About Vincents
Winner of the National Mental Health Award: Community Integration
- March 2000
Winner of the Innovative Provider Award (ACEA) - September
2000
Winner of the TrustPower Wellington City Community Award /
Arts & Culture Sept. 2001
Mission Statement
Vincents Art Workshop is a place of learning and creativity,
which contributes to healthy communities.
Vincents Art Workshop is an essential social service set
up as a result of Government policies of deinstitutionalisation
from psychiatric hospitals twenty-three years ago. It is a
community based initiative providing access to arts and craft
facilities, skilled tuition, and materials within a supportive
environment.
People with disabilities, those moving into the community
from institutions, the unemployed, people on low incomes and
anyone at all from the wider community are welcome! An average
of 35 people use the workshop every day, and all work together
to make Vincents an exciting and creative place to be.
Through the creation of a positive and supportive environment
many people have found their involvement in Vincents to be
therapeutic. Vincents offers a unique model that uses the
art process to help resolve the internal conflicts a person
may be experiencing, enabling the development of self esteem
and individual potential.
Vincents operates on a holistic health philosophy where focus
is on potential and ability rather than disease and disability.
We believe that all people have a right to artistic and creative
expression - everyone is creative in some way and acceptance
of the value of one’s own creativity is something to
be nurtured.
We provide an art space, art materials and equipment, together
with a high standard of art, craft and construction tuition
- and, importantly, a supportive structured workshop with
skilled tuition in particular techniques or mediums. Most
activities offered are free! Some (like Life Drawing and use
of the Dark Room) have a small charge and, of course, donations
are always very welcome.
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