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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
In response to the Disability Livelihood and Employment focus of this year's UK Disability History Month, we're sharing Wildflowers by Karl Mercer, a Curating for Visibility Fellow at Dover Museum a short video exploring his own experiences of employment within the heritage sector.
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.
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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Photo by Rich Kenworthy
I do find when I work from home it’s easy to just keep going until you’re exhausted but I make sure I have breaks where I might just sit in the garden with a cup of tea for 5 minutes, do some yoga at lunchtime or go for a long walk at the end of the day to switch off.
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Kiddy Cook event, Norfolk libraries
Part of my role is ...supporting libraries so they can deliver health and wellbeing activities, ranging from regular groups such as colour me calm, to one off activities like wellbeing days with the library smoothie bike!
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Small Planet, children's drawings, vegatable papyrus, waxed paper and recycled perspex, by Jennie Pedley. Part of Art of the Gut residency at the Quadram Institute, supported by public funding from the Arts Council England and Norfolk County Council #artofthegut
My days are spent experimenting with visuals in the studio and exploring scientific/health research ... A few days each term I work as a physiotherapist at a school for Deaf children in London. I also support a young person in my family who recently developed a couple of autoimmune diseases.
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.