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These case studies showcase examples of diverse arts and health projects which are characterised by clear artistic vision, goals and outcomes, and are delivered by professional artists.
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Cavan Singers – Celebrating Forty Years of Community Singing
Cavan Singers began life as a community choir on Valentine's Day 1984. To celebrate our 40 years of singing together, we conducted an informal survey of members to find out what it means to be part of a community choir. What emerged was a triad of interconnected themes - Music, Community and Self - and a realisation that singing together over a sustained period was having a profound effect on our individual mental and emotional wellbeing.
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Tiny theatre adventures for babies and children with complex needs at hospital bedsides in Dublin
Theatre maker Anna Newell ignites the imagination of our youngest audiences through responsive, multisensory theatre adventures. Since autumn 2023, Anna has been bringing bedside performances to babies and children with complex needs in Dublin hospitals, as part of an ongoing collaboration with Children's Health Ireland.
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The Gift of Connection for Christmas by Mike Hanrahan & Westport Men’s Shed
When Irish Hospice Foundation and Irish Men’s Sheds invited musician Mike Hanrahan to join forces with Westport Men’s Shed, the brief was simple. Get everyone sharing favourite songs and talking about experiences of grief and loss. What resulted took everyone’s breath away. A creative collaboration that produced a gorgeous song ‘Wishing You Were Here’ for Christmas 2023 that’s still going strong.
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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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A Dive in Line – Art & Parkinson’s Disease
A Dive in Line showcases a yearlong exploratory project in West Cork between six individuals experiencing Parkinson’s disease / Parkinsonism, healthcare staff in Dunmanway Community Hospital and Day Care Centre, and participatory artist / speech & language therapist Áine Rose Connell. The project formed part of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme West Cork.
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Making My Mark
Making My Mark is a pilot art programme with renal dialysis patients at the BBraun Wellstone Wexford Renal Care Centre. Delivered by artist Kate Murphy, the programme ran from February to June 2024, and culminated in a public exhibition of patient artwork.
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The Vitruvian: Uncovering The Layers Of Cancer
Artist Vincent Devine, cancer researchers at UCD Conway Institute, and patient partners with a lived experience of cancer worked collaboratively to integrate art and science. From these conversations, Devine created a powerful visual representation that offers a glimpse into the journey of cancer, from its molecular origins to its profound effects on an individual’s wellbeing.
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DL. BRIDGE Inclusive Dance Club
Inclusive Dance Club is a creative dance project for children and young people with additional needs, exploring dance with a team of professional dance artists in a calm and safe environment. The project forms part of DL.BRIDGE, a Dance Limerick programme led by choreographer Katy Hewison.
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A Bright Light
A Bright Light was a collaborative book project with children of families who foster, about their experiences of having foster siblings. The project was a partnership between Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership and the Foster Care Resource Service Sligo, Leitrim, and West Cavan Area. Creative sessions with children and young people from families who foster took place in 2022 in Sligo.
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Storytelling through Weaving
The Storytelling through Weaving project was designed and delivered by wellbeing artist Lucy Hyland and participants from Headway in Cork, a support service for people affected by stroke and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). Participants created individual weaves and the project culminated in a shared woven wall hanging as a visual account of their recovery from ABI and stroke.
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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.
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Songlines
Songlines brought together artists and people living with dementia and cognitive impairment to discuss favourite poems and songs in four care settings in Waterford and Wexford. A series of workshops in 2023 drew out memories, and resulted in the creation of new work, which was performed by artists, residents, and staff at celebratory live performances as part of Festival in a Van.
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Creative Carers in West Cork
Creative Carers is a community-based strand of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme in West Cork, initiated in 2022. The programme creates access to engage with the arts for and with family carers, taking place at carers' homes, in arts spaces and in community settings across the region.
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Music Exploration Programme at Wexford Mental Health Association
Exploring the role of music in mental health recovery for individuals attending community mental health services and those in residential settings in County Wexford, the programme is funded as part of the Arts Ability Programme, a partnership with the HSE Mental Health Services and Wexford County Council Arts Department.
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Common Ground
Participatory artist and maker Ciara Harrison worked with a group of young people who access the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Waterford. During the summer of 2022, they embroidered, painted, wrote, and explored many different craft and artistic mediums together.
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From the Birches to What’s the Story?
Visual artist Rozzi Kennedy began collaborating with older people in County Louth care settings in 2019 as part of a sequence of An Táin Arts Centre outreach projects. The projects were adapted throughout the Covid-19 pandemic with changing government guidelines, and further developed after restrictions lifted.
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Bridging the Imagination
Visual artist Sharon Dipity collaborated with a group of older people in Skibbereen Community Hospital in 2022 to explore task-based performance art around the theme of bridges, supported by an Arts Council Agility Award. The award afforded Sharon vital time for experimentation as part of sustaining creativity in long-term participatory practice.
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Reimagine UHL
Reimagine UHL, a project funded by the Irish Architecture Foundation Reimagine Programme, connected a design, architecture & engagement team led by Drake Hourigan Architects with the staff of University Hospital Limerick in 2022. The project explored the potential of the outdoor spaces of the hospital campus to offer support to staff in their working environment.
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Aoife’s Clown Doctors Spreading Smiles
Aoife’s Clown Doctors are based on the original Patch Adams, a doctor who found humour to be an integral part of children's wellbeing in hospital. Today our clown doctors are professional actors trained to work in healthcare settings, carrying out clown rounds in CHI Crumlin, CHI Temple Street and University Hospital Galway.
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I brought the dream of flying
I brought the dream of flying was an exhibition by artists Corina Duyn and Caroline Schofield which featured work created in response to Corina’s move into full-time nursing home care. Working together for 18 months, the artists developed a new methodology which enabled Corina to continue making art in the face of her increasing disability.
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Dance Bualadh Bos
Dance Bualadh Bos is a creative performance project, led by dance artists Ailish Claffey and Philippa Donnellan, and developed for and with older age communities in County Kildare. The project culminated in the creation of an original dance performance, presented privately to participants and to public audiences.
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Artist in Residence at the Mater Hospital
In 2019 Navin Hyder was invited to be the first artist-in-residence at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin. Hyder’s interest in oncology, in particular cancer operations, led her to the hospital’s operating theatres. Over a two-year period, she developed a large body of work consisting mainly of drawings of live procedures.
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Young Music Graduates Introduction to Music in Healthcare Project
The Music in Healthcare Young Graduates project was developed by Music & Health Ireland, the leading Irish training organisation in the field. The project connects recently graduated musicians to training and mentorship, new skill sets, competences and professional best practice in the field of Arts & Health.
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Past Times Community Choir & Voices of Spring
Past Times and Voices of Spring are two large community choirs in Kildare welcoming older people, including those living with dementia and other age-related illnesses. The choirs are supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service and have been directed by Sharon Murphy and Sadhbh O’Sullivan since January 2015.
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Creative Movement Workshops in County Wexford Day Centres
Dance artist Vivian Brodie Hayes details the methods and learnings from delivering standalone creative movement workshops to older people across 11 day care centres in County Wexford, supported by Creative Ireland’s Age Friendly Programme and Wexford County Council Arts Department.
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Reels on Wheels
Reels on Wheels is an inclusive adaptive Irish céilí dance programme developed by and for wheelchair users in collaboration with Munster Academy of Dance, during a pilot feasibility project in Limerick. The programme now runs weekly in the Irish Wheelchair Association’s Dunraven Centre, Limerick.
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Brightly Burning Flame
In June 2022 composer Justin Grounds was invited by the Irish Doctors Orchestra to join them in a week of gathering and music making on Heir Island, Cork. A new recording and film of Justin's piece for
string orchestra ‘Brightly Burning Flame’ resulted from this collaboration.Case Studies
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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The Three Sisters
The Three Sisters is a group of connected artworks for the new Ormonde Wing of St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny made by artist Diane McCormick and commissioned by the HSE through the Per Cent for Art Scheme.
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Skibbereen HSE Campus Choir
Since 2018, a free weekly drop-in choir has been hosted by musician Liz Clark on the Skibbereen Hospital Campus over lunch hour which is open to all staff.
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Storytelling Residency at University Hospital Waterford
Joe Brennan was Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s Artist in Residence for 2021 at University Hospital Waterford. The residency focused on staff engagement due to Covid restrictions, offering storytelling online and outdoors. Changing circumstances during the residency also enabled Joe to tell stories at the bedside on the Paediatric Ward.
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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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The Balloon Tree
The Balloon Tree is a pair of sculptures by artist Róisín de Buitléar commissioned by Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) for its new Outpatient and Urgent Centre at Connolly Hospital and its Emergency Care facility at Tallaght University Hospital.
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Some Dance to Remember
Some Dance to Remember is an inclusive dance research project using adaptive Irish céilí dance and traditional Irish music for people living with dementia and their professional carers.
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Artist in Residency at Sligo University Hospital
In 2019 The Model commissioned Andy Parsons to be Artist in Residence at Sligo University Hospital. Parsons particularly focused on the Renal Ward where patients undergoing dialysis explored creativity through experiments in painting and drawing.
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1000 Days
1000 Days is a collaborative project between specialist health musicians Dr Rosalind Hawley and Mark Fisher, and spoken word artist Keisha Thompson, sharing stories of children, family, staff and musicians' experiences of health, music and hospitalisation through music and spoken word.
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Our Stories
Our Stories was developed as a creative response to the coming together of the three Dublin Paediatric Hospitals and in preparation for the move into the new children’s hospital, which is currently being built.
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A Bird at My Window and Other Stories
A Bird at My Window and Other Stories is a project by artists Sarah Fuller and Manuela Corbari for children and their families in hospital settings developed for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture.
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Waterford Residential Care Centre: Per Cent for Art Commission
Artists Conall Cary and Peter McMorris were commissioned to create artworks for Waterford Residential Care Centre under the Per Cent for Art Scheme. The commission was managed by Waterford Healing Arts Trust and involved participation from staff and service users.
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Time in Our Lives
Time in Our Lives is a series of limited-edition illustrated books designed to engage participants and staff in creative conversation and art making during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Off the Wall
Off the Wall is a series of artworks by Alan Dunne at Children's Health Ireland (CHI) Connolly. The artworks were inspired by drawings created by some of the children and young people who visited the centre in 2020, along with conversations the artist conducted with CHI Connolly staff.
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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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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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Embrace Music
Founded by musicians and Arts & Health practitioners Sharon Murphy and Sadhbh O’Sullivan, Embrace Music is a social enterprise on a mission to provide far-reaching opportunities for engaging with music.
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Freedom to Fly | Creative Enquiry – Arts and Older People
Freedom to Fly, hosted by MusicAlive, is an interdisciplinary, participatory project that engages older people in collaboration with Helga Deasy (choreographer and dancer) and Susan McManamon (musician and choir leader).
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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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Viriditas
Viriditas is a song cycle by Irish singer and artist Ceara Conway for The Deepest Shade of Green, an Arts and Health programme for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture. Commissioned by Saolta Arts and Galway 2020, it was created for the staff and patients of the seven hospitals of Saolta University Health Care Group.
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Butterfly Haven
Butterfly Haven is a commissioned artwork by artist Lucy Turner dedicated to remembering our deceased colleagues in Tallaght University Hospital.
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The Museum of Song Postal Project
The Museum of Song is a song collecting project, co-created by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley, that is delivered via the postal service. Part of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork, it was adapted in response to the isolation of older residents in community hospitals during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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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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Waiting for Me
Waiting for Me is a collaborative visual arts and health project exploring the experience of waiting in an active creative space in the Paediatric Outpatients Area of South Tipperary General Hospital.
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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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Songwriting with older people in care settings
Klawitter Theatre Group delivered songwriting projects with older people who visit the day care facilities at Henrietta Older Peoples Service and with residents in Belmont House Nursing Home, both based in Dublin, from June 2018 until December 2019.
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Le Pont des Arts (The Bridge of Arts)
Le Pont des Arts is a non-profit artistic company working in the paediatric departments of Brussels’ main hospitals. For 21 years, six artists (currently a singer, a musician, a dancer, a storyteller, a juggler and a visual artist) have been performing weekly in children’s rooms.
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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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OFFSET
OFFSET was an intergenerational print project in 2019 involving participants in Paediatrics and Care for the Elderly at Galway University Hospitals and staff from the wider hospital community.
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The Sky’s The Limit
The Sky’s The Limit is a permanent installation of uniquely designed hot air balloons in Tallaght University Hospital.
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Memory is Grey
Memory is Grey is a body of work based on artist Gillian Cussen’s experience as a person and as an art facilitator with people who have some form of memory loss (and their loved ones).
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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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Irish Aphasia Theatre
Irish Aphasia Theatre 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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Stories from the Well-Field
Stories from the Well-Field is an interactive performance created by a group of residents in St. Joseph’s Unit, Bantry General Hospital in collaboration with artist Tess Leak, puppeteer Eoin Lynch and composer Justin Grounds.
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The New Wing
Castlebar-born visual artist Bryan Gerard Duffy was awarded one of the HSE Percent for Art Scheme Commissions in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar as part of the new wing development in the residential home. Over five months, he collaborated with staff, visitors, and service users of the hospital, with the old dancehall days in Ireland as the starting point for conversations.
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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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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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Soothing Sounds
Soothing Sounds is a music project that took place in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Tallaght University Hospital. Musician in residence Sophie Lee conducted interactive bedside music sessions with patients for 20 weeks between September 2018 and March 2019.
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Open Gallery
Open Gallery is an art project developed in 2018 by Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) which invites people living with dementia – and their family members / carers – to look at, discuss and enjoy paintings from the University Hospital Waterford (UHW) Art Collection in a safe and welcoming space, supported by professional artists.
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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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Portrait of a Patient
Portrait of a Patient is a four-piece collection of artwork and poetry by artist Sinead Lawless exploring her personal experience with illness.
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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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Mother Ireland
Mother Ireland is a socially engaged research and performance project led by theatre artists Maud Hendricks and Bernie O’Reilly of Outlandish Theatre Platform in collaboration with the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin. The project examines Ireland’s constitution against lived intersectional experiences of residents of Dublin 8, in relation to housing, migration and birthing.
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Can You See What I See?
Caroline Hyland is an artist in residence at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH). ‘Can You See What I See?’ is a series of paintings by Caroline strongly informed by listening to people with dementia and to those that support them, their families, friends and the medical professions.
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TODAY
TODAY was a photography project located in St Finbarr’s Hospital Campus in Cork city from 2013 to 2016. The project was led by artist Colette Lewis working in participation with healthcare staff to create new photographic work in response to the hospital campus.
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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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The Dance Back Home
Ailish Claffey is dancer in residence at Tallaght University Hospital. The role of dance within the TUH Arts Programme is explored in the film documentary The Dance Back Home, created by Claffey in collaboration with visual artist Deirdre Glenfield.
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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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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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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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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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continuance
continuance by visual artist Clare Lymer is an installation of video works exploring the human experience of isolation suffered by tuberculosis patients.
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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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Pathway
Pathway is a collaborative Per Cent for Art commission between residents of Nazareth Care Village in Sligo and artists Catherine Fanning and Brigitta Varadi. Twelve sculptural ceramic artworks were designed and made for the grounds of the Care Village.
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Forget Me Never Project
The Forget Me Never Project was a collaborative visual art project at Tallaght Hospital from 2015 to 2017, led by Artist in Residence Lucia Barnes. Renal dialysis patients receiving treatment either in hospital or at home, staff, family and artists were all involved. The project resulted in a permanent artwork - The Forget Me Never Tree - in the new Haemodialysis Unit.
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Parachute in the Purse
Artist Sarah Ruttle led a collaboration with artists Tess Leak, Liz Clark and Colm Rooney to ‘imagine an Ireland of the future’ with the older residents and staff of two West Cork Community Hospitals over a three-month period in 2016.
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Drawing the Carers
Drawing the Carers is a series of portraits by artist Róisín Curé of staff in University Hospital Galway. The project was commissioned by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust in 2016 for a Uniform Recognition Campaign.
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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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Daughters of the Revolution
Daughters of the Revolution is a theatre piece exploring women’s experience of maternity in Ireland.
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Songbirds
Songbirds is a music project with nonverbal children and young people with complex health and communication needs at The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
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It’s not the size of the candle but the brightness of its light
Visual artist Louise Manifold was commissioned to develop participatory artwork on the theme of active citizenship in older people as part of the Burning Bright programme. In 2013/14, Louise worked across three different care settings in Galway City and County.
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Fuse programme for older people – creative movement projects
Fuse is a multi-disciplinary arts and health programme for older people, managed by MusicAlive and funded by the HSE. As part of Fuse, dance artist Helga Deasy facilitated a series of creative movement projects in locations around Cork city and county including St Finbarr’s Hospital, St Luke’s Home, Oaklodge Nursing Home and Ballyphehane Day Care Centre.
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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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Tiny, Kind Gestures
Designer Orlagh O’Brien and artist Tess Leak, who work collaboratively as Haiku Island Press, facilitated a poetry and book-making project in the Department of Renal Medicine, Cork University Hospital in 2016.
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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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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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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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Poems for Patience
Poems for Patience is an annual anthology of poetry by Irish and international poets displayed on the Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway and disseminated throughout the waiting area networks of Galway’s public hospitals.
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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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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.
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These Tangled Threads
These Tangled Threads was an investigation that reflected on the condition of dementia by artist Toma McCullim. The work was developed during a ten-week studio residency at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre and resulted in a site-specific installation shown at Uillinn in 2015 during the Skibbereen Arts Festival.
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Cloudlands
Cloudlands is an artist in residence programme for teenagers in hospital led by Helium Arts. Artists Rachel Tynan, Emma Fisher and Eszter Némethi worked in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, University Hospital Galway and Cork University Hospital respectively between 2012 and 2015.
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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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Lying in Wait
Lying in Wait was an artist in residence project with adult patients in Tallaght University Hospital led by artist Deirdre Glenfield and supported by the National Centre for Arts and Health (NCAH).
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15 Miles
15 Miles is a Per Cent for Art commission at St. Brendan's Nursing Home in Loughrea, County Galway. In 2013, Galway County Public Arts Office commissioned artist Ceara Conway to produce a photographic participatory-based project.
