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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 September 1, 2022 1

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A collection of infographics on arts and health

At GM i-THRIVE we are preparing the children and young people’s workforce to deliver creative, arts-led provision across the systemContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor July 14, 2022 0

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First Breath Baby Boxes: Culture from birth

Finland’s Baby Box concept transformed into cultural engagement from birth with Manchester International Festival & The Factory

by Kat Taylor May 19, 2022 0

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All Party Parliamentary Group for Culture, Health and Wellbeing

The UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group for Culture, Health and Wellbeing recently led a round table on how co-production andContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor March 31, 2022 1

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Arts for the Blues builds creative interventions for depression

News on the development of a new, evidence-based creative psychological therapy for depression, and wider research findings.

by Kat Taylor December 10, 2021 1

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Be kind to me: Creative Care Kits

During the first lockdown in 2020, Greater Manchester Combined Authority led the Creative Care Kit initative and distributed over 22,000Continue Reading

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.

Art Therapist Jodie SIlverman's prompt for wellbeing

by Kat Taylor April 17, 2020 3

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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

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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

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

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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