A Creative Approach to Health

Co-designing high-quality inclusive and engaging creative programmes and artworks.

About this Event

Join FRONTLINEdance for a special event aimed at making Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire a place where people with chronic and long-term health conditions — including hospital patients — can easily access and enjoy the arts in inclusive, engaging, and meaningful ways.

We’re thrilled to welcome Rosetta Life, an Oxfordshire-based organisation known for their impactful work in hospitals and community settings, to co-host this event.

This gathering will bring together:

• Local artists
• Arts and health organisations
• Educators
• Hospitals and health bodies
• Social prescribers
• Funders
• Third sector representatives

Let’s explore how we can collaborate to make the arts more accessible to all.

When: Wednesday 5th November 2025

Time: 10am - 4pm (refreshments from 9:30am)

Where: NSCG, Performing Arts Building, Knutton Lane, Newcastle-under-Lyme. ST5 2GB

Access: BSL interpreter and Audio Description available on request at booking.

COST: FREE - though donations are very welcome. Booking closes at 10am, on Wednesday, 29th October 2025.

Parking: Free parking is available in the student car park at NSCG.

About the day:

You will hear about the what, how, and why ‘FRONTLINEdance' and 'Rosetta Lifes' work influences the patient experience, how it supports staff wellbeing, aids rehabilitation, and brings joy, specifically to those at life-changing times of their lives.

The event will also feature:

• Two artist ambassadors from Rosetta Life, who will share their stories and experiences.
• A workshop
• Discussions, provocations, and conversations
• Lunch - provided free of charge
• Films by both Companies
• Opportunity to network

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Thanks in advance for joining us!

FRONTLINEdance is an artist-led company based in Stoke-on-Trent, placing disabled people and those with long-term health conditions at the core of our organisation as leaders, dancers, artists, and audiences. By co-creating and co-producing in community and healthcare settings, they can offer high-quality live performances, film and workshops that are relevant, inclusive, and engaging. Rachael Lines is, and has been the co-founder, Artistic Director and CEO, since 2001. She regularly makes dance work for hospitals and facilitates dance sessions for those with long-term health conditions, including cancer, brain injury, stroke, and those diagnosed with MS and Parkinson’s. https://frontlinedance.co.uk/

Rosetta Life are a community of artists, activists, technologists with experience of life-altering health conditions and care. Together they co-design creative programmes and make artworks that drive social change. Lucinda Jarrett is the Creative Director of Rosetta Life. She is a writer, independent dance artist, and performance maker who co-founded Rosetta Life in 1997. https://roset

Agenda


🕑: 09:30 AM
Delegates arrive

Info: Refreshments provided

🕑: 10:00 AM
Theatre space opens for the event

🕑: 10:15 AM
Introduction and Housekeeping
Host: Keynote Speaker - Lucinda Jarrett, Rossetta Life

🕑: 10:50 AM
Stroke/Brain Injury Ambassadors talk about their experience

🕑: 11:05 AM
Short Break and Move to Workshop Area

Info: (either in the theatre or dance studio space)

🕑: 11:15 AM
Workshop
Host: Lucinda Jarrett and the Ambassadors

🕑: 12:00 PM
FREE Lunch

Info: Provided in the café area.

🕑: 12:30 PM
Films on a loop to watch in the theatre, and an opportunity to Network

🕑: 01:30 PM
FRONTLINEdance and place context
Host: Rachael Lines

🕑: 02:00 PM
'Why use Dance and the Arts?’
Host: Lucinda Jarrett

🕑: 02:15 PM
Questions and provocations to discuss and answer in small groups

Info: (world café style)

🕑: 03:15 PM
Share Responses

🕑: 03:40 PM
What’s next for the partnership and for Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire

Info: FRONTLINEdance share their ambition and invite partners to sign up.

🕑: 03:50 PM
Closing Speech
Host: Lucinda Jarrett, Rossetta Life

🕑: 04:00 PM
END of event

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