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Lifesongs
The Lifesongs project aims to bring to life memories, reflections and feelings of older people through a combination of theatre, humour, spontaneous music-making and songwriting.
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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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Azure at St Gabriel’s
In 2014, Butler Gallery was awarded a grant to extend its Azure programme with people living with dementia in Kilkenny. Residents of St Gabriel’s Ward in St Canice’s Hospital were invited to engage with and respond to work from Butler Gallery’s Permanent Collection with a trained arts facilitator.
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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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Wise Ways
Wise Ways was a participatory arts project with older people, originating at Raheen Hospital in County Clare. A unique collection of handmade artworks in clay and personal memories or stories were created and exhibited at participating venues.
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The Music of What Happens: A Student’s Guide to Arts and Health
In 2013, Galway Technical Institute was awarded an NAPD Creative Engagement Award to work with visual artist Marielle MacLeman and Further Education students on an introduction to Arts and Health practice. A series of participative workshops informed the publication, The Music of What Happens: A Student’s Guide to Arts and Health.
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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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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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Creative Exchanges
Creative Exchanges is a course developed by Age & Opportunity for anyone leading creative activities with older people in care settings.
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Participatory music-making at St. Joseph’s Care Centre
Musician Eamon Sweeney facilitated participatory music-making sessions for residential and daycare clients of St. Joseph's Centre, South County Dublin, in 2012-2013. The centre provides holistic care for older people who have illnesses associated with ageing, primarily people with a diagnosis of dementia.
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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.
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The Magician and the Swallow’s Tale
In 2012, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust was awarded an Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award to work with visual artist Marielle MacLeman on a yearlong arts project in the haemodialysis unit at Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway.
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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. The final production of Cut Throat manifested in an exhibition, performance and series of talks at The Lab in Dublin.
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Seasons of the Sun
Seasons of the Sun was a Music Residency at Robin House Children’s Hospice, Balloch, Scotland.
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Lullaby Factory
Located at Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Lullaby Factory is both a physical structure, appearing to carry out the imaginary processes of making lullabies, and a soundscape, which delivers the lullaby to young patients in their beds or through listening pipes.
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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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Spears of Daylight
Spears of Daylight was a collaborative arts project that culminated in an exhibition of site-specific contemporary art inspired by the creative writing of service users at St.
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deAppendix
deAppendix is a cultural space co-located with a Dublin suburban GP surgery that hosts a programme of contemporary art exhibitions and talks.
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Sanctuary
In 2012, Anam Beo artists Tina Gaffey and Kieran Brennan facilitated an eight-week participant-led pilot project for patients in the Renal Unit of the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore. The accessible technique of print was introduced to participants of various ages who decided on the theme of sanctuary for their group artwork.
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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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REFLECT Lab
REFLECT Lab was a professional development opportunity in the North West led by Helium for artists and healthcare professionals working with children and young people.
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The music programme of the Waterford Healing Arts Trust
The music programme of the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) spans from hospital-based performances to participatory music workshops in hospital and community settings.
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The Starling Song Project
Starling Song is a song-writing project investigating locality and connecting older people across West Cork.
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The Creative Well
The Creative Well is an integrated participatory arts and health programme in County Kildare, supporting mental health and quality of life through the arts and within the context of local communities.
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Converging Lives
Converging Lives was a collaboration between artist Marie Brett, musician Kevin O’Shanahan and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland’s (ASI) Bandon Day Care Centre, supported by the HSE Cork Arts and Health Programme and West Cork Arts Centre.
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Arts Ability
Arts Ability is an inclusive, participatory arts programme that celebrates the artistic and creative imagination of people who experience mental health problems and/or intellectual, physical or sensory disabilities.
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Arts + Minds – promoting the arts in mental health care
Arts + Minds is a Health Service Executive (HSE) arts and mental health programme based in Cork.
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F*ck My Life
F*ck My Life (FML) is an original theatre production from Cork Midsummer Festival dealing with the tragedy of Ireland’s teen suicide epidemic.
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Menu of Poems
Menu of Poems takes the form of a short anthology of poetry which is distributed annually to health service users in a range of healthcare settings in partnership with Poetry Ireland.
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Dialogue Arts + Health
Dialogue Arts + Health was a regionally based professional development project for artists and practitioners working in arts and health settings.
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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.
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What’s the Story? at St Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork
From Sept 2010 to June 2011, Meridian Theatre Company ran a multi-faceted story gathering arts project in St Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork.
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Music Network Continuing Professional Development Programme
The Music Network Continuing Professional Development Programme supports musicians to develop their facilitative skills allowing them to engage in high quality musical experiences in a range of outreach settings including schools, community settings, healthcare settings and early years music.
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Lifting the Spirits
Music programmes for older people in residential and day care settings
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Arts for Health Partnership Programme
Arts for Health is a partnership programme based in West Cork which integrates the arts programmes into the culture and practice of healthcare settings for older people.
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10 x 10 Balloons
On World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2011, 100 helium-filled balloons were situated around Sligo town and county – on the street, in shops and fields – just for that day.
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BEAG – Early Years Arts Team Pilot Project
BEAG was a nine month pilot project which involved three artists exploring early years arts development in twelve early childhood settings in Cork city and county.
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The Nurses’ Home
The Nurses’ Home book and exhibition was commissioned in 2008 by Mater Campus Hospital Development Ltd.
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Niche Community Arts for Health Project
Niche is a Community Health Project, established in 1998, serving the Knocknaheeny/Hollyhill area of Cork city, which has a population of around 8000 people.
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Hearth
Hearth is a Mayo based arts programme for older people living in their own homes.
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O Bhéal guth Béal
In 2009, musician Ger Wolfe worked alongside older people in day care centres in Gaeltacht Mhúscraí, Co. Cork to compose new music based on people’s experiences of growing up.
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In My Own Time
In My Own Time is a creative arts project with a group of older people in continuing and respite care that took place in St Patrick’s University Hospital, Marymount in Cork City.
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The Chronic Illness Radio Play Project
Early in 2010, playwright and director Rebecca Moran conducted exploratory workshops with participants from Ceart PatientWise.
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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.
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Waterford Healing Arts Trust – Artist in Residence Programme
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has been running an Artist in Residence programme in Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH) since 1994.
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The Puppet Portal Project
The Puppet Portal Project merged the areas of art, technology and health, in order to facilitate children in hospital to create interactive puppetry performances in four acute hospitals (Dublin, Limerick and Sligo), over a five-month period.
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Memory Found
Memory Found is a pilot collaborative visual art project between artist Lucia Barnes, patients with dementia at the Age Related Day Hospital of Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, and carers of patients with dementia at the Blanchardstown Carers Association Centre, Dublin 15.
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Personal Effects
The hospital is a place in which the accumulation of bacteria, fragments and possessions is discouraged. The emphasis is on sterility and functionality. These are not conditions which promote familiarity. Artist Jennie Moran wondered what she could bring to such a place. Her art project, Personal Effects, took place in the Stroke Unit of Galway’s Merlin Park University Hospital in 2009.
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The Green Room Project
Artist Pauline Keena collaborated with a group of mothers, all of whom had the experience of losing a baby in the neo-natal period, to create an exhibition that reflected and was informed by the experience of embodied grief and the language of loss in the body.
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Ian Wilson, Composer in Residence in the Stroke Unit, AMNCH, Dublin
Ian Wilson, Composer in Residence in the Stroke Unit of the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in 2010, developed a new composition based on conversations with staff and patients of the unit.
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The Amulet
The Amulet was a national, multi-site participatory arts project led by visual artist Marie Brett which creatively explored the idea of an Amulet as an object signifier relating to critical life-span junctures of birth and death.
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Music Network – European Music in Healthcare Settings Training Programme
Music Network participated in the development of a European Music in Healthcare Settings Training Programme with Musique et Santé, France; the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK; and The Academy of Music, Krakow, Poland.
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Irish Hospice Foundation
The Irish Hospice Foundation's Arts and Cultural Engagement programme was initiated in 2020 with support from The Creative Ireland programme.
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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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Dance Theatre of Ireland
Dance Theatre of Ireland's mission is 'Transforming People’s Lives through Dance'.
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Réalta, National Resource Organisation for Arts and Health
Réalta was established in 2023 as the national resource organisation dedicated to developing arts and health in Ireland, founded on decades of pioneering arts and health practice as Waterford Healing Arts Trust (established 1993) and the encyclopaedic knowledge gathered under artsandhealth.ie (established 2011).
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Aoife’s Clown Doctors Ireland
Aoife’s Clown Doctors provide professional clowning entertainment to children in Ireland’s hospital wards, to momentarily offer an escape from the stress and anxiety of the hospital setting for all family members, through laughter and games.
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UL Hospitals Group
The Arts Committee in University Hospital Limerick was established in 2016.
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Waterford City and County Council
The policy at the core of Waterford City and County Council’s provision is ‘access for all to arts activities of all kinds’ and this extends to the arts and health sector.
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Waterford Healing Arts
Waterford Healing Arts is Ireland’s longest established arts and health organisation, founded in 1993 at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
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Hearth
Hearth is a Mayo based arts programme for older people living in their own homes.
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Mayo County Council
The principles of access and participation are central to the ethos of Mayo County Council Arts Office Service , as reflected in the annual arts programme which offers people of all ages and abilities opportunities to explore their creativity.
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Saolta Arts
Initiated by a generous long-term loan of over 100 works of Modern Irish Art by John and Patricia Hunt, Galway University Hospitals set up an Arts Committee in early 2003 to develop an arts programme for University Hospital Galway and Merlin Park University Hospital.
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Sligo County Council
In County Sligo there are a number of arts and health projects delivered by Sligo County Council Arts Service in partnership with the HSE, which takes a broad-based approach in examining uses of the arts in public health, health promotion and health care.
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Offaly County Council
Arts and health is an important sector for Offaly County Council, for the creative, expressive, wellbeing, social and community benefit of participants but also for the professional development of local artists.
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Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality
Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality has designed an arts-based approach to positive mental health promotion and suicide prevention.
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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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Westmeath County Council
Westmeath County Council aims to provide access, appreciation, awareness and enjoyment of the arts for all involved in arts and health initiatives in order to further include all members of the community in arts practice and to encourage a policy-based approach to the development of arts and health in the county.
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Wexford County Council
Wexford County Council’s Arts Department aims to improve the quality of life for the citizens of County Wexford, building vibrant healthy communities, by enabling people to engage in high quality arts experiences and by stimulating and supporting standards of excellence among artists in their practice.
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Wexford General Hospital
Activities include: Artist in Residence programme Art exhibitions A Menu of Poems: an annual initiative bringing poetry to all patients in hospital to celebrate National Poetry Day Hospital Choir .
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Beehouse Arts
Beehouse Arts is a complimentary arts service based in Tipperary with a vision to promote and enhance healthy living and wellbeing through creativity on a personal and community level.
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Clare County Council
Clare Arts Office’s Arts in Health programme is currently made up of the following programmes: A Time to Seek – Artists Residence in St.
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Cork Arts and Health Programme
Cork Arts and Health Programme (CAHP) is a HSE initiative based in the South Lee (Cork) Community Work Department.
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Cork City Council
Cork City Council develops supports with our partners, for arts organisations and groups in the city.
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Cork University Hospital Campus Arts Committee
Positive health is more than freedom from illness or disease – it is a feeling of wellbeing, an awareness and involvement in the joy of living.
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HSE South Arts & Health Contact Person
Eleanor Moore is the HSE South representative for arts and health.
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Kerry County Council
Kerry County Council Arts Office aims: • to support the arts throughout the county – the benefit of the arts to the greater wellbeing of the citizens of Kerry is acknowledged as being of great importance; • to work with artists and organisations interested in developing meaningful arts and health practice.
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Limerick City and County Council
Arts & Health is supported through the following aims of the Limerick Cultural Strategy 2016-2030; 1.
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MusicAlive
MusicAlive is Ireland’s specialist organisation dealing with the provision, development and promotion of music in healthcare and community settings.
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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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Tipperary County Council
Tipperary County Council Arts Service engages with local artists, health and disability agencies and community sectors to promote and support partnerships in the establishment and development of arts and health initiatives with the intention of increasing access to and participation in the arts across a range of settings.
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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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Louth County Council
County Louth has developed an alliance of cultural programmes that support and deliver community arts and health projects, events and opportunities.
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MISA Creative Life Centre
The Creative Life Centre at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA), St James’s Hospital, promotes and highlights the creativity of older people, enabling them to express themselves through art, sculpture, poetry, literature, music and drama.
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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.
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Age & Opportunity
Age & Opportunity is the leading national development organisation working to enable the best possible quality of life for us all as we age.
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Arts + Health Co-ordinators Ireland
Arts + Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI) is a support network of professionals who are responsible for managing arts and health initiatives in Ireland.
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Association of Local Authority Arts Officers
The Association is the representative body for Local Authority Arts Officers in Ireland.
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Create
Create is the national development agency for collaborative arts.
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National Gallery of Ireland
The National Gallery of Ireland’s Arts & Health programming recognizes the significant health benefits that engagement with creative practices can have for our community at large, enhancing individual wellbeing while also developing social cohesion.
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The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
The Arts Council is the national agency for funding, developing and promoting the arts in Ireland.
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Anam Beo
Anam Beo is an independent arts organisation that delivers an Arts-in-Health Programme in Offaly.
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Art Centre, St Luke’s Hospital
St Luke's Hospital in Rathgar, Dublin, has been caring for cancer patients from all over Ireland since 1954.
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Arts Ability
Arts Ability is an inclusive, participatory arts programme which celebrates the artistic and creative imagination of people who experience mental health problems and/or intellectual, physical or sensory disabilities.
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Carlow County Council
The goal of the Carlow County Council Arts Service is to create and develop a participatory and inclusive arts service which is committed to providing artistic excellence throughout the county.
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Children’s Health Ireland
The new children’s hospital will be a world-class facility to look after children and young people from all over Ireland who have complicated and serious illnesses and who are in need of specialist and complex care.
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Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
In line with the Community Healthcare East Healthy Ireland Plan 2018 - 2023, positive ageing action to “provide opportunities for older people to participate in arts, cultural, social and physical activity groups, and education programmes in day-care services, residential services and in the community” dlr Arts Office view the arts as an important service that contributes to the quality of life for those who live in, work in and visit the County.
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Helium Arts
Helium Arts: • supports a dynamic, child-friendly, family centred, holistic approach to children’s medical provision, within community, primary, and acute healthcare contexts.
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Music & Health Ireland
Music & Health Ireland (formerly Kids Classics) is a not for profit limited company that delivers high quality professional music workshops, performances and music participation opportunities in the heart of healthcare, education and community settings nationally regardless of a person’s social, economic or medical circumstance.
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Kildare County Council
Kildare County Council will continue to identify, advocate for, influence and provide support for artists and agencies involved in arts and health practice.
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Kilkenny County Council
The purpose of the Arts Office is to develop, co-ordinate, motivate, inspire and strengthen artistic activity throughout the city and county.
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Laois County Council
Laois County Council aims to maximise participation in and access to a wide range of artistic experiences across art disciplines and according to the highest standards of excellence; and to work with local health organisations on arts and health programmes.
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This section presents opinion on aspects of arts and health practice from a range of perspectives including health service users, artists, healthcare professionals and researchers.
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Six challenges facing arts and health
Alex Cothren and Tully Barnett from Flinders University talked to members of 22 arts and health organisations across the globe for their 2024 report, What does an arts and health organisation do? Across wide-ranging approaches to advancing this work, they discovered core characteristics that connect the field and commonalities in the challenges facing these organisations. They summarise six key challenges and some of the solutions adopted by arts and health organisations to overcome them.
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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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Strange Gifts: Community and Connection in Illness and Performance
When theatre maker Jenny Macdonald was recovering from breast cancer, she began creating a play inspired by that experience. Exploring the dynamics of caring and being cared for, The Tightrope Walker is a solo performance that seeks to hold a space for the audience the way that a facilitator does, a two-way exchange where the isolation of illness is interwoven with the deep connection of community.
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The Stepping Stones Project: Moving with care through uncertainty
For young people who have experienced trauma, nurturing a safe space for creativity to unfold requires particular care and sensitivity. Art therapist Claire Flahavan and artist Emma Finucane brought their specific areas of expertise, and mutually supportive ways of working, to the Stepping Stones project at The Alders Unit, a therapeutic service for children and adolescents affected by sexual abuse. Claire reflects on their collaboration with young service users to create permanent artworks for the Unit’s new home at CHI-Tallaght.
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HESITANT LIGHT
Joe Vaněk reflects on the aftermath of his stroke, which curtailed a career designing for theatre, opera and dance that has spanned four decades. An opportunity to write about his experiences for the Irish Heart Foundation marked his tentative return to the artistic fold. Here, he discusses the rekindling of his creative spirit as a writer and artist in a post-stroke world.
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‘In life the song is a very important thing’ Museum of Song: Ireland and Ukraine
The Museum of Song is a song collecting project, co-created by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley. New members of the West Cork community from Ukraine were invited to take part in 2022. Tetyana Karpenko and Olha Baglaenko of the Chervona Kalyna choir, supported by interpreter and choir member Ivan Humenuik, reflect on their experiences of sharing culture and kinship through song.
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Memento Vivere
Navin Hyder reflects on her three-year artist residency at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin, where she created a large body of work in the hospital’s operating theatres. Hyder details the evolving nature of the residency, new terrain for both artist and hospital staff, and how personal connections with families impacted by cancer shaped its outcomes.
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Nothing for us without us: Pavee Point’s creative approach to Traveller men’s health
Patrick Reilly and Michael Collins from Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre discuss the health inequalities that Travellers face, the work of the Men’s Health Team, and the Traveller-led creative initiatives that are giving visibility to Traveller men’s experiences.
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Wellbeing and the Museum: Inclusive art programming in a changing world
Providing inclusive art experiences for older people within and outside of the museum walls is integral to the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s Engagement & Learning Programme. Helen O’Donoghue and Bairbre-Ann Harkin reflect on the development of remotely accessible art programmes for older audiences during the pandemic and spearheading initiatives that speak to people’s needs in a changing world.
