Community Arts Challenge - bringing the natural world into the hospital!

"See your artwork displayed in the new Community Hospital for the East Riding"

ARTISTS from the East Riding, whether established or a newcomer, are being invited by NHS East Riding of Yorkshire to enter a Community Arts Challenge where they will get the chance to exhibit their work in the new East Riding Community Hospital which is being built on Swinemoor in Beverley.

The theme is bringing the natural world into the hospital based on the subject of your favourite place in the East Riding. Work can be in the form of photography, painting or sculpture.

Challenge organiser, Katrina Hunt, said: “The Challenge has been devised by the Local Community Liaison Group set up to support the ongoing development of the new Community Hospital. The Challenge is themed around bringing the natural world into the hospital, and we particularly welcome entries that focus on peoples’ favourite place in the East Riding.”

There are six categories:

* Towns and buildings
* Coast
* Countryside
* Wildlife
* Plants and flowers
* The weather.

How to enter the competition: The Community Arts Challenge is free to enter and is open to all people living or working in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Up to five entries per individual can be submitted and there are 6 age groups which will be judged separately:

* Under 5s
* 6 to 8
* 9 to 11
* 12 to 15
* 16 to 18
* 19 years and over.

For more detailed information and an entry form please visit East Riding Community Hospital - Community Arts Challenge.

The closing date is 3 January 2012. Please return your entry form and artwork by post or in person to:

Katrina Hunt
Community Arts Challenge
NHS East Riding of Yorkshire
Health House
Grange Park Lane
Willerby
HU10 6DT

If you have any queries, please contact Katrina on tel: 01482 650700.