Light Box believes in the power of human creativity. It has started a movement in Bristol that brings diverse communities together on a journey towards mental well-being.

Our work reduces mental health stigma, increases resilience and helps people to make tangible improvements to their lives.

Light Box presents mental health in a whole new light: as an exciting, empowering, social phenomenon, an act of creation, and a continuum on which we’re all placed.

What is Light Box?

Want to get in contact? Email info@wearelightbox.co.uk or call 01173 290908. Here is the Light Box Facebook page and we’re also on Twitter

April Update!

Hello! Light Box is through to the third and final round of a grant funding process from the Big Lottery Fund.

This grant will supply three years worth of core funding. i.e. regular and free general public workshops and 10-week courses for referred participants from partnership organisations.

Please bear with us, we will be hearing back at the end of May.

If successful, general public workshops will resume towards the end of 2012 and we’ll be holding an opening celebration, a re-vamped workshop space, a signposting service and newly developed workshops.

We want to invite your to view our Project Report, for which Light Box worked with Willis Newson and the University of West England’s Arts and Health Research Programme. Follow these links for a viewable and downloadable .pdf of the project report and/or a shorter summary of the report.

Light Box project report

Light Box Project Report Summary

We are currently enlisting for our fully funded two 10-week courses of closed (non-public) workshops;

Vulnerable women next course starting Tuesday 1st May 10.00-12.00 and every Tuesday 10.00-12.00 until and including 10th July 2012 but excluding the bank holiday on Tuesday 5th June.
Vulnerable young people (aged 16-25) next course starting Tuesday 1st May 14.00-16.00 and every Tuesday 14.00-16.00 until and including 10th July 2012 but excluding the bank holiday on Tuesday 5th June.

Places available for clients and service users of South West based support services. For further information with regards to registering by informal referral for these free places, please contact Kathryn on 01173 290908 or email KathrynJohn@wearelightbox.co.uk with the subject header ’10 week courses’

Other opportunities for you to access Light Box

Bespoke work-place based workshops on improving staff well-being
Staff team-building days taught at Light Box HQ
Free online workshops planned for 2012, accessed through our Facebook page and website

We are located in The Galleries, Broadmead, Bristol. Description of the workshops we offer:

Gratitude: Book binding and decorating (using typewriters, drawing inks and wooden letterpress) gratitude cards and a ‘5 good things’ journal
Appreciation of Beauty: Taking photographs using Lomography cameras and making camera lenses from vibrant acetate.
Character Strengths: Creating a ‘strengths board’, blind-drawing portraits on paper and balloons.
Goals: Making collages depicting goals and aspirations symbolically.
Nurture and Kindness: Selecting, smashing and mosaic making using reclaimed tiles. Potting an avocado plant and taking it home to nurture.
Savoring and Flow: Creating mobiles using collage, drawing inks, shells, feathers, flowers and lamination machines.
Humour and Playfulness: Dismantling and reconstructing toys to make hybrid characters with personalities. Kinetic drawing in booths using drawing straps loaded with pastels.
Confidence: Making a large scale, multi-colored paper sculpture.
Vitality 1: Using papier-mâché to create and smash up a health food piñata.
Vitality 2: Creating a drawing spinning-top, using pencil gloves and mouth sticks to draw on wall-mounted paper, and making bouncy ball drawings.