about
The Community Wellbeing Collective (CWC) is a durational social art collective of 30+ people living in and connected to Wester Hailes. It is a diverse, intergenerational, intercultural, working-class organisation imagining, practising and creating space for collective wellbeing towards change.
It was initiated by social practice artists Jeanne van Heeswijk and Bobby Sayers commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival in partnership with WHALE Arts. They brought people together to discover and grow shared urgencies, forming a group where people can be themselves activating their talents, sparking personal, community and structural transformation. This process resulted in the creation of the Community Wellbeing Space in an abandoned off-licence as part of EAF22.
The Space continues to be a living art-work brought to life each time a human comes to rest, connects and plays within it. Local members host the space and deliver political events and wellbeing activities which suspend the suffocation of intersecting oppressions, creating space to breathe and the possibility to dream together.
It was initiated by social practice artists Jeanne van Heeswijk and Bobby Sayers commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival in partnership with WHALE Arts. They brought people together to discover and grow shared urgencies, forming a group where people can be themselves activating their talents, sparking personal, community and structural transformation. This process resulted in the creation of the Community Wellbeing Space in an abandoned off-licence as part of EAF22.
The Space continues to be a living art-work brought to life each time a human comes to rest, connects and plays within it. Local members host the space and deliver political events and wellbeing activities which suspend the suffocation of intersecting oppressions, creating space to breathe and the possibility to dream together.
