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The UK Research and Innovation 'Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities' programme is now entering phase 3, with numerous substantial research programmes launching around the UK.
The 2024 Everyday Creativity Conference is an opportunity to share understandings and ways of working with/for everyday creativity (EC).
With a general election coming up on July 4th, we are keen to make sure that candidates are aware of Creative Health and the benefits it can bring across a range of policy areas.
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An invitation to Arts Managers across Northern Ireland to participate added to the Festival's success and profile. No county left behind. This year's festival was a testament to the pivotal power of partnership in embracing and the arts, and challenging the stigma associated with mental health and wellbeing, fostering the importance of community spirit, mental health awareness, and harnessing lived experience to inform government policy.
CHWA has spent the last few months catching up with people who attended the Making Change Conference in October last year. We were really keen to hear about what they had been working on, how they were feeling, and the impact that attending the conference may have had on them, both personally and professionally.
It's Pride Month and to celebrate, we're sharing a small selection of LGBTQ+ creative health programmes and projects around the country.
Stories of lived experience
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‘Untitled’ By Casey Francis (Mad Truth)
...through creativity we can transform adversity to beauty and in the process transform ourselves. We can create our own lives as if we are creating a work of art. Instilled within all of our experience are layers of meaning, understanding and connection. Art is empathy, it is communication. Art allows us to step outside of ourselves, and see something inside that we could not recognise because of our external circumstances, our pain, our fear, our doubt.
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Illustrations by MJ Barker
What would it mean to ‘queer’ creative health? Why might we need to, and, if so, how? I was given the opportunity to first delve into these questions through a PhD scholarship I completed in 2019. My literature review explored longer histories of the field of Arts in Health as part of exploring its relationship to people and place.
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Tina Blaber
Our existence is embedded in culture – it’s all around us – and I think the need for this, as social creatures, is an inherent part of our make-up, as human beings.
A Day in the Life
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Lydia is a multi-disciplinary artist and activist based in London, who's work focuses on building life-affirming relations and systems through radical creativity and collaboration.
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Louise Campion is Head of Learning & Engagement at the Holburne Museum in Bath and the new Project Lead for our Working Together Programme in collaborations with GEM (Group for Education in Museums). Find out what a day in her life looks like.
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Alexis Butt has recently joined our team of Regional Champions, with over 20 years experience of working in arts and culture and currently working as a General Manager for the NCCH, she shares what a typical day for her looks like.
International
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The National Organization for Arts in Health is pleased to invite presenters to submit a proposal for the fifth annual second virtual national conference, The Art of Resilience on October 19 – 21, 2021.
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Hear and Now 2019 in Bedford, co-produced by Orchestras Live and the Philharmonia Orchestra © Beth Walsh
An invitation on behalf of the international Music for Social Impact research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to participate in a survey of musicians in all pa
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Crocker Museum, Sacramento, California
Seeking participants for new online study to find out.