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Interested in setting up your own Creative Health Board?Keen to learn about what works from around the UK?
Study Summary
The Social Prescribing Youth Network – a free network for anyone interested in social prescribing for children and young people – has developed a new policy brief on “
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We know we live in an unjust society. Systemic racism, ableism, sexism, ageism, class discrimination, transphobia, discrimination on the basis of religion… it’s all (arguably) more visible than it’s ever been.
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House of Memories is a well-established and award-winning dementia awareness programme, created in 2012 by National Museums Liverpool. Now a new online dementia awareness course has been positively evaluated for use with Higher Education nursing students, as evidenced through a successful pilot with Liverpool John Moores University.
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Photo by Marcia Chandra, courtesy of The Reading Agency
Written by Gemma Jolly, Head of Health and Wellbeing, The Reading Agency
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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Claire is the new Creative Health & Equity Lead for Suffolk and Norfolk, working with Suffolk Artlink in partnership with the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA) and Suffolk County Council. Read more to find out what a typical day looks like for Claire.
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Helena Reynolds
Meet Helena, CHWA's new Creative Health & Equity Lead for Derbyshire, and learn what a typical day looks like in her new role.
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Meet our new Events and Programme Lead, Lara as we find out what a typical day looks like in her new role.
International
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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.
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Creative Aging International (CAI) was started with the ideas of “making with” and “making for” at its core.