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Case Studies (22 results)
Case Studies
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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OurVision OurVoice ‘20
A multimedia project devised by artist Rosaleen Heavin in response to Covid-19 restrictions. Delivered online, the project explores experiences of lockdown and isolation with participants from Longford/Westmeath Adult Mental Health Services and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
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Theatre for Positive Mental Health
Building on the award-winning Acting for the Future project, Smashing Times is the lead partner on Theatre for Positive Mental Health, promoting collaborative exchange and mutual learning between five partner organisations across Europe.
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Discover Recover Theatre Project
The Discover/Recover Theatre Project is a mental health educational drama initiative. Embedding local stories in local communities through the medium of theatre, the project is led by Wexford Mental Health Association.
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PHOTOVOICES
PHOTOVOICES is a collaborative arts project examining through the camera lens the lived experiences of mental health in the Midlands of Ireland in 2017.
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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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Acting for the Future
Acting for the Future uses participative drama workshops, professional performances and post-show panel discussions with counsellors and clinical psychologists to promote active healthy lifestyles, positive mental health and suicide prevention.
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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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It Made You
It Made You is an album of original songs written by service users of St. Patrick's Mental Health Services in collaboration with The Twilight Programme at St. Patrick's Hospital and renowned Irish songwriter Sean aka ‘Doctor’ Millar.
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The Bell Room
Based on oral history from psychiatric nurses, The Bell Room is a performed audio installation that examines the job of caring as told by those on the frontline.
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The Leeside Serotones
The Leeside Serotones are a choral group based in Cork, made up of HSE mental health staff, service users and friends.
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Write Your Mind
Write Your Mind is a collaborative arts project between Jigsaw Offaly, Headstrong and Offaly Youth Theatre exploring youth mental health.
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Bouncing Away
Bouncing Away is a children’s collaborative book project about resilience and mental health, funded by HSE Northwest. The project culminated in the publication of a children’s mental health book – the first of its kind in Ireland.
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Iontas arts and mental health programme
Iontas is a multi-artform participatory arts and mental health programme which is delivered by Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) in partnership with the Waterford Wexford Mental Health Services (WWMHS).
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Bedside
Bedside is an art project by Sligo artist Andy Parsons at the Inpatients Unit, Mental Health Services Sligo / Leitrim. In collaboration with patients, the artist developed a series of etchings for each bedside locker, as part of a commission for both male and female wards.
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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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Personal Effects: a history of possession
Personal Effects by visual artist Alan Counihan was based on the institutional archives and the belongings of dead or discharged patients from Grangegorman (St.
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Box of Frogs
Box of Frogs is a happy play about being sad. Actress Mary McEvoy, comedian John Moynes and broadcaster Dil Wickremasinghe teamed up with writer Isobel Mahon and director Caroline Fitzgerald to share their stories of personal experience with a mental health problem.
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The Chair Project: On the Edge
In 2012, students at TASK (Training And Support Kilkenny) exhibited ‘On the Edge: The Chair Project’ as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival. This collection of almost 40 old salvaged chairs illustrated personal feelings, experiences and frustrations associated with mental health issues and the journey to recovery.
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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.
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Lived Lives: Materialising Stories of Young Irish Suicide 2003-2008
Lived Lives is an arts-led cross-disciplinary PhD by Seamus McGuinness located within the School of Medicine at University College Dublin which goes behind the statistics to capture stories of some of the young lives lost to suicide in Ireland.
Perspectives (9 results)
Perspectives
Asylum Archive: An Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision
‘Memory, for migrants, is almost always the memory of loss.'
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Culture and the arts in mental health innovation: Young people want and need more than ‘traditional’ ‘treatments’
Dr. Katherine Taylor, a clinical psychologist, advocates for arts-led interventions within child and adolescent mental health as an empowering, safe and cost-effective approach in fostering positive and sustainable change in a young person’s recovery journey.
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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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The Arts: my instrument for living with depression
After many years of living with depression, Carol Tobin was introduced to Arts + Minds, a HSE arts and mental health programme based in Cork. Here she talks about her recovery journey and the impact that participating in the arts has had on her life.
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Dante or the DSM*? Art and the re-imagining of ‘mental health’
Dylan Tighe is a musician, performer and theatre-maker with experience of mental distress and treatment who calls upon mental healthcare and society at large to look beyond the medical model to art and artists for a deeper understanding of existential pain and distress.
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Mental Health, Recovery and the Role of the Creative Arts
Psychiatrist Dr Pat Bracken reflects on the paradigm shift towards the recovery approach in mental healthcare and the central role of the creative arts in this.
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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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The Weapons of Life: A case for arts participation as a creative response to mental health problems
In an era of austerity and scarce resources, a participatory arts programme as an integral part of the mental health services would appear to be an unaffordable luxury.
