Health / December 2020
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US Embassy Marines deliver gifts to the children’s hospital
- Wellington Health Foundation
- It was lovely to welcome marines from the US Embassy New Zealand to the children’s hospital this morning as they kindly delivered toys as part of their annual ‘Toys for Tots’ gifting programme.
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The role of vacant urban space in a Covid crisis
- Urban Dream Brokerage
- <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Jan Bieringa, Sophie Jerram, Linda Lee and Jason Muir with 'Exquisite Kaitiaki' by Miriama Grace-Smith, Xoe Hall and Gina Kiel at Urban Dream Brokerage and Brokered Dreams book launch, 2/57, Wellington. Image: Ebony Lamb Wellington communities need more creative and public spaces as inner city population booms and housing crisis puts rental stress on the young and vulnerable Covid-19 and economic recession leaves empty shops and buildings empty in Wellington Urban Dream Brokerage programme will resume connecting artists with owners of unoccupied property Applications for artists to run projects are now open online www.urbanddreambrokerage.org.nz <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Ariki Bloomwell presenting welcoming karakia. Image: Ebony Lamb As the residential property market escalates, and as increasing numbers move into city apartments, a need for inner city spaces for exchange and community is growing. With significant growth in commercial property left vacant since Covid-19 hit, the programme Urban Dream Brokerage is relaunching in Wellington to provide vital spaces for people to exchange, meet and help the city develop. Following its first run between 2012 and 2018 in response to the Global Financial Crisis, creative space programme Urban Dream Brokerage (UDB) has been relaunched funded by the Wellington City Council Tipu Toa: Build Back Better / City Recovery fund. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Image: Ebony Lamb The relaunch is spurred by a rise in unoccupied property around Wellington city due to the pandemic, and the need to create shared public spaces and experiences in a central city whose population is growing fast. The programme continues to run in Dunedin and has previously run in Porirua and Masterton. After the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake many buildings were taken off the Wellington market for strengthening, meaning fewer spaces could be used. Now property owners are embracing the renewed opportunity to enrich the city with artist and community occupied spaces. “We have a commitment to a city that feels good for the most vulnerable and gives space to the most generous. We see ourselves as intentionally curating projects that will provoke change, for example decarbonising and indigenising the city,” says UDB co-founder Sophie Jerram. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Victoria Singh from The Waiting Room Image: Ebony Lamb “Other cities across the world including Brussels and Barcelona are taxing buildings that are vacant for more than three months, providing incentives to keep buildings occupied, something that could work well when property is surging in value.” The aim of the brokerage is not just to help restore the city to pre-pandemic levels and types of activity, but to help create a new and better place where art acts as a bridge that welcomes all comers. UDB co-founder Mark Amery makes a case for culture providing a vital sense of place and meaning for city dwellers that leads to economic development. “A cultural recovery in Wellington is more than about attracting visitors through events. Culture is fundamental to our wellbeing and a sense of ownership of the city for those who live here. And we also invest financially where we feel a sense of belonging.” <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Mark Amery and Helen Kirlew Smith. Image: Ebony Lamb A book of past projects Brokered Dreams: 98 Uses For Vacant Space has just been launched. “We also need to test new models of living space as we face environmental and social crises. Artists and community groups are leading the way,” says Amery. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Brokered Dreams: 98 Uses for Vacant Space. Image: Ebony Lamb Wellington City Council is supporting the brokerage to re-enliven the city in 2021 with activities, including support for the performance programme The City as a Theatre and a rejuvenated Cubadupa. UDB is produced by Maverick Creative, managed by dynamic Political Cutz performer Jason Muir with Linda Lee from Shared Lines Collaborative. Muir is already visiting property owners to find homes for projects. “UDB rules! My creative practice emerged from Urban Dream Brokerage so now I feel proud to manage the project and look forward to enabling others on their journey, to share their dreams with the people of Wellington,” says Muir. Urban Dream Brokerage was established in 2012 by Sophie Jerram and Mark Amery as part of their Letting Space entity under the umbrella of Wellington Independent Arts Trust. UDB found spaces around New Zealand for over 120 creative projects, some short and some long term with more than 40 property owners, allowing the artists’ work to infuse energy into the properties while new tenants were found. Some projects continue in the properties where they started - Come Sew With Me in Masterton’s Queen Elizabeth Park is celebrating this month its third anniversary, while others like Coliberate a ‘mental health gym’ are now successful innovative businesses. Brokered Dreams: 98 Uses for Vacant Space - the book is available at www.urbandreambrokerage.org.nz/book or at Unity Bookshop Wellington. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Evzen Novak, Thomas Lahood, Darcy Case Laurie Foon, Suzanne Tamaki and Gerry Paul during karakia. Image: Ebony Lamb <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Sam Trubridge. Image: Ebony Lamb <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Crowd at two/fiftyseven. 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Covid-19 and Mental Wellbeing
- Age Concern Wellington
- In a way, the pandemic seems like a distant reality.
