Healthcare Context
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Case Studies (24 results)
Case Studies
Helium Arts Teen Remote Programme
During the pandemic Helium Arts' remote pilot programme offered connection and creative engagement for teenagers with long-term health conditions across Ireland who were more isolated than usual. Helium’s vision is for a long-term programme that reaches teenagers living rurally across Ireland.
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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.
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Art and hope in a time of Covid
Gairdín Mhuire is a day care centre for older people located in Dingle. Úna Ní Shé has worked there as a visual artist since 2003. Úna describes her evolving response as an artist to the closure of Gairdín Mhuire to all normal activities in March 2020.
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Summer Stars online art programme
Teenagers with cystic fibrosis face barriers when it comes to connecting and conversing with each other: due to cross-infection issues, they cannot be in the same physical space. Helium Arts established the Summer Stars online art programme in spring 2019 to support these connections and create a space for the development of creative skills.
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Cúram
Cúram is a four person exhibition by artists Daniel Chester, Cherry Dowling, Amy McGovern and Stephen Rennicks. The artists, based in the environs of County Sligo, had artistic encounters within the realm of healthcare for older people. They were invited to make work responding to that experience.
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The Songbirds
The Songbirds is a piece of theatre researched and written by playwright Guy Le Jeune examining the experiences of people living with dementia, and their primary carers.
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Irish Aphasia Theatre
Irish Aphasia Theatre (IAT) is a socially engaged theatre and arts and health company working in professional theatre, community and health settings. IAT works with participants who have aphasia and/or acquired brain injuries related to ageing conditions and other brain traumas.
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Orchard Stories: A Bealtaine Artist Residency
Visual artist Joanna Hopkins was awarded the inaugural Bealtaine Artist in Residence in a Care Setting in 2017. Over four months, Joanna collaborated with residents of Orchard Day Care Centre in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, using the sensory garden as both a starting point for conversation and as a source for artmaking.
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‘Got It?’
What is the best way to clearly communicate necessary healthcare information? 'Got It?' is a health literacy project by collaborative artists Rowena Keaveny and Julie Spollen, created in partnership with Anam Beo arts and health organisation and Offaly’s Public Participation Network.
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110 Skibbereen Girls
In 2018, artist Toma McCullim worked with the residents, staff and visitors of Skibbereen Hospital Campus on a collaborative art project to create a bronze public sculpture for the Hospital Grounds.
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Open Theatre Practice
Open Theatre Practice was established in 2017 by Outlandish Theatre Platform, theatre company in residence at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital. Participants from diverse communities in Dublin 8, the hospital community, performing arts colleagues and other theatre practitioners are invited to take part in the process of making new work in response to a theme.
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Pop Up Picnic
Pop Up Picnic is an immersive, multi-sensory performance project for young children with complex needs developed and produced by Helium Arts. Created in partnership with the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation in 2016 for families in the home, the project has now being adapted for public audiences.
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Illuminating Childbirth
This project is an innovative research initiative entitled: 'Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works - An interpretive phenomenological study.'
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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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The New Normal
The New Normal is a collaborative community arts and health project exploring the lived experience of breast cancer through a visual arts lens. The project took place from 2016 to 2017 with artist John Conway and breast cancer survivors.
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The Creative Well – Phase II
The Creative Well is a visual arts and health programme that has developed from its 2011 pilot to provide space and place for arts participation in many forms for all in Co. Kildare. The programme is an ongoing partnership between KCC Arts Service, Kildare’s Arts and Wellbeing Specialist Carolann Courtney, the HSE Adult Mental Health Services and visual artists Dominic Thorpe and Emma Finucane.
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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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Kicking the Bucket
Sinead Dinneen and Katie Verling are friends and arts practitioners curious about illness and death. We have experienced life-threatening cancers and live with ongoing medical problems. We developed Kicking the Bucket as a creative, humorous and thought-provoking participatory project on illness, dying, death and grief based on our personal experiences.
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Connections
Connections is a dance project facilitated by choreographer Inma Pavon, and interactive artist Trevor Furlong, in collaboration with Headway Cork.
