Healthcare Context
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Case Studies (5 results)
Case Studies
Artists in Residence in Service to People at End of Life
The arts and cultural engagement in all their forms help people of all ages explore and articulate loss, death, dying, and grief. Since Irish Hospice Foundation’s Arts and Cultural Engagement programme began in 2021, we’ve focused mainly on the bereaved and grieving. In 2023, we trialled an Artists in Residence in Service to People at End of Life project.
Case Studies
Tracing Autonomy: a reflective approach in support of a person’s autonomy in life
Tracing Autonomy explores autonomy, creativity and end of life. The project is a collaboration between two artists who work at The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice (PPWH) in Glasgow, Jeni Pearson and Kirsty Stansfield, in consultation with philosopher Prof. Ben Colburn from the University of Glasgow.
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An Integrated Creative Arts Service at The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice
The Creative Arts Service is a fully integrated ongoing core service at the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, Glasgow. It currently runs four days per week and is delivered by three graduate artists and a creative writer, all experienced in arts and health practice.
Case Studies
CARE
CARE is an investigation into the ethos of palliative care and the people who work in palliative care. It is a piece of theatre produced by WillFredd Theatre, and developed with the company, artistic collaborators and Irish hospice staff.
Case Studies
Seasons of the Sun
Seasons of the Sun was a Music Residency at Robin House Children’s Hospice, Balloch, Scotland.
Directory (2 results)
Directory
Irish Hospice Foundation
The Irish Hospice Foundation's Arts and Cultural Engagement programme was initiated in 2020 with support from The Creative Ireland programme.
Directory
Waterford Healing Arts
Waterford Healing Arts is Ireland’s longest established arts and health organisation, founded in 1993 at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
Perspectives (3 results)
Perspectives
END NOTES
Novelist and short story writer Meaghan Delahunt reflects on her work at the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow. She highlights the importance of creative writing in palliative care and how it's never too late for any of us to explore our full potential.
Perspectives
A quiet megaphone for your knowledge: an artist’s approach to person-centred arts participation in healthcare
Addressing the imagined participants of an Arts and Health workshop, Marielle MacLeman draws from her experiences of working as an artist in palliative and chronic healthcare settings to reflect upon the values that underpin her responsive approach to person-centred arts participation.
Perspectives
The place of loss in arts and health
The theme of loss surfaces through art again and again, even when it is not named as such.
News (11 results)
Opportunity
Expressions of Interest: Project Co-ordination Services for Creativity in Health and Wellbeing in the Community Project
Cork City Council invites expressions of interest from qualified individuals / organisations for the provision of project co-ordination services for the Creativity in Health & Wellbeing in the Community project 'Exploring Loss and Grief: Healing Through Art with the Compassionate Support of a Hospice Foundation'.
News
Caru and Irish Hospice Foundation announce recipients of Seed Grants 2024: Arts in Residential Care
Six projects supporting creative exploration and responses to grief and loss in a residential care setting have been awarded Irish Hospice Foundation Seed Grants, in conjunction with Caru.
Opportunity
Irish Hospice Foundation: Seed Grants for Arts in Residential Care 2024
Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) invites artists and healthcare professionals to submit proposals for their 2024 Seed Grant programme for creative exploration and responses to grief and loss in residential care settings and nursing homes.
Opportunity
Irish Hospice Foundation Arts and Culture Training Programme
Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) invites applicants for a free training programme exploring the many roles of arts and culture in contemporary dying, grief and bereavement.
Event
Talk: Collaborative approaches with orchestras in children’s hospices (in-person and online)
St Columba’s Hospice Care in Edinburgh is continuing its series of talks on the Arts in Palliative Care with an exploration of music engagement in children’s hospice settings on 26 April.
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Irish Hospice Foundation: Skills Exchange in Letterkenny exploring creative practices
Irish Hospice Foundation is hosting two days of skills and information exchange in Letterkenny on 27 January and 9 February for those working with or interested in working with people affected by dying, death, grief and loss, using creative practices.
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Talk: Thinking sociologically about the arts in palliative care (in-person and online)
St Columba’s Hospice Care in Edinburgh is launching a series of talks in 2024 about the Arts in Palliative Care at their No.17 conference venue and online via Zoom.
Event
Irish Hospice Foundation: Arts Roundtable Gathering
Everyone involved or interested in the Irish Hospice Foundation's arts and creative engagement programming is invited to attend the first Arts Roundtable Gathering on 15 June 2023 in Dublin.
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.
News
Four artists commissioned by the Irish Hospice Foundation to support wellbeing of HSE staff
Healthcare staff wellbeing is at the forefront of new creative work commissioned by the Irish Hospice Foundation and supported by the Creative Ireland Programme.
Opportunity
Applications Open: Design & Dignity Grant Scheme Round 5
The Irish Hospice Foundation has announced that applications for the Design & Dignity Grant Round 5 are now open.
