Liverpool Health Service Cultural & Artistic Enrichment Program

Arts at Liverpool Health Services

1. The Arts in Liverpool Health Services supports the connection between the health service and the local communities, it supports diversity and tolerance, creating supportive environments for our staff, patients and visitors.
   

2. The program has, since 1996, a volunteer's group working to create a culturally rich environment for patients and staff of Liverpool Hospital. They give their time to create new artworks, organise and distribute books in languages other than English and help to hang the temporary exhibitions.
   

3. Liverpool Hospital has four Arts for Health Galleries, utilising the corridors as non traditional space to show artworks. We have a minimum of 16 arts exhibitions each year, offering fresh and  captivating new artworks that change every six to eight weeks in four galleries.
   

4. The program helps create a positive and friendly environment for staff, patients and visitors of our hospital. 
   

5. For the artists it is a great space to show their works. The audience for this exhibition will surpass most commercial and public galleries, exposing their work to over 1000 people a day.
   

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Shots from the Quiet Dreaming Courtyard Liverpool Hospital NSW

Quiet Dreaming Place Liverpool Hospital

1. The “Quiet Dreaming Place” is a special garden set aside within the grounds of Liverpool Hospital.  It was the concept of Aboriginal Health workers, local elders and Liverpool Health Service Arts for Health Program who wanted to create a place where Aboriginal patients and their families could seek privacy and be at one with nature in times of grief and despair.
   

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3. The “Quiet Dreaming Place” is a gift from the local Aboriginal community to Aboriginal families, Neo Natal, Palliative Care, and Intensive Care patients and their families to seek comfort and solitude when faced with challenges which impact on health and wellbeing. It is envisaged the “Quiet Dreaming Place” will promote wellness and healing for patients, their families and friends.
   

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5. Funds for the project were made available through a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts and through in kind contribution of Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council, Kari Aboriginal Resources, Liverpool Hospital Arts for Helath Volunteers, Liverpool Womens Health Centre, Inc, South Western Sydney Institute of TATE.
   

Artists commissioned for the Quiet Dreaming Place:

1. Adam Lamont, Dean Grant, Marjorie De Leper, Susan Grant.  Installation of works by Malcolm Cooke and volunteers of Liverpool Hospital Arts for Health Program.  Mosaics produced by the volunteers working with Thao La.
   

2. Project was coordinated by Marily Cintra from 1999 to 2004 and by Delphine Leslie from 2004 to 2005
   

The Liverpool Health Service Cultural & Artistic Enrichment Program has now ended from December 2007