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Journeys
Visual artist Sharon Dipity was commissioned by the HSE Cork Arts and Health Programme in 2014 to create site-specific artwork for Blackrock Hall Primary Care Centre in Cork following a competitive tendering process.
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The Creative Check Up
The Creative Check Up is an interactive and participatory installation and performative event which has taken place in a variety of arts and health settings in Dublin since being established in early 2014.
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Cut Throat
Cut Throat was the result of a two-year Research Masters in NCAD undertaken by artist Rachel Tynan which aimed to visualise living with long-term illness.
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Creative Writing at Tallaght Hospital
In 2013 Michael McCarthy was Writer in Residence at Tallaght University Hospital. During his residency he facilitated three hospital groups: for people with chronic pain, an outpatient group for older people, and a creative writing course for staff members of the hospital. Michael also created his own original work in response to his residency in the stroke service.
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Liminality
Liminality is an art project by Ciara McMahon and the Living Gift Transplant Support Group that manifested at the NCAD Gallery Dublin in February 2011.
Perspectives (13 results)
Perspectives
Teen Spirit: Music adventures in the lockdown era
Davina Flaherty is a singer-songwriter and musician from Galway. A member of CanTeen Ireland, the national young people’s cancer support group, Davina has been taking part in an online music project since summer 2020 led by musicians Seán Carpio and Ríona Sally Hartman.
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Social Prescribing: A Collaborative Approach to Health and Wellbeing
People experiencing loneliness and social isolation often seek out their GP for a medical solution to the deep sense of loss and disconnection they feel. Cecily Maher discusses the growing role of Social Prescribing within healthcare provision, which connects individuals to non-medical sources of support within their local community.
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Whose Move? Body Politics and Health Equality: Positioning Arts Practice in Contested Territories
When engaging with marginalized experiences and excluded constituents, artists sometimes find themselves outside the current framework of arts and health practice.
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The Value of Collaboration: Reflections on the implementation of the Per Cent for Art Scheme in a community nursing unit
As the Director of Nursing of a HSE community nursing unit for older people, I believe that residents should be able to live their lives to the full with opportunities for personal development and enrichment through connections to the wider community.
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Both Sides of the Coin: The Distinctive Value of Art in Health Care
François Matarasso calls for an acceptance of the differences between arts and science when assessing arts and health practice.
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A Love-Filled Slap: A Manifesto for Arts and Health
Director of Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University, Clive Parkinson describes the political thinking that led to and is embodied in the UK’s first Manifesto for Arts and Health.
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Working with stories of other people’s traumatic experiences: Questions of responsibility as an artist
I sometimes make artworks dealing with other people’s personal and traumatic experiences, including mental and physical ill-health, and various human rights abuses, often through direct engagement or collaboration with them.
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Grey Matters: The role of the Arts and Health in the delivery of ‘Healthy Ireland’
In light of the publication of ‘Healthy Ireland', Senior Health Promotion Officer Caroline Peppard calls for a recognition of the role of the arts in developing a culture of healthcare that goes beyond the scientific and considers all the determinants of health.
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Music in common: Probing the divergent mind-sets underpinning Music Therapy and Music in Healthcare
As a trained music therapist and a professional performing musician who works in healthcare settings, I am often asked ‘What is music therapy?’ and ‘What is the difference between music therapy and music in healthcare?’
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It’s not you, it’s me
Kildare Arts Officer, Lucina Russell, argues for the place of arts and health practice as an integral part of a local authority arts programme, and describes how her own recent experience of healthcare has deepened her appreciation for this field of work.
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Where does arts and health research belong in academic terms?
This podcast features extracts from a round table discussion by a group of postgraduate researchers around the academic positioning of arts and health research. It was hosted by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust in the School of Nursing Trinity College in 2011 and chaired by Catherine McCabe PhD.
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Can good arts and health practice be taught?
Hilary Moss argues for the need for accredited and on-the-job training for artists working in healthcare settings to ensure best arts and heath practice and place the work of artists in this field on an equal footing with health professionals.
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A social model for health
Aidan Warner, Principal Community Worker with the HSE South (Cork), argues that art and health should consider a social model of health as the context for its practice in Ireland.
