Category: Finnish approaches to wellbeing

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

by Katherine Taylor June 30, 2020 0

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

by Katherine Taylor June 10, 2018 0

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Well Wishes for the arts in healthcare: Voices from Finland

Have a look at this lot! All of these people took the time to come up with a wish forContinue Reading

by Katherine Taylor June 25, 2017 0

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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

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

by Katherine Taylor May 26, 2017 1

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‘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

by Katherine Taylor May 23, 2017 2

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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

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