The Name for Deep End Team comes from – quote from the GP

Vic, Adele and David are interested in increasing their physical health and like the idea of having taster sessions with various specialists in exercise, fitness and activity.

We want ot try out taster sessions. Suggestions are: climbing, table tennis, yoga, experimental dance, Badminton, Boxing ( Vic has a contact), paddle boarding, wild swimming, tai-chi, skiing hill end

Aileen Hill. – Vic’s contact

Vic would like to try things she’s never done before. (shadow, exercise, play)

Bring artist into it. Think about it differently from other angles.

How do we document it?

Documentation – Lee is wanting to get involved in this side of things.
Video/ photography/sketches/animation/anecdotes/
Short interviews.

Have  a series of Film Screenings – looking at documentary film making.

Films to watch suggested by Lee, Vic & Louise
Touching the Void
Where You’re Meant to Be
Man on Wire
From the Sea to the Land beyond
From Scotland with Love (King Creosote) -pictorial diary of kids from 1970s
Winged Migration
The Gleeners and I (French film about potato pickers)
Into the Wild
Grizzly Man
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog)

Artist films:
Jeremy Deller – We’re here because we’re here.
Matthew Barneys work – rock climbing, naked in gallery
William Kentridge animations at Fruitmarket Gallery
Darren Almond
Gary Hill Videos – personal testomany
Bob & Robert Smith – protest artists

Winged Migration and possibly Kes both of which may be of interest to the birdwatchers.

Also Finding Vivian Maier may be enjoyed by those with an interest in Photography.

There is also a film called Tim’s Vermeer which covers the mystery of photo-realism in the paintings/age of Vermeer. As I say there are a few more… If you can send me your email address I’d be happy to put together a full list/brochure for consideration. Also be happy to help with any future tarp/lighting management. See you soon. Cheers, Lee.

Thinking about outdoor screenings – using Braidburn park as a venue
thinking about screening to wider audience, isolated audience within mental health, homeless,

young people rowan@positiverealities.org
http://www.positiverealities.org/contact-us.html

or Adele’s suggestion of the elderly. Wanting to give something back.

Arts for Mental Health Programme

Curious Routes 2016 -2017

The Curious Routes programme encourages individuals affected by mental ill health and who live in Edinburgh to be part makers and instigators in developing their own specific route of Interest. These routes will become models of participation, documented and publicly performed by Curious Routes over a period of time and presented in November 2017. This will be an information tool that showcases Artlink Curious Route project but also as an information resource/document of how someone can go about trying or starting out an activity. Far from been prescriptive activity that is passive and institutional Curious Routes participants are given a shared platform in the development and shaping of these models. The activity starts from the participants themselves building using local skills and knowledge. The culmination of this will the identification of different people, networks, funders with Edinburgh mental health sphere to which very careful presentation will be made by the participants involved.

Deep End Team

When: Thursday mornings

Where: studio, out and about, outdoor venues

Who: Adele Garth, David Fleming, Vic Macrae, Laia Cabellero, and Lee Ritchie, Louise Adams.

Aim: Taking the basic principal of doing/experiencing/looking good/trying out we give this group of participants a chance to gel as a team who will become facilitators in outside activity.

Nov-Dec	Jan – March
-From what we know Yoga   Running Stretches -Start identifying artists who excel in this area. Look for a successful crossover between performance/exercise. -Identify exercise areas events Use Vic’s mindfulness ideas and Adele’s lack of experience but enthusiasm to shape the activity and time together. -Start documenting photography for now.	-Start a month of indoor/outdoor tasters   Sessions -Begin to identify new spaces. Try them out. More urban and rural the better. -Keep the group small numbers for now till familiarity builds up. -Make it comfortable Make it unique

April – July	August October
-Expand the taster length of time activity happens maybe 4 weeks each.   -Vic and Adele begin exploring the visual identity of the team with a visual artist. Use Adele and Vic’s visuals as the starting point. – Lee documents these stages through video and photography highlighting what people have to offer from their personality to their skills and interests.	-Identify three venues/situations around peoples support network or new networks.     Event Deep End Team

Nov to Dec

-As previous   -Deep End Team -Out from the Cold -In from the Warmth Brought together as a document/presentation of models. – -Where is everyone at?