Category: arts and health

by Katherine Taylor August 16, 2017 0

What Do Viewers Say About Contemporary Art Made By People With Dementia?

On August 14th The Dukes theatre, Lancaster, hosted the preview of Dementia and Imagination: Making Connections Through Contemporary Art. Members of the publicContinue Reading

by Katherine Taylor August 7, 2017 0

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Dementia and Imagination Exhibition

Join us at The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster for the preview of this exhibition, a result of Dementia and Imagination. This large-scale nationalContinue Reading

by Katherine Taylor July 28, 2017 0

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The International Arts Health Early Career Researcher Network, led by BBC New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt

This month I joined the International Arts Health Early Career Researchers Network (ECRN), led by Dr Daisy Fancourt.

by Katherine Taylor July 24, 2017 2

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Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing Report Launched

The Creative Health report launched this week from Westminster, forming a comprehensive platform for the field of arts and health.Continue Reading

by Katherine Taylor July 18, 2017 0

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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

by Katherine Taylor July 18, 2017 0

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The Arts & Culture in Healthcare: Where Next?

Between June 19th and 21st, Bristol’s Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference 2017 saw 400 people from 22 countries present, debateContinue Reading

by Katherine Taylor June 5, 2017 0

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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

by Katherine Taylor June 1, 2017 0

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Functional Finland! 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

by Katherine Taylor May 31, 2017 0

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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

front page of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Creative Care Kit

Creative Care Kits, a number of Greater Manchester organisations led by GMCA worked together to create and distribute 22,000 Kit to young people without access to the internet during lockdown.A second Kity was also delivered in October 2020.

Three Minute Heroes launch

Image fro IG Kultur publication, Austria https://www.igkultur.at/artikel/arts-prescription-new-kind-medicine

Culture Politic International, Dec 2019 Keynote at EU policy workshop in Vienna

GM Arts, Culture and Mental Health feature month

The Winston Churchill Trust's Travelling Fellowship

Exhibition and talks from by Will Self and Profesor Jphn Read John Baldessari – Matthew Buckingham – Sophie Calle – Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Moyra Davey – Luke Fowler – Gillian Wearing – Catherine Yass The modern city has frequently been identified through its intensity – a busy and bustling environment of potentially creative and productive activity. For the spectator, this intensity can also tip over into a state in which reality is temporarily obscured. It is this finely balanced state which the exhibition explores, the condition of urban psychosis is presented as a recurring theme, a shadow which continues to haunt the city. July 2014

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Research Artist Carol Hanson's installation at Green Man: Doris and Ivor's Carry On Cartoon Camping

The Human Library is an international equalities movement that challenges prejudice and discrimination through social contact. It uses the language and mechanism of a library to facilitate respectful conversations that can positively change people’s attitudes and behaviours towards members of our communities who are at risk of exclusion and marginalisation. http://humanlibraryuk.org/

Dementia and Imagination exhibition in conjunction with Chesterfield's famous Crooked Spire

BBC Radio Sheffield

The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Public talk alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit by Margaret Edson, ‘Making Great Art Out Of Illness’.

Workshop space at Nottingham Contemporary

Research Artist Carol Hanson installation at Einstein’s Garden, Green Man festival