Videos (9 results)
Videos
Moments of Light – Creative Engagement with Children in Health Contexts
Sarah Fuller and Yvonne Cullivan, Artists with Helium Arts, discuss their experiences of working with children and young people through the arts in healthcare settings in Galway.
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The Art of Being Healthy and Well National Symposium
The Art of Being Healthy and Well national symposium took place in June 2022 at the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin, co-hosted by the Creative Ireland Programme, the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland), the HSE and the Arts Council.
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Cultural Leadership: Gráinne Hope in conversation with Moira Sinclair
Gráinne Hope, founder and Artistic Director of Kids’ Classics, and Moira Sinclair, Chief Executive of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Chair of Clore Leadership, explore the theme of cultural leadership, including its role within the field of arts and health, during an online conversation in April 2021.
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Lán De Cheol
A short film by Sean Phair documenting the Freedom to Fly project with Mayfield Men’s Shed. This project took place as part of Creative Enquiry – Arts and Older People, an investigative collaborative venture looking at barriers to participation in the arts for older people.
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Shine Your Light
Shine Your Light is produced by That's Life in honour of frontline staff and people affected by Covid-19. This light installation was projected on Kilcornan House, Clarinbridge, Galway in April 2020.
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The Rhinestone Cowboy Sessions present SIVE
The Rhinestone Cowboy Sessions are a series of live recorded sessions with surprise music artists and Past Times Community Choir, a choir supporting people living with dementia, their families, friends and communities in Co. Kildare.
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The Rhinestone Cowboy Sessions present Charlie McGettigan
The Rhinestone Cowboy Sessions are a series of live recorded sessions with surprise music artists and Past Times Community Choir, a choir supporting people living with dementia, their families, friends and communities in Co. Kildare.
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The New Normal
The New Normal is a collaborative community arts and health project exploring the lived experience of breast cancer through a visual arts lens.
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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.
Policies & Strategies (1 results)
Research & Evaluation (10 results)
Research & Evaluation
Social Return on Investment study of the Helium Arts Creative Health Hub Programme
Helium Arts is the national children's arts and health organisation. This Social Return on Investment study covers Helium's work over a two-year period (2019 - 2020). The research found that the social value of Helium's work is worth almost twice as much as the funding it receives based on the outcomes achieved for stakeholders.
Research & Evaluation
Choirs in Crisis – Soundbites of Singing through the first year of COVID-19
As an independent adjunct to an online survey investigating singing group leaders’ experiences of online singing sessions during the COVID-19 pandemic, undertaken by the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, these five cases by Angus McLewin Associates capture some of the ways that community singing groups and choirs managed to keep singing through the first year of COVID-19, from February 2020 to March 2021.
Research & Evaluation
Creative Enquiry: Artist Residency and Older People Engagement Project
Creative Enquiry - Arts and Older People is an investigative collaborative venture that creatively explores fresh approaches to arts engagement with older people and advances best practice models.
Research & Evaluation
Museums as Spaces for Wellbeing
A Second Report from the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing in England explores in greater depth the development of the museums, health and wellbeing sector.
Research & Evaluation
Calm and Collected: Museums and galleries: the UK’s untapped wellbeing resource?
The results of two stages of research undertaken by Art Fund – a UK-wide representative survey of over 2,500 adults, and a qualitative social study – suggest that engaging with art collections more frequently can help improve our wellbeing.
Research & Evaluation
A review of the Social Impacts of Culture and Sport (UK)
This research reviews the current evidence base on the social impacts of sport and culture.
Research & Evaluation
Restoring the Balance: the effect of arts participation on wellbeing and health
A collection of interviews conducted between May and July 2009.
Research & Evaluation
Healthy Attendance?
A study that looks at the impact of cultural engagement and sports participation on health and satisfaction with life in Scotland.
Research & Evaluation
Art for Health: A review of good practice in community-based arts projects and interventions which impact on health and wellbeing
A UK review, produced in 1999, on the nature of arts for health initiatives and recommendations for good practice.
Research & Evaluation
GENNING UP: A Research Paper for Blue Drum on Community-based Arts in Health (DOC)
A research paper for Blue Drum on community-based arts in health.
