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Chwarae Materol | Material Play
Prosiect Tecstiliau er lles wedi’i ariannu gan Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru Arts Council Wales Textiles for wellbeing funded project
Awdur: Ffion Evans
Outside Lives - Into the Woods
Outside Lives ‘Into the Woods’ saw two pilot programmes fusing arts, creativity and nature in North East Wales with the aim of boosting connection, wellbeing and resilience.
Author: Anastacia Ackers, Evaluation Lead, Outside Lives
Intergenerational Workshop
Video highlighting the benefits of our regular intergenerational creative workshops with young people from a local school and people living with Dementia at Y Ty Celf Llanelli.
Author: Karen Thomas
Twilight Barking - Evaluation Report
Evaluation report of Twilight Barking - a collaborative project between Hafan y Coed Mental Health Unit and artist led organisation ArcadeCampfa, with artist Gail Howard,
Author: Professor Wendy Keay-Bright
Stepping In | Camu i Mewn
Diversifying the Workforce
Pilot training and mentoring programme for artists with lived experience of mental health, Deaf/disabled, global majority, low socio-economic backgrounds aimed at diversifying the creative workforce
Author: WAHWN Ltd
Stepping In - Evaluation Report
A pilot training and mentoring programme aimed at diversifying the creative health practitioner workforce in partnership with People Speak Up, SBUHB, HDUHB, Cardiff Met University and Caerphilly Arts
Author: Professor Wendy Keay-Bright
Taste Of Nature: Creative Arts, Nature and Healthy Eating In The Early years
Taste of Nature - Exploring how connecting with nature and participating in dance, creative writing and visual arts can improve dietary habits of early years children in Blaenau Gwent
Author: Bethan Lewis, Creative Director Head4Arts / BG Arts
Twilight Barking
Twilight Barking is a multi-disciplinary arts project for inpatients at Hafan-y-Coed Adult Psychiatric Unit, Llandough, delivered with therapy dogs as companion and subject.
Author: Clare Charles, Co-Director, Arcade Campfa
Pioneering Insights into Social Prescribing Pathways
Read about our groundbreaking new study, providing the first comprehensive analysis of social prescribing across diverse referral pathways in the UK.
Author: University College London, Social Biobehavioral Research Group, Professor Daisy Fancourt
Creative Home Delivery service
A Creative home delivery service for older people living across Carmarthenshire who are feeling lonely/ isolated. In partnership with CCC & HDUHB
Author: Eleanor Shaw, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, PeopleSpeakUp LTD
Creative Friendships on Prescription
An arts and health project seeking to explore how creative friendships can help alleviate loneliness and isolation and improve mental health and wellbeing for older people.
Author: Eleanor Shaw, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, PeopleSpeakUp LTD
Cynllun Cyfiawnder Hinsawdd a’r Celfyddydau
Mae pobl ledled y byd yn profi effeithiau dychrynllyd newid yn yr hinsawdd. Gyda’n gilydd, fel dinasyddion y byd, mae angen inniweithredu ar unwaith i roi sylw i’r argyfyngau hinsawdd a natur.
Author: Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru
A Plan for Climate Justice and the Arts
Across the world, humanity is experiencing the devastating effects of climate change. Together, as citizens of the world, we need to take urgent action to address the climate and nature emergencies.
Author: Arts Council of Wales, Natural Resources Wales
Calonnau Cerddorol
Calonnau Cerddorol engaged with those with diagnosed mental health conditions across Wales, delivering song writing, recording sessions & practitioner training to support recovery
Author: Hannah Jenkins - Director - Community Music Wales
State of Art
Cyflwr Celf : State of Art is an innovative project supporting a safe, inclusive, creative and culturally competent arts-for-wellbeing space within a diverse community in Cardiff.
Author: Melanie Wotton, Arts and Health Coordinator, Cardiff & Vale UHB
Move To Health from prevention to recovery
An Arts in Health project exploring the outcomes of providing accessible, adaptable and timely movement sessions that support people at various stages of their health journey.
Author: Sharon Teear, Development Co-ordinator, Rubicon Dance
Dance to Move
Dance To Move – Creative Family Activity Days for Juvenile Arthritis Patients and their families. Devised by Ballet Cymru in collaboration with Health and Third Sector partners.
Author: Darius James OBE, Artistic Director of Ballet Cymru
What does an arts and health organisation do?
This report gathers insights from people working in some of the world’s best and most innovative arts and health organisations.
Author: Flinders University
Creatively Minded: The Directory
The second edition of this Directory, listing around 320 UK organisations working in arts and mental health.
Author: Baring Foundation
Creatively Minded and in Recovery
Exploring participatory arts for people with addictions.
Author: Dr Cathy Sloan
Performing Anxiety: A resource for audience-facing arts projects about mental health
Performing Anxiety is a resource for people who want to make audience-facing or participatory arts projects about mental health.
Author: Mental Health Foundation
Creatively Minded at the Theatre
Exploring theatre and drama opportunities for people with mental health problems.
This new report looks at targeted participatory opportunities for people experiencing mental health problems to be involved in theatre/drama.
Author: David Cutler, Baring Foundation
Move 2 Health - Rubicon Dance and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
The "Move to Health" programme highlighted the importance and impact of providing accessible, adaptable movement sessions at the right time and place.
