The Culture Team at City Hall interviewed Rofeda Bougaga about the London Borough of Culture's programme exploring the link between mental health and creativity for young people in Lewisham.
London Borough of Culture can be an exciting chance to innovate approaches to creative health. As part of Lewisham’s year as London Borough of Culture, The Big Conversation brought together young people from four youth arts organisations to ask: can arts and creativity be tools to support mental health, wellbeing, and happiness of young people?
We interviewed Lewisham native and artist Rofeda Bougaga and Gemma Rowan of youth arts collective Sounds Like Chaos.
Rofeda, as a young person who’s been an instrumental part of this process, could you tell us a little about it?
Yes, myself and a team of other young people have been gathering data using surveys, interviews and podcasts over the last year, to produce a creative report showing the positive link between mental health and creativity amongst young people in Lewisham. It will highlight the role of different programmes that have had made a positive impact, such as the Albany and Sounds Like Chaos...Keep reading on City Hall blog.
London Borough of Culture can be an exciting chance to innovate approaches to creative health. As part of Lewisham’s year as London Borough of Culture, The Big Conversation brought together young people from four youth arts organisations to ask: can arts and creativity be tools to support mental health, wellbeing, and happiness of young people?
We interviewed Lewisham native and artist Rofeda Bougaga and Gemma Rowan of youth arts collective Sounds Like Chaos.
Rofeda, as a young person who’s been an instrumental part of this process, could you tell us a little about it?
Yes, myself and a team of other young people have been gathering data using surveys, interviews and podcasts over the last year, to produce a creative report showing the positive link between mental health and creativity amongst young people in Lewisham. It will highlight the role of different programmes that have had made a positive impact, such as the Albany and Sounds Like Chaos...Keep reading on City Hall blog.