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OURSELVES: A Nurse Poet Bears Witness
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.
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A view from within: An Arts in Health project for hospital staff during Covid-19
Claire Flahavan works as an art therapist in St Louise’s Unit at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Crumlin. Claire reflects on her experience of Sidestep, an Arts in Health project for staff within the Unit at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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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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Time to Unite and Take Action: Managing an Arts and Health Programme during COVID-19
Diary entry 20th March 2020: ‘So much change around the world – every day, every minute’.
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My Art and M.E.: The Demands of a Creative Mind
Artist and puppet designer Corina Duyn has been exploring the internal landscape of illness in her work since she was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) in 1998. Corina reflects on how her art making has evolved and new avenues of discovery have opened up as she challenges the limitations of the body with the demands of a creative mind.
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Your Collection: The Arts Council Collection in Healthcare Settings
There are more than 180 artworks from the Arts Council Collection currently on display in 14 healthcare settings across the Republic of Ireland. Ben Mulligan and Ann O'Connor from the Arts Council provide insights into the lending and selection process, and the impact this artwork can have on healthcare communities.
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Asylum Archive: An Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision
‘Memory, for migrants, is almost always the memory of loss.'
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from both sides now: A reflection on the positioning of arts in health programmes in relation to healthcare organisations
‘I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now…’ sang Joni Mitchell and indeed, at the risk of sounding ancient, that’s how it has seemed for me in terms of my work in the area of arts in health to date.
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When you asked us to look: The world of Open Gallery
Delivering an art project in an acute setting for people with dementia and other age-related conditions can bring unique rewards and challenges. This podcast explores the Open Gallery art viewing programme at University Hospital Waterford from the viewpoint of the healthcare staff, artists and participants involved.
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Inhale Hope, Exhale Pain
Susannah Hall, Joint Head of GOSH Arts, reflects on The Temporary Tattoo Parlour at Great Ormond Street Hospital, developed by artist Davina Drummond with adolescent patients.
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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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Aesthetics and Design in Hospital Interiors
Well-designed hospitals lead to improved healing environments; I write from first-hand experience! Six years ago I spent many weeks in and out of hospital having treatment after surgery for cancer and, coincidentally, concurrent treatment for an autoimmune disease.
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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.
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Spectacular Body
Professor Anna Furse, theatre maker and practising academic, reflects on the personal circumstances that have led to a series of projects interrogating the ‘medical gaze’ and how the body, particularly the woman’s body, becomes spectacular through this gaze.
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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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Lines of Escape
Visual artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly discuss the inspiration behind their artwork Run River Run for the new 75 bed ward at University Hospital Galway and how the initial challenges of a collaborative approach to creating public artworks led to rewarding avenues of exploration.
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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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Opening the Box
Poet Paula Meehan reflects on a time of healing in her life when the excitement and mystery of art transcended the daily process of craft.
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In Writing: finding a way through illness
Writer Lia Mills tells us how the notebooks she kept as a cancer patient helped her retain a sense of self during her treatment and led to a positive shift in her relationship with her artform.
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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.
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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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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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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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Artists, Political Education and the Care of Self in Social Practice
Before I went to art college I was a nurse and nurses, like artists, are trained to look.
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Culture and arts in hospitals – a patient’s perspective
Katie Verling draws upon her own experience as an acutely ill patient to advocate for the receptive arts as a means of addressing the anxiety, boredom, isolation and sensory deprivation of patients.
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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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A Disruptive Influence – introducing the role of an arts and health co-ordinator
The conjoining of those two spheres - arts and health - is not something that I would have heard of when I first started out as an art student.
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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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A Marriage of Apparent Opposites: The Arts in Medical Education
Medicine has always vacillated between the two separate lovers, art and science.
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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.
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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.
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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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Shall we discuss this outside? A look at artistic and medical responses to ethical quandaries
Artist and General Practitioner, Dr Ciara MacMahon, discusses how the fields of art and medicine differ in their responses to ethical issues and cites two contemporary artworks that raise challenging ethical questions of relevance to medics.
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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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The artist’s point of view
Between them, Helene Hugel and Marie Brett have long and varied experience of working as artists in a range of healthcare settings. Here they consider arts and health as an arts practice and reflect upon some of the challenges of sustaining artistic vision and integrity across different projects while building meaningful relationships with partners and participants.
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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.
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Crossword – a patient’s reflection on the WHAT arts programme in the WRH Dialysis Unit
Johanna Tanner is a Dialysis patient in Waterford Regional Hospital who has been participating in the Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s arts programme since 2008. Here she talks about her experience.
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Why arts and health should not be confused with arts and disability?
I suspect the reason arts and health and arts and disability are seen as being one and the same thing may be due to some peoples’ perceptions around disability primarily being a health issue.
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Art in healthcare contexts: To evidence or not to evidence
Evidence-based medicine is the use of current best research in making decisions about the care of individual patients. With the delivery of arts projects within healthcare settings, there is a debate at large as to whether it is appropriate to apply an evidence-based approach to arts interventions. Catherine McCabe PhD, lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, School of Nursing and Midwifery, presents her views.
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To evidence or not to evidence?
Evidence-based medicine is the use of current best research in making decisions about the care of individual patients. With the delivery of arts projects within healthcare settings, there is a debate at large as to whether it is appropriate to apply an evidence-based approach to arts interventions. Sheelagh Broderick, artist and PhD researcher, presents her views.
About (6 results)
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History of arts and health in Ireland
Over the last 40 years there has been increasing recognition internationally of the contribution the arts can make to the health, quality of life and social wellbeing of all in society and in particular to those in healthcare settings.
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Editorial Panel
The Editorial Panel ensures long term, transparent and viable structures inform the work of artsandheath.ie.
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What is arts and health?
A young patient creating shadow puppets with an artist by the bedside, a doctor singing with their workplace choir, a creative writing workshop for people in recovery, a painting in the hospital corridor that sparks the imagination, a concert in the gardens of a nursing home, an invitation to dance, to write, to make, a space to reimagine the healthcare experience….
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Advice (3 results)
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Are you interested in developing arts experiences with healthcare communities.
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Advice for Healthcare Professionals
This section provides some prompts and resources for health and social care professionals interested in bringing artist-led creativity to their settings.
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Advice for artists
For artists interested in developing arts experiences with healthcare communities and other aspects of arts and health practice, the Advice page provides prompts, information and resources on how to get started, professional development, training and work opportunities.
Inspiration (5 results)
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Covid Chronicles
Healthy Ireland is the national framework for action to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone living in Ireland. The Strategic Action Plan 2021-2025 includes priority focus areas for arts and culture.
Inspiration
Arts Council Collection
The Arts Council Art Collection comprises over 1,100 works by Irish artists, which it loans to public spaces including galleries, libraries, schools and hospitals.
Inspiration
Poetry Prescriptions
Initiated during the pandemic, these poetry prescriptions have been chosen or written by healthcare workers, arts and health practitioners, and health service users.
Inspiration
Conversations
A mixture of long-form conversation pieces and recorded webinars.
Inspiration
Bursary Archive
A small moment of magic as brush touches canvas; a glimpse into the creative lives of teenagers living with illness; a dance artist reflecting on her experiences in hospitals and care homes… the documentary films, podcasts, publications, long-form essays and visual chronicles that have been funded by the artsandhealth.ie bursary since 2013 offer powerful, candid, sometimes humorous, often poignant insights into arts in healthcare.
Podcasts (23 results)
Podcasts
HSE Talking Health and Wellbeing Podcast – Traveller Wellbeing Through Creativity
Martin Beanz Warde discusses his ‘Through Our Eyes’ photography project, funded under the Traveller Wellbeing Through Creativity initiative in 2022, and his personal story about expressing his creative ability in a variety of ways.
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HSE Talking Health and Wellbeing Podcast – Staff Choirs
This HSE Talking Health and Wellbeing Podcast focuses on staff choirs and their impact on health and wellbeing. Alison Baker Kerrigan, Arts Officer in Tallaght University Hospital, is joined in conversation by podcast host Fergal Fox.
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The Arts & Ageing Podcast
What Next? tells the story of four artists who worked with older people on a project that broke the mould. Their stories are told through the Arts and Ageing Podcast series.
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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.
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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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When you asked us to look: The world of Open Gallery
Delivering an art project in an acute setting for people with dementia and other age-related conditions can bring unique rewards and challenges. This podcast explores the Open Gallery art viewing programme at University Hospital Waterford from the viewpoint of the healthcare staff, artists and participants involved.
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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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Tiny Kind Gestures
Artist Tess Leak and designer Orlagh O’Brien of Haiku Island Press collaborated with 24 patients attending the Renal Unit at Cork University Hospital on a collection of haiku-inspired poetry. In 2017, diverse voices from the town of Skibbereen and surrounding area read aloud the entire collection of Haiku poems ‘Tiny Kind Gestures’.
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Arts and Health Check Up, Check In 2017 – Keynote conversation between Mark Storor and Patrick Fox
A keynote conversation between artist and theatre maker Mark Storor and Patrick Fox from Heart of Glass chaired by Ailbhe Murphy from Create.
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Arts and Health Check Up, Check In 2017 – Showcasing Strand
Presentations on The Creative Well: Emma Finucane (Visual Artist) and Catherine O’Grady (HSE Mental Health Services); 15 Miles: Bernie Austin (Director of Nursing, St. Brendan’s Nursing Home, Loughrea) and Ceara Conway (Visual Artist and Singer); and Care: Dr Regina McQuillan (St Francis Hospice) and Willfredd Theatre.
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A quiet megaphone for your knowledge – Marielle MacLeman
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.
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Sharon Murphy and Carolann Courtney: Singing and Health – A choir for people with dementia
The National Centre for Arts and Health at Tallaght University Hospital presented the seminar ‘Music and Health: Promoting excellence in practice’ in 2015.
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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.
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Caroline Peppard: The role of music in promoting health
Caroline Peppard is Senior Health Promotion Officer with HSE Dublin Mid Leinster.
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Dr. Hilary Moss: Music and Health, a continuum of practice
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Professor Desmond O’Neill: Music and Health: From aesthetic support to formal music therapy
The National Centre for Arts and Health presented the seminar ‘Music and Health: Promoting excellence in practice’ on 23 October 2015.
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Symphony of the Sea
A collaboration between musician and composer Justin Grounds, visual artist Tess Leak and participants of Clonakilty Community Hospital, as part of the West Cork Arts Centre-managed Arts for Health Partnership Programme, inspired by the everyday seaside activity of beach combing.
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The Amulet
This radio documentary, made by Caroline Brennan from GiantLeap Productions, follows the work of Cork-based artist Marie Brett who collaborated with 10 Irish families who have experienced infant loss.
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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.
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Body Conscious Exhibition Talk
Mary Grehan interviews artist Dorothy Ann Daly about her work on the exhibition Body Conscious in Waterford Regional Hospital and her experience of making art since her diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in the late 90s.
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National | Dialogue Arts + Health Conversation #3: Creative Risk
Conversation #3 Creative Risk National Dialogues | Arts + Health 6.12.11 Rua Red, Tallaght, Dublin A focused exchange on how creative risk can be further encouraged and facilitated within healthcare settings.
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National | Dialogue Arts + Health Conversation #2: Co-production and Ownership of Work
Conversation #2 Co-production and Ownership of Work National Dialogues | Arts + Health 6.12.11, Rua Red, Tallaght, Dublin A discussion exploring the ethical questions around ownership of artworks and projects that are developed in healthcare settings, including the participant's perspective.
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National | Dialogue Arts + Health Conversation #1: Partnership and Collaboration
Conversation #1 Partnership and Collaboration At National Dialogues | Arts + Health 6.12.11, Rua Red, Tallaght, Dublin A conversation examining the challenges and opportunities, intrinsic and at times essential, to the development of contemporary art projects in healthcare settings.
Videos (67 results)
Videos
Dance Bualadh Bos
Dance Bualadh Bos is an interactive dance performance created in collaboration with dance artists Ailish Claffey and Philippa Donnellan and older communities in County Kildare. The artists were awarded the artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary Award 2022 to capture Dance Bualadh Bos on film.
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The Story of Réalta, The National Body for Arts + Health in Ireland
Réalta, the National Body for Arts + Health in Ireland, launched in March 2023. This short film traces Réalta's journey from the founding of Waterford Healing Arts Trust in 1993, to the establishment of artsandhealth.ie in 2011, to officially becoming the national resource organisation for arts and health.
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Webinar recording – Inclusive methods of arts engagement for older people in long stay care
Are you interested in developing age-appropriate and inclusive arts activities with artists for older people in your service? This webinar explores different arts approaches, current arts programming, and resources for health and social care professionals.
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Webinar recording – Developing arts programmes for older people in long stay care
Practical guidance for healthcare managers on developing and implementing arts programming for older people in long stay care.
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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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Dance and Health: Carolann Courtney in conversation with Philippa Donnellan, Shann Morris and Irene Kelly
Dance and health practice is explored through personal insights into Age & Opportunity’s Artist in Residence in a Care Setting initiative at Naas Day Centre which took place against the backdrop of the pandemic in 2021.
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The Power of the Puppet
A video lecture by Corina Duyn documenting her 23 year long creative journey through chronic illness with a focus on puppetry.
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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.
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Looking to the Future: Arts & Health in Ireland
Our panel looks to the future and explore their own aspirations for arts and health practice in Ireland.
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The Making of Yes, But Do You Care?
Yes, But Do You Care? is a body of cross-disciplinary art works created by visual artist Marie Brett and choreographer / dancer Philip Connaughton in collaboration with members of the Dementia Carers Campaign Network.
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Waterford Residential Care Centre: Publicart.ie Video Series
How do artists create and install art in a healthcare setting and have meaningful engagement with patients and staff? A publicart.ie video exploring artworks created by Conall Cary and Peter McMorris for the Waterford Residential Care Centre as part of a Per Cent for Art commission.
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Public Art in Healthcare: Claire Meaney in conversation with George O’Neill and Conall Cary
The joys and challenges of Per Cent for Art Scheme commissioning in healthcare settings are explored in this online conversation featuring Claire Meaney, Director of Waterford Healing Arts Trust, George O’Neill, Project Manager for HSE Estates in the South East, and artist Conall Cary.
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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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A Bird At My Window and Other Stories
Transforming the bedsides of young patients into miniature theatre spaces, Sarah Fuller and Manuela Corbari share an enchanting collection of stories where the natural and human worlds are intertwined.
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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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In Conversation: Tess Leak and Sarah Cairns – New Pathways to Connect
Artist Tess Leak and Activities Director Sarah Cairns from Bantry General Hospital explore the learning from the remote delivery of The Museum of Song Postal Project.
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Check Up Check In 2020: Keynote Address by Dr. Jenny Elliott
Why artistic risk-taking, creativity and wellbeing are vital components of transforming contemporary healthcare culture - Keynote by Dr Jenny Elliott, Artistic Director of Arts Care.
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SCRUBS Cork University Hospital Workplace Choir sing Lean on Me by Bill Withers
SCRUBS is a workplace choir made up of staff (current, former and retired) from Cork University Hospital.
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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.
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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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Stories from the Well-Field
Artist Tess Leak collaborated with a group of residents in St. Joseph’s Unit, Bantry General Hospital, puppeteer Eoin Lynch and composer Justin Grounds to create Stories from the Well-Field, bringing to life residents' poems about enduring childhood friendships. Awarded the 2018 artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary.
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Hospital Voices
Hospital Voices is a choral work created by composer Eric Sweeney and poet Edward Denniston to mark the 25th anniversary year of Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
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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 Second Hand of The Clock
A poet, a raconteur, and two nurses escape the clinical confines of dialysis to reveal how an Arts and Health programme enhances time and fosters human connection, long after their traces are wiped away by Actichlor. Saolta Arts was awarded the 2017 artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary to work with filmmaker Tom Flanagan and visual artist Marielle MacLeman on this film.
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Check Up Check In 2018
Arts and Health Check Up Check In 2018 took place on 26 April at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork on the theme of ‘building momentum’.
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The Dance Back Home
Ailish Claffey is dancer in residence at Tallaght University Hospital. The role of dance within the Arts Programme at the hospital is explored in the film documentary The Dance Back Home (2017), created by Claffey in collaboration with Deirdre Glenfield (visual artist in residence) and in association with The National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght University Hospital.
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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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ANIMA
ANIMA, a film by Colm Mullen exploring visual artist Marie Brett's research on death and care, was funded through the 2016 artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary.
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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.
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Arts and Health Check Up, Check In, 2017
A little flavour of what took place during the second Arts and Health Check Up, Check In at The Model, Sligo in May 2017.
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Time
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust commissioned visual artist Finbar 247 to see if art can change how we feel in a hospital.
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The Museum of Making and Mending
Following nearly 15 years of working with artists from West Cork and further afield, a group of people attending Skibbereen Day Care Centre decided to create their own museum at Uillinn Gallery in Skibbereen in 2016.
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artsandhealth.ie 5th Birthday
A short film celebrating the 5th birthday of artsandhealth.ie.
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Reflecting Through Art
Brendan McCarthy from the Cork Mental Health Foundation introduces Reflecting Through Art, a 2016 exhibition at Cork University Hospital Art Gallery.
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Clive Parkinson – A Love Filled Slap in the Face: A Manifesto for Arts and Health
Clive Parkinson of Arts for Health, Manchester Metropolitan University shared his experience of developing a manifesto for arts and health in the UK within the political climate of the time at the inaugural Arts and Health Check Up, Check In which took place in Dublin in January 2016.
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Pat Cooke – Proclaiming Arts and Health Manifestoes in 2016
This is a video of Pat Cooke’s presentation at the inaugural Arts and Health Check Up, Check In which took place in Dublin in January 2016.
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Arts and Health Check Up, Check In, 2016
This video documents the inaugural Arts and Health Check Up, Check In which took place in January 2016.
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Painting Back
In 2015, the Void Engage programme at Void in Derry delivered Painting Back, a project that brought award-winning artist Ann Quinn into contact with people from Thackeray Place and Seymour Gardens Nursing Homes and Foyleville Day Care Centre.
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Waterford Healing Arts Trust
A behind-the-scenes look at one of Ireland's leading arts and health programmes.
