Silent At Heart

In January 2007, the South East London Cardiac Network was awarded a grant from the Wellcome Trust's People Awards funding scheme for the development of an innovative arts and biomedicine project raising public awareness of the risk factors and symptoms associated with undetected cardiac abnormalities amongst young people. These conditions are generally referred to as Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome (SCDS), very rare and fatal but preventable and treatable heart conditions that mainly affect healthy and active young people.

In partnership with the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young and Christ the King Sixth Form College, Lewisham, art works, short films and a website will be developed through collaborations between professional artists, health professionals, and a group of young people (Art, Design and Media Year 12 students) who are being tested for SCDS, focusing especially on their personal response to the diagnosis process.

The artworks produced by the students and commissioned artists will be showcased in an art exhibition to be held at a high profile art gallery in London and will form part of a series of awareness raising materials and events which will be launched during the exhibition.

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