CoolTan Arts
offers.
If you are a community mental health practitioner and you would like to refer clients, please contact us
on 020 77012696 or email referrals@cooltanarts.org.uk.
If you are interested in finding out more about us and how we can work with your organisation, or want a
CoolTan representative at your team meetings to give an introduction to CoolTan, please contact us on
020 77012696 or email rosie@cooltanarts.org.uk.

Last, but not least, a big thanks to our donors, funders, supports, and to all the people who give their
time and energy to CoolTan Arts and make what we do possible.

CoolTan Arts believes mental wellbeing is enhanced by the power of creativity.

We are proud to have as Patrons: Maggi Hambling, Sokari Douglas Camp, Ali Smith,
Clare Allan and Rosemary Shrager

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