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Event
The Art of Being Healthy & Well: National Symposium on the role of creativity and arts in health and wellbeing
28 May, 2022
Opportunity
Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund 2022: Enhancing the wellbeing of communities
18 May, 2022
Opportunity
Arts + Health Bursaries 2022: Documentation Bursary and Emerging Artist Bursary
28 April, 2022
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Case Studies
Training Notes - Music & Health Training in Ireland
Training Notes is a training initiative of Kids Classics, Ireland’s leading music in healthcare organisation. Kids Classics has developed a framework of bespoke training courses which includes introductory workshops, supervised apprenticeships and team mentoring.
Report
Reading between the lines
A reflective report by Mary Grehan documenting a learning programme for artists called Experience: An Introduction to Arts, Health and Older People.
Perspectives
OURSELVES: A Nurse Poet Bears Witness by Beda Higgins
Most of the poems from my first collection of poetry, OURSELVES, come from vivid memories of my first years in nurse training: the shock and drama of illness; the strengths and weaknesses of those I worked alongside, and bearing witness to the vulnerabilities and suffering of patients.