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NCH Musicians in the National Rehabilitation Hospital
The National Concert Hall's ECO programme provides monthly music workshops, concert performances and ward visits facilitated by a dedicated team of professional musicians in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, providing life-enriching musical experiences to those unable to attend a concert as a result of an accident, illness or injury.
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Cloudlands
The Cloudlands project is an artist in residence programme run by Helium Arts, an arts and health organisation for children.
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The Waiting Room
The Waiting Room is a video artwork created by artist Deirdre Glenfield in response to the waiting room experiences of patients at Tallaght Hospital.
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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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Do you believe in mental illness?
This artwork by Alice Burns explores urban myths regarding mental health using the definition of ‘myth’ by William Bascom.
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The Room
This short documentary film entitled The Room is the result of the inaugural documentation bursary from artsandhealth.ie.
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Arts for Health Strategy 2013 – 2016
An animation detailing the strategy of Arts for Health, a managed arts programme for older people in healthcare settings, embedded into the community hospitals and day care services in West Cork.
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beyond the box
This video documents beyond the box an artist and curator discussion chaired by Patrick Fox, Director of Create, with artists Emma Fisher, Eszter Néethi, Rachel Tynan and curator Katy Fitzpatrick.
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Music in Hospitals: 7 Years On
This short film documents a 3-day music residency entitled ‘Music in Hospitals – 7 years on’ which took place in May 2013 and was hosted by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
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Cloudlands Dublin
Rachel Tynan is Artist in Residence on Helium's Cloudlands Dublin project.
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Two Suitcases
Two Suitcases is a short film by Ben Murnane.
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F*ck My Life
F*ck My Life (FML) is an original theatre production from Cork Midsummer Festival dealing with the tragedy of Ireland’s teen suicide epidemic.
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Converging Lives
In 2011, visual artist Marie Brett and musician Kevin O’ Shanahan collaborated with The Alzheimer Society of Ireland’s Bandon Day Care Centre on a project entitled Converging Lives.
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Flow
This film was shown as part of the Captured Time exhibition in Waterford Regional Hospital in May/June 2011.
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Beag: Early Years Arts Programme
This short film gives an overview of the Beag Project, an Early Years Arts programme by Graffiti Theatre Company, supported by Cork City and County Councils and the Cork Arts and Health Programme, HSE South.
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Music and Storytelling
Helium in partnership with WHAT presented a continuous professional development talk and workshop entitled Music and Storytelling for Children in Hospital by artists Caoimhe Conlon (Musician) of Music Alive and Fiona Dowling (Storyteller) in March 2012.
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The Puppet Portal Project
The Puppet Portal Project merged the areas of art, technology and health, in order to facilitate children in hospital to create interactive puppetry performances in four acute hospitals (Dublin, Limerick and Sligo), over a five-month period.
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Liminality
This is a selection of eight minute extracts from a 20 minute HDV film made in collaboration with members of the Living Gift Transplant Support group.
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Lifting the Spirits
Following a successful pilot by Tolka Area Partnership (TAP) in association with HSE Health Promotion Unit of a structured music programme entitled Lifting the Spirits for older people in a residential care setting in 2010, three further music programmes were delivered between November ’11 and March ’12 for older people in the following residential and day care settings: Cuan Ros Residential Centre, Navan Road, Cabra, Dublin 7 (20 participants) Odins Wood Day Care centre Finglas, Dublin 11 (24 Participants) Nethercross Day-Care centre, Finglas, Dublin 11 (15 Participants) .
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The Amulet
Led by visual artist Marie Brett The Amulet is a research project based at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) which developed in collaboration with members of Ballyphehane/Togher Art & Craft Initiative (BTACI) plus hospital staff, patients and visitors.
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The Quickening
Marie Brett and John McHarg worked collaboratively for 18 months on an arts and health project called On the Edge of My Sky in partnership with Sirius Arts Centre, Crawford College of Art, Cork County Arts Office and the HSE which enabled critical research of their respective practices: artist & art therapist.
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End of Life Symbol Project
In recognition of the cycle of life and the fact that many people die in acute hospitals in Ireland, the End of Life committee in Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH) was set up to look at ways of improving the culture of care regarding dying, death and bereavement in hospital.
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A Menu of Poems
A Menu of Poems - All Ireland Poetry Day, 6 October 2011.
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Tools of the Trade
Tools of the Trade - memories linked to hand tools of farm, field, home & trade.
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What is the WHAT effect?
What is the WHAT effect.
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artsandhealth.ie
An animation detailing the main features of www.artsandhealth.ie.
Guidelines (40 results)
Guidelines
Adapting and implementing arts and health interventions: A thinking tool
This thinking tool has been developed by Jameel Arts & Health Lab and UCL to highlight key considerations that can be taken when adapting existing arts and health interventions to different cultural contexts.
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Performing Anxiety: A resource for audience-facing arts projects about mental health
Performing Anxiety is a good practice resource for anyone who wants to make live artistic work about mental health, from autobiographical shows about anxiety and depression to participatory projects working with vulnerable people.
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Homemade Circus Toolkit for Care Home Environments
The Homemade Circus Toolkit is designed to equip carers and activity coordinators with the skills and confidence to lead inspiring circus activity sessions in care home settings.
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Assessing the Impact of Arts and Creativity Interventions for Older People: A Public Health Evaluation Toolkit
This toolkit by the all-Ireland Institute of Public Health aims to support the arts and creativity sector to design, plan, conduct, assess and report on evaluations of arts and creativity programmes and interventions within a public health context.
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HSE Model of Care for Dementia in Ireland
The HSE Model of Care for Dementia sets out a range of targets and practical advice on assessment, diagnosis, treatment, care and support of people with dementia. The Post-Diagnostic Model of Care includes the role of the arts, and creative arts therapies, in supporting cognition and emotional wellbeing.
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A Guide for Care Settings: Engaging an Artist and Sourcing Funding
This guide produced by Age & Opportunity addresses two of the biggest queries relating to arts for older people in care settings: how to engage an artist and where to source funding in Ireland.
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What Next? Arts and Ageing Resources
This e-publication brings together a set of findings, recommendations, reflections and references informed by a Podcast and Workshop series held in 2022 that revisited the project Creative Enquiry: Arts and Older People.
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Creative Health Quality Framework
The Creative Health Quality Framework outlines a set of principles articulating good practice for creative and cultural initiatives that aim to support people's health and wellbeing.
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I Love Museums but they Don’t Love Me: Age and Disability Arts Access Info Sheet
This information sheet presents the opinions of arts venues and older people, including those who also identify as people with disabilities, in how to better engage with older audiences. It has been developed by Age & Opportunity and Arts & Disability Ireland.
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Arts & Creative Charter for Older People
The Arts & Creative Charter for Older People sets out the arts sector’s commitment to promoting key values and guiding principles in engaging with older people.
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Arts Council Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit
The Arts Council's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit has been produced to support arts organisations to prepare and produce their Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy and Action Plans.
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Sustaining the Self Toolkit
A self-reflection toolkit designed by artist Marie Brett to support self-care among those working in arts and health.
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COVID-19 Guidelines for the Safe Presentation of Festivals & Live Events
This dynamic document by the Arts Council and Fáilte Ireland, published in June 2021, will evolve to reflect new government advice and changes to protocols as they emerge.
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A Toolkit for Arts & Creativity in Care Settings
Age & Opportunity's Toolkit for Arts & Creativity in Care Settings is designed for use by managers and staff, in particular care setting creative activity co-ordinators, as well as non-arts professionals interested in arts in care contexts.
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Working In Intercultural Contexts: Guide for Local Authorities and Cultural Providers
A Guide for Working in Intercultural Contexts has been produced by local authorities in Mayo, South Dublin and Donegal and is funded under the Arts Council's Invitation to Collaboration Scheme.
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Guidance for working online, and online safeguarding if you’re working with vulnerable people (UK)
This guidance has been compiled in partnership between UK organisations the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance, Arts Marketing Association, 64 Million Artists, and Real Ideas.
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An Introduction to Arts And Health // 10 Things to Consider
This publication is designed for healthcare professionals, artists and others who want to learn more about arts and health practice and may be at the early stages of planning an arts and health project.
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All Heads Together – A ReCreate resource for artists and teachers working in inclusive educational settings
In partnership with Trinity College Dublin, this evidence-based handbook by ReCreate attempts to provide insight from the literature on pedagogy and educational theory and offers practical guidance to teaching artists and teachers working with reuse materials in inclusive educational settings.
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Dementia & Imagination: Research Informed Approaches to Visual Arts Programmes
This handbook is a set of useful ideas and recommendations that come from a robust research project setting out some foundations for developing visual arts projects with and for people affected by dementia.
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Good practice in the design of homes and living spaces for people with dementia and sight loss
These guidelines are based on findings from a study which aimed to assess the research evidence around what works well for visually impaired people with dementia in terms of the design of their homes and the things in them.
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Health Building Note: Dementia-friendly Health and Social Care Environments
A set of design principles for dementia-friendly environments in healthcare buildings.
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Public Art: Per Cent for Art Scheme General National Guidelines
National guidelines for the implementation of the Per Cent for Art Scheme.
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Health Building Notes: General design guidance for healthcare buildings
Health Building Notes give best practice guidance on the design and planning of new healthcare buildings and on the adaptation/extension of existing facilities.
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Volunteering in the Arts Toolkit
This toolkit provides a range of resources to help volunteer-involving arts organisations of all sizes to better engage and manage their volunteers.
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Towards Confident Film-making: Programme Handbook
This workbook is a resource for young people's organisations interested in delivering film projects.
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Arts and Volunteering: A practical toolkit for arts organisations and groups seeking to involve volunteers (PDF)
The need for this publication was identified by Volunteer Now and Voluntary Arts Ireland through various pieces of research into volunteering in the arts sector in Northern Ireland.
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Artspulse Evaluation Toolkit (PDF)
A user-friendly guide to evaluating arts and wellbeing projects.
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Our Duty to Care (PDF)
The principles of good practice for the protection of children and young people.
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Health Services Intercultural Guide: Responding to the needs of diverse religious communities and cultures in healthcare settings (PDF)
A guide developed in response to an expressed need by healthcare staff across a range of cultural backgrounds for knowledge, skills and awareness in delivering care to people from backgrounds other than their own.
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Guidelines for the protection and welfare of children and young people in the arts sector (PDF)
A document to assist arts organisations in the development of their own individual child protection and welfare policies and procedures.
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Acting for the Future: Using drama and theatre to promote positive mental health
A model of best practice for using drama workshops and professional theatre performances to promote positive mental health Author(s): Mary Moynihan & Paul Kennedy.
Guidelines
Arts in Hospital: Handling the Media
A general introduction to handling the media in arts and health contexts, particularly aimed at personnel who may not have had press responsibilities in previous jobs.
Guidelines
Age & Opportunity Guidelines for Working with Older People in the Arts
A resource for Bealtaine Festival organisers and others involved in the arts and older people.
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Arts Council Solo Practitioner Guidelines (PDF)
Guidelines for artists working in a solo capacity as practitioneers, facilitators or tutors with children and young people.
Guidelines
Guidelines for taking and using images of children and young people in the arts sector
Guidelines for arts organisations and artists working as arts practitioners, facilitators or tutors, on making, recording and using images of children and young people.
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Garda Vetting and the Arts – An Overview (PDF)
An overview to Garda vetting and the arts in Ireland Author(s): Arthur Duignan.
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The Arts & Health Handbook: a practical guide (PDF)
This handbook puts arts and health in context, and presents a practical guide to setting up and managing an arts project within health and social care settings in Ireland.
Guidelines
The Picture of Health (PDF)
A framework for the practice of arts in health settings.
Guidelines
Working Creatively with Older People: A practical guide
A practical guide for working creatively with older people.
Guidelines
Participatory Arts Practice in Healthcare Contexts
Guidelines for good practice for artists and healthcare professionals engaged in participatory arts practice in healthcare contexts in Ireland.
Policies & Strategies (37 results)
Policies & Strategies
Compassionate Communities Position Paper
The compassionate communities approach is one in which caregiving, dying, death and grief are shared responsibilities of the whole community, complementing formal services dedicated to end-of-life care by fostering local networks of care and compassion. This position paper, developed as part of the ongoing all-Ireland Compassionate Communities research project, includes the role of the arts in facilitating discussions around emotive topics and helping to develop a compassionate culture.
Policies & Strategies
PAINT Policy Brief: Bringing Arts Activities into Kidney Haemodialysis to Improve Patient Outcomes
The PAINT Policy Brief has been co-created by patients, families, researchers, healthcare and arts practitioners with an interest in or personal experience of kidney disease. The Policy Brief addresses the profound impact of haemodialysis on the mental health of patients and advocates for arts activities as a way of managing the emotional challenges and finding meaning and connection during treatment.
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Oireachtas Report on the Development of Local and Community Arts
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media published a report on the Development of Local and Community Arts in July 2024. The report includes a number of significant recommendations in relation to Arts and Health following a public hearing and submissions from the sector.
Policies & Strategies
Health Services Healthy Ireland Implementation Plan 2023 – 2027
Strengthening partnership and community working is one of the strategic priority areas, and includes a partnership approach with Creative Ireland, the Arts Council, and Healthy Ireland in the Department of Health to identify and support key opportunities to strengthen arts and health in the HSE.
Policies & Strategies
Arts for Health Partnership Programme West Cork: Strategic Plan 2023-2028
The Arts for Health Partnership Programme provides year-round cultural and creative activities for residents of community hospitals, older people attending day care centres, and their family carers across West Cork.
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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.
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Healthy Ireland Strategic Action Plan 2021–2025
Healthy Ireland is the national framework for action to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone living in Ireland. The Strategic Action Plan 2021-2025 includes priority focus areas for arts and culture.
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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.
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Sláintecare Implementation Strategy & Action Plan 2021 – 2023
Sláintecare is the Government's ten-year programme to transform Ireland's health and social care services.
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Culture 2025: A National Cultural Policy Framework to 2025
Culture 2025 is a Policy Framework that defines the scope and sets the direction for Government policy in the whole cultural field.
Policies & Strategies
A Manifesto for Arts and Health Practice in Ireland
This Manifesto for Arts and Health was written in 2016 by a group of Arts and Health Co-ordinators who work across a range of healthcare settings in the Republic of Ireland.
Policies & Strategies
Paying the Artist: An Arts Council policy on the fair and equitable remuneration and contracting of artists
Within this Fair and Equitable Remuneration and Contracting Policy, the Arts Council articulates its position and expectations with regard to remuneration and contracting within the arts sector.
Policies & Strategies
WHO Europe Sector Brief: Intersectoral action: the arts, health and well-being
This sector brief is informed by the Health 2020 policy framework adopted by all Member States of the WHO European Region and the WHO Health Evidence Network synthesis report on the evidence base for arts and health interventions.
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Leading Collaborative Arts In Ireland: Create Strategy 2020 – 2025
Create publishes their 2020-2025 strategy at a time of significant global change and in the firm belief that by working together, artists and communities can purposefully explore how collaborative arts engage in distinct, relevant and powerful ways with the urgent social, cultural and political issues of our times.
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Making Great Art Work: Arts Council Three-Year Plan 2020-2022
The Arts Council's three-year plan 2020-2022 is more externally focused, engaging more with diverse communities across Ireland, placing equality and human rights at the centre of all activities and providing opportunities for artists and arts organisations to develop their skills and capacities in innovative and new ways across the digital realm and in cross-disciplinary practice.
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Arts Council Equality, Human Rights & Diversity Policy & Strategy
Developed in the context of Ireland’s contemporary diverse society and driven by the desire of the Arts Council to show leadership and bring about change in Ireland, this policy aims to ensure that everyone who lives in Ireland has the opportunity to engage with, and participate in the arts.
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NYCI National Youth Health Programme Strategic Plan 2018-2022
The National Youth Health Programme is a strategic partnership of The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI), The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) and the Health Service Executive (HSE).
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The National Positive Ageing Strategy
The National Positive Ageing Strategy is a commitment in the Programme for Government, outlining Ireland's vision for ageing and older people and the national goals and objectives required to promote positive ageing.
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Creative Ireland Programme 2017-2022
Clár Éire Ildánach / Creative Ireland is the Government’s Legacy Programme for Ireland 2016 – a five-year initiative, from 2017 to 2022, which places creativity at the centre of public policy.
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Arts for Health Partnership Programme West Cork Strategy 2017-2020
Arts for Health is a partnership programme based in West Cork implementing a managed arts programme for older people in healthcare settings, embedded into the community hospitals and day care services.
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NSW Health and the Arts Framework (AUS)
This Framework - which reflects the National Arts and Health Framework and the NSW Arts and Cultural Policy Framework (Create in NSW) - enables the NSW Health system to maximise the benefits of integrating the arts into the design and delivery of health services, and health messaging.
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Arts, Health and Well-Being across the Military Continuum: White Paper and Framing a National Plan for Action
The first White Paper of the National Initiative for Arts & Health in the Military (US) recommends collective actions to help increase access to the arts as tools for healing and wellness for all military service men and women, medical staff, veterans, their families, and caregivers.
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Making Great Art Work: Arts Council Strategy (2016–2025)
The Arts Council strategy, Making Great Art Work, sets out its plan for leading the development of the arts in Ireland from 2016-2025, prioritising the artist and public engagement, and outlining a range of actions which the agency will take to deliver on its vision.
Policies & Strategies
The Irish National Dementia Strategy
This strategy sets out to improve the lives of people with dementia in Ireland.
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National Arts and Health Framework (Aus)
This national framework has been developed to enhance the profile of arts and health in Australia and to promote greater integration of arts and health practice and approaches.
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Arts for Health Partnership Programme West Cork Strategy 2013 – 2016 flyer
A flyer detailing the strategy of Arts for Health, a managed arts programme for older people in healthcare settings, embedded into the community hospitals and day care services in West Cork.
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Arts for Health Partnership Programme West Cork Strategy 2013 – 2016
The strategy of Arts for Health, a managed arts programme for older people in healthcare settings, embedded into the community hospitals and day care services.
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A Charter for Arts Health and Wellbeing
This Charter for Arts, Health and Wellbeing is the result of conversations across the nine regions of England.