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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.
Podcasts (5 results)
Podcasts
Dealing In The Reality: Other People’s Practices
Dealing In The Reality is a panel talk exploring Other People's Practices (OPP), an artist residency and research programme with the National Forensic Mental Health Service.
Podcasts
Volcano Days in the Writing Room by Sylvia Cullen
Writer Sylvia Cullen was awarded an artsandhealth.ie artist bursary in 2020 to reflect on her 14-year creative writing residency at Killagoley Training & Activation Centre (KTAC) in Enniscorthy.
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Mind-Reading 2017: Mental Health and the Written Word
Mind-Reading 2017 was a one-day programme of talks and workshops at dlr Lexicon seeking to explore productive interactions between literature and mental health both historically and in the present day.
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Paula Higgins at the NCAH Music and Health Seminar 2015
Paula Higgins, Music Therapist with St. Patrick's Mental Health Services, discusses a collaborative song-writing project between singer-songwriter Sean Millar and over 90 service users which culminated in the release of the album, It Made You.
Podcasts
Talking Theatre: Dylan Tighe in conversation with Prof. Ivor Browne at Cork Midsummer Festival
Dylan Tighe's Record at Cork Midsummer Festival in 2012 explored his experiences of depression and living with mental illness.
Videos (3 results)
Videos
Webinar recording – Bringing the Arts into Mental Health Settings
Practical guidance for healthcare professionals on developing and delivering arts initiatives in acute and community mental health settings.
Videos
Do we have the “right” story? In Conversation with Dr Suzanne Denieffe, Joe Brennan and Paula Lowney
Do we have the “right” story? is a narrative storytelling research project exploring the experiences of those living and working in mental health community residences in HSE South East Community Healthcare.
Videos
Time
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust commissioned visual artist Finbar 247 to see if art can change how we feel in a hospital.
Policies & Strategies (2 results)
Policies & Strategies
Stronger Together: The HSE Mental Health Promotion Plan 2022-2027
This five year plan includes action areas focused on promoting positive mental health across the population and among HSE staff. There is a specific action to strengthen the role of arts and creativity in the promotion of mental health and wellbeing within the HSE and HSE-funded agencies.
Policies & Strategies
HSE Social Prescribing Framework
The HSE Social Prescribing Framework supports the development of social prescribing within the HSE. It sets out a common approach for the delivery of social prescribing across the organisation.
Research & Evaluation (8 results)
Research & Evaluation
Discover/Recover Theatre Project: “A Face in the Crowd”: A Social Impact Study
The Discover/Recover Theatre Project is a preventative mental health intervention led by Wexford Mental Health Association that seeks to increase mental health literacy and reduce stigma through education and awareness-raising.
Research & Evaluation
Art Thou Well? Towards Creative Devolution of Mental Health in Greater Manchester
This report, written in the context of the Devolution deal of 2014, explores the myriad roles the arts could, and do, play in the service of mental health in Greater Manchester (GM).
Research & Evaluation
Synaesthesia
This is an exploratory document which teases out some of the conditions needed for a multi-disciplinary collaborative approach to art making in a mental health setting.
Research & Evaluation
Arts Ability Programme: Arts and Health or Arts and Disability or both?
A record of Wexford County Council’s considered position on its relationship to Arts and Health and Arts and Disability in relation to the Arts Ability programme.
Research & Evaluation
Singing and Mental Health
A UK evidence-based guide on the benefits of group singing for mental health and wellbeing.
Research & Evaluation
Beyond Diagnosis – the transformative potential of the arts in mental health recovery
Arts + Minds commissioned Lydia Sapouna to investigate the impact and potential of the arts within mental health care.
Research & Evaluation
Music in Healthcare / Mental Health
An evaluation of the participative music programme designed by Music Network as part of Cork 2005 – European Capital of Culture.
Research & Evaluation
Mental Health, Social Inclusion and Arts: developing the evidence base (PDF)
A research study that aimed to identify appropriate indicators and measures of mental health and social inclusion outcomes, and to develop and implement an evaluation framework based on those indicators and measures.
Articles & Documentation (3 results)
Articles & Documentation
Other People’s Practices: And More Besides
Other People’s Practices brings artists and health service users of the Central Mental Hospital together to collaborate on projects.
Articles & Documentation
Collective Imagining: Denis Roche discusses ‘Panchaea: In Search of an Equal Utopia and a Willing Suspension of Disbelief’
Denis Roche reflects on this socially engaged project made in collaboration with Brian Maguire, Emma Finucane and people using the mental health services in Co. Carlow (2011-2013).