Articles & Documentation (2 results)
Articles & Documentation
The Art of being Healthy and Well: Symposium Report
The all-of-government Creative Ireland Programme, Healthy Ireland, the Health Service Executive and the Arts Council co-hosted a national symposium in 2022 on the positive benefits of creativity and the arts to health and wellbeing at the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin.
Articles & Documentation
Material Language: Reflections on an arts and health practice by Ciara Harrison
Arts and health practice often involves engaging with people who are far from home and familiar spaces. How does an artist create a sense of space and place, of warmth and trust, in unfamiliar territory?
News (17 results)
News
Mapping Arts and Health Across the Midlands: New Research Report
Mapping Arts and Health Across the Midlands is a new research report published by the Arts Office of Laois County Council and partner organisations Offaly County Council Arts Office, Westmeath County Council Arts Office, Anam Beo, Helium Arts, Music Generation (Offaly/Westmeath) and Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT).
Event
Creative and Social Programme for Carers of People Living with Dementia
dlr Libraries are running an interactive and engaging programme this autumn specifically designed with carers in mind.
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Creative Places and Create Networking Event 2022
Creative Places is an Arts Council initiative for places which have not benefitted from sustained arts investment in the past, to build local arts programmes.
Opportunity
Applications open for IHF Seed Grants 2022-2023: Creative Exploration of Loss
The Irish Hospice Foundation's Seed Grants scheme offers communities across Ireland multiple ways to process the impact of death, dying, grief, and more general losses.
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CORRUPTING CARE at Dublin Fringe Festival
CORRUPTING CARE is a live show from multidisciplinary Next Generation 2022 artist David McGovern that aims to disrupt and expand how we view both medical care and self-care.
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Social Singing, Health and Wellbeing: Current Practice, Insights and Reflection
Social Singing, Health and Wellbeing is a special journal supplement of Health Promotion International, guest edited by Prof Helen Phelan, Prof Hilary Moss, Dr Hannah Fahey and Prof Stephen Clift.
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Helium Arts seeks visual artists in various regions to join Artist Panel
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice working with children and young people, including children with disabilities, to join their Artist Panel as Associate Artists.
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New Music Director sought for Bantry Community Choir
Bantry Community Choir is recruiting for a new Music Director.
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Sing to Beat Parkinson’s: Online Training for Singing Leaders
Sing to Beat Parkinson’s (STBP) is delivering an online training programme for existing and potential singing leaders working with people living with Parkinson’s in November 2022.
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Music in Healthcare Settings: Introductory 3-Day Course for Musicians in Meath and Louth
Music in Healthcare Settings is a three-day introductory course led by Music & Health Ireland, taking place from 26-28 August.
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Call for participants: Theatre collaboration with people living with long-term illness
Dead Centre, a Dublin-based theatre company, are looking to create a new project in collaboration with people living with long-term illness.
News
Traveller wellbeing to be explored in five new creative projects
Five creative projects have received funding under the Traveller Wellbeing through Creativity initiative developed by the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland Programme), the Creative Ireland Programme, the HSE and the Arts Council.
Opportunity
HIV and AIDS National Monument: Call for Expressions of Interest
The Office of Public Works (OPW) invites expressions of interest to create a HIV and AIDS national monument 'to remember those who have died and mark their lives and contribution to society, while also showing solidarity with those living with and affected by HIV today.
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In Conversation: Moments of Light – agency and connection though creative engagement with children and young people in health contexts
Join us on 28 June for an online conversation exploring arts for children in healthcare contexts.
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Helium Arts’ Summer Showcases in Cork, Limerick and Galway
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is hosting a series of exhibitions across Ireland this summer featuring artworks created by children who participated in Helium's recent spring programme.
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The Art of Being Healthy & Well: National Symposium on the role of creativity and arts in health and wellbeing
Catherine Martin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, has announced a national symposium on creativity, health and wellbeing co-hosted by the Creative Ireland Programme, the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland), the Health Service Executive and the Arts Council.
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Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund 2022: Enhancing the wellbeing of communities
The third round of the Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, in partnership with Business to Arts, is currently open for applications with a closing date of 23 June 2022.