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Manifesto Part 2
This second manifesto promotes action and makes clear the vision of those interested in the relationship between the arts and society in the North of England.
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Manifesto Part 1
This manifesto promotes action and makes clear the vision of those interested in the relationship between the arts and society in the North of England.
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Healthy Ireland: A framework for improved health and wellbeing 2013-2025
Healthy Ireland is a national Framework for action to improve the health and wellbeing of the population of Ireland over the coming generation.
Policies & Strategies
A Prospectus for Arts & Health Arts Council England (PDF)
This prospectus celebrates and promotes the benefits of the arts in improving everyone's wellbeing, health and healthcare, and its role in supporting those who work in and with the health service.
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Trust In Care (PDF)
Policy for health service employers on upholding the dignity and welfare of patients/clients and the procedures for managing allegations of abuse against staff members.
Policies & Strategies
A Vision for Change (PDF)
This report proposes a framework for mental health policy in Ireland.
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HE+ART: A Participatory Arts and Health Strategy for Sligo 2007—2012 (PDF)
Sligo County Council's participatory arts and health strategy.
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Making Inroads: Arts and Health Strategy 2009-2011 (PDF)
Kildare County Council's arts and health strategy.
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Arts and Health: Policy and Strategy (PDF)
An arts and health policy and strategy developed by the Arts Council.
Research & Evaluation (118 results)
Research & Evaluation
Arts-based interventions for maternal well-being: a systematic review
This systematic review examines published studies that explore the relationship between arts-based activity and maternal health and/or wellbeing. The review aims to provide a comprehensive picture of the ways in which arts-based practices were being used; some of the outcomes identified; and the way in which outcomes were being measured, evaluated and documented.
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A Multimethod International Mapping Exercise of Arts Interventions in Renal Units: The PAINT Project
The aim of the PAINT project was to undertake an international mapping exercise to identify the current provision of arts programmes in kidney centres for people living with kidney disease. The arts activities being offered globally and experiences of renal healthcare staff who provide activities in their units are encouraging in terms of arts in healthcare.
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Arts Engagement as a Health Behavior: An Opportunity to Address Mental Health Inequities
This U.S. study uses an applied social ecological model of health, showing how arts engagement can support mental health and reduce mental health inequities at the individual, interpersonal, community, policy, and cultural levels.
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The impact of social prescribing on health service use and costs: Examples of local evaluations in practice
This report from the National Academy for Social Prescribing in the UK summarises the analysis of social prescribing evaluation data from nine local health systems across England. The findings indicate that social prescribing can substantially reduce pressure on the NHS, including through reduced GP appointments, reduced hospital admissions and reduced A&E visits.
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Sites of Significance
Sites of Significance is a research report exploring pathways to engagement and work in dance experienced by dance artists and facilitators who live and / or work within territorial border areas of Cavan and Fermanagh-Omagh Council areas. One of the report recommendations is for greater recognition and resourcing by local authorities of local dance facilitators for their contribution to social and health-based outcomes.
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What does an arts & health organisation do?
There is currently a great deal of momentum in arts and health practice, research and advocacy around the world. To understand what is driving this momentum and how arts and health organisations and practitioners are operating in creating and/or benefitting from that momentum, this report gathers insights from people working in some of the world’s most innovative arts and health organisations. One of the organisations featured is Réalta, Ireland's national resource organisation for arts and health.
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Understanding the Potential of Clinical-Creative Partnerships to Improve Dementia Care
This synthesis report explores the potential of clinical-creative partnerships to enhance dementia care. Spearheaded by Gráinne Hope, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at GBHI and Director of Music & Health Ireland, the report is informed by a series of cross-disciplinary roundtable discussions. The report identifies key opportunities and makes a set of recommendations to bridge gaps in dementia care across sectors.
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Art and the Healing Environment
Curator Vivienne Reiss was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to visit Denmark, Sweden and Japan and explore how healthcare buildings in these countries enhance health and wellbeing, and the contribution of art to the healing environment. Her findings illustrate the multi-faceted role of art and include 13 case studies in general, paediatric and psychiatric hospitals.
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Arts and Health Evaluation: Navigating the Landscape
This guide is designed to support anyone working in arts and health to navigate the landscape of evaluation. Published by the Social Biobehavioural Research Group at UCL, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Arts and Health, it includes a comprehensive mapping of what arts and health evaluation frameworks and toolkits exist, supporting you to make choices regarding which resources are the most suitable for your evaluation.
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Orchestras in Healthcare 2023
Orchestras in Healthcare #2 explores the contribution that orchestras (including those integrated in opera companies) currently make in the public health sector in the UK. This report presents findings from the second UK-wide Orchestras in Healthcare survey (the first survey was undertaken in 2020).
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Creative Health Review: How Policy Can Embrace Creative Health
The Creative Health Review led by The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG AHW) in the UK highlights the potential for creative health to help tackle pressing issues in health and social care and more widely, including health inequalities and the additional challenges we face as we recover from Covid-19.
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WHO expert meeting on prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: learning from the arts
This report summarizes the proceedings of an expert meeting held on 15–16 December 2022 in Budapest, Hungary, on the value of arts interventions for health, focusing on initiatives for mainstreaming arts into prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the WHO European Region.
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Creative Carers Report: Arts for Health Partnership, West Cork
In 2022, the Arts for Health Partnership developed and delivered Creative Carers, a participatory arts programme strand for and with carers in West Cork. This report explores the research and development phase, programme strands and delivery, and quantitative and qualitative outcomes.
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An Evaluation of Tea Chats & Tunes Music Residency
Tea, Chats & Tunes is a collaborative partnership aimed at connecting residents in nursing homes with their families through the power of music. The programme is delivered by Music & Health Ireland. This evaluation highlights the importance of its person-centred approach in strengthening social connections and enhancing the wellbeing of residents.
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An Evaluation of Music in Health Workshops Delivered by Music & Health Ireland
This evaluation report sheds light on the impact of staff workshops facilitated as part of the Musicians-On-Call programme in 2022. The report focuses on the ‘Introduction to Music in Healthcare for Healthcare Staff’, exploring the possibilities of supporting staff to learn creative approaches used by professionally trained healthcare musicians to help residents in engaging purposefully with music in their daily care roles.
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Creative activity in the ageing population: Findings from Wave 6 of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Older adults in Ireland who participate in arts, creative and cultural activities report higher quality of life and lower levels of depression, stress, worry and loneliness, according to this report from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin.
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The Impact of Arts and Cultural Engagement on Population Health
This report summarises findings from a series of longitudinal studies conducted between 2017 and 2022 that examined the relationship between arts and cultural engagement and health and wellbeing outcomes using UK and US cohort studies.
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The arts in public health policy: progress and opportunities
WHO has called for governments to take an intersectoral approach to realise the potential of the arts for public health. To explore what global progress is being made towards this aim, this paper presents examples of arts and health policy development from diverse government areas: health, arts, local governments, and cross government.
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CultureForHealth Report: Culture’s contribution to health and well-being
The CultureForHealth Report is a scoping review of existing evidence on the positive effect of arts and cultural activities on health and wellbeing. The report includes policy recommendations for stakeholders in the cultural, health and social sectors, and decision makers at local, national and European level.
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Mapping Arts and Health Across the Midlands
This research report maps the landscape of arts and health practice and provision across the Midlands. The report teases out a complex ecosystem of people, agencies, resources, policies and understandings in order to answer the key question: ‘how can we collaborate better?’
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Making Modern Art Accessible: An Outcome Report on the IMMA Art & Ageing Programme
The Irish Museum of Modern Art launched Art & Ageing, an inclusive art programme, in autumn 2020 to help older adults and people living with dementia to combat the social side effects of the global pandemic. This report contains a programme overview, key findings and qualitative feedback collected from stakeholders.
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Practising Well: Conversations & Support Menu
The working conditions for creative practitioners in the participatory arts sector are explored in Nicola Naismith’s research. Participants bring increasingly complex and vulnerable positions into participatory arts opportunities, which in turn leads to an intensification and diversification of experience, for both participant and creative practitioner. This report focuses on practical ways to achieve best and sustainable practice.
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Discoveries in Distanced Arts: The work, wonder, and wear of Entelechy Arts’ Staying Connected Programmes – Practice Report
This practice report, based on research led by Entelechy Arts and Queen Mary University of London, shares learning on how to develop remote arts programmes for older adults.
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Arts and Creativity in Later Life: Implications for Health and Wellbeing in Older Adults. A Systematic Evidence Review.
This report provides an overview of a systematic evidence review to develop a better understanding of what the evidence tells us about the role arts and creativity plays in older people’s health and wellbeing.
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Creative activity in the ageing population
This report presents findings on creative activity participation among older adults in Ireland using data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin, a nationally representative study of community dwelling adults aged 50 years or older in Ireland.
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Evaluation of Care Hubs of Arts and Creative Excellence Initiative
The Care Hubs of Arts Excellence are an initiative of Age & Opportunity’s Arts Programme. This independent evaluation focuses on the process of implementing the Care Hubs and the impact of the initiative, including the creation of new knowledge of the arts in care settings for older people.
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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.
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Infographic: Mapping Arts and Health Activity in Ireland in 2019
Key findings from the mapping report displayed in infographic form. This research, commissioned by Arts and Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI) and carried out by Dr. Francesca Farina, measures activity across a range of healthcare contexts, from hospitals and day care centres, to community settings and health promotion.
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Mapping Arts and Health Activity in Ireland in 2019
This mapping report, commissioned by Arts and Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI), measures the level and nature of Arts and Health activity in the Republic of Ireland in 2019.
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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.
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Vocal Beats: External Evaluation Report 2020
Vocal Beats is a hospital-ward-based music project led by rb&hArts for children and young people aged 0-25 years old at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
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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.
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Life Worth Living: The Report of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce
An Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce was appointed in September 2020 to prepare a report for the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media including a set of recommendations on how best the arts and culture sector can adapt and recover from the unprecedented damage arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Create Ireland Collaborative Arts Resource Pack
At the Create Networking Day (9 December 2020), delegates came together in a facilitated interactive session entitled “Connect” which offered a chance to meet, talk, share, and strategise together.
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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.
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Arts & Health Hub: COVID-19 Artist Impact Report
The Arts & Health Hub (UK) released its COVID-19 Impact Report in July 2020 examining how the pandemic has affected artists in the arts & health sector.
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Employment and Economic Impact Assessment of Covid-19 on the Arts Sector in Ireland
EY were commissioned by the Arts Council in May 2020 to support the work of the COVID-19 Arts Council Advisory Group.
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A response to the Covid-19 crisis for the Arts in Ireland: Report of the Expert Advisory Group to the Arts Council
A report by the Expert Advisory Group established by the Arts Council to address the Covid-19 crisis in the arts sector, published in June 2020.
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An assessment of the scope and nature of arts and health practice in Ireland
This study aims to assess the nature and scope of arts and health practice in Ireland with a view to informing a joint framework between the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Arts Council of Ireland.
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WHO Report: What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review
The first-ever report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the evidence base for arts and health interventions.
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Tallaght University Hospital Arts and Health Programme: 4 Year Review
This four-year review of the National Centre for Arts and Health at Tallaght University Hospital brings together accumulated reports from 2015 to 2018 and covers three key areas of programming: participative arts, receptive arts and creative arts therapies.
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Creating Healthy Communities through Cross-sector Collaboration
This white paper by the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine and ArtPlace America frames the value of arts and culture for advancing health and wellbeing in communities, and offers examples of impactful cross-sector collaborations that engage arts and culture to address five critical public health issues: collective trauma, racism, social isolation and exclusion, mental health, and chronic disease.
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An evaluation of the WHAT Arts Programme in the Renal Dialysis Unit at UHW – Executive Summary
Waterford Healing Arts Trust has been running an arts programme in the Renal Dialysis Unit at University Hospital Waterford since 2007.
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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.
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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.
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Artists Practising Well
Artists Practising Well is a research report by Nicola Naismith, focusing on the topic of affective support for creative practitioners working in participatory arts in health and wellbeing.
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Dance and Health Research Project Report
The aim of this research is to create a best practice model of dance and health continuing professional development (CPD) and a dynamic, interdisciplinary course of study for dancers who are engaged in facilitating dance across a range of dance genres within healthcare contexts in Ireland.
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Sing while you work: the wellbeing benefits of workplace choirs
The first study of workplace choirs in Ireland and one of very few studies internationally to explore the health and wellbeing benefits of choirs for Health Service Staff.
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Arts and culture in health and wellbeing and in the criminal justice system: A summary of evidence
An assessment of the current evidence base around the place of arts and culture in health and wellbeing and in the criminal justice system by the Arts Council England.
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Live Music in Care: The Impact of Music Interventions for People Living and Working in Care Home Settings
Live Music Now in partnership with MHA (Methodist Homes), the Orders of St John Care Trust and Winchester University led an enquiry to explore whether weekly music sessions, provided for staff and residents in care homes, support the care home environment to be a place where residents and staff are happy to live and work.
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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).
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Exploring the theoretical foundations of visual art programmes for people living with dementia
This paper explores how and why visual art interventions in dementia care influence changes in outcomes.
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Strength in Networks (UK)
A comparative analysis of six creative interventions designed for people diagnosed with dementia across England and Wales.
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Narratives of health and illness: Arts-based research capturing the lived experience of dementia
This paper presents three artists’ residencies in a geriatric medicine unit in a teaching hospital.
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Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing
An inquiry into practice and research in the arts in health and social care by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing in the UK. This two-year inquiry (2015-2017) was conducted with a view to making recommendations to improve policy and practice.
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Arts for Health and Wellbeing: An evaluation framework
This document provides guidance on appropriate ways of documenting the impacts of arts for health and wellbeing, whether through small scale project evaluations or large scale research studies.
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The Impact of Arts Activity on Nursing Staff Well-Being: An Intervention in the Workplace
Over 59 million workers are employed in the healthcare sector globally, with a daily risk of being exposed to a complex variety of health and safety hazards.
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The Role of the Modern Curator in Hospital
This paper explores the role of the curator in the modern hospital through an international qualitative study of ten professionals working as arts managers / curators in English speaking hospitals.
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The Bare Necessities of Life – Reactions to Kids’ Classics Live Music in a Children’s Hospital in Ireland
An independent evaluation documenting the evidence of the impact of Kids’ Classics music activities in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin.
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Aesthetic deprivation: the role of aesthetics for older patients in hospital (PhD thesis)
This thesis was submitted by Hilary Moss towards the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin in 2014.
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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.
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Exploring the Longitudinal Relationship Between Arts Engagement and Health
This report reveals that engaging with the arts and culture generally has a positive long-term effect on health and wellbeing.
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Hospitalization and Aesthetic Health in Older Adults
This study assesses the impact of hospitalization on arts engagement among older people and perceptions of whether hospitals are aesthetically deprived environments.
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Wellbeing in four policy areas: Report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics
Through the lens of four specific policy areas, this UK inquiry sets out to demonstrate that national wellbeing evidence should be used to inform policy.
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Restoring the Balance: the effect of arts participation on wellbeing and health
A collection of interviews conducted between May and July 2009.
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Aesthetic Deprivation: the role of the arts for older people in hospital (PhD Summary)
A summary of a PhD conducted at Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine under the supervision of Prof Des O’Neill and Dr Claire Donnellan.
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Confidentiality, Consent and Decision Making in Arts and Health Participatory Art Practice
An investigation exploring tensions that arise in confidentiality, decision making and consent within an arts and health context.
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Arts, Health and Wellbeing Beyond the Millennium: How far have we come and where do we want to go?
This UK report provides a review of the evidence for the benefits of the arts to health, as well as the policy context of commissioning arts and health initiatives.
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Healthy Attendance?
A study that looks at the impact of cultural engagement and sports participation on health and satisfaction with life in Scotland.
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The aesthetic and cultural pursuits of patients with stroke
This study aimed to obtain insights into people affected by stroke about the profile of art and aesthetic activities in their lives and the influence of stroke on these aspects.
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The aesthetic and cultural interests of patients attending an acute hospital – a phenomenological study
This qualitative study explores the aesthetic and cultural pursuits of older patients in hospital.
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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.
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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.
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RNCM Medical Notes Project at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
A report on the outcomes of the Medical Notes Project for children, families, musicians and staff at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
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REFLECT Lab Co-mentoring: North West Evaluation
An evaluation of REFLECT Lab, a professional development opportunity led by Helium Arts for artists and healthcare professionals working with children in the North West.
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Azure: Exploring greater inclusion of people with dementia in museums and galleries in Ireland
A pilot evaluation of the Azure project at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.
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New Model Visual Arts Organisations and Social Engagement
Four intensive organisational case studies characterise and compare distinctive approaches to socially engaged visual arts practice in the UK.
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Singing and Mental Health
A UK evidence-based guide on the benefits of group singing for mental health and wellbeing.
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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.
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Art Programme in the Dialysis Unit, Tallaght Hospital, 2011-2012
A report on the art programme in the Dialysis Unit of Tallaght Hospital.
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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.
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MUSIC IN HEALTHCARE PROJECT: EVALUATION REPORT PHASE TWO
A report of the second phase of the evaluation of the Music in Healthcare Project, a partnership between Music Network and the Midland Health Board.
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MUSIC IN HEALTHCARE PROJECT: EVALUATION REPORT (PDF)
A report of the first phase of the evaluation of the Music in Healthcare Project: a partnership between Music Network and the Midland Health Board.
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MUSIC IN HEALTHCARE PROJECT: PHASE 3 INTERIM EVALUATION REPORT (PDF)
An evaluation report of the first year of Phase 3 of the Music in Healthcare programme: a partnership between Music Network and the Midland Health Board.
Research & Evaluation
A Study of the Effects of the Visual and Performing Arts in Healthcare
The research explores whether visual and performing arts could have an effect on psychological, physiological and biological outcomes of clinical significance.
Research & Evaluation
Arts in health: a review of the medical literature
This review of medical literature explores the relationship of the arts and humanities to healthcare, and the influence and effects of the arts on health.
Research & Evaluation
Evaluation of the Music in Healthcare Project 2000 – 2004
An evaluation of the Music in Healthcare Project: a partnership between Music Network and the Midland Health Board.