Author: Rubicon Dance, CBUHB
Space to Grow
Part One Evaluation
Photo credit: Magda Lackowska
Author: Kate Denner, Down to Earth
CVUHB Space to Grow Evaluation
Part Two evaluation
Space to Grow - Part Two Evaluation
Author: Kate Denner, Down to Earth
Space to Grow / Lle i Dyfu
A Space To Grow, Lle i Dyfu is a social prescribing project which connects growing and creating through a synergistic combination of the creative arts, nature + food-based sharing
Author: Melanie Wotton
Vibe Tribe Music Medicine
An arts for wellbeing project delivered in community spaces across Flintshire. Increasing confidence and empowering members of the local community to have their voices heard.
Author: Jessica Sparks, Youth & Education Director, Art & Soul Tribe
Ymestyn Allan | Reaching Out Film
In Jan- Mar 2024, 'Reaching Out' provided arts activities to individuals experiencing barriers to community arts in Gwent because of special support needs and for in-patients.
Author: Inside Out Cymru
Reaching Out: Art for Wellbeing across Gwent
‘Reaching Out’ delivered 36 specially designed creative activities across Gwent, connecting with those who couldn’t normally access this provision because of barriers in support.
Author: Inside Out Cymru
Creative Prescribing Discovery Programme
HDUHB formed a coalition of cross-sector partners to embed evidenced based arts activity into social prescribing practice across the health board to reduce health inequalities.
Author: Kathryn Lambert, HDUHB
The Body Hotel: Moving Self-Compassion Employee Wellbeing Programme
NHS Wales movement-for-employee-wellbeing programme offers workshops & creates online resources on creative self-care practices. SROI Evaluation measures benefits for staff resilience & team cohesion.
Author: The Body Hotel
HDUHB Arts Boost Arts & Mental Health Programme
Evaluation Report Year 2
Evaluation report from HDUHB Year 2 Art Boost arts and mental health programme funded by The Baring Foundation and Arts Council Wales.
Author: Dr Gareth Davies
HDUHB Creative Prescribing Discovery Programme
Evaluation Report
HDUHB ACW funded Creative Prescribing Discovery Programme evaluation report prepared by Billy Woods, Tritech Institute and Innovation. Evaluation Lead is Professor Chris Hopkins.
Author: Billy Woods Tritech Institute
Wellness with WNO
Wellness with WNO is a singing and breathing programme designed to support people with Long COVID symptoms such as breathlessness, anxiety and fatigue, in Wales.
Author: WELSH NATIONAL OPERA CENEDLAETHOL CYMRU
Let’s Talk Preventative Healthcare podcast, episode 18: ‘the transformative impact of creative health’.
Dr Teri Howson-Griffiths, the Arts in Health Strategic Lead for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board discusses the transformative impact of participatory arts in healthcare.
Author: Let's Talk Preventative Healthcare Podcast, Dr Teri Howson-Griffiths
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
SParky Samba
Cardiff Branch of Parkinson's UK and Barracwda, have created SParky Samba Band. Led by Sallie MacLennan, people affected by Parkinson's(PD) have gained skills and well being.
Author: Eirwen Malin, Parkinsons UK Cardiff Branch
SNPTCAN Referral System
Swansea Neath Port Talbot Community Advice Network (SNPT CAN) is a partnership of local advice centres that provide free advice & support. It is for organisations, rather than service users.
Awdur: SNPTCAN
The Body Hotel Moving Self Compassion
SROI Evaluation
Social Return on Investment Evaluation of the Body Hotel's Moving Self Compassion Programme. More info about the programme and evaluation here.
Author: The Body Hotel
Mental Health Toolkit
Cult Cymru
Mental Health Toolkit for Creatives Creative workers often face unique challenges in managing their mental health and wellbeing.
Author: Cult Cymru
Creatively Minded Men
Exploring men’s participation in arts and mental health activities
Baring Foundation's latest report is a compilation of research, data and case studies in this field of men's participation in creative health.
Author: David Cutler and Harriet Lowe
A short documentary featuring two participants in the Making Well Course
Making Well is a ‘green prescribing’ programme promoting healing for people experiencing psychological distress by using traditional craft making, conservation, and contemplation.
Author: The Fathom Trust
Sparky Samba
Samba for Parkinsons
Short film highlighting the benefits of playing samba for people living with Parkinson's Disease
Author: Amy Fleming
Creative Health Toolkit
National Centre for Creative Health
NCCH is delighted to announce in partnership with NHS England we have launched an online Creative Health Toolkit.
Author: National Centre for Creative Health
Craft of Wellbeing Crefft Lles
Ruthin Craft Centre
Exploring the relationship between craft and mindfulness
Author: Ruthin Craft Centre
Can Printmaking Make Us Happier
Printmaking workshops were delivered for service users of Ty Canna mental health outreach service, to identify the potential benefits of this art form for people living with poor mental health.
Author: Edmund William Chambers - Cardiff Print Workshop
Creative Resilience | Chydnerthedd Creadigol
Professional artists led creative activities with people recovering from mental ill health across community and in-patient settings, using varied art forms to build resilience and support wellbeing.
Author: Chris Ryan - Arts Care Gofal Celf
The Art of Growing Strong
The Art of Growing Strong provided creative opportunities to give participants the chance to feel valued, find meaningful activities, build positive relationships and address their wellbeing needs.
Author: Alex Bowen - Breathe Creative
Celf Bytholwyrdd / Evergreen Art
A partnership exploring how a combination of arts activities and connection with the natural environment could best support people in bereavement.
Author: Kate Strudwick - Head4Arts
DanceWell Evaluation Report
An evaluation of Hywel Dda University Health Board’s Dance on Prescription pilot
DanceWell was a one year project delivered by Arts Care/Gofal Celf in partnership with HDUHB for patients with chronic illness and/or mobility issues via the 2T's GP Cluster Community MDT.