Articles & Documentation
Spears of Daylight
Spears of Daylight contempory arts exhibition, inspired by the creative writing of service users at St.
News (24 results)
Event
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.
Event
Making Connections: Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2023
Bookings are now open for Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2023, the annual national arts and health gathering led by Réalta, the National Body for Arts + Health in Ireland. This year's event is taking place in partnership with Creative Life at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA).
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Theatre Room: Theatre-making in the healthcare environment | Arts + Health Conversation Series 2023
Explore the possibilities for theatre-making in the hospital environment in this online conversation hosted by artsandhealth.ie as part of our Arts and Health Conversation Series 2023.
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Joanne Ryan announced as recipient of artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary 2023
The national arts and health website is delighted to announce that theatre artist Joanne Ryan has been awarded our 2023 Documentation Bursary to produce a radio documentary about In Two Minds.
Opportunity
EESC Civil Society Prize 2023: Creative initiatives supporting people with mental health conditions
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has launched the fourteenth edition of its Civil Society Prize.
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Save the NEW Date: Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2023 comes to Dublin on 25 October
Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2023 will take place on Wednesday 25 October at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James's Hospital in Dublin.
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Catarina Araújo announced as recipient of artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary 2023
The artsandhealth.ie emerging artist bursary affords time and space for an early career artist to reflect on their arts and health practice.
Event
Minding Creative Minds: Managing a Creative Career and Wellness Tools Workshops
Minding Creative Minds, Ireland’s mental health and wellbeing support programme for the Irish creative community, is hosting a workshop series on developing and managing a creative career and wellness tools for creatives and freelancers this May and June.
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Psychoanalysis meets virtual reality: One-day event (UK)
There is a significant amount of work happening at the interface between research on mental health and Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR). This one-day event hosted at the Institute of Group Analysis, London brings together artists, curators, clinical practitioners, patient advocates, academics and activists.
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Mental health within the dance world: Conversation with Steven McRae and Tim Arthur
On 17 May 2023, the Royal Academy of Dance in London will be marking mental health awareness week with a conversation between Tim Arthur, RAD Chief Executive and Steven McRae, Principal of The Royal Ballet and RAD Ambassador.
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Cocooning – Catch a Breath: Exhibition exploring the impact of Covid-19 on the mental health sector
Cocooning – Catch a Breath is an immersive and interactive sculptural exhibition arising from a socially engaged art project with artist Catarina Araújo and mental health professionals based in Cork City.
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Good Vibrations: Making music in mental health settings – Well Festival Workshop
Waterford Healing Arts Trust is delivering a practical CPD workshop for musicians working in mental health settings, or interested in doing so, as part of the Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing 2023.
News
Minding Creative Minds receives government funding of €300,000 as part of the Safe to Create Programme
Minding Creative Minds is Ireland’s first 24/7 mental health and wellbeing support programme for the Irish creative community, delivered in association with Spectrum Life across the 32 counties and to Irish creatives overseas.
Opportunity
Kildare County Council Arts Service: Arts, Health & Wellbeing Funding Awards 2023
Kildare County Council has announced two awards for 2023 to support creative projects and artists working in the area of Arts, Health & Wellbeing in the county.
Event
First Fortnight 2023: Ireland’s Arts & Mental Health Festival
First Fortnight is Ireland’s annual Mental Health Art & Culture Festival, challenging mental health stigma and promoting mental health wellbeing nationally through art and culture.
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).
Opportunity
Free creative workshops for people living with OCD – Exploring mental health through theatre
People living with OCD are invited to come together to reflect on their experience of living through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Event
Webinar For HSE Staff: Bringing the Arts into Mental Health Settings – Practicalities & Approaches
Learn about the practicalities of developing and delivering arts initiatives in acute and community mental health settings in partnership with artists and arts professionals.
News
World Mental Health Day: The Comfort Zone at MISA Creative Life Centre
Outlandish Theatre Platform has been working with staff and clients at the Martha Whiteway Day Hospital in Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) since 2021.
Event
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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West Cork Feel Good Festival 2022
West Cork Feel Good Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary, with events happening across six West Cork towns and villages - Ballydehob, Bantry, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Leap, and Skibbereen - until 19 October.
Opportunity
Call for applicants: Voices of Culture – Youth, Mental Health and Culture
Voices Of Culture is a structured dialogue between the cultural sector in the European Union and the European Commission.
Event
An Open Door for Bealtaine in West Cork
An Open Door for Bealtaine is an informal musical gathering presented by 49 North Street in association with MusicAlive and the Skibbereen Family Resource Centre.
In Conversation
Video – Do we have the “right” story? In Conversation with Dr Suzanne Denieffe, Joe Brennan and Paula Lowney
Do we have the “right” story.
