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Since 2005, Anam Beo have provided 2010 arts, music and creative sessions for 2,724 individuals. Overall attendance figures are 15,138!

Join us in celebrating a significant milestone as we mark Anam Beo’s 20th anniversary, we invite you to explore Offaly’s creative arts spaces, experience the Anam Beo programme, and engage with key voices at the intersection of arts, health, critical social thinking, and public engagement. Join us as we reflect on our journey, celebrate our impact, and look ahead to the future of creative engagement in health and community settings. These gatherings provide a unique opportunity to experience Offaly’s art facilities and spaces, discover Anam Beo’s programmes and publications, and engage in meaningful artistic discussions.

Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival: Sign, Symbol, Word 1st – 9th August; Anam Beo exhibitions and events at Birr Castle, Birr Theatre & Arts Centre & Birr Community Nursing Unit.

Exhibition: Retrospective 4th October; A celebration of artwork from the Anam Beo Arts Collective at Esker Arts Centre, journey through artworks, archival materials and films, showcasing a legacy of creativity of arts and health in Offaly.

An Arts & Health Gathering: Who, What, Where Next? 17th October; A symposium and gathering of arts and health communities, partners, participants and advocates. Join in with presentations from lead organisations, artists and conversations to celebrate and advocate the next arts and health chapters.

As always events are free, but booking may be essential.

We look forward to celebrating with you!

Anam Beo Artists Rowena, Jackie & Julie

Generously living together.

We would like to thank Offaly County Council for its annual support and arts & health advocacy. Thank you for your support, the Community Foundation for Ireland RTE Comic Relief Fund with Dublin Mid Leinster HSE Services for Older People & the Bank of Ireland Back to Arts Fund supported by Business to Arts with The Irish Wheelchair Association. Thank you Creative Ireland, who enabled the Reconnect pilot projects ‘Conversations for YOUR Doorstep’, for people in community and care settings.

Reconnect is in tandem with roundtable group arts sessions, with a focus on adapting arts projects for safer engagements, using a digital arts toolkit of iPads and creative apps, informed by participants and care staff. As an artists’ collective Anam Beo look forward to the Pay and Conditions Guidelines for Arts in Health Projects by Réalta and Artist Health Coordinators Ireland. Anam Beo played a role in the development of these guidelines which value, the artist, a framework to work and the relationship between artists, care staff, and community members to ensure advocacy for arts and health and its art outcomes.

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