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Bristol’s Health, Culture & Wellbeing Conference 2017: Some Highlights
Bristol’s Health, Culture & Wellbeing 3-day conference provided a strong sense of action and hope for the broad field ofContinue Reading
The Arts & Culture in Healthcare: Where Next? Creative Health Report Launches July 19th
Between June 19th and 21st, Bristol’s Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference 2017 saw 400 people from 22 countries present, debateContinue Reading
Nimble Finland: Slot Machine Fund Supports Mental Health
At the beginning of 2017, the Finnish gambling system was reformed and merged into a single gaming company owned byContinue Reading
You Don’t Have Hospital Clowns? You Can’t Be Serious!
On my research Fellowship to Finland, during an interview at TAIKE, I asked what is the public perception of the arts inContinue Reading
Functional Finland! See My Arts & Health Programme + Be Part of the Well Wishes Collection
My Travelling Fellowship is turning out to be a tornado tour of Finland’s best examples of arts, culture and wellbeing initiatives, includingContinue Reading
Modelling Social Change: Arts Promotion Centre, Finland
At TAIKE in Jvaskyla, Arts Development Manager Pauliina Lapio and I held a 3 hour open meeting for people working in theContinue Reading
‘Culture Club’ “Diagnosis Free Zone” in Jyvaskyla
On May 23rd, Following Baby Dance Hour in a residential home, I visited the innovative ‘Trombi’, (Culture Club), located under trees aroundContinue Reading
Dementia and Dancing Babies
Following a rich exchange with the Ministry of Education and Culture in Helsinki on Monday, I travelled three hours northContinue Reading
Why Finland Features in the Fellowship: Day 1 from Helsinki
Over the next few weeks I will visit colleagues in the field of arts and health across Finland, in Helsinki, Turku,Continue Reading
Why You Should Watch Horizon: ‘Why Did I Go Mad?’ – The Psychology of Voice Hearing
On 2nd May, 2017, 9PM, BBC 2 will show a programme with Jacqui Dillon, Chair of the Hearing Voices Network, promising to provideContinue Reading
