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NDB1 Leadership team with their CHWA 2025 Award for Practising Well
Our outgoing Events & Programmes Lead, Fiona Moon, analysed the shortlists for our three awards categories: Practising Well, Healthy People & Planet, and Collective Power
Farrell Renowden, Cultural Development Consultant, and former Director of both the Age of Creativity and CADA- Creative Ageing: Development & Agency, is compiling a new resource, aimed at supporting the Creative Ageing sector to make the case for our work.
This brief report looks at the complex question of skills development across creative health – an area which intersects importantly with both the wellbeing of the workforce and its diversity and representativeness.
Blog
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Pete Woodhead - Disco Neurotico
Disco Neurotico was created in response to a need - a need that the vast majority of people probably don’t even think about.
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The Offbeat Sari curated by Priya Khanchandani is a vibrant celebration of the contemporary sari. The exhibition unravels the sari’s numerous forms, positioning it as a powerful metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today.
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Stuart Wallace Photography: Steven Mair, Gamer-in-Residence at Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity
Our National Coordinator recently met with Steven Mair, Gamer in Residence at Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity, to talk about his role and the part gaming plays in the wellbeing of patients.
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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Luisa Golob
Meet our new Barnsley Creative Health Lead, Luisa Golob. She shares what a typical day looks like in the world of Creative Health.
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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.
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.