Author: Sarah Rees, HDUHB
Stories on Prescription
A preventative stories on prescription service to help older people in the West Wales area to become more independent, resilient, feel less lonely, socially isolated & improve mental health/wellbeing
Author: Eleanor Shaw - PeopleSpeakUp LTD
Creative Minds
The aim was to support new parents, offer opportunities and a creative nurturing space. ‘Creative Minds’ encouraged beneficiaries to foster creativity as a means to promote wellbeing.
Author: Jessica Doyle - Caffi Isa CIC
Model for speeding up health system adoption of arts innovations
NHS Wales serves 3 million people. Can arts and health grow faster to serve more of these 3 million? The project focused on Bridgend West and involved Aesop’s Dance to Health and ETC Dance.
Author: Aesop
Creative Wellness
HAUL’s Arts in Health project sought to assist the local Health Board and Third Sector partners to provide arts based activities for the most isolated and vulnerable in Ceredigion.
Author: Haul - arts in health
The Art of Belonging
Weekly 2D visual arts and 3D crafts for young people exploring creativity in a safe, non-judgemental environment encouraging a sense of belonging, forming friendships, social connections and trust.
Author: Y Ty Celf - The Art House Ltd CIC
Dwylo Bach
Dwylo Bach is an interactive creative programme for early years children. Delivered by Making Sense and designed to provide stimulating educational art activity that promotes health and wellbeing.
Author: Sioned Philips, Dwylo Bach Project Coordinator and Ticky Lowe, CEO Making Sense CIO
Coming to Our Senses
A theatre based mindfulness course piloted with ABUHB staff to improve mental health and well being at The Grange University Hospital and with the Complex Care Team at Mamhiliad Park Estate.
Author: Iwan Brioc, Director, Theatr Cynefin
Creative Health Review Report 2023
How Policy Can Embrace Creative Health
The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG AHW) launched the report of the Creative Health Review on 6th December 2023.
Author: Centre for Creatve Health and APPG Arts Health & Wellbeing
NAPA A Managers Guide to Art in Care Homes
Why and how to develop arts activities in your care home
A new resource from NAPA, funded by the Baring Foundation highlighting the benefits of arts in care homes
Author: NAPA
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
Prosiect Hinsawdd Climate Project
Climate Project
Prosiect Hinsawdd/Climate Project fideo/video
Author: Bethan Page, Lowri Page
Creative Roots for Wellbeing Through Art
blog post by Mark Jones
The Creative Roots Project is an arts project that has been funded by the Arts Council for Wales and G4S and was delivered in Parc Prison from September 2022 to May 2023
Author: Mark Jones
Creative Health Quality Framework
CHWA new tool articulating what “good” looks like for creative and cultural initiatives that aim to support people’s health and wellbeing.
Author: Jane Willis, Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance
Care Creatively
Care Creatively was an artist led project targeting the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia.
Author: Making Sense CIC
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
The Queen's Green Canopy, a nature-themed abstract painting and creative writing project
Artist Marion Cheung's workshops enable MHM staff to learn new skills, deliver art techniques independently and enhance patient and staff well-being at St. David's Hospital by co-creating artwork
Author: Marion Cheung, Visual Artist, Arting Wales
Engagement, Participation, Inclusion, Citizenship is EPIC!
EPIC offers young people, including those at risk of offending, or victims of crime, opportunities to participate in creative activities that focus on shaping identity, community and citizenship.
Author: Wendy Keay-Bright
Writing Tree Project
Evaluation and Handbook
Writing Tree Evaluation and Handbook
Author: GWYN LEWIS & DR SARAH DOUGLASS
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
Making Movement Irresistible (MMI)
MMI is a collaborative arts and health project that aims to create a playful, adaptable, wearable technology for encouraging people in residential homes to experience the joy of moving together.
Author: Wendy Keay-Bright, Professor of Technology and Inclusion, Cardiff Metropolitan U
Creatively Minded and Refugees
Arts, mental health and refugees
New report from the Baring Foundation - Creatively Minded and Refugees, showcasing organisations who offer creative opportunities to refugees and people seeking asylum.
Author: Counterpoint Arts
How Does Nature Transform Our Health?
Coed Lleol (Small Woods)
A powerful short video created by Coed Lleol (Small Woods) highlighting the benefits of nature for our health and wellbeing
Author: Coed Lleol
Supervision and Self Care for Artists video
WAHWN and Re-Live
Re-Live founders discuss the importance of supervision and self-care for Arts In Health practitioners.
Author: Karin Diamond and Alison O'Connor
All Wales Trauma-Informed Organisation Training
Training by Barnardo's Cymru funded by Welsh Government, aligned to the Welsh Trauma Framework to support a coherent, consistent approach to developing & implementing trauma-informed practice.
Author: Barnardo's Cymru
New research UCL linking arts to longer healthier lives
A new report summarising UCL Social Biobehavioural Research Groups work using cohort study data to explore the impact of the arts on population health
Author: UCL
Cai Tomos Creative Practice Case Study
Wales Wide Training Programme
Creative Practice Support Sessions evaluation case study from Rubicon Dance Wales Wide Training Programme
Author: Dr Susanne Burns
Evaluation poster The Body Hotel Moving Respite
Evaluation Report Poster
The Body Hotel: Moving Respite, an employee wellbeing dance/movement pilot programme Nov 2021 to April 2022, funded by ACW and HEIW with additional Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB partnership
Author: Thania Acaron The Body Hotel
How Ya Doing? Sut Mae'n Mynd?
Evaluation Report
How Ya Doing? evaluation report by Jane Willis
Author: Jane Willis
How Ya Doing?
