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Roaming radio station comes to Chiswick House & Gardens Grow FM, a summer programme of activities and events exploring the theme of “community as health”, is coming to Chiswick House & Gardens this summer. The brainchild of curatorproducers Yinka Danmole and Tadeo Lopez-Sendon, Grow FM is an experimental programme featuring new commissions by local and international artists and a roaming pop-up radio station, powered by the community for the community, broadcasting from Chiswick House & Gardens throughout the summer. Grow FM is inspired by West London pirate radio stations, which became a lifeline for disenfranchised communities in the 1990s, as well as by Victorian Chiswick House & Gardens residents, the Tuke brothers, whose radical approach to mental health centred exchange and dialogue as a means of connecting with their patients.
Grow FM will encourage artists, host participants and audiences to come together physically and online, enabling new conditions for cultural exchange and production to thrive, especially for those groups and communities often overlooked. Supported by the London Borough of Hounslow, as part of its Summer of Culture, the project includes paid placements for three young creatives as trainee audio producers. Tadeo Lopez-Sendon said: “In an age where we witness the erosion of trust and social connections, Grow FM aims to re-centre community at the heart of social life.” Yinka Danmole added: “Inspired by Chiswick House & Gardens’
history, with the Tuke brothers’ radical Victorian approach to mental health practices, the Grow FM programme explores ways of nurturing this precious public space for the local community, for new collectives and for cultural production.” Xanthe Arvanitakis, director of Chiswick House & Gardens Trust, said: “We know firsthand from Growing Together at Chiswick House, our thriving community engagement programme, that a strong sense of community is integral to our health and mental wellbeing. We’re delighted to be working closely with the local people of Hounslow and this talented group of creatives to support Grow FM for improved health and wellbeing for all of us.”
Wellness event proves to be popular!
Sahara Sisterhood hosted a wellness event for women at the Grasshoppers Rugby Club in Isleworth sponsored by the Metropolitan Police on Thursday March 10, 2022. The organisation said 77 delegates had registered for the event.
A spokesperson for the organisation said: “At Sahara Sisterhood, we always request feedback at the end of the event through an evaluation form that is distributed to all delegates to complete and return to the hosts.
In line with our normal practice, we distributed the evaluation forms to all delegates and these were collated at the end. In addition to the feedback forms,
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