Research & Evaluation
Age & Opportunity Evaluation Arts in Care Settings Project
This report summarises the findings of an evaluation of the Arts in Care Settings Project.
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
Mind Where You Look – Research Summary
A comparative study between a hospital and a gallery as sites for viewing art.
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.
Research & Evaluation
Dreams Project
A research report assessing the value of participation by patients, staff and community members in the Dreams Arts and Health visual art project in the Mater Hospital, Belfast.
Research & Evaluation
Report of the Review of Arts and Health Working Group
A report setting out the findings and recommendations of the Review of Arts and Health Working Group, which was set up by Harry Cayton, the National Director for Patient and the Public, to support him in advising the Department of Health on its role in relation to arts and health (UK).
Research & Evaluation
Towards Transformation: Exploring the impact of culture, creativity and the arts on health and wellbeing (PDF)
Exploring the impact of culture, creativity and the arts on health and wellbeing.
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.
Research & Evaluation
Conversations in Colour (PDF)
Evaluation of an Arts for Health Partnership Programme 2005/6, West Cork.
Research & Evaluation
A Cure for the Soul? The benefit of live music in the General Hospital (PDF)
An evaluation of the benefit of live music performance in the Adelaide and Meath Incorporating the National Children's Hospital.
Research & Evaluation
The Benefit of Creative Writing for Patients in a Cardiac Rehabilitation Department (PDF)
An evaluation of the benefit of creative writing for patients in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit of Adelaide and Meath Incorporating the National Children's Hospital.
Research & Evaluation
The Benefits of Therapeutic Art Sessions in a Renal Dialysis Unit (PDF)
An evaluation of the benefits of therapeutic art sessions in the Renal Dialysis Unit of Adelaide and Meath Incorporating the National Children's Hospital.
Research & Evaluation
Invest to Save: Arts in Health Evaluation (PDF)
An evaluation exploring the impact of creativity, culture and the arts on health and wellbeing.
Research & Evaluation
Crossing the line (PDF)
An evaluation of a Musician in Residence programme in mental health settings, Waterford City.
Research & Evaluation
The ‘Open Window’ Study (PDF)
A PHD research study evaluating the psychological effect of 'Open Window' and exploring the experiences of people undergoing stem cell or bone marrow transplant for the treatment of haematological malignancies.
Research & Evaluation
Ceol le Chéile-Music Together Evaluation (PDF)
An evaluation of the participatory music programme delivered by Cork Arts and Health Programme, HSE South.
Research & Evaluation
An evaluation: The Bealtaine Festival (PDF)
This evaluation assesses the contribution of the Bealtaine festival, celebrating creativity in older age, to promoting the participation of older people in the arts in Ireland, and to improving the health and well-being of the people who participate.
Research & Evaluation
Hospital arts co-ordinators:an accidental profession? (PDF)
Research focusing on hospital based arts co-ordinators and their views on the challenges posed by their work.
Research & Evaluation
Invest to Save: Arts in Health — Reflections on a 3-year period of research and development in the North West of England (PDF)
A reflective account of a three-year mixed-methodological research and development project exploring creativity, culture and the arts on public health, taking national development in the field into account.
Research & Evaluation
Report on Interdisciplinary Arts in Health Project 2009 (PDF)
A report on arts in health based workshops involving an interprofessional engagement amongst arts and health students and mental health service users.
Research & Evaluation
What training do artists need to work in healthcare settings? (PDF)
Research that led to the development of a training course for artists working in health settings.
Research & Evaluation
Evaluation of Music in Renal Dialysis Programme 2009/2010 (PDF)
An evaluation of a participatory music programme in the Renal Dialysis Unit of Waterford Regional Hospital.
Research & Evaluation
Well into older age — Age & Opportunity and the evidence (PDF)
What research says about the value of promoting participation of older people.
Research & Evaluation
‘Creative Ageing’ A Practical Exploration of the Arts in the Healthcare of Older People (PDF)
A report that considers how arts-based activities can be deployed to complement traditional programmes of healthcare to improve the well being of older people with dementia.
Research & Evaluation
An Independent Evaluation of a Composer in Residence Report AMNCH 2010
An evaluation of a Composer in Residence project in the Stroke Unit of the Adelaide and Meath incorporating the National Children's Hospital (now Tallaght University Hospital).
Research & Evaluation
Helium Puppet Portal Project Evaluation (Master) (PDF)
An independent evaluation of a puppetry and technology project across four hospital environments.
Research & Evaluation
Helium Puppet Portal Project Evaluation (Summary) (PDF)
An independent evaluation of a puppetry and technology project across four hospital environments.
Research & Evaluation
An interim evaluation of the ‘Arts for Well-being’ social prescribing scheme in County Durham
This review considers firstly the policy context for social prescribing, the development of arts on prescription schemes, and issues for evaluation of this field of work.
Research & Evaluation
An Evidence Review of the Impact of Participatory Arts on Older People (PDF)
A review that verifies the positive impact participatory arts can have on the health and wellbeing of older people.
Research & Evaluation
Prescribed Culture: Summary of Research Findings
A summary of research findings following a prescribed culture project in the south of Sweden.
Research & Evaluation
Be Creative Be Well: arts, wellbeing and local communities, an evaluation (PDF)
A report that describes and evaluates the Be Creative Be Well project and the key role it has played within the integrated, community-led Well London programme.
Articles & Documentation (82 results)
Articles & Documentation
Reflecting on arts and health practice by Luci Kershaw
Luci Kershaw is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores health topics and themes, as well as more traditional practice within the area of arts and health. Luci was awarded the artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary in 2024 and has spent her time exploring how to embrace more collaborative approaches to sharing people’s stories through sound and film.
Articles & Documentation
Art By Their Side
Irish Hospice Foundation’s Arts and Cultural Engagement programme embarked on a yearlong residency project in 2023 titled “Artists in Residence in Service to People at End of Life”. Art By Their Side features interviews with participants and showcases the creative work that emerged from the residencies.
Articles & Documentation
Experience 2023: Reflection by Noelle Brown
Experience 2023: An Introduction to Arts, Health and the Older Person was a learning programme aimed at professional arts practitioners with an interest in working with older people in a health context. Noelle Brown reflects on some of the presentations and themes that spoke to her personally, and the learnings that she as an artist took from the day.
Articles & Documentation
Creative Brain Week: Knowledge Making
This publication brings together the lived experience and insights shared during Creative Brain Week, an annual exploration of how brain science and creativity connect to seed new ideas in social development, culture, wellbeing, and physical, mental and brain health across the life cycle and across society.
Articles & Documentation
Let’s Pause – A reflection by artist Catarina Araújo
Visual artist Catarina Araújo designed her first arts and health project with mental health professionals in Cork to explore their experiences of Covid-19. The need for time and space to pause reverberated throughout the project and has informed Catarina’s reflection, funded by the artsandhealth.ie emerging artist bursary 2023.
Articles & Documentation
Response to Experience: Arts, Health and Older People 2022
Experience: An Introduction to Arts, Health and Older People was a three-day online learning programme in 2022 aimed at professional arts practitioners with an interest in working with older people in a health and/or community context.
Articles & Documentation
Wherever you go: Learnings from an emerging arts and health practice by Áine Rose Connell
Áine Rose Connell, a visual artist and poet, brings her background as a Speech and Language Therapist and her experience of collaborative poetry making to bear in Wherever you go, a written exploration of her emerging arts and health practice.
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
Reading between the lines
Reading between the lines is a reflective report by Mary Grehan documenting a learning programme for artists called Experience: An Introduction to Arts, Health and Older People.
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?
Articles & Documentation
THE SINGING BODY: Personal Reflections on an Arts & Health Practice by Sadhbh O’Sullivan
Songwriter and musician Sadhbh O'Sullivan was awarded an artsandhealth.ie artist bursary in 2021 to reflect on her approach to a holistic music and health practice.
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. Founder and Director John Conway was awarded the artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary in 2019 to create a publication about the programme.
Articles & Documentation
Dance and Health: Reflections on Empowerment and Transformation by Helga Deasy
Dance artist and choreographer Helga Deasy was awarded an artsandhealth.ie artist bursary in 2020 to reflect on and interrogate her model for an empowering dance practice, specifically its applicability to her experience of working as a dancer in hospitals and care homes.
Articles & Documentation
Museum of Song Postal Project Songbook
The Museum of Song Postal Project is a song collecting project by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley.
Articles & Documentation
Report on a conversation: Evaluating remote or online creative activities during the pandemic
This report uncovers findings from a curated online conversation in September 2020 exploring the evaluation of creative activities for arts, health and wellbeing delivered remotely or online during COVID-19.
Articles & Documentation
Perspectives on Practice: The Artist in the Suit
Mary Grehan reflects on the challenge of maintaining an artistic practice while pursuing a career as an arts manager in healthcare.
Articles & Documentation
WHO/Europe Public Health Panorama: Arts and health: creative solutions to complex challenges
Public Health Panorama is a peer-reviewed, bilingual (English–Russian), open-access journal published by the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Articles & Documentation
Menu of Poems 2019
Menu of Poems is an annual initiative in celebration of Poetry Day Ireland.
Articles & Documentation
Encounters: Menu of Poems 2018
In celebration of Poetry Day Ireland 2018, 'Encounters' was distributed throughout hospitals and healthcare settings in Ireland as part of the annual 'Menu of Poems' initiative.
Articles & Documentation
The arts and dementia: Emerging directions for theory, research and practice
An editorial outlining current research in the area of arts and dementia featured in a special issue of 'Dementia' dedicated to the Arts and Dementia.
Articles & Documentation
Waterford Healing Arts Trust Artist in Residence 2017: Ciara Harrison
This report explores Ciara Harrison's work as 2017 Artist in Residence with Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
Articles & Documentation
Artistic Encounters in the Interstice of a Healthcare Workplace
A reflective review of the TODAY photography project in St Finbarr’s Hospital Campus in Cork City by artist Colette Lewis.
Articles & Documentation
Waterford Healing Arts Trust Artist in Residence 2016: Caroline Schofield
This report explores Caroline Schofield's work as 2016 Artist in Residence with Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
Articles & Documentation
Arts and Health: A New Paradigm
This position paper presents a new paradigm about the intrinsic structure and nature of arts and health practice.
Articles & Documentation
Soul Food: Menu of Poems 2016
In celebration of Poetry Day Ireland (28 April 2016), Soul Food is intended for distribution throughout hospitals and healthcare settings in Ireland.
Articles & Documentation
A Love Filled Slap
As part of the 1916 East Rising commemorations in Ireland, Clive Parkinson was invited to share the development and context to the Manifesto for Arts & Health at the inaugural Arts and Health Check Up Check In event.
Articles & Documentation
Proclaiming Arts and Health Manifestoes in 2016
Pat Cooke's paper from the inaugural Arts and Health Check Up Check In which took place in January 2016.
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
Body Conscious
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.
Articles & Documentation
Flow – Menu of Poems 2015
In celebration of Poetry Day Ireland (7 May 2015), Flow is intended for distribution throughout hospitals and healthcare settings in Ireland.
Articles & Documentation
Taking Flight – Menu of Poems
This Menu of Poems, on the theme of ‘taking flight’ is intended for distribution throughout a range of healthcare settings in Ireland in 2014.
Articles & Documentation
National Centre for Arts & Health Annual Report 2013
A report on the National Centre for Arts & Health's work in 2013.
Articles & Documentation
The art of medicine: Aesthetic deprivation in clinical settings
A peer reviewed perspective on aesthetic deprivation in clinical settings.
Articles & Documentation
Rosie Goan reflects on Festivals and Collaborative Practice
For Create News: 16 Rosie Goan reflects on the growing international trend towards the presentation of projects rooted in arts and health practice at festivals.
Articles & Documentation
Unfolding Time
Unfolding Time comprises a series of poems and stories by patients from the Dialysis Unit at Waterford Regional Hospital.
Articles & Documentation
Status Report 1609013: artist-in-residence as ‘new organ of perception’
A midway status report of artist Jeffrey Gormly's six month residency at Waterford Regional Hospital.
Articles & Documentation
A Gathering Place: Menu of Poems 2013
This Menu of Poems on the theme of ‘gathering places’is intended for distribution throughout a range of healthcare settings in Ireland in 2013.
Articles & Documentation
Waterford Healing Arts Trust Annual Report 2012 (PDF)
A report on WHAT's work in 2012.
Articles & Documentation
MARKING ‘ANAMNESIS’: Witnessing the public discussion of Marie Brett’s ‘Amulet Project’ (PDF)
A witness account of a public discussion on ‘Anamnesis’, an exhibition of new works by artist Marie Brett in The Index Gallery at the Waterford Central Library in April 2013.
Articles & Documentation
Spears of Daylight
Spears of Daylight contempory arts exhibition, inspired by the creative writing of service users at St.
Articles & Documentation
Presentations from Arts – Health – Entrepreneurship? A Conference on Arts and Health Projects and Practices (PDF)
Documentation from the Arts - Health - Entrepreneurship.
Articles & Documentation
Documentation from Evaluating Arts + Health Collaborative Practice CPD (PDF)
This document is Susanne Burn's presentation from Evaluating Arts + Health Collaborative Practice which was a continuous professional development training day led by Susanne Burns and co-hosted by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust and Create.
Articles & Documentation
All About Us (PDF)
Memories, stories and poems by patients and staff from the Dialysis Unit, Waterford Regional Hospital created through the arts programme of the Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
Articles & Documentation
The Quiet Heart (PDF)
An exhibition catalogue of artwork by Martin Fahy Artist in Residence with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
Articles & Documentation
The Quiet Heart: Exhibition Opening Text (PDF)
This text is from a talk given by writer Grace Wells at the opening of The Quiet Heart exhibition at Waterford Regional Hospital in September 2012.
Articles & Documentation
Body Conscious (PDF)
An exhibition catalogue of artwork by Dorothy Ann Daly on display in Waterford Regional Hospital.
Articles & Documentation
Body Conscious: Exhibition Opening Text (PDF)
This text is from a talk given by Mary Ruth Walsh at the opening of the Body Conscious exhibition at Waterford Regional Hospital in June 2012.
Articles & Documentation
Reignite the Spark (PDF)
A snapshot of an arts and health Partnership told from all perspectives.
Articles & Documentation
Media Review: The King’s Speech
A review of the film The King's Speech with reference to Medical Humanities.
Articles & Documentation
Once Upon a Time (PDF)
An exhibition catalogue of artwork by Laura Fitzgerald Artist in Residence with WHAT.
Articles & Documentation
Creative Reverie: Meeting the person as an artist (PDF)
Documentation of Mayo County Council's Artist in Residence programme at the Sacred Heart Hospital.
Articles & Documentation
Culture + Health Strand: a study of 32 projects in diverse healthcare settings (PDF)
A study of the Culture and Health Strand of the programme for Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture.
Articles & Documentation
A Time to Remember: Memories of St Joseph’s Hospital Arts Project Ennis (PDF)
Reflections, observations and experiences of St.
Articles & Documentation
Between Colours: Mayo County Council Artists’ Mentoring & Networking Programme (PDF)
Documentation of Mayo County Council's Artists' Mentoring and Network Programme.
Articles & Documentation
Creative Exchanges (PDF)
The history and achievements of Age & Opportunity's Arts in Care Settings Programme.
Articles & Documentation
Memory Dress
Documentation of the Memory Dress project at St.
Articles & Documentation
Different Tune (PDF)
An article based on conversations between mentor Anne Woodworth and musician/ mentee Kevin O'Shanahan.
Articles & Documentation
A creative challenge – the curatorship of contemporary art practice in an acute hospital context (PDF)
A conference paper considering varying approaches to curating contemporary art in acute hospitals.
Articles & Documentation
Reflections on Music Therapy and Arts in Health
A structured reflection on the author's experiences of both music therapy and the arts and health work within healthcare services.
Articles & Documentation
Missing Language, Silent Voices and the Art of Listening: Artists operating in the Health Service (PDF)
An essay supporting the Vital Signs exhibition as part of the Vital Signs conference in Dublin, 2009.
Articles & Documentation
Jennie Moran interviews Jennie Moran about Personal Effects (PDF)
An artist's report of a visual art project at Galway's Merlin Park Hospital in a unit for people who had recently experienced a stroke.
Articles & Documentation
Vital Signs: Points of View (PDF)
A series of opinion pieces about arts and health commissioned as part of the Vital Signs conference in Dublin, 2009.
Articles & Documentation
The Green Room Project (PDF)
An exhibition catalogue of artwork made by Pauline Keena in collaboration with a group of mothers, all of whom had the experience of losing a baby in the neo-natal period.
Articles & Documentation
Hospital arts co-ordinators:an accidental profession? (PDF)
Research focusing on hospital based arts co-ordinators and their views on the challenges posed by their work.
Articles & Documentation
Return to Sender (PDF)
Claire Meaney talks to Emily Robyn Archer about the Post Room Project at Waterford Regional Hospital.
Articles & Documentation
The Post Room Project (PDF)
An exhibition catalogue of artwork by Emily Robyn Archer Artist in Residence with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
Articles & Documentation
Culture Does Good: Turku 2011 Wellbeing Programme
This document encapsulates the beneficial impacts of Turku 2011 Capital of Culture for individuals and communities.
Articles & Documentation
Beyond Captured Time (PDF)
An exhibition catalogue of artwork and writing created through the WHAT arts programme in the Dialysis Unit of Waterford Regional Hospital.
Articles & Documentation
Separate Storms (PDF)
An exhibition catalogue of artwork by participants of the Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s Open Studio Workshop.
Articles & Documentation
… you are only one thing amongst many. And whoever sees that way, heals his heart (PDF)
Experimental address to the issue of organ transplantation.
Articles & Documentation
Hale and Arty (PDF)
A discussion on contemporary arts engagement with the healthcare sector which considers some critical frameworks for arts and health practice.
Articles & Documentation
Arts practices in unreasonable doubt? Reflections on understandings of arts practices in healthcare contexts (PDF)
Reflections of understandings of arts practices in healthcare contexts.
Articles & Documentation
Working on the Edge (PDF)
Comparing the role of an arts therapist to the role of an artist working in an arts and health context.