Evaluation Video
Evaluation film following How Ya Doing? Sut Mae'n Mynd? artist wellbeing programme - offering freelance practitioners an opportunity to Pause, Share and Step
Author: WAHWN
The Body Hotel Moving Respite
Therapeutic dance/movement self-care programme & video series improved employee wellbeing in HEIW & Health Boards. Co-funded by ACW and evaluated by Wales School for Social Prescribing Research.
Author: Thania Acarón, director & leader facilitator, The Body Hotel
DCMS Evidence Summary for Policy
The Role of the Arts in Improving Health & Wellbeing
This evidence summary has been commissioned by DCMS in response to the World Health Organisation report “What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and wellbeing?”
Author: Dr Daisy Fancourt
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
Cardiff Royal Infirmary
People Place Future
We demonstrated how the creative arts can enable better engagement with marginalised, vulnerable and multi-cultural communities in Cardiff and the Vale, reframing our NHS services for the future
Author: Simone Joslyn, Head of Arts & Health Charity, Cardiff & Vale Uni Health Board
Cwm Taf UHB Arts & Minds Project Newsletter
Creative Transitions
Esyllt George, Arts Coordinator at CTMUHB celebrates successes from her Arts & Minds, Baring Foundation and ACW funded programme
Author: Esyllt George
Hybrid Arts and Crafts
Hybrid Arts & Crafts delivered in New Horizons Centre Aberdare & online using zoom. The group provides a safe space, where people feel able to relax, to be themselves and to express themselves.
Author: Helen Hughes
Evaluation of the Arts and Health Coordinator Capacity Building Programme
impact of the arts and health coordinator roles within health boards across Wales.
UK Research & Consultancy Services Ltd evaluation of the impact of the Arts and Health Coordinator roles within Health Boards across Wales.
Author: Welsh NHS Confederation
Moving Beyond Compliance
Moving Beyond Compliance is a pilot project designed to explore how movement can benefit the wellbeing of staff working in care settings.
Author: National Dance Company Wales
Arts and Health Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB
Video
Esyllt George, Arts and Health Coordinator shares the range of activity across Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board sites
Author: Esyllt George
Strictly Parkinsons
A four minute video filmed with the idea of promoting dance for Parkinsons throughout Wales. We wish it to be shown in Drs surgeries, by OTS and Physio's, to reach people living with Parkinsons.
Author: Producer, Eleanor Brown,
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
Dance for Parkinsons
National Dance Company Wales and English National Ballet Dance for Parkinson's classes report.
Author: NDCW
Dance for Parkinsons North Wales
A National Dance Company Wales and English National Ballet collaboration in North Wales tackling the physical and social restraints of people living with Parkinson's Disease.
Author: National Dance Company Wales
Baring Foundation The Directory
Creatively Minded
Over 300 arts organisations delivering arts and mental health work.
Author: Baring Foundation
HARP Approach and Recommendations Video
Recommendations and Approach
Video sharing the recommendations from the HARP - Health, Arts, Research, People programme.
Author: HARP
Stories on Prescription
People Speak Up
A 6 month pilot project which explored the ways in which storytelling and related creative activities have on participants' health and wellbeing.
Author: PeopleSpeakUp
Swimming with the T1ED
Breathe Creative collaborates with Cardiff & Vale UHB Paediatric Diabetic Unit to make a film to help health professionals understand Type 1 disordered eating
Author: Katja Stiller and Jane Hubbard
Cardiff & Vale UHB Arts for Health & Wellbeing
Animation Film
Short animated film highlighting Cardiff & Vale University Health Board's arts, health and wellbeing programme through 7 strategic objectives.
Author: Cardiff & Vale UHB
Arts and Creativity for Severe Mental Illness
Baring Foundation
A new research review from the Baring Foundation exploring What is the role of arts and creativity for people with a severe mental illness?
Author: Hannah Zeilig, Corinna Hackmann, Julian West, Melanie Handley and Jasmin Plant
Wellbeing from Within
Creative movement workshops delivered in Monmouth helping participants improve mental and physical wellbeing through mark-making and somatic movement.
Author: Vicky Evans
MARCH Network Improving Access to the Arts for Mental Health
Evidence of Enablers and Barriers
Research from the MARCH Network around enablers and barriers to the arts for people with lived experience of mental health challenges.
Author: MARCH Network
Social Prescribing Framework for Wales
Zoom Recording
Nicola Evans, Head of Healthy Communities and Health Inequalities, Welsh Government presents the evolving social prescribing framework for Wales at a WAHWN network meeting on 25th February.
Author: WAHWN
From Surviving to Thriving
Building a model for sustainable practice in creativity and mental health
The report follows a 6-month project to understand how we might help more people and organisations using creativity to support mental health to survive and thrive.
Author: Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance
cARTrefu evaluation
Social Return on Investment
Short animation about the Social Return on Investment from the cARTrefu programme
Author: Age Cymru
Age Cymru cARTrefu Films
Creating Artists in Residence
Short films from cARTrefu 2015-2022 showcasing projects across Wales and including reflections from project artists, residents and carers
Author: Age Cymru
cARTrefu Virtual Exhibition
Virtual Exhibition
cARTrefu Virtual Exhibition showcasing the artwork of participants from a number of care homes
Author: Age Cymru
Unlocked
A Spoken Word Performance by Duke Al Durham
Unlocked - a spoken word performance by Duke Al Durham as part of the Arts Council of Wales funded project, Cardiff Royal Infirmary: People, Place, Future.
