Creative Journeys Report 2019

Creative Journeys 23 Figure 1: Arts activities taking place in care homes over the last 12months Singing Listening to music (recorded) General arts and crafts (e.g. making cards, posters, decorations) Painting Listening to music (live performance) Dance or seated dance Reminiscence arts Knitting Storytelling Trips to cultural venues (e.g. museum, gallery, theatre) Poetry Making music (e.g. residents playing instruments, composing music) Other Drama 27 (12.4%) 27 (12.4%) 23 (10.6%) 22 (10.1%) 21 (9.7%) 19 (8.8%) 17 (7.8%) 15 (6.9%) 10 (4.6%) 9 (4.1%) 8 (3.7%) 8 (3.7%) 6 (2.8%) 5 (2.3%) Whilst the arts activities in stage one of the research were performance based participatory arts delivered by external arts organisations through the Creative Journeys programme of work, in the survey we were interested in identifying all the arts activities that were provided in care homes across Essex. Survey participants were asked to identify all the arts activities that had taken place in their care home over the past 12 months and to name any ‘other’ activities which were not included on the list. The range of arts activities in the homes was extensive as can be seen from Figure 1, with listening to music and singing taking place in all the homes. Painting (22/27) and general arts and crafts (23/27) and live performance of music (21/27) were very popular, with dance or seated dance (19/27) and reminiscence arts (17/27) taking place in over two thirds of the homes. Only nine of the homes took residents out to cultural venues such as museums or galleries.