As part of Healing Arts Scotland Week, the International Teaching Artist Collaborative (ITAC) designed and delivered a national Participatory Arts Relay.

The HAS ITAC Relay has been a chance for us to highlight and celebrate the amazing arts and health work already happening in communities across Scotland, as led by participatory artists, and join up the many exciting pockets of work which are ongoing. The event invited groups from around the country to contribute their voice to a collective tapestry of artistic responses which spoke to the key HAS arts and health themes. Stimuli was passed from one group to another, asking each to add to the work of the last, until the final creations can be displayed in key partner’s spaces and presented alongside the opening/closing Healing Arts Scotland Week ceremonies. This is the first time these groups have been connected and collaborating on a national scale and ITAC is proud to have brought them together as part of HAS. It has been a chance for the voices of participatory artists and our participants to be central to the event - connecting our work in a literal and artistic sense.