Author: Duke Al Durham
Lockdown Connections
This project focused on providing a platform for participants to encounter physical and mental wellbeing and find connection both with each other and with their bodies during Covid-19 lockdown.
Author: Sandra Harnisch-
Belonging - an intergenerational dance and health project
Belonging’ was an intergenerational dance and health project exploring the experiences of the Covid-19 lockdown. The project culminated in an outdoor performance for Cartref Care Home residents.
Author: Sandra Harnisch-Lacey
Free online Zumba Dance classes
Free 20 minute Zumba dance sessions online on a Facebook page called Virtual Village Hall. https://www.facebook.com/VirtualVillageHall All free!
Author: Helen McGreary
Prosiect Tsuru Project
An experiment: using origami to improve the wellbeing and resilience of healthcare staff in Ysbyty'r Seren and beyond.
Author: Jessica Ruth Morris (Programme Manager for Arts in Health & Special Projects)
HARP research included in Public Health Wales research and evaluation conference
Art in the time of Covid: how did creative innovation support people’s health and wellbeing during the pandemic in Wales?
The HARP programme's researcher Dr Sofia Vougioukalou was invited to share interim outcomes from the HARP programme. .
Author: Sofia Vougioukalou
Move In Nature
Nature Moves with Fiona Winter
2.5 minute video documenting the Move In Nature, Nature Moves with Fiona Winter funded by Caerphilly Arts Development.
Author: Caerphilly Arts Development
ABUHB Iceberg Arts Report
Year 1 Report
The aims of the Arts Programme have been to work across the Iceberg Transformation and find ways that creativity and the arts can be woven into and support this work.
Author: Eleanor Davis
Baring Foundation Creatively Minded and the NHS
Baring Foundation report Creatively Minded and the NHS highlighting health boards and trusts offering participation work including Swansea Bay UHB and Cardiff & Vale UHB
Author: David Cutler
WAHWN Response to Senedd Call Out
WAHWN Response
Responses are invited from the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations: Priorities for the Sixth Senedd Call Out.
Author: Welsh Parliament
Recovery Tree mural projects in Elysium Healthcare secure hospitals
Elysium Healthcare commissions Dr Maria Hayes to co-create Recovery Tree Murals in their UK secure hospitals. The projects enhance environments and improve wellbeing for both patients and staff
Author: Dr Maria Hayes
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
Social Value
Social Value Hub
Presentation from Ned Hartfiel, Bangor University Social Value Hub
Author: Ned Hartfiel
Kindness
Artist Gaia Redgrave
Kindness A g39 Artist Resource // Adnoddau Artist g39 by Gaia Redgrave. A film about welcoming people with autism and sensory processing difficulties, to the gallery setting.
Author: Gaia Redgrave
Arts Care Gofal Celf Photography Project
Short film showcasing Arts Care/Gofal Celf Photography Project on Zoom during lockdown
Author: Arts Cafe Gofal Celf
With Joy My Soul Sings
Forget Me Not Chorus
Performed by the wonderful FMNC, a global massed choir and international soprano Rebecca Evans CBE, this new work captures the essence of the Forget-me-not Chorus
Author: Forget Me Not Chorus
National Art Collection Supporting NHS staff wellbeing
National art collection supporting NHS staff wellbeing at the Staff Haven, Lakeside, Cardiff
Author: Stephanie Roberts
Shared Worlds
Online artist-led workshops in dance, poetry, puppetry, singing and mindful photography in during the pandemic to improve social connectedness and well-being for all ages in Pembrokeshire.
Author: SPAN (via external evaluator - Abi Marriott, CWBR Coordinator at PLANED and Kath
Span Arts Shared Worlds
Film
13 minute film showcasing Span Arts' innovative response to the pandemic through a range of arts interventions addressing social isolation and well-being led by artists
Author: Span Arts
Template Campaign Letter Cymraeg
Welsh translation of the template letter we invite you to share with your local candidates in the run up to the Senedd elections, calling for an Arts and Mental Health Policy
Author: Prue Thimbleby
Baring Foundation Creatively Minded and Ethnically Diverse
Funding Q & A Blog Post
A comprehensive report from artist Gail Howard who attended the Baring Foundation's Creatively Minded and Ethnically Diverse report launch and funding Q & A
Author: Gail Howard
How creativity and culture are supporting people in institutions during covid-19
New Report
A new report, recommendations and collection of case studies of work reaching people resident in hospitals, care homes, hospices, prisons and other instutions during the pandemic
Author: Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance
Launch of National Centre for Creative Health
You Tube Video
500 people from across the UK and internationally attended the launch of the new National Centre for Creative Health on 9th March.
Author: Alex Coulter
Template Campaign Letter
Senedd Welsh Parliament Elections
WAHWN encourages you to use and adapt the template to write to your candidates in the upcoming (May 2021) elections urging them to adopt an Arts Policy for mental health
Author: Prue Thimbleby
Bridging the Divide Webinar
Webinar Recording
A WAHWN webinar led by Jane Willis setting out the health context in Wales and sharing examples of how the arts are addressing health priorities.
Author: WAHWN
HARP Innovation and Scaling Resources
Innovation resources compiled by the Nesta, Y Lab HARP team.
Author: Rosie Dow
Health Inequalities Welsh NHS Confederation
Briefing Paper
Briefing paper on how the arts can help address health inequalities.
Author: Welsh NHS Confederation
Question of Quality Resources
Reading List and Links
A useful list of reading and resources in relation to the question of quality in arts health and wellbeing
Author: Jane Willis
Voluntary Code of Practice for Arts in Health Practitioners
A professional Code of Practice template for arts health and wellbeing practitioners informed by feedback from workshop practitioners at WAHWN Question of Quality training 2020.
