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Baroness Hodge of Barking has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to conduct an independent review of the Arts Council England (ACE). This survey is an essential part of the evidence collection for this Review. The deadline to respond to the survey has been extended to midday on 30 June.
Salary: £37,853, pro-rated for 0.6FTE (3 days per week). This amounts to £22,712 p.a.Application deadline: 10am on Wednesday 28 May.
In summer 2025 we plan to launch a new State of the Sector Survey with partners across the UK and Ireland. This blog explores why we will be asking you about your work and how we have used this information before.
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Jane Thakoordin Grenfell Memorial Quilt
Participatory Artist, Jane Thakoordin explores her unique journey of loss and grief within her most recent projects
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Pathways to Wellbeing at the Holburne Museum, Bath
Pathways to Wellbeing - Caring for communities as well as collections
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Anchor Church, Ingleby Caves in Derbyshire. Photo: Laura Phillips
So far in my journeys of discovery in Derbyshire I've met a lot of creative, skilled and determined people who are developing new work, building relationships, finding funds and delivering brilliant programmes that have positive health impacts for participants. In the current context this feels at least a little astounding, as the culture, and wider VCSE sectors, have had much of their more dependable funding cut (in many cases completely) and I have also encountered a real sense of vulnerability and fear - particularly for the survival of organisations and the programmes they provide for participants.
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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Ric Raithby 2025
Find out what a typical day looks like for glass artist, Ric Raithby, commissioned to design the award for the upcoming CHWA Awards on the 23rd April.
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Meet our new Co-Chair, Thahmina Begum...What have you been doing today?
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.