Category: Social Prescribing

by Kat Taylor October 20, 2022 0

Implementing Creative Health for Children, Young People & Families: free registration

Ahead of a series of creative health offers and the launch of GM as a creative health city region, we will be learning about and workshopping ways to get all our systems more engaged with the practice of using creative health options for children’s mental health. Image by David Shrigley.

by Kat Taylor February 10, 2022 1

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Unity Radio: prescribing a trusted voice

The scope of Unity Radio, how their collaboration with existing services works, and its role in supporting CYP mental health.

by Kat Taylor August 31, 2021 2

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Free resource for arts in health

The new Arts, Culture and Mental Health module introduces learners to the value of arts and culture for mental health.Continue Reading

by Kat Taylor July 29, 2021 0

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Beyond the pandemic: music, maladies and mending

Starting with a major study on music behaviours and coping during the pandemic, this month’s blog is a music-themed explorationContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor January 19, 2021 0

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‘Dance: New Moves in Healthcare,’ Arts for Health Austria launches

This article is a first-hand account of the launch and background of this new national organisation. Includes link to the event recording and references to EU policy development.

by Kat Taylor November 24, 2020 0

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5 ways we can support you to link arts, culture and healthcare

With the GM i-THRIVE Arts, Culture and Mental Health Ambassadors programme, we aim to support anyone to embed creativity, cultureContinue Reading

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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