Category: Arts and Mental Health

mosaic of partners who co-produced the GM youth mental health arts and culture evaluation kit including gm i-THRIVE Greater Manchester Combined Authority arts council england lime arts 42nd street and the university of manchester

by Kat Taylor October 29, 2020 0

New Youth Arts & Culture Kit helping to share the value of creative health options

GM i-THRIVE have this month launched the Youth Mental Health Arts & Culture Evaluation Kit, a useful approach to help explain theContinue Reading

2020 three minute heroes launch event poster

by Kat Taylor August 13, 2020 0

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Why school days need creative arts and what Three Minute Heroes is doing to help

This month I’m delighted to feature a guest blog on Three Minute Heroes from Elle Douglas at the Warren Project.Continue Reading

children colouring in against a beautiful blue wall in Yves St Laurent's garden, Morocco

by Kat Taylor June 30, 2020 0

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology Finnish approaches to wellbeing iTHRIVE

Arts and culture in NHS children’s services and how you can get involved

In this post I outline reasons to take notice of the health benefits of the arts and culture, and waysContinue Reading

Art Therapist Jodie SIlverman's prompt for wellbeing

by Kat Taylor April 17, 2020 3

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology Social Inclusion

Culture at a Distance: Arts for Health in Isolation

Welcome One positive of the pandemic for me is seeing the increasing recognition of the far-reaching and vital roles ofContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor February 27, 2020 2

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology iTHRIVE news

Love Spreads: Three Minute Heroes comes to Greater Manchester

Three Minutes Heroes is an innovative project which integrates music and mental health in schools. Today we welcome Three MinuteContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor February 7, 2020 2

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology devolution Evaluation iTHRIVE

Supporting the arts sector to sing to health, commissioning and policy makers

We know that in children’s services, conventional interventions result in modest outcomes: around half of those who access Child andContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor November 13, 2019 3

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology devolution news

Doing Things Differently: the first six months of Greater Manchester’s Arts, Culture & Mental Health Programme

In April 2019, the GM i-THRIVE team leading the transformation of children’s services in Greater Manchester established the Arts, CultureContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor July 19, 2019 0

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Greater Manchester’s Arts, Culture and Mental Health Programme and your local child & family services

iTHRIVE is Greater Manchester’s transformation of children’s services, based on the solution-focussed national framework for CAMHS (Child and AdolescentContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor June 1, 2018 1

Arts and Mental Health Churchill Fellowships devolution Recovery

Art Thou Well? Towards creative Devolution of mental health in Greater Manchester

This report explores the myriad roles the arts could, and do, play in the service of mental health in GreaterContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor March 27, 2018 1

Arts and Mental Health Child & Family Psychology Prison, Incarceration

Rikers Island prison complex: literacy for incarcerated youth

Gigi Blanchard came to New York from St, Louis, and identifies with incarcerated youth having done time as a juvenileContinue 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

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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