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Written by Dr. Ada Xiaoyu Hao, Evaluation Project Manager/KTP Associate, University of Roehampton
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Image from Imagining the Forest, international community collaboration between Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival, the Guarani Mbya indigenous people and Karachi Biennale (2025), photo credit Anne Tetzlaff
Summer solstice 2025 saw hundreds of people watch a remarkable performance, Stand of the Sun, created by Bryony Ella with composer Bumi Thomas.
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Image: drawings from an IMAGINED workshop at St Columba’s Hospice Care during a music and dance activity.It’s Creativity & Wellbeing Week and charity Music in Hospitals & Care is celebrating the work they’ve been doing with the Edinburgh Centre for Research Experience of Dementia (ECRED) at the University of
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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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Lung
As we said back in January with our colleagues at London Arts and Health, we are organisations devoted to health, wellbeing and equity; and we’re watching these concepts devastated e
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Funded by Youth Music and BBC Children in Need, the Sonic Minds programme supports young people at elevated risk of experiencing a mental health issue.
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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@soofiya
We start and end our sessions by standing in a circle and singing ‘one love, keep us together. We are, voices of hope.’ How we came to sing this, was through conflict. After the conflict, we decided to create a new space, and a new way of being in space, through a new song. A new song = a new space.
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Image reproduced courtesy of Historic England
Archaeology is a magical process of discovery with huge opportunities for team working, creative practice and largely outdoor physical activity and has been shown to support wellbeing in a myriad of ways.
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There is so much inspiring work out there at the moment which is a great antidote to the current state of the world – and simultaneously a frustration because most of it is under the radar of the traditional media.
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.