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How and why does creativity support wellbeing? New learnings
Findings, recommendations and main outputs from our recent creativity and wellbeing project and introduces a new pathways model.
Author: Ingrid Abreu Scherer
Social Value of Movement and Dance
Movement, dance and exercise are understood to have significant benefits for physical and mental wellbeing.
Author: Sport and Recreation Alliance
Creative Ageing What Next?
Essays Compiled by the Baring Foundation
A short collection of essays from practitioners in creative ageing about what a future agenda for the movement might look like
Author: The Baring Foundation
A Private Land / Tir Diarffordd blog.
A brief account of A Private Land / Tir Diarffordd: a participatory arts project with Susan Adams and Penny Hallas. Written for Powys Experts by Experience
Author: Penny Hallas and Susan Adams
New outdoor spaces at Swansea Bay hospitals
commemorate the pandemic
A poignant and lasting outdoor tribute to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot is being unveiled from this week, beginning with a special event in Morriston Hospital.
Author: SBUHB
WHO What is the Evidence on the Role of the Arts in Improving Health & Wellbeing. A Scoping Review
Highlighting global evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and wellbeing
Author: WHO
The Work Hurts
Artist support and supervision
The Work Hurts by Alison O'Connor, USW, exploring the emotional impact on arts practitioners of working in health, social care and participatory settings published by the Journal of Arts and Health
Author: Alison O'Connor
The need for robust critique of research on social and health impacts of the arts
Stephen Clift, et al. (2021): The need for robust critique of research on social and health impacts of the arts, Cultural Trends, https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2021.1910492
Author: Stephen Clift, Kate Phillips and Stephen Pritchard
Self Care Guardian Article
how a radical feminist idea was stripped of politics for the mass market
Audre Lorde proposed a series of calming activities as a way to survive adversity. Now it’s just another form of ‘me time’
Author: Andre Spicer
National Art Collection Supporting NHS staff wellbeing
National art collection supporting NHS staff wellbeing at the Staff Haven, Lakeside, Cardiff
Author: Stephanie Roberts
Press Release Welsh NHS Briefing Paper May 2020
Press release accompanying the Welsh NHS Confederation May briefing paper focusing on how the arts are supporting and health and social care thorugh the Covid-19 crisis.
Author: Welsh NHS Confederation
Arts to Improve health and wellbeing in social care Welsh NHS Confederation Briefing Paper
Briefing paper prepared by the Welsh NHS Confederation in advance of the February 2020 Cross Party Group on Arts and Health.
Author: Welsh NHS Confederation
Breakin for Better Mental Health
Teacher uses own experiences to help students express
Article on Avant's teacher Jamie Berry
Author: BBC
'Reconstructing Ourselves' - An arts and research project improving patient experience
Swansea Bay University Health Board and Swansea University visual arts and storytelling project with women undergoing complex breast reconstruction.
Author: Prue Thimbleby, Swansea Bay UHB and Sarah Wright, Swansea University