AcCess Radio Podcasts - Catching Up With Community
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Podcast 10/05/23 - Youthline Wellington
Host Jennifer Buckley spoke with Vicki, Annelies and Daikyn from Youthline Wellington, they spoke about their helpline, youth development programme, mental health peer support in schools and ongoing education programme, where topics prominent on their helpline are focused on. Their youth development programme has been running since 2016 and allows years 12 and 13 gateway students in Wellington the opportunity to take an interest in Youth Work, Social Work or other careers in the social services sector further and gain NCEA credits while studying this further. Youthline Wellington has lots of cool volunteering opportunities, you can check them out here www.youthline.co.nz/volunteer.html The 2023 street appeal is happening on the Wednesday 17th May. If you or your organisation/business would like to be involved you can find out more here. You can support Youthline through their give a little digital appeal If you need help you can access their services in several ways: Helpline Free Call 0800 376 633 text us at 234, email talk@youthline.co.nz and webchat can be accessed via the website. Click Here to listen to the podcast Podcast 26/04/23 - Brain Injury Association Host Jennifer Buckley spoke with Cheryl from the Brain Injury Association. They spoke about what a brain injury is and how they can be caused. Did you know 50% of people in our prison system have been diagnosed with a brain injury! Brain injures can effect all ages and can in a lot of cases be avoided. Education is a large part of the Brain Injury Associations work. They also discussed how the Brain Injury Association supports people living with a brain injury and their whanau. Click Here to listen to the podcast Podcast 12/04/23 - Voice Arts Host Judith Parkington spoke with Nicola Pauling from Voice Arts, an organisation that supports the development of those in their third age using improvisation and drama. Members of Voice Arts’s social drama programme shared why they love playing and performing and how improv stimulates the brain and sparks creativity. Click Here to listen to the podcast Podcast 29/3/23 - Tony Yuile Coaching on Hypnotherapy & Irritable Bowel Syndrome Host Matt Dagger spoke with Tony Yuile an experienced clinical hypnotherapist and life coach. Tony has spent the last 10 years helping many hundreds of people transform their health and wellbeing. He specialises in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and other functional digestive disorders including dyspepsia, and functional abdominal pain, using gut-directed hypnotherapy (GDH). GDH is an evidenced b ased therapy that has been in use for over forty years, and in clinical trials, consistently produces success rates of between 60-80% for reduction in IBS symptoms. Tony has created a personalised, flexible, IBS treatment program, he calls 'HYPNOSIS4IBS'. The program addresses the root cause(s) of a person’s IBS and addresses the factor(s) that are maintaining their symptoms. The five session, ten week program can be delivered in person (to those in the Wellington region) or via Zoom. Zoom enables Tony to work with people across New Zealand and internationally. The aim of the HYPNOSIS4IBS program is to provide people with long lasting symptom relief and restore their quality of life. Many people reach out to Tony when medication, dietary changes and other therapeutic approaches have failed to deliver meaningful relief from their IBS symptoms. Tony is member of YourlifeLiveit an international team of life coaches. He’s also a tutor with the NZ School of Professional Hypnotherapy, and teaches a very popular self-hypnosis workshop through the Wellington High School Community Education Centre. When he’s not hypnotising people Tony likes to practice and perform improvised theatre and is currently writing a thriller set in Wellington. He lives in Wellington with his wife and Mojo the cat. Click Here to listen to the podcast Podcast 15/3/23 - Family Works Resolution Service Family Works Resolution Service - Host Jennifer Buckley spoke with Kathryn Gray from Family Works Resolution Service. They discuss the wide range of services Family works offer, and how you can access these valuable services. Kathryn explained more detail about the Family Works Resolution Service, and how we can best support children during a separation. Click Here to listen to the podcast Podcast 1/03/23 - Citizens Advice Bureau Host Jenny Buckley spoke with Audrey Fell-Smith, a volunteer with Citizens Advice in Wellington, talking about what the CAB can do for you and the different ways you can access the services. Click Here to listen to the podcast Podcast 15/2/23 - Spectrum Care - Host Judith Parkington spoke with Charlotte