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Knutton Honey Pots Mums & Toddlers
As part of the Lower Milehouse health centre creative consultation Knutton Honey Pots mums and toddler group agreed to work with
Letting in the Light to create a series of images for posters to be used in the future.
The mums and toddlers worked with guest artist Ania Bas to create the posters and took part in several creative workshops.
Ania was part of a partnership project with creativityteam and Staffordshire University that involved artists learning about possible collaborations, creative work and the role of the arts in health care.
Ania says: "I start every project in the same way: I want to learn more about the people I am going to work with. It is ongoing and a never ending process but the very first meeting helps me to understand people's attitude, perspective and interests.
The Honey Pots group has been established for a while and treats morning gatherings as a chance to chat and spend time. One of the ladies, mother of four said: 'These mornings keep me sane.' It made me feel like a spoilsport for the first session and it was not the most encouraging starting point!
I overcome it by engaging the whole group in one activity and working towards a joint bigger picture. Thanks to fun and an engaging approach such as: building the new health centre using isolation tape on the floor, engaging with children, especially taking pictures of them and bringing back prints and listening to the groups suggestions I was embraced by the group quickly.
We produced 6 posters with prescriptions for 6 various service users and providers: ladies, men, children, receptionists, doctors and nurses.
First we collectively created ideas for prescriptions detailing ladies hopes towards new health centre but also wanted to make people smile i.e. 'Prescription for children: child size chairs, education books, juice and fruit, cage and gaffa tape'. Every prescription was joined with the picture of one of the children. This duet: a light-hearted text and portrait of the child was appealing to the group. Mothers made sure that each child was photographed and that the child's face expressions added value to the message.
I took disposable cameras to one of the sessions and gave them to the children. After a short introduction they were taking pictures of what was going on around them. Mothers helped. It ended up being a collection of pictures showing the world from a child's perspective: 1-meter in height.
The pictures are just great!"
