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The Nightingale Project brightens up the environment in mental health services through art and music. We see it as vital to bring life and colour into a hospital or clinic setting to provide a conducive setting for medical and therapeutic work. To receive a patient in a hospital environment which is pleasant, cheerful, and welcoming can be seen as an essential first step in treatment, a fundamental contribution to the process of recovery. We are a charitable project that works with CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, a large mental health trust with many sites in the London area, to make the treatment environment more human and more uplifting for both inpatients and outpatients. We do this through putting on temporary exhibitions of high-quality art in waiting rooms, commissioning artists to produce beautiful works of art for permanent display in the wards, and through bringing musicians into hospitals to play live for the patients. The Project began at the South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre in 1998, and has since spread to numerous other sites. The Nightingale Project Fund is Charity no 1082989.
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BOOK NOW! Fundraising Concert Friday 16th September 8.00p.m.
JAZZ CONCERTO
Concert to raise money for current Nightingale Project ventures, and a tribute to our patron Sir Richard Rodney Bennett in his 75th birthday year.
The concert will feature the jazz-inspired music produced by composers in 1920s Berlin, when composers like Kurt weill and Erwin Schulhof were incorporating the new ‘hot music’ from America into their musical language, creating a new style of music that seemed to embody the modernity of Weimar Germany.
In celebration of Richard Rodney Bennett’s birthday the programme includes the UK premiere of his JAZZ CONCERTO, his orchestration of Schulhoff’s ‘Hot Sonata’ of 1928. Sir Richard will also perform as pianist in Weill’s suite from the Threepenny Opera.
Other performers include John Harle, one of the world’s leading saxophonists; legendary baritone Richard Suart; outstanding pianist Julian Jacobson; and the Matrix Ensemble, noted exponents of Berlin cabaret songs, conducted by Robert Ziegler.
The concert takes place at the exciting new venue Testbed1, just south of Battersea Bridge, in Elcho Street. This concert helps to launch the venue, which is set to become a leading London centre for artistic experimentation.
- Concert begins 8.00pm (bar open beforehand from 7.00pm)
- Concert tickets online at www.jazzconcerto.eventbrite.com (booking fee applies). Advisable to book in advance.
Cash only at the venue – best book online and bring cash for the bar.
Announcing …New Screenprint by Quentin Blake:
"The Most Exciting Chapter" by Quentin Blake
“The Most Exciting Chapter”
A limited edition screenprint by Quentin Blake
This screenprint, limited to 100 copies only, is now available for sale. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist. Quentin is generously donating all proceeds to the Nightingale Project.
Paper Size approx 76cm x 56cm. Price £600 per print (including UK postage and packing.)
Send cheques made out to Nightingale Project Fund to:
Dr Nick Rhodes. Nightingale Project, c/o Psychology Department, Mental Health Centre, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ
Other news:
Nightingale Project on TV Documentary
The Nightingale Project has been featured in a documentary on Phoenix CNE TV. The eight-minute piece can be seen on YouTube: click here.
Enhancing the Environment in Mental Health: Conference
Dr Nick Rhodes, Director of the Nightingale Project, chaired the recent national conference on Enhancing Mental Health Environments. An article about the conference appears here.