National Centre for Arts and Health, AMNCH

Mission / Aims

The National Centre for Arts and Health, Adelaide & Meath Hospital Incorporating the National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH), exists to improve patient care and to promote the benefits of arts and health. The centre aims to improve the hospital experience for patients and visitors, to explore the therapeutic benefit of the arts, to build positive links with the local community and to make the arts accessible to patients who cannot access traditional venues.

Areas of activities

• The current arts programme includes exhibitions, live performances, creative writing classes, arts therapies, design projects and participatory art sessions on wards and waiting rooms.
• The hospital arts programme features a number of national innovations and strives to promote best practice in arts and health, through professional development, research and evaluation.
• The centre also offers consultation and advice to services establishing arts and health programmes and regularly gives presentations on its work within both medical and arts settings.

Artform(s)

Architecture, Dance, Film, Interior Design, Literature, Multidisciplinary, Music, Street Theatre, Theatre, Visual Art