CoolTan Arts believes wellbeing is enhanced by the power of creatvity. It exists to inspire the wellbeing and creative participation of a diverse range of people through the production of quality arts. CoolTan Arts is run and by people with mental distress, underpinning all its activities with advocacy. CoolTan Arts aims to promote positive mental health, wellbeing, recovery and rehabilitation, bringing about a change in how participants perceive themselves, enabling people to gain greater focus and to re-establish their relationship with society. We aim to offer life long learning and enable people to achieve qualification and accreditation status. We achieve this through quality arts education with professional outcomes such as public exhibitions, and social enterprise principles.CoolTan Arts runs a vibrant arts centre with an Independent Gallery in Southwark’s lively Walworth Road, with a varied programme of creative workshops: visual arts, pod casting, web design, batik, digital arts, video, poetry, sculpture and performing arts. Other activities include public exhibitions, monthly Largactyl Shuffle walks every third Saturday of the month, websites which help break down the stigma of mental distress. CoolTan’s gallery / performance space offers other local community projects somewhere to exhibit. Our volunteering programmes offer meaningful engagement and the opportunity to learn useful skills.Specialties: Mental health, visual arts, multimedia, web design, podcasting, poetry, batik, textiles, sculpture, community arts events, art exhibitions, public walks, volunteering, workshop delivery, advocacy, self-advocacy, personalisation, Southwark