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Community gardens grow relationships
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Patients, visitors and staff have another way to grow relationships and exercise their green fingers thanks to new community planter boxes installed in the courtyard of Wellington Regional Hospital this week.
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Our research successes in 2020
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Despite COVID-19, the University has had an extremely successful year for research.
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New Colposcope for Child Health
- Wellington Health Foundation
- The Foundation was pleased to be able to fund, with our community’s support, a new Colposcope for the Child Protection Unit of Wellington Regional Hospital. This new technology will make examinations of suspected child sex abuse victims much easier and far less traumatic. The post New Colposcope for Child Health appeared first on Wellington Hospitals Foundation.
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Stay well over the holiday season
- Hutt Valley District Health Board
- Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs are encouraging people to plan ahead and take care of themselves to ensure they have a fun and healthy holiday season.
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Stay well over the holiday season
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs are encouraging people to plan ahead and take care of themselves to ensure they have a fun and healthy holiday season.
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Pacific church leaders providing mental health support
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Growing awareness of mental illness within Pacific communities will see ministers at dozens of Pacific churches in Wellington trained to offer support.
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Pacific church leaders providing mental health support
- Hutt Valley District Health Board
- Growing awareness of mental illness within Pacific communities will see ministers at dozens of Pacific churches in Wellington trained to offer support.
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Gorgeous Christmas gifts bring cheer to patients in hospital over Christmas
- Wellington Health Foundation
- In these last few weeks before Christmas we have received many beautiful cardigans, beanies, booties, blankets and quilts from many wonderful volunteer knitters and sewers.
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Hospi’s Christmas Fun!
- Wellington Health Foundation
- Hospi’s enjoyed some fabulous Community Christmas events in the last few weeks! He had a wonderful time at Very Welly Christmas! The clinic was buzzing with happy faces and toy Hospis having their Annual Well Health Check.
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High demand in Emergency Department
- Hutt Valley District Health Board
- Our Emergency Department (ED) is experiencing a high volume of patients and is extremely busy.
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Remembering Whakaari / White Island
- Hutt Valley District Health Board
- Wednesday 9 December, marks the first anniversary of the Whakaari / White Island eruption.
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Local clinicians recognised for COVID-19 leadership
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Two local clinical leaders have been recognised and celebrated for their tireless efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic that has dominated the health landscape this year.
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CCDHB congratulates Ora Toa and Partners Porirua as new partners in youth health services
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- CCDHB congratulates Ora Toa and Partners Porirua on their successful bid to become the Youth One Stop Shop (YOSS) youth health services provider in Porirua.
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Local clinicians recognised for COVID-19 leadership
- Hutt Valley District Health Board
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New strategy illustrates DHBs’ commitment to Pacific health
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- The launch of a new strategic plan has paved the way to improve health outcomes and achieve health equity for Pacific peoples across the Greater Wellington region.
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New community health network established for Kāpiti
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley DHBs’ joint Chief Executive Fionnagh Dougan and joint Board Chair David Smol today announced the establishment of a community health network for Kāpiti –a collaboration of health providers with an interest in improving the health and wellbeing of the local population and achieving equitable health outcomes.
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New strategy illustrates DHBs’ commitment to Pacific health
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