and Sarah, support workers from Spectrum Care’s ‘Maranga' - a vocational day base in Abel Smith Street for young folk with intellectual disabilities. They spoke about what Maranga sets out to achieve and the SW’s journey to this work. www.spectrumcare.org.nz/ Click Here to listen to the podcast Podcast 1/2/23 - Wellington City Mission Matt Dagger spoke with Wellington City Missioner Murray Edridge about the Mission's services through the Pandemic, the construction of the Mission's new Whakamaru facility and his personal commitment to less fortunate Wellingtonians in need of assistance. Find out more about the services WCM provides and how you can access them here https://wellingtoncitymission.org.nz/ Click Here to listen to the podcast Podcast 18/1/23 - Redefining Gangsterism: Social Change Agents in the Black Power Judith Parkington spoke with Mara Davis about her Master’s research “Redefining Gangsterism: Social Change Agents in the Black Power”. Mara is a CNW member and we’ll talk about her journey towards her Master of Arts majoring in Criminology, her work in the community and what her collaborative research with Black Power might mean going forward. Click Here to listen to the podcast Podcast 4/1/23 - EKTA Matt Dagger spoke with Manjit Grewar from EKTA. They spoke about who EKTA are and what they do to support our Wellington community at http://ekta.nz/ Click Here to listen to the podcast |
Vincents Art Workshop.
rNZ-National Interview with Glen McDonald: 14/08/16
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For almost quarter of a century Glen McDonald has championed artists you won't tend to find in fine art galleries. She's worked with hundreds of people who come to Vincents Art Workshop in Wellington to make art for free, from ceramics to painting. They tend to be called "outsider" or "naive" artists, though Glen rejects all attempts to slap a label the people she works with.Lynn Freeman talks to Glen about her 2016 Arts Access Accolade award for her life-long passion for creativity, community and inclusion.
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Glen McDonald receiving her Arts Access Accolade 2016 award from Deputy Mayor, Justin Lester.
For the last 31 years, Vincents Art Workshop (Vincents) has held a very special place in the hearts of Wellingtonians.
Vincents is an oasis of learning and creativity and has been a proven catalyst of healing and recovery for thousands of people who experience mental illness.
Vincents has a fantastic new studio, and provides access to art and craft facilities, skilled tuition and materials within a supportive, inclusive environment.
Glen McDonald has been involved with Vincents for over 23 years, and the Coordinator for the last 16 years. On August 10, 2016 at a function in Parliament Buildings, Glen was recognised with the Arts Access Accolade 2016 Award from Arts Access Aotearoa.
Vincents is an oasis of learning and creativity and has been a proven catalyst of healing and recovery for thousands of people who experience mental illness.
Vincents has a fantastic new studio, and provides access to art and craft facilities, skilled tuition and materials within a supportive, inclusive environment.
Glen McDonald has been involved with Vincents for over 23 years, and the Coordinator for the last 16 years. On August 10, 2016 at a function in Parliament Buildings, Glen was recognised with the Arts Access Accolade 2016 Award from Arts Access Aotearoa.
Decorations for Newtown Festival 'Year of the Monkey', 2015.
Set up as a community-based social service in 1985, Vincents was created in response to government policies of deinstitutionalisation of patients from psychiatric hospitals.
Vincents ran a mural project with prisoners at Arohata Women's Prison for two years and has managed a weekly art programme with patients in Te Whare o Matairangi, the Mental Health Unit at Wellington Hospital for the past eight years.
Vincents' impressive artist's gallery is open to the public during studio hours.
Glen wishes Vincents didn't have to exist.
"I'm really against silos and anything that isolates and stigmatises people with mental health issues into their own 'special' group.
"We believe in inclusion, not separation. That's what we're about and what I mean when I say Vincents is for everyone. Some of our attendees have mental health issues, some don't. That sense of acceptance and integration is beautiful to see. Any part of who you are is welcome at Vincents at any time."
2015 was one of the toughest years Glen has experienced in her role, but equally, the most fulfilling and affirming.
Vincents ran a mural project with prisoners at Arohata Women's Prison for two years and has managed a weekly art programme with patients in Te Whare o Matairangi, the Mental Health Unit at Wellington Hospital for the past eight years.