Author: Jane Willis
Arts for Health and Wellbeing Quality Framework
Template
Quality Framework Template for arts, health and wellbeing projects informed by workshop delegates at WAHWN Question of Quality workshops led by Jane Willis, Willis Newson in February 2021.
Author: Jane Willis
Quality Considerations for Online and Remote Working
Delivering arts and health on line
A useful list of considerations for preparing and delivering online and remote arts and health projects informed by artist practitioners attending WAHWN Question of Quality workshops.
Author: Jane Willis
Arts Council of Wales Arts and Health Mapping Report
2018 ACW Arts and Health Mapping Report with key recommendations to promote the arts and health sector in Wales
Author: Arts Council of Wales
Early results of Covid on arts and health practitioners
Practitioner Feedback
In April and May 2020, 220 culture, health and wellbeing organisations and practitioners
Author: Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance
How the Arts Are Supporting the Welsh Health and Social Care Response to Covid 19
Welsh NHS Confederation Briefing highlighting how the arts are supporting health and social care in response to Covid-19
Author: Welsh NHS Confederation
HARP Useful Links Arts and Covid 19
Resource Links
A useful list of resources in relation to Arts and Covid-19
Author: Rosie Dow
Mindful Photography for Troubled Times
This eBook will help you to develop mindful attitudes through photography. Mindful Photography Activities are included which encourage the development of nine mindful attitudes through photography.
Author: Lee Aspland
WAHWN Case Study Webinar Video
WAHWN Case Study Webinar
A 2 hour webinar introducing the new WAHWN case study template facilitated by Jane Willis, Willis Newson.
Author: WAHWN
cARTrefu-Creating-artists-in-residents
A national arts-in-care-homes participatory and mentoring programme, cARTrefu provides high-quality creative activities for older people living in care homes across Wales.
Author: Kelly Barr, Sarah Lord, Katherine Algar-Skaife, Gill Windle, Angela Rogers
Stories to the Door and Stories by Phone
A Creative Approach to Tackling Loneliness
PeopleSpeakUp ‘Stories to the Door’ and 'Stories by Phone'referral programme.
Author: People Speak Up
Here Now Yma Nawr
A short contemplative film to mark the soul's entry and exit from the earth plane through lunar cycles, turning inward, grief, loss, soothing, longing and belonging.
Awdur: Ruth Jones
Secret Country
Re-Live
Older people working with Re-Live devised a powerful performance based on their lived experiences of lockdown and Covid-19.
Author: Re-Live
Amethyst Project Small World Theatre
Pilot project with 9-18 year olds supporting mental health and well-being
Author: Deri Morgan
cARTrefu Project Social Return On Investment
The SROI analysis, conducted by the Dementia Service Development Centre Wales at Bangor University, found that cARTrefu delivered a Social Return on Investment of £6.48 for every pound invested.
Author: DSDC Bangor University
HARP COVID-19 Sprint Challenge Final Report
Final Report of the Nesta Y Lab HARP Sprint Challenge programme 2020
Author: Rosie Dow, Programme Manager, Y Lab, Nesta
Story Gathering
During Lockdown, People Speak Up delivered an inter-generational storytelling project over zoom with pupils from Coed Cae Secondary school and Cillymaenwlyd care Home in Llanelli.
Author: PeopleSpeakUp
Portrait Masterclass
A 30 min introduction to portraiture. Commissioned by Arts Council of Wales during the lockdown of 2020 to be an online resource for all hosted initially by Hwb Education platform.
Author: Bill Taylor-Beales
How the arts in Wales are supporting mental health and well-being during Covid-19
WAHWN film highlighting how the arts have responded to Covid-19 and supported mental health and well-being of NHS staff and communities across Wales
Author: WAHWN, ACW
IN-BETWEEN-NESS
Using art to capture a sense of self during antidepressant treatment
This was a collaboration between professional artists, clinical researchers and people suffering from depression; to extend the exploration of experiential effects of antidepressant treatment.
Author: Dr Susan Liggett, Dr Karen Heald
Cardiff & Vale UHB Arts and Health Charity Report
The latest bi-annual report from Cardiff & Vale UHB Arts and Health Charity including projects and interventions during Covid-19
Author: Cardiff & Vale UHB Arts and Health Charity
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
Dance Delivery during Lockdown, Dance and Health for Families
An exploration of online dance delivery from NDCWales during the Lockdown.
NDCWales created a range of online activity during the Lockdown. Titled Kin Connected. Amongst this activity was project led by Angharad Harrop one of our Dance Ambassadors, targeted at families.
Author: Guy O'Donnell
A Brief History of Healing
Arcade Campfa and Llandough Hospital
Arts and mental well-being collaboration between Arcade Campfa and Cardiff & Vale University Health Board working with six artists
Author: Gail Howard
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
Social Prescribing and the Role of the Arts
Four video presentations from the WAHWN Social Prescribing and the Role of the Arts training workshop with Jane Willis of Willis Newson, includes the wider social prescribing context in UK and Wales
Author: Sharon Harries, Curious Ostrich
Touch A Flower, Talk to Me
An interactive textile arts project for University Hospital Llandough
This project was commissioned to capture the essence of Rookwood Hospital via memories to support the transition of services from Rookwood Hospital to University Hospital Llandough.