Articles & Documentation
Menu of Poems (PDF)
A short anthology of poetry that was distributed through a range of hospitals and day centres in Ireland in 2011.
Articles & Documentation
Dialogue Arts + Health Witness Writer (PDF)
An artist's account of the National | Dialogue Arts + Health event.
Articles & Documentation
Dialogue Arts + Health Witness Writer (PDF)
An artist's account of the National | Dialogue Arts + Health event.
Articles & Documentation
Observations and key points from proceedings at National | Dialogue Arts + Health (PDF)
Documentation of the National | Dialogue Arts + Health event.
Articles & Documentation
Unravelling Arts and Health Practice (PDF)
An artist’s perspective on arts and health.
Articles & Documentation
Waterford Healing Arts Trust Annual Report 2011 (PDF)
A report on WHAT's work in 2011.
Articles & Documentation
A-sy-lum (PDF)
An exhibition catalogue of artwork by service users and staff from Wexford Mental Health Services.
Articles & Documentation
Documenting Arts & Health Resource Pack (PDF)
This resource pack covers a broad spectrum of documentation and is the result of a professional devlepment training day held in Waterford, April 2012.
Articles & Documentation
Creating a New Old Conference – Reflections (PDF)
Reflections on the Creating a New Old Conference, Dublin, May 2012.
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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.
Opportunity
Arts + Health Artist Bursaries 2025
The national arts and health website is offering two bursaries to artists in 2025, funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.
News
Have your say! WHO Policy Brief on arts and young people’s mental health
Are you between 16 and 25 years old.
Opportunity
Open Call: Artist Mentoring Award 2025 – Artist in the Community Scheme
Applications are invited from collaborative, socially engaged artists, or artists transitioning into collaborative, socially engaged arts, who wish to avail of a focused period of mentorship to develop and consolidate their practice.
Event
Bealtaine Festival 2025 – Celebrating 30 years of arts and creativity as we age
Bealtaine Festival, Ireland's national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age, is 30 years old.
Opportunity
Creative Exchanges: Age & Opportunity Summer 2025 Course at IMMA
Are you interested in learning how to plan and facilitate arts activities for older people.
Event
Bookings open! Arts + Health Check Up, Check In 2025 – Keynote Speaker Dr Tony Bates
Arts + Health: Check Up Check In is a national gathering for the arts and health sector in Ireland, featuring presentations and workshops from some of the most exciting and inspiring practitioners working in the field today.
News
Stories from my Kitchen Table – Exhibition hosted by St. Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network
Stories from My Kitchen Table is a poignant and visually arresting exhibition by artist and poet Liza Cauldwell.
News
Save the Date! Creative Brain Week 2025
A pioneering initiative from the Global Brain Health Institute, Creative Brain Week at Trinity College Dublin enters its fourth year of celebrating innovation at the intersection of arts and brain science.
Event
Cut From The Same Cloth – Exhibition Tour: Connecting Biomedical Research with Community Voices
Cut From The Same Cloth aims to foster connections that pave the way for meaningful integration of minority voices with UCD Conway Institute’s Patient Voice in Health Research initiative.
Event
The Colossus – An intergenerational exploration of loss and bereavement by suicide
The Colossus is a socially engaged art project exploring North Clondalkin’s unspoken and unacknowledged oral histories related to loss and bereavement by suicide – colossal things of enormous size and importance.
Opportunity
Open Call for Exhibition Proposals at Tallaght University Hospital
The Arts and Health Department at Tallaght University Hospital is seeking artists to exhibit their work in their welcoming and dynamic hospital environment.
News
Cavan Arts partners with 14 European organisations on EU ‘CultureAndHealth’ Project
Cavan County Council Arts Office is one of 15 partner organisations from across Europe that have received funding to deliver a new EU culture, health, and wellbeing programme.
News
Sing for Memory: New singing groups in Kilkenny and Carlow for people with dementia
The Sing for Memory singing groups in Kilkenny and Carlow are for any person with a diagnosis of Dementia / Alzheimer's and their family / loved ones, and carers.
Opportunity
Arts Council Agility Award 2025
The Arts Council’s Agility Award is a funding scheme for individual professional artists, freelance artists and arts practitioners at any stage of their careers who have not previously been funded as an individual by the Arts Council.
Opportunity
Creative Exchanges Spring 2025: Two-day Course for Activity Co-ordinators
Creative Exchanges is designed for Activity Co-ordinators working with older people in residential or day care settings.
Opportunity
Call for Artist in Residence at Sligo Rape Crisis Centre
Sligo Rape Crisis Centre invites Sligo-based artists of any discipline to apply to their inaugural Artist in Residence programme.
Opportunity
Artist in the Community Scheme 2025 – Arts Council and Create
The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
Opportunity
Creative Ageing Writing Bursary 2025 – Age & Opportunity
The Age & Opportunity Creative Ageing Writing Bursary supports artists, writers, and arts workers in reflecting on the arts and ageing in Ireland.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Arts and Health Manager with the Arts Council
The Arts Council is seeking an Arts and Health Manager, a full-time, two-year fixed term role at Higher Executive Officer (HEO) grade.
Event
KU Leuven Health Humanities Lecture Series: Health and the Built Environment
The KU Leuven Centre for Health Humanities in Belgium is hosting a series of hybrid lectures in 2025 exploring Health and the Built Environment.
Event
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.
Event
Social Prescribing: Groundbreaking or Gimmicky? Online lecture by Prof Daisy Fancourt
The UK has been at the forefront of the social prescribing movement, a type of personalised care which connects individuals with non-clinical supports and services within the community to address diverse health and social needs.
Opportunity
Open Call: National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award 2025
Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival, in partnership with Nursing Homes Ireland, are inviting applications from care settings for the National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award.
Event
Call for participation: Art and Art Therapy ‘Shared Experience Sessions’ by Smiling Dog Collective
Smiling Dog are exploring the contemporary significance of artists and arts therapists working in healthcare settings, for an article to be published in 2025.
Opportunity
Opportunities for artists with Saolta Arts – HSE West & North West Hospitals
Saolta Arts invites professional practicing visual artists to apply for opportunities in the following hospitals of HSE West and North West in 2025 – 2026: University Hospital Galway, Merlin Park University Hospital, Portiuncula University Hospital Ballinasloe, Mayo University Hospital and Roscommon University Hospital.
Opportunity
Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2025 – Save the Date & Open Call for Submissions
Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2025 will take place on Wednesday 30 April in Esker Arts, Tullamore.
Event
Sharing Stories: A collaborative exhibition between CHI staff and artist Peggie Mc Keon
Sharing Stories is a collaborative exhibition born from a series of lunchtime wellbeing workshops for Children's Health Ireland's staff, facilitated by Visual Artist Peggie Mc Keon.
News
A deep dive – Luci Kershaw reflects on her arts and health practice
Luci Kershaw is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Galway.
News
Launch of WISE: Artists and Older People Network
Age & Opportunity has launched a network designed to connect and support artists working with older people across the Republic of Ireland.
Event
Discover & Dream – Arts + Mental Health Networking Event
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing and West Cork Feel Good Festival are hosting a special networking event for artists, healthcare professionals and arts managers working in arts and mental health.
Event
Creative Health & Arts Therapies: Our Shared Roots and Growth – Lecture by Dr Val Huet
As part of the Belfast School of Art 175 celebrations, Dr Val Huet, visiting professor for the MSc Art Psychotherapy programme, will deliver an in-person public lecture on Thursday 6 February.
Event
Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing 2025
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2025 will take place in venues across Waterford city and county, with an inspirational line-up of over 30 fun, free and sociable arts events for all ages.
Event
Healing Through Photography Conference: Trauma & the Art of Recovery
Healing Through Photography is a unique two-day conference hosted by Belfast Exposed that delves into the transformative power of photography as a medium for healing, growth, and connection.
Opportunity
Artist Opportunity: Artistic Facilitator at CAMHS, Limerick
Creative Ireland Limerick, Limerick City and County Council and the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) seek an Artistic Facilitator.
Opportunity
Professional Diploma in Art and Health 2025 – NCAD / Creative Futures Academy
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in partnership with Creative Futures Academy is now accepting applications for the Professional Diploma in Art and Health 2025 (Level 9 NFQ).
Opportunity
Inclusive Adaptive Céilí – Dance Leader Training 2025
All Irish Dance is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation specialising in the delivery of first-of-a-kind evidence-based training empowering people (with or without prior experience) with the knowledge, skills and confidence to lead inclusive adaptive Céilí dance activities for all ages, all levels and all abilities in local communities and care settings.
Event
‘Theatre Room’ Workshop: A Smart D8 project in collaboration with GBHI and Outlandish Theatre
Are you a resident of Dublin 8 and interested in art, health and public spaces.
Opportunity
Open Call: Arts & Health Residency – Creative Places Tipperary Town
Creative Places Tipperary Town is seeking two socially engaged artists from all disciplines, with facilitation experience and a background in Arts and Health contexts, for a six-month residency running from February to July 2025.
Opportunity
Arts Participation Bursary Award 2025 – Arts Council
The Arts Council’s Arts Participation Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their arts participation practice, including collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices.
Opportunity
Mothering Spaces Research 2025 – Call for Expressions of Interest
Established in 2022, Mothering Spaces seeks to explore themes and issues around female health, the maternal and feminine identity through curatorial and research methods.
Opportunity
Invitation to Tender: Arts and Social Prescribing Research – Arts Council of Ireland
The Arts Council is inviting tenders for the provision of research services exploring the current role and potential development of arts and creative activities taking place as part of HSE-funded social prescribing services in Ireland.
Opportunity
Thank you for hearing me – Invitation to participate
How do our voices determine how we live in the world.
News
National Arts in Nursing Homes Day – Information Webinar
If you work in a nursing home, day care centre or community hospital, consider organising an event for National Arts in Nursing Homes Day 2025.
Opportunity
Kildare First Fortnight Award 2025
Kildare County Council Arts Service invites individual artists and/or collectives in any artform to apply for the First Fortnight Award 2025.
Event
Museums, Health and Wellbeing Summit 2025 – Online, 28-29 January
The world's leading conference for museum professionals interested in health and wellbeing is back for its fourth year, bringing together inspiring presentations and actionable advice from those leading this work in museums around the globe.
News
Invitation to Participate in Research Study on Mural Art in Northern Ireland
People living in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are invited to take part in a new study exploring the unconscious impact of mural art on the psychosocial landscape of the North of Ireland / Northern Ireland.
Opportunity
Unheard Voices: Spoken Word / Poetry Commission
A group of five PhD researchers from the Science Foundation Ireland, ADVANCE CRT programme, are looking to develop a collaboration with a poet or a spoken word artist.
Opportunity
Arts, Health & Wellbeing Award 2025: Kildare Arts Service
Kildare County Council Arts Service welcomes applications from individual artists and/or art collectives practicing in any artform to the Kildare Arts, Health & Wellbeing Award 2025.
Opportunity
Call for Creative Consultant – Developing neuro-affirmative approaches to access and inclusion
Developing a creative approach to embedding equal access and opportunity for neuro-diverse audiences, artists, volunteers and organisers in Wexford’s cultural festival scene: Fee: €8,000, with €2,000 for materials and travel (€10,000 in total).
Event
Nature’s Tapestry: A TUH collaboration with RUA RED
The Arts & Health Programme at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) in collaboration with Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre present Nature's Tapestry, an exhibition dedicated to the breathtaking landscapes and diverse wildlife of Ireland.
Event
Azure Dementia-Inclusive Tours at Photo Museum Ireland
Azure is a free experience at Photo Museum Ireland designed for people living with dementia and their families, friends and carers.
News
BEHOLD at Tallaght University Hospital – An exhibition of original artworks from the AIB Art Collection
The latest exhibition from the Arts & Health Department at Tallaght University Hospital is BEHOLD, a selection of original artworks on loan from the AIB Art Collection.
Opportunity
Call for Project Co-ordinator: Mending HeArts, Creative Health and Wellbeing Project
Saolta Arts, the west of Ireland’s leading Arts and Health programme, is seeking a project co-ordinator to deliver Mending HeArts, a Creative Health and Wellbeing project for people living with heart conditions in Galway.
Event
How do artists and arts therapists sit in contemporary arts + health practice? – New research and exhibition
Smiling Dog are an arts and health collective exploring how art and art therapy coexist, and what each does in companionship and/or contention in participatory and healthcare contexts.
Event
The Tightrope Walker at First Fortnight Festival 2025
With humour and humility, The Tightrope Walker by Jenny Macdonald navigates a personal journey through the chaotic and profound territory of illness and recovery.
Event
First Fortnight Festival 2025: The Art of Mental Health
Every January, the First Fortnight Festival challenges mental health stigma and promotes mental health wellbeing through national arts and culture events.
Event
(Dis)Placed: A Theatre of the Oppressed Festival
(Dis)Placed is a Theatre of the Oppressed festival that delves into the complex relationships between people and the land they call home.
Student Placement
Student Placements – Cork County Arts & Library Service (REF 002)
The Arts & Health Student Training Portal provides student artists with volunteer placement opportunities to support and learn from a professional artist on an existing arts programme with a health or social care service.
News
Take part! WHO Survey on the role of the arts and arts therapies in supporting youth mental health
The Jameel Arts & Health Lab, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, is embarking on a series of arts and health policy briefs to synthesize evidence and share examples of how engaging in the arts contribute to health and wellbeing across the lifespan and across settings.
Opportunity
Call for Project Co-ordinator: Shared Island Creative Health & Wellbeing Project
Creative Ireland Kerry within Kerry County Council is seeking a project co-ordinator to deliver Weaving Worlds Together, a Shared Island Creative Health and Wellbeing Project.
Opportunity
Project artists sought for Ignite cross-border community programme
Arts Care, Northern Ireland’s leading Arts in Health organisation, is seeking three artists for the Ignite Community Programme, a four-year social innovation programme which will take place across Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland.
News
New Report Highlights Potential of Singing on Wellbeing of Young Refugees
Sing Up Foundation has published a new report, ‘Then the dream started to be more’: Singing and Music-Making with Refugee Children and Unaccompanied Minors: Insights From Research and Practice.
News
Earthly Delights: New exhibition opens at University Hospital Waterford
Earthly Delights is a new exhibition by artist Paul McCloskey at University Hospital Waterford.
Event
Dance classes for people with Dementia and Parkinson’s, Well-Dance for Older Adults: Dance Theatre of Ireland
Dance Theatre of Ireland aims to increase access to and participation in dance, including for those who might not participate otherwise.
Student Placement
Student Placement – Helium Arts Out Patients Programme in Cork (REF 001)
The Arts & Health Student Training Portal provides student artists with volunteer placement opportunities to support and learn from a professional artist on an existing arts programme with a health or social care service.
Event
Checking In 2024: Online gathering for the arts and health community
Réalta, the national organisation dedicated to developing arts + health in Ireland, is hosting an online gathering of the arts and health community in Ireland on Tuesday 12 November.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is Seeking a Volunteer Services Manager
Helium Arts is seeking a motivated, experienced and highly organised Volunteer Services Manager to deliver an efficient and effective volunteer support network for Helium Arts.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is Seeking Creative Producers: Creative Health Programme
Helium Arts invites applications from professional Creative Producers who work across artforms with a strong collaborative practice to join a newly created Helium Arts Creative Producer Panel.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is Seeking Visual Artists: Children’s Creative Health Programme
Helium Arts invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists to deliver their Creative Health Programme in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick and surrounding counties as well as online.
News
Sites of Significance: Cross-border research on pathways to engagement and work in dance
Sites of Significance is a research report and short documentary film exploring pathways to engagement and work in dance experienced by dance artists and facilitators who live and / or work within territorial border areas of Cavan and Fermanagh-Omagh Council areas.
Event
Workshop: Addressing Difference and Conflict in Creative Collaborations with Radical Institute
Create and Radical Institute (founding members: Eve Olney and Krini Kafiris) are hosting a one-day workshop which draws from Eve’s work on sustainable organising practices in collaborative and participatory processes, with a focus on addressing difference and conflict in creative collective work.
Event
Performing Anxiety – Online discussion as part of Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland has teamed up with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival to curate a programme of online discussions covering key themes, best practice, available tools and more.
News
Mending heARTS – Arts and Health project for people living with heart conditions in Galway
A new programme of arts workshops for patients and people living with heart conditions launched in Galway City on Sunday 29 September, as part of World Heart Day.
Event
Arts Health Research Intensive 2025
The Arts Health Research Intensive training course provides a rich introduction to the evidence base around arts in health and fundamentals of evaluation and research.
Event
Reaching Out To Be Global: Online networking for Creative Ageing practitioners
Reaching Out To Be Global is a free online event aimed at those working in the field of Creative Ageing who are keen to connect with others, share practice and explore international partnerships.
Opportunity
Applications open for Experience 2024: An Introduction to Arts, Health & the Older Person
Experience 2024: An Introduction to Arts, Health and the Older Person is a one-day learning programme for artists and arts practitioners of all disciplines.
Event
The Tightrope Walker at Tallaght University Hospital – Public Event
The Tightrope Walker by Jenny Macdonald navigates a personal journey through the chaotic and profound territory of illness and recovery with humour and humility.
Event
It’s Never Just Black or White: Exhibition marking World Mental Health Day in Westmeath
Mental Health Ireland will launch It’s Never Just Black or White, an exhibition featuring artwork by participants from local Mental Health Services in Athlone and Mullingar, on 10 October to mark World Mental Health Day.
Opportunity
Kildare Artist in Residence Award at Naas General Hospital
Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service in partnership with Naas General Hospital welcome submissions for Did I Ever Tell You, a new Artist in Residence programme, based in the hospital.
Event
West Cork Feel Good Festival 2024
West Cork Feel Good Festival is back for its 12th edition this October.
Event
GBHI Creative Brainwaves Talks: Dublin series returns this October
Creative Brainwaves returns to dlr LexIcon in Dublin for a third series of talks and workshops this October, exploring how our engagement in various creative arts can benefit our brain health.
Opportunity
Call for Musicians for Care Home Concerts in Kerry
Kerry County Council invites submissions from professional musicians to deliver a programme of performances within care home settings throughout the county.