Vincents' impressive artist's gallery is open to the public during studio hours.
Glen wishes Vincents didn't have to exist.
"I'm really against silos and anything that isolates and stigmatises people with mental health issues into their own 'special' group.
"We believe in inclusion, not separation. That's what we're about and what I mean when I say Vincents is for everyone. Some of our attendees have mental health issues, some don't. That sense of acceptance and integration is beautiful to see. Any part of who you are is welcome at Vincents at any time."
2015 was one of the toughest years Glen has experienced in her role, but equally, the most fulfilling and affirming.
Sir Richard Taylor from Weta Workshop and
MP Grant Robertson at Vincents' 30th Anniversary party.
"We suddenly had to find new premises and funding was extremely hard to come by. But magic, amazing things have happened in the past year. As hard as last year was, it was also exciting. There's a tremendous amount of goodwill out there towards Vincents, and when the external funding that we needed wasn't there, that goodwill saved us."
Vincents moved into their new premises in the Willis Street Village in October 2015.
"We held our 30th Anniversary party in our new premises to celebrate. At the party, we were thrilled to to have Sir Richard Taylor from Weta Workshop open our General Group Exhibition. I had no idea, but Richard told me he had been an artist at Vincents in the early 1990's! Hundreds of people came, it was wonderful."
Vincents moved into their new premises in the Willis Street Village in October 2015.
"We held our 30th Anniversary party in our new premises to celebrate. At the party, we were thrilled to to have Sir Richard Taylor from Weta Workshop open our General Group Exhibition. I had no idea, but Richard told me he had been an artist at Vincents in the early 1990's! Hundreds of people came, it was wonderful."
Vincents artists hard at work.
Vincents are busier than they've ever been.
"Since 1 July 2015, through a 12-month contract with CCDHB, we have provided Peer Advocacy services for people under mental health and addiction services and have worked with three other organisations to research and develop a model of a best practice Peer Advocacy. This contract has recently been rolled over until the end of December 2016.
"We run a Women's Only Day every Thursday between 11 AM - 4 PM, as well as general, tutored and life-drawing workshops.
"We're looking forward to our new website going live too. It means we'll be able to showcase our artists work and their auctions in a much more meaningful way."
"Since 1 July 2015, through a 12-month contract with CCDHB, we have provided Peer Advocacy services for people under mental health and addiction services and have worked with three other organisations to research and develop a model of a best practice Peer Advocacy. This contract has recently been rolled over until the end of December 2016.
"We run a Women's Only Day every Thursday between 11 AM - 4 PM, as well as general, tutored and life-drawing workshops.
"We're looking forward to our new website going live too. It means we'll be able to showcase our artists work and their auctions in a much more meaningful way."
The 'Friends of Vincents' Shield.
Glen is passionate about more people becoming official 'Friends of Vincents'.
"People who make regular donations to Vincents - large or small - can choose to have their names added to the 'Friends of Vincents' shield.
"We currently have 33 regular donors who collectively donate about $15, 000 a year, and we would love to have more people connect with us and support our work in this way. Our new premises have come with a rent hike of $13, 800 + GST."
Through the creation of a positive and supportive environment, people have found their involvement with Vincents to be therapeutic.
Vincents believes that all people have a right to artistic and creative expression.
That everyone is creative in some way, and acceptance of the value of one's creativity is something to be nurtured.
"People who make regular donations to Vincents - large or small - can choose to have their names added to the 'Friends of Vincents' shield.
"We currently have 33 regular donors who collectively donate about $15, 000 a year, and we would love to have more people connect with us and support our work in this way. Our new premises have come with a rent hike of $13, 800 + GST."
Through the creation of a positive and supportive environment, people have found their involvement with Vincents to be therapeutic.
Vincents believes that all people have a right to artistic and creative expression.
That everyone is creative in some way, and acceptance of the value of one's creativity is something to be nurtured.
Find out more about vincents art workshop & how you can get involved.
become a 'friend of vincents'!
To find out how you can become a regular financial supporter, call Vincents on (04) 499 1030 or 027 407 5706 or send them an email.