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by Kat Taylor February 24, 2021 1

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Building resilience and overcoming adversity through dance & drama

This blog brings together Odd Arts and Company Chameleon to reflect on their own learning from one another, and onContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor February 17, 2021 2

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Tailored Treatments: graphic novels to communicate health stories

Graphic novels are long-form comics, where words and images are used together to tell a story. Ziggy’s Wish use specialisedContinue 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 January 5, 2021 0

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Culture at a distance: arts for health in isolation

One positive of the pandemic for me is seeing the increasing recognition of the far-reaching and vital roles of culture and the arts, in particular around health and well-being.

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

by Kat Taylor October 29, 2020 0

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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

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

by Kat Taylor June 30, 2020 0

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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

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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