Creative Legacy.
What happens when you invite artists into an acute palliative care ward?
Our Creative Legacy Program is an award winning arts and health experience that combines storytelling and art making on an acute Palliative Care ward. Through conversation and story-telling exercises the artist captures the life stories of people in the last days and weeks of their life in personalised artworks, which are then given to the patient and their family as a gift of art and legacy.
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We believe in the power of art and conversation to connect people in palliative care to themselves, their stories, and each other. We believe that art and conversation can help place people at the heart of palliative care, and can contribute to changing the way Australians do death and dying.
Creative Legacy is a unique partnership between Liverpool Hospitals Palliative Care ward in South West Sydney, and The GroundSwell Project, delivered under an MoU. Funded by the Dry July Foundation on the back of funds raised for Liverpool Hospital Cancer Services. It’s a one of a kind and we’re all very proud of the work and delighted by the positive flow on effects for patients, families and staff that we continue to see.
“It gave me a chance to really express things I don’t think I would ever have talked about before.”
Now in its fourth year, Creative Legacy continues to evolve and contribute to peoples well-being. Earlier this year we trained 12 new professional artists in the practice of legacy making with patients and families in palliative care, drawing upon health promoting palliative care principles.
So far 2020 has seen us exploring new sites and ways of expanding the program into the digital space so that people being cared for under Palliative Care can still experience this in light of COVID-19 restrictions.
