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Case Studies (10 results)
Case Studies
Compassionate Culture Networks Across Munster
Irish Hospice Foundation have been developing a Compassionate Culture Network across Ireland since 2021. These are spaces facilitated by artists for people to gently explore loss and how compassion connects through a variety of creative practices. Initially supported by Creative Ireland, additional support from Rethink Ireland’s Impact Fund for Munster enabled expansion across Munster in 2023.
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Yes, But Do You Care?
A transdisciplinary arts project exploring dementia family care-giving and Ireland’s new capacity legislation. Initiated and led by visual artist Marie Brett, working with dance artist and choreographer Philip Connaughton and members of the Dementia Carers Campaign Network.
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Tune In with The Happiness Ensemble
Tune In is a multidisciplinary collaboration between filmmakers Aoise Tutty Jackson and Maggie Ryan with members of the 49 North Street community in Skibbereen and MusicAlive. The project was a response to Covid-19 restrictions with a focus on sound, music and ‘Tuning In’.
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The Trial
The Trial is a visual art installation on the history of healthcare and human rights in the Irish criminal justice system, made for the Old Courtroom, Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Dublin 8.
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Red Lead Film Group
Red Lead Film Group is a film project based in Waterford City with artist Philip Cullen and men with acquired brain injury.
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Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing in Waterford celebrates the health benefits of participation in the arts and features a programme of free, fun, inventive and sociable arts events for all ages, across all artforms.
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Illuminate
Illuminate is a film and mental health programme that takes place as part of Cork Film Festival.
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Silver Strands
Silver Strands was an interdisciplinary, collaborative project that evolved from a series of drama workshops in a residential mental health setting in West Cork, supported by West Cork Mental Health Services.
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E.gress
E.gress is an audio-visual filmic artwork resulting from a regional and multi-sited collaborative project between artist Marie Brett, musician Kevin O’Shanahan and The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
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Encounters, Triskel@St.Finbarr’s
Encounters was a collaboration between Triskel Arts Centre and St. Finbarr’s Hospital, a multidisciplinary hospital site. The collaboration formed part of the arts and health strand of Cork EU Capital of Culture 2005.
Directory (5 results)
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49 North Street
An initiative of Cork Mental Health Services, 49 North Street in Skibbereen was established in 2017 as a community-based hub for creativity, recovery and wellness in West Cork.
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St Luke’s General Hospital Kilkenny
St Luke's General Hospital is an acute hospital in Kilkenny City which provides acute healthcare services to the people of Carlow and Kilkenny.
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Raheen Community Hospital and Day Care Centre
Raheen Community Hospital and Day Care Centre in Co. Clare aims to deliver a varied programme of arts to day care visitors and hospital residents.
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Arts for Health Partnership Programme
Arts for Health (AfH) is a partnership programme based in West Cork, which has provided a managed arts programme for older people in healthcare settings since 2005.
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National Centre for Arts and Health at Tallaght University Hospital
Our mission is ‘to provide a creative arts and health programme specific to patient, staff and healthcare department needs; that improves the hospital experience by making arts accessible to all.
Perspectives (2 results)
Perspectives
Finding my ‘guth’: The Lump vs the Irish Language
Irish surgeon Dr Denis Burkitt discovered Burkitt's lymphoma. Belfast filmmaker Éanna Mac Cana was treated for this cancer when he was 19 years old. His unique documentary feature film, Burkitt, combines his personal experiences as an inpatient with an exploration of the life and work of Dr Burkitt. Éanna discusses how he began re-learning the Irish language while making Burkitt and how finding his ‘guth’ (voice) created an environment for healing.
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Blood and Ink
Ben Murnane is a writer who lives in Wicklow and suffers from a rare genetic disorder, Fanconi anaemia. He describes how creativity helped him cope with his disease, and discusses a new film project involving teenagers with chronic illnesses.
Videos (2 results)
Videos
The Sea, Is grá geal mo chroí
A poetic reflection on life on the West Cork coast as remembered by the residents of Clonakilty Community Hospital.
Videos
The Soothsayers’ Sounds of Superpowers
Teenagers with experience of cancer from CanTeen Ireland joined forces with composer and multi-instrumentalist Sean Carpio to form The Soothsayers.
News (13 results)
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Launch of Cavan Community Cinema: Special screening of Unspoken
Cavan Arts Festival is launching a new initiative titled Cavan Community Cinema with a special screening of Unspoken, followed by a discussion with director Alan Bradley and Dr.
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The Town That Has Nurtured My Dreams: Arts for Health at Fastnet Film Festival
A new film created by the residents of Skibbereen Community Hospital will have its debut screening at Schull’s annual Fastnet Film Festival this May.
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HEARTH documentary launch at National Museum of Ireland in Mayo
Hearth is a new documentary capturing the profound impact of bringing art directly into the homes of older people, offering a lifeline of creativity, connection and joy.
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Crucial Views at MISA, St James’s Hospital: Dementia and the Arts
Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing, a world-leading research hub in ageing, will host Crucial Views this March, exploring dementia through an academic and artistic lens, and through those with lived experience.
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A deep dive – Luci Kershaw reflects on her arts and health practice
Luci Kershaw is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Galway.
Opportunity
Thank you for hearing me – Invitation to participate
How do our voices determine how we live in the world.
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Luci Kershaw announced as recipient of artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary 2024
The national arts and health website is delighted to announce that Luci Kershaw has been awarded this year’s Emerging Artist Bursary, funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.
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When the Last Drop Saw the Sky at the Irish Film Institute
When the Last Drop Saw the Sky is a short film about the positive mental health journeys of members of Suaimhneas Clubhouse HSE/EVE in Raheny.
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West Cork Feel Good Festival 2023
West Cork Feel Good Festival takes place every autumn, organised by 49 North Street - a creative space in Skibbereen that promotes positive mental health and wellbeing - and a broad range of community partners.
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Brigid, Our Spirit Stirring
A new film created by older people from Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Mayo, Monaghan and Sligo, with artist Marie Brett, launched on 1 February 2023 to mark St Brigid's Day.
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Listening film showcase: Aoise Tutty Jackson and Skibbereen’s pioneering mental health service, 49 North Street
Film director Aoise Tutty Jackson's ongoing collaboration with Music Alive and Skibbereen’s pioneering mental health service, 49 North Street, will form part of an interactive showcase on 13 October at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.
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Yes, But Do You Care? Marie Brett’s film exploring the politics of care comes to Sirius Arts Centre
Artist Marie Brett’s film Yes, But Do You Care.
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Announcing the recipient of the artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary 2017
artsandhealth.ie is delighted to announce the recipient of the artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary 2017: Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust, visual artist Marielle MacLeman and filmmaker Tom Flanagan for the documentation of the Dialysis Arts Programme at Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway.
