Citizens for Culture Roadshow: Where Culture, Wellbeing and Health Meet

This session starts from Citizens for Culture, a citizen-led plan shaped by people across the West of England and explores what it shows us about wellbeing, prevention and neighbourhood health.

Rather than starting with systems or services, we begin with citizen priorities, lived experience and everyday life and follow where that leads for how we think about health and care.

Many of the challenges facing health and care systems already show up in everyday life:

• loneliness, connection and belonging
• access to opportunities and support
• unequal experiences across neighbourhoods
• pressure on services when community infrastructure is thin

This session makes visible how culture and creativity are already part of the solution often upstream of formal services.

This is not a traditional event or conference.

The session will:

• Start with citizen and lived experience stories
• Show how creative and cultural approaches are already supporting wellbeing
• Explore how this connects to prevention, neighbourhood working and system priorities
• Create space to identify what we can share, grow and build together

Expect a mix of film, conversation and facilitated working, not presentations.

• A clearer understanding of how citizen priorities connect to wellbeing and health
• Practical insight into how culture and creativity support prevention and early help
• New connections across community, cultural and system partners
• A small number of realistic next steps to take forward

This session brings together a mix of:

• system leaders and decision-makers
• community and VCSE organisations
• cultural and creative partners
• neighbourhood and place-based leaders

We are starting with a small invited group of known key individuals, before opening more widely.