“Join us for an all-day drop-in event exploring approaches to health and wellbeing in prisons.
The Labyrinth Exchange project is an art-based public engagement tool that gathers stories from marginalised communities to encourage and bring about change. The Bird Lime* Labyrinth explores approaches to health and wellbeing in prisons. All artists worked with Novus and the Labyrinth team to uncover the positive attributes to their own wellbeing.
The labyrinth is a circular path laid on the floor incorporating a spiral, creating a winding but purposeful path. Walking a labyrinth path can be experienced as a metaphorical journey representing our lives. The process strengthens the participant’s voice and provides the means to activate social change. By co-producing a labyrinth art installation, constituents are placed at the heart of the process intended to deepen the policy makers and health commissioners understanding.
Audiences are invited to walk the labyrinth and share their own experiences of health and well-being. Postcards are available for audience members to write or illustrate stories they would like to place on the labyrinth.
*Bird Lime is Cockney rhyming slang for time. Over the years this became “”doing bird”” (time spent in prison). Bird lime is a sticky substance that is smeared on branches or twigs to capture small birds. It’s spread on the branches of trees so that when a bird lands, it sticks to it and is caught. (This practice that thankfully now illegal in the UK)
For further reading on the Labyrinth Exchange project: https://www.arte-util.org/projects/the-labyrinth-exchange/
Photo Credit: Lost and Found Dementia Labyrinth – Open Eye Gallery 2017″
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10am – 5pm, Tue – Sun
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