The Aims:
The main aim of ‘Different Journeys' is to help nurture positive, informed attitudes towards the very serious problem of drug and alcohol abuse.
Due to a lack of focus on the ‘journey' to dependency, it is easy to be judgmental and indifferent towards the subject. Assumptions are made about extreme dependency that it forces individuals into acquisitive crime. From here it is easy to conclude that all problem users are ‘criminals'.
Dependency is a problem affecting people from all walks of life and backgrounds and the routes to the problem are numerous.
We aim to:
1. Highlight these ‘Different Journeys' using visual art and the written word. Challenge stereotypical assumptions about dependency.
2. Stimulate debate and research.
3. Nurture, through a more intelligent awareness of dependency, greater support for helping services working in the field.
4. Solicit the participation of people from across the social spectrum to produce work reflecting theirs or other's journeys.
5. Find as many partners as possible, both individuals and organisations, to endorse and promote the aims of ‘Different Journeys'.
6. Organise televised weekend workshops at The University of Northampton with high-profile participants, students and arts faculty staff.
7. Exhibit the work produced in galleries across the UK culminating in an auction in London to raise funds for CAN.
8. Reproduce the works of art into merchandise i.e. posters, greetings cards etc., to be sold through our website and then at exhibitions.
9. Produce a book of the art works, interspersed with facts and statistics.
10. Display the work in public places such as civic buildings, stations, shopping malls etc.
Arts and Health Conference
The School of The Arts and the School of Health within the University of Northampton are collaborating on an international conference to be held on the 3rd September 2007. There will be research paper presentations, arts workshops, performances and exhibitions. The conference seeks to explore what role the arts can have in health and healing, and to generate an international research community in this neglected area.
The Different Journeys project will have a role to play at the conference and it will provide an exhibition of its works of art.
CAN and the University are also seeking to secure funding for research project to examine attitudes regarding addiction. A report of this will be provided at this innovative event.
The main aim of ‘Different Journeys' is to help nurture positive, informed attitudes towards the very serious problem of drug and alcohol abuse.
Due to a lack of focus on the ‘journey' to dependency, it is easy to be judgmental and indifferent towards the subject. Assumptions are made about extreme dependency that it forces individuals into acquisitive crime. From here it is easy to conclude that all problem users are ‘criminals'.
Dependency is a problem affecting people from all walks of life and backgrounds and the routes to the problem are numerous.
We aim to:
1. Highlight these ‘Different Journeys' using visual art and the written word. Challenge stereotypical assumptions about dependency.
2. Stimulate debate and research.
3. Nurture, through a more intelligent awareness of dependency, greater support for helping services working in the field.
4. Solicit the participation of people from across the social spectrum to produce work reflecting theirs or other's journeys.
5. Find as many partners as possible, both individuals and organisations, to endorse and promote the aims of ‘Different Journeys'.
6. Organise televised weekend workshops at The University of Northampton with high-profile participants, students and arts faculty staff.
7. Exhibit the work produced in galleries across the UK culminating in an auction in London to raise funds for CAN.
8. Reproduce the works of art into merchandise i.e. posters, greetings cards etc., to be sold through our website and then at exhibitions.
9. Produce a book of the art works, interspersed with facts and statistics.
10. Display the work in public places such as civic buildings, stations, shopping malls etc.
Arts and Health Conference
The School of The Arts and the School of Health within the University of Northampton are collaborating on an international conference to be held on the 3rd September 2007. There will be research paper presentations, arts workshops, performances and exhibitions. The conference seeks to explore what role the arts can have in health and healing, and to generate an international research community in this neglected area.
The Different Journeys project will have a role to play at the conference and it will provide an exhibition of its works of art.
CAN and the University are also seeking to secure funding for research project to examine attitudes regarding addiction. A report of this will be provided at this innovative event.