Author: Marion Cheung
Project Induction Checklist
An essential checklist tool to support the quality and planning of arts and health projects with health partners and stakeholders and interventions developed by Willis Newson with WAHWN members
Author: Willis Newson
Vountary Code of Practice
Through consultation with WAHWN members, Willis Newson have drawn up a Voluntary Code of Practice for artists and freelancers to include on their websites, or when responding to opportunities
Author: Willis Newson
Creative Care Homes
Denbighshire
Music, dance and arts and crafts workshops were delivered in Denbighshire care homes, upskilling frontline care staff and improving well-being of residents through creative activities
Author: Sian Fitzgerald, Jo McGregor
Live Music Now case study on the impact of live music in social care and care homes
Health & wellbeing benefits for residents, staff and setting at Woffington House
A study on the impact of live music activities delivered by LMN Wales musicians on the health and wellbeing of the residents, staff and setting, at Woffington House, Tredegar, between 2016 - 2019.
Author: Douglas Noble & Claire Cressey
Coming Home to the Arts
Life Stories with Veteran communities
Coming Home to the Arts is a programme of arts participation and Life Story performances with veterans, veteran families and community members.
Author: Karin Diamond
Memoria
Dementia Life Stories
Memoria: People living with dementia and their families share their experiences via Life Story Theatre and creative group work throughout Wales.
Author: Karin Diamond
Belonging/Perthyn
Play About Dementia
Belonging/Perthyn is an award-winning bilingual theatre play that explores issues facing people living with dementia, their families, and health and social care professionals in Wales.
Author: Karin Diamond
Pathway to Hope
Site specific art project in Traumatic Brain Injury Unit, Morriston Hospital.
Many traumatic brain injury patients experience feelings of isolation and hopelessness. This project involved patients co-creating artwork, contributing to a sense of belonging and a positive outlook.
Author: Heather Parnell, Capital Arts Manager
Forget Me Not Chorus
Penylan House Care Home
Forget-me-not Chorus aims to bring joy and meaning back into the lives of those living with and those affected by dementia through the power of song.
Author: Sarah Teagle
Caban Sgriblio
Creative Writing to Develop Health and Well Being in Young People
Caban Sgriblio was a creative writing for wellbeing project, run by Peak, for young people facing disadvantage, poor mental health and rural isolation.
Author: Emma Beynon & Uschi Turoczy
Beat Boxing Pensioners
1 in 4 older people in Wales say they are lonely. Live Music Now Wales found an offbeat way to tackle this problem. This short film by BBC Wales (Slate) highlights the outcomes.
Author: BBC Slate
Arts Should Be Available on Prescription
GP, Dr Daisy Fancourt argues that doctors should be able to prescribe arts to patients they think would benefit
Author: Dr Daisy Fancourt
cARTrefu Film
The cARTrefu film was created by Clare Sturges and produced by Age Cymru to promote the impact of creativity in care homes through the cARTrefu project. The film is available with Welsh subtitles.
Author: Clare Sturges
Dance to Health
Falls Prevention programme
A pioneering falls prevention dance programme for older people developed by Aesop and delivered in partnership with Swansea Bay University Health Board
Author: Tim Joss, Aesop and Prue Thimbleby Swansea Bay UHB
cARTrefu Adroddiad Gwerthuso 2015 - 2017: Creu artistiaid o breswylwyr
Rhaglen gyfranogi a mentora celf genedlaethol mewn cartrefi gofal
Author: Algar-Skaife, K., Caulfield, M. & Woods
cARTrefu Evaluation Report 2015 - 2017: Creating Artists in Residents
A national arts in care homes participatory and mentoring programme.
Author: Algar-Skaife, K., Caulfield, M. & Woods
Dance to Health Swansea Bay Health Board
A falls prevention project
Dance to Health is run by Aesop (Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose) It combines evidence-based falls prevention principles with the creativity, expression and energy of dance.
Author: Prue Thimbleby
Flow
Creatvity, Dance and Movement in Recovery
Case study summary of a pilot dance and movement sessions with patients recovering from the effects of a stroke at Llandough Hospital, South Wales
Author: Melanie Wotton
Dance and Health in Wales
A 4 minute film created by National Dance Company Wales, commissioned by WAHWN showcasing exemplary dance for health and dance for falls prevention programmes and interventions across Wales
Author: National Dance Company Wales
Gravida
Pregnancy and Maternal Mental Health
Gravida Project is the very first project in Wales that looks at creativity through pregnancy, and maternal mental health.
Author: Carrie Westwater
Flow Creativity Dance and Movement in Recovery
Rubicon Dance and CVUHB Stroke Rehabilitation Centre
Pilot project using Creative Movement sessions to improve confidence and social experience for patients in the UHL Stroke Rehabilitation Centre
Author: Sharon Teear, Rubicon Dance
English National Ballet/National Dance Company Wales Dance for Parkinson’s Class
Dance for Parkinsons Class, Dance House, Cardiff and Blackwood Miners Institute
Dance for Parkinson's classes are a fun, informal way to discover the themes of our dance pieces. Class has been proven to support people with Parkinson’s in everyday life.
Author: Guy O'Donnell
Breakin for Better Mental Health
Teacher uses own experiences to help students express
Article on Avant's teacher Jamie Berry
Author: BBC
BBC Wales - Dance for Parkinsons
Short BBC film footage about Dance for Parkinsons class in South Powys
Author: BBC Wales
When We Dance We Feel (Strictly Parkinsons )
Short film by Eleanor Brown
Author: Eleanor Brown
Cardiff and Vale UHB Art Team Report
Cardiff & Vale UHB Art Team's report of first six months of activity.
Author: Simone Joslyn
Birth Cafe
People Speak Up Pilot project, Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli
In partnership with Dr Tracy Evans we created a five week pilot project that offered space for women to share their birth stories. Through speaking and listening to the body.
