Naomi Heath is an artist and community-led engagement practitioner. For over a decade she has worked alongside communities across Wales, creating bilingual, place-based projects with farmers, schools, ecologists, and local communities, making art everywhere she goes.
Naomi’s work centres on listening, care, and creativity, helping people tell their own stories and shape their collective futures. Her practice blends ecology, engagement, and storytelling, shaped by the character of where she is from. Her facilitation practice spans engagement production, community engagement and creative practice, with a focus on participatory and community-led approaches.
Naomi worked with many organisations such as Arts Council Wales, Artes Mundi, Dyfi Biosffer, Amgueddfa Cymru and more on engagement practice. She also worked with countless community groups listening and sharing stories across Wales, including supporting a school into civic action and creating a residency in Talybont that supported community action as part of a flood plan.
In this talk, Naomi explores how trust, facilitation, and shared creativity can plant seeds that grow into lasting social impact, legacy and change. She explores how co-creative projects rooted in real spaces can strengthen communities, foster resilience, and inspire civic action, illustrated with examples from her work, including residencies, schools, and local initiatives.
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