‘Wellbeing Learning Circles’ is a socially engaged art project based in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, working with five local partners (WHALE Arts, Starctachers, Grass Roots Remedies, SCOREscotland, With Kids) to explore what can communities teach artists, and what can artists teach communities. Empowering residents to shape their cultural life and offering skills development for artists.

Children's Learning & Development
Artist in Residence: Laura Tully

Laura is an Edinburgh based artist who often collaborates with children and communities around Edinburgh delivering, supporting and developing a number of workshops, projects and learning programmes. She is interested in how collaborative art-making can create spaces for learning, care, connection and how creative activity might help us imagine new ways of being together. For the residency Laura will explore the potential of art and play for children’s wellbeing by forming an after school club at the Community Wellbeing Collective that focuses on process and collaboration with an interest in how knowledge is shared, produced and experienced collectively.

Creative Culture
Artist in Residence: Ezra Celik

Hailing from Wester Hailes, Ezra is a writer, director, tutor, and photographer whose work explores social identity, gender, political action, urbanisation, and transcending class. He has produced numerous zines, including the acclaimed In The Shadows of Westside with Stills Gallery, as well as biographical short film ‘July, South’ and ‘Wings’ set to screen at the Cinemagic International Film Festival 2026 in Belfast, and the Scottish Youth Film Festival in Ayrshire. For this project, Ezra will explore Wester Hailes landscape and archives, working class stories and dreams through film making.

Adult Mental Health
Artists in Residence: James Howden & Reshma Eyafé

For this project, Reshma and James are sharing a residency looking into themes of mental health, wellbeing, radical care, and self-exploration.