Author: Eleanor Shaw & Tracy Evans
Dementia and Imagination
Dementia and Imagination was a large arts and science collaboration of universities, artists, charities and providers of cultural services working together through five inter-linked projects.
Author: Gill Windle
A Pathway to Hope - Traumatic Brain Injury Unit Project
Testimonials from ABMU Health Board about the benefits and value of A Pathway to Hope capital project engagement.
Author: Heather Parnell
Reading Friends Wales
Reading Friends is the UK-wide programme from the Reading Agency. It has been co-created with older people with local project partners and is aimed at reducing social isolation and loneliness.
Author: Bob Gelsthorpe, Literature Wales
Doniau Cudd/Hidden Talents
Hidden Talents/Doniau Cudd is an accessible music project tackling loneliness through music for people with learning disabilities, organised by Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias in North Wales.
Awdur: Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias. Film produced by Amcan.Cymru
Traumatic Brain Injury Service Project
Engaging traumatic brain injury patients in a creative capital project at Morriston Hospital, Swansea with a focus on rehabilitative care.
Author: Heather Parnell
PeopleSpeakUp Story Care and Share video
A short film commissioned by WAHWN highlighting the benefits of storytelling gatherings for people affected by cancer and life limiting illnesses at The Ffwrnes Fach, Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli.
Author: PeopleSpeakUp
Story Care and Share
Stori Gofal a Rhannu
Fortnightly storytelling gatherings for people affected by cancer and life limiting illnesses at The Ffwrnes Fach, Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli.
Author: Eleanor Shaw
'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
Remote Choir / Côr Pellenig
Singing, technology and connection in Pembrokeshire
Participatory singing project piloted by Span Arts, for isolated, housebound people in rural West Wales. Singing and digital technology were used to increase wellbeing and reduce loneliness.
Author: Rowan Matthiessen (Span Arts)
ArtWorks Cymru Quality Principles
These are designed to help you think about how to make the good work you do even better, to show the value of this practice, and to make sure participants get the best experiences possible.
Author: ArtWorks Cymru
Creative Conversations
An arts inspired development programme for the dementia care workforce
The aim of this research was to develop skills of dementia care staff using the arts.
Author: Dr Katherine Algar-Skaife
The Arts in Dementia Care
Dementia and Imagination
The role of the arts in Dementia and Imagination research project. Presented at WAHWN conference Jan 24/2019
Author: Prof. Gill Windle & Dr Carys Jones
Literature In the Community
Dementia, depression, and the "reading cure"
PDF file to accompany a presentation by Helen Wilcox, (Professor of English Literature at Bangor University) at WAHWN conference Jan 2019.
Author: Prof. Helen Wilcox
cARTrefu: Creating artists in residents. A national arts in care homes participatory and mentoring programme. Evaluation report 2015-2017.
The cARTrefu project is delivered by Age Cymru, funded by the Baring Foundation and Arts Council of Wales. This evaluation by DSDC Wales, Bangor University was launched in the Senedd in October 2017.
Author: Katherine Algar-Skaife
Exploring digital fiction as a tool for teenage body image bibliotherapy
Research article describing results of pilot study on digital fiction use for bibliotherapy and expressive writing in teenagers in Wales.
Author: Astrid Ensslin
Dementia a Dychymyg
Crynodeb Ymchwil 1: Archwilio sylfeini theoretaidd rhaglenni celf weledol i bobl sy'n byw gyda dementia.
Awdur: Dr. Gill Windle
Dementia and Imagination Research Summary 1
Research Summary 1: Exploring the theoretical foundations of visual art programmes for people living with dementia.
Author: Dr. Gill Windle
Dementia and Imagination: Research Summary 2
Research Summary 2: the impact of a visual arts programme on quality of life, communication and well-being of people living with dementia.
Author: Dr. Gill Windle
Egwyddorion Ansawdd Artworks Cymru
Beth mae "ansawdd" yn ei olygu pan fyddwch yn creu gwaith gyda phobl? Sut fyddwn ni’n gwybod pan fyddwn yn gweld / teimlo / clywed ansawdd? Beth sydd angen i ni ei wneud i sicrhau ansawdd?
Awdur: Rhian Hutchings
Dementia and Imagination: a mixed-methods protocol for arts and science research
Dementia and Imagination is a multidisciplinary research collaboration bringing together arts & science to address current evidence limitations around the benefits of art activities in dementia care.
Author: Dr. Gill Windle
Reconstructing Ourselves-An arts and research project improving patient experience
Reconstructing Ourselves' was an eighteen-month arts project that brought together a visual artist, a storyteller and a qualitative researcher.
Author: Prue Thimbleby
Pecyn Cymorth Artistiaid mewn Ysbytai
Mae'r canllaw hwn wedi'i gynhyrchu gan dîm bach o unigolion sydd wedi rhannu eu dealltwriaeth o'r materion hyn o wahanol swyddi o fewn maes Celfyddydau ac Iechyd.
Awdur: Prue Thimbleby
Artist's Handbook: A Guide for Artists Working in the Hospital Environment
This guide has been produced by a small team of individuals who have shared their understanding of these issues from different positions within the field of Arts and Health.
Author: Prue Thimbleby
Artist and Partner Toolkit - Towards Creative Partnerships
This Toolkit was developed from conversations between Addo and Dr. Susan Liggett (Glyndwr University) around issues of developing quality artist projects.
Author: Addo and Dr. Susan Liggett
Dance to Health
Dance to Health, smuggles evidence-based exercise programmes into creative, social and engaging dance activity
Author: Aesop