News
The forest that won’t forget: An artwork dedicated to women and families affected by CervicalCheck failures
The forest that won't forget is a national public artwork dedicated to us, the women and families across Ireland who are affected by the failures of the CervicalCheck programme.
Event
Feeling Soundscapes at The MAC, Belfast
Feeling Soundscapes is an experiential event to help us to reflect on how we feel about the sounds of daily life, drawing on the working knowledge of therapists, sound artists, and musicians.
Event
Creative Communities Roadshow in Cork City
Cork City Council Arts Office will host a series of five in-person and one online creative, community-focused networking events in October 2024 as part of the Creative Communities Roadshow.
Opportunity
Call for Collaborators: Global South Arts and Health Pavilion for Black History Month Ireland
Global South Arts in Health (GSAH) aims to advance education, scientific research, and interdisciplinary practice of arts in health, creative art therapy, and community-based art engagements in the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) through a wide range of collaborations, community projects, cultural exchanges, workshops, exhibitions, performances, and plenary presentations.
Opportunity
Call for Artists: Creative Health and Wellbeing in the Community Project
Cork City Council, in partnership with the Irish Hospice Foundation, is seeking expressions of interest from artists of all disciplines with facilitation experience and knowledge of working with young people and/or vulnerable older adults for a new project: 'Exploring Loss and Grief: Healing Through Art'.
Opportunity
Creative Programme Coordinator – Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival
Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival (NIMHAF) is seeking a Creative Programme Coordinator to lead a team of volunteers, freelance creative professionals and event co-ordinators.
News
Call for participants! Research Study on Mural Art in Northern Ireland
Researchers from Ulster University’s School of Communication and Media are conducting a new study exploring the unconscious impact of mural art on the psychosocial landscape of the North of Ireland/Northern Ireland.
Event
MISA Annual Public Lecture: The Impact of the Arts on Public Health with Daisy Fancourt
Daisy Fancourt, Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology at University College London and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Arts and Health, will deliver MISA's Annual Public Lecture in collaboration with Creative Ireland on 23 September 2024.
Opportunity
Call for Tenders – Creative Lead for EPIC Arts Project with Children in Care
EPIC, Empowering People in Care, is seeking a Creative Lead for Know Your Rights in Care, a participative arts project with children and young people in care.
News
The HSE publishes Safe Harbour: An illustrated storybook for children bereaved by suicide
Safe Harbour is a free illustrated story book for children who have been bereaved by suicide. Published by the HSE in June 2024, Safe Harbour is written by Patricia Forde – Ireland's Laureate na nÓg – and illustrated by visual artist Bronagh Lee.
Event
The Centre of Everything: An exhibition celebrating 20 years of Arts Ability
The Centre of Everything celebrates the creative work of over fifty artists who participate in Arts Ability, an initiative of Wexford County Council, the HSE, and Wexford Mental Health Association.
Opportunity
Matchmaking for Artmaking: Opportunity for care settings
Being creative and making art is enormously enjoyable and personally enriching and can make a huge contribution to a person’s wellbeing, especially in care settings.
Opportunity
Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme 2024 – Round Two
The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
Opportunity
Creative Exchanges Course for Activity Co-ordinators – September 2024
Age & Opportunity is facilitating a two-day Creative Exchanges course at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin this September.
News
Save the Date! Socially Engaged Practice: Building Equity in a Divided World
Create’s annual networking event brings together those working in or entering the field of collaborative, socially engaged arts.
Event
Healing Arts Scotland: Online Conference Programme 20-23 August
Healing Arts Scotland is a week-long celebration of arts and health initiatives across the country that help improve people’s wellbeing.
Event
Illness as Metaphor by Dead Centre – Dublin Fringe Festival 2024
In her book Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag sets out to diagnose the problem with the way we think about illness.
Opportunity
Fulbright – Creative Ireland Professional Fellowship 2025-2026
Creative Ireland partners with the Fulbright Commission to support one creative professional to work with a host institution in the U.S.
Opportunity
Open Call: Artist in Residence at Tallaght University Hospital
Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) Arts & Health Department in collaboration with colleagues in Tymon North Community Unit and St Luke’s Hospital, Unit C are inviting artists to apply to be an Artist in Residence, facilitating art sessions for patients at the bedside and becoming a valued and supported member of the arts team.
News
Save the Date: Experience 2024, An Introduction to Arts, Health & the Older Person
Experience 2024: An Introduction to Arts, Health and the Older Person will take place on Thursday 5 December at Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Opportunity
Open Call: Project Co-ordinator for Creative Health & Wellbeing Project
Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service is seeking a Project Co-ordinator to support the co-ordination and evaluation of Did I Ever Tell You, a creative health and wellbeing project taking place across counties Kildare, Offaly and Westmeath.
News
Empower Her exhibition at Tallaght University Hospital
Empower Her is an exhibition by photographer Linda Hanlon at Tallaght University Hospital celebrating the extraordinary women of Ireland.
News
Report on the Development of Local and Community Arts published by Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media published its Report on the Development of Local and Community Arts on 11 July 2024.
Opportunity
Open Call for Musicians: Music & Health Guest Musician Panel 2024-2025
Music & Health Ireland invites professional musicians from all genres and backgrounds to apply to join a Musicians Guest Panel for opportunities within healthcare and community settings across Ireland in 2024-2025.
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'.
Opportunity
Training Opportunity for Artists for Healthcare Settings
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office is seeking expressions of interest from professional artists who are already working in or are interested in working in healthcare settings.
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.
Event
Irish Doctors Orchestra: September concert in aid of Réalta / Waterford Healing Arts
Medicine will meet music at the Irish Doctors Orchestra’s special fundraising concert on 29 September at the SETU Arena.
Event
Save the Date: Réalta announces Checking In 2024, virtual gathering of the arts and health community on 12 November
Réalta, the national organisation dedicated to developing arts and health in Ireland, will present Checking In 2024, its latest virtual gathering of the arts and health community in Ireland, on Tuesday 12 November.
News
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.
News
Hearth announced as recipient of artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary 2024
The national arts and health website is delighted to announce that Hearth, a Mayo-based arts programme for older people living in their own homes, has been awarded this year’s Documentation Bursary which is funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.
Opportunity
Open Call for independent evaluation of Art at the Kitchen Table – A Waterford Healing Arts participatory programme
Réalta, the national resource organisation dedicated to developing arts + health in Ireland, is seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to undertake an independent evaluation of the Waterford Healing Arts programme, Art at the Kitchen Table.
Opportunity
Open Call – Artists Care Exchange 2024
Age & Opportunity is offering a unique professional development bursary to professional artists who work, or wish to work, in care settings with older people.
Opportunity
Call for Project Co-ordinator – Creative Workplace Wellbeing Programme
Make Or Break is a pilot Creative Health and Wellbeing Programme which aims to promote employee wellbeing through creative workshops offered in the workplace.
Event
In Two Minds comes to Edinburgh Festival Fringe
In Two Minds is a deeply personal and life-affirming production by Limerick-based theatre artist Joanne Ryan which explores the realities of living with bipolar disorder and its effects on relationships and family.
Opportunity
The Arts Council’s Arts Participation Project Award 2025 opens for applications
The Arts Council's Arts Participation Project Award supports initiatives in the field of arts participation (participatory, collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices).
Event
Healing Arts Scotland: A week-long celebration of arts and health
Healing Arts is the global outreach campaign of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO). Healing Arts Scotland is the first ever countrywide Healing Arts Week, following previous city-wide celebrations around the world, including New York, Paris, London, Venice and Jaipur.
Opportunity
Vacancy: Curator IMMA Horizons (Maternity Cover)
The Irish Museum of Modern Art is seeking a Curator to manage and deliver the IMMA Horizons Programme.
Opportunity
Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Awards 2024
The Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme Bursary Award is designed to support individual professional artists in any artform to develop their collaborative socially engaged arts practice.
Event
Launch of the Clinical-Creative Partnerships for Dementia Care Report
Clinical-Creative Partnerships for Dementia Care is a pilot initiative funded by the Global Brain Health Institute, the Alzheimer's Association and Alzheimer’s Society, and spearheaded by Gráinne Hope, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at GBHI and Director of Music & Health Ireland.
Opportunity
Open Call for Visual or Dance Artists – Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork
Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre is seeking a visual or dance artist to join an artists panel for the delivery of a multi-artform programme for older people as part of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork.
Event
Templates of Chance at Rua Red: Visualising the addiction recovery process
Over the last 18 months Luxembourg artists Stéphanie Rollin and David Brognon have embedded themselves within the community of Tallaght as part of a residency and new commission for Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre.
Opportunity
HSE Per Cent for Art Commission – Hampson House, Dublin
The Health Service Executive (HSE) is undertaking fit out works at Hampson House, North Earl Street, Dublin 1 in 2024 and intends to commission permanent artworks under the Per Cent for Art (PCFA) Scheme.
Event
Helium Arts to host week-long celebration from 11-15 June at the Naughton Institute in Dublin
Come join us as we celebrate! To mark our launch in Dublin and to celebrate our first five years delivering impactful, creative programmes, Helium Arts is hosting a week-long celebration from 11 - 15 June at the Naughton Institute (the former Science Gallery) at Trinity College Dublin on Pearse Street, including a launch event on June 11th.
News
Creative Health and Wellbeing Projects receive over €1.2 million from Creative Ireland
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, T.D.
Event
Assemblages of Sanctuary: Art, Displacement & Mental Health – Online Talk
Creative spaces of sanctuary are vibrant assemblages where artists and communities with lived experience of forced displacement come together to co-create dynamic spaces that embody an expansive sense of hope and possibility.
Event
Arts in Healthcare workshops for HSE Cork Kerry Community Healthcare staff working with older people
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is hosting a series of three evening workshops during Bealtaine Festival for HSE Cork Kerry Community Healthcare staff working with older people.
Opportunity
Creativity & Change Certificate Course Now Recruiting
The Creativity & Change post-graduate certificate course takes place at Crawford College of Art & Design in Cork City, one weekend per month, from September 2024 to May 2025.
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.
Event
Bealtaine Festival Dawn Chorus with Drimoleague Community Choir
The Dawn Chorus is a nationwide choral event in which older people come together with a choir in their locality and sing at dawn to welcome the day and the season.
Opportunity
CHI Opportunity for Artists – Welcome to the Neighbourhood
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Arts in Health Programme is seeking to engage an artist / artists to work with young people in Dublin 8 and Dublin 12 on the creation of a body of artwork to be shown as part of their exhibition programme in the concourse of the new children’s hospital in Rialto.
News
Institute of Public Health launches toolkit and online learning courses on evaluating arts and creativity programmes for older adults
An evaluation toolkit and two free online learning courses on how to use evidence to show the benefits of arts and creativity in later life were launched by the Institute of Public Health (IPH) on 25 April.
Event
A Sense of Self exhibition at Dungarvan Library
A Sense of Self, a new art exhibition by participants from the Iontas Arts and Mental Health Programme, will be on show at Dungarvan Library until 12 May 2024.
Event
Cork Cultural Companions: Creative workshops for older adults in Cork City
Cork Cultural Companions is hosting a series of creativity workshops to celebrate Bealtaine Festival, Ireland’s national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age.
Event
Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary
The Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival (NIMHAF) celebrates its 10th anniversary in May 2024.
News
Room 12 at Aalborg University Hospital: Somaesthetic art for families experiencing still births
Cultivating a more empathetic environment for families experiencing stillbirth is at the heart of a collaboration between arts and health collective Studio Poesis and staff from the Department of Obstetrics at Aalborg University Hospital in North Denmark.
News
World Music Therapy Day at Tallaght University Hospital: An Arts & Health and Music Therapy Collaboration
Arts and Health at TUH and the Music Therapy Service hosted vibrant celebrations for World Music Therapy Day in Tallaght University Hospital on Monday 15 April.
Opportunity
Workshop for professional artists: Working with young people experiencing mental health difficulties
As part of The Blooming Minds Club at Creative Spark Dundalk, artist and art therapist Jenny Slater will present a morning workshop for professional artists on 28 May 2024.
News
Art in Dialysis – Punchestown Kidney Research Fund and amateur jockeys visit Tallaght University Hospital
Tallaght University Hospital runs a varied and vibrant arts programme in the Renal Unit. Patient-centred art and music sessions offer a break from clinical worries patients may have while undergoing their dialysis treatment, and facilitate creative needs within different capacities for individual patients.
News
Blooming Minds Club: A creative hub for young people with mental health difficulties
The Blooming Minds Club is a youth-led artist-supported creative arts hub for young people experiencing mental health difficulties based at Creative Spark Dundalk, with outreach workshops in Drogheda, County Louth.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Arts & Health Administrator at Tallaght University Hospital (Grade IV)
Tallaght University Hospital is seeking an Arts & Health Administrator (Grade IV) to support the vibrant and progressive programme delivered by the Arts & Health Department.
Opportunity
Arts + Health Bursaries 2024: Documentation Bursary and Emerging Artist Bursary
The national arts and health website is offering two bursaries in 2024, funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.
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.
Opportunity
Inclusive Adaptive Céilí – Dance Leader Training Programmes
All Irish Dance’s evidence-based training empowers you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead fun, inclusive adaptive céilí activities in your local community or care setting.
Event
Caring for Creativity at Roscommon Arts Centre
Caring for Creativity at Roscommon Arts Centre brings together works by artists who had residencies in local care settings in Roscommon over the past year.
Event
Rewire Your Choir: Embracing Neurodiversity – Cork International Choral Festival
Dr Eva McMullan-Glossop is facilitating an interactive workshop as part of Cork International Choral Festival to demonstrate accessible and creative ways to rewire traditional approaches to choral teaching, making the choral rehearsal an enjoyable and accessible space for everyone.
Event
Bealtaine Festival 2024 – Ireland’s national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age
Bealtaine, Ireland’s annual festival celebrating creativity as we age, runs throughout the month of May.
Event
Healthier Ageing through Arts and Creativity: Institute of Public Health Webinar
The Institute of Public Health (IPH) is hosting a webinar on 25 April to launch a number of resources exploring Ageing, Arts and Creativity: An evaluation toolkit and two new online learning pathways that will provide practical guidance on how to assess the impact of arts and creativity interventions in later life.
Event
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.
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.
Opportunity
Call for Artist Facilitator: Early Years Pilot Arts Project in Leitrim
Leitrim County Council Arts Office, in collaboration with the Healthy Leitrim Breastfeeding Programme, is launching an Early Years Pilot Arts Project.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Development Coordinator at Galway Community Circus
Galway Community Circus is looking for a Development Coordinator to support the development and implementation of their fundraising strategy, increase income generation and diversify funding streams to help deliver their artistic ambitions across an exciting portfolio of programmes and partnerships.
Event
Puppetry Healing Stories in Hospital Care – Webinar
Puppetry Healing Stories in Hospital Care will showcase examples of contemporary practices by puppeteers using puppets in hospital settings. It will address the various contexts in which puppets can be used for both adults and children in hospitals, and will also examine some of the principles and ideas underlying these practices.
Opportunity
Open Call for Socially Engaged Artists: AIC Artist Mentoring Award 2024
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, invites expressions of interest from collaborative socially engaged artists, or artists interested in/transitioning into collaborative socially engaged arts, who wish to avail of a focused period of mentorship to develop and consolidate their practice.
Opportunity
Open Tender: Artists Care Exchange Facilitator with Age & Opportunity
Age & Opportunity is seeking tenders from individuals with an interest and background in the arts and older people in a care context, to act as facilitator for the third year of the Artists Care Exchange (ACE), an Age & Opportunity Arts initiative.
Opportunity
Arts Council Agility Award 2024
Applications for the Arts Council's Agility Award are now open.
Event
Bedtime Adventures – An enchanting dreamscape for children with lifelong health conditions
Bedtime Adventures is an enchanting interactive dreamscape for children aged six and under with lifelong health conditions and/or additional needs.
Event
Less Visible Threads at Creative Brain Week
Less Visible Threads is dedicated to displaying stories of arts and health in Ireland, and forms part of the exhibition programme at Creative Brain Week 2024.
Opportunity
Call for Proposals: Culture & Mental Health International Conference: Refugees
The second Culture & Mental Health international conference takes place in Ghent, Belgium on 28 and 29 November 2024.
Opportunity
Rhythm2Recovery Facilitator Training at University of Limerick
Rhythm2Recovery is delivering a two-day training course in Ireland for professionals working in the health, education and personal development fields.
Opportunity
Saolta Arts: Open Call for Exhibition Proposals at University Hospital Galway
Saolta Arts is currently accepting proposals for its 2024 - 2025 visual arts exhibition programme at University Hospital Galway.
Opportunity
Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme 2024 – Round One
The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
News
Have Your Say: Exploring Marginalised Voices in Ireland’s Arts Sector (Safe to Create Survey)
Safe to Create are undertaking quantitative and qualitative research to gather as much intersecting information as possible about what it's like to work in the arts/creative sectors if you have a disability, are a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, and/or from a minoritised racial or ethnic background.
Opportunity
Call for participants: Siblings research project
Are you an adult who grew up with a sibling with a disability or chronic illness? If so, artist Tess Leak would love to meet you! Tess is conducting some research to explore the experiences and needs of other adult siblings (like herself) through one-to-one informal conversations.
Event
Irish Doctors Orchestra to perform charity concert at Ulster Hall, Belfast
The all-Ireland Irish Doctors Orchestra are performing at Ulster Hall, Belfast on Sunday 3 March 2024 to raise funds for Children in Northern Ireland, a charity with a focus on learning, collaboration, and influencing to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.
Opportunity
Pilot Wheelchair Céilí Dance Leader Training Programme
All Irish Dance is a social enterprise tackling social isolation and loneliness by connecting people through céilí.
Opportunity
Call for volunteers to work with professional artists on Helium Arts’ Creative Health Programme
Helium Arts, the children's arts and health organisation, is seeking volunteers to work with professional artists to support the creativity of children and teenagers on its 2024 Creative Health Programme.
Event
The Tightrope Walker at Creative Brain Week
The Tightrope Walker by Jennifer Macdonald navigates a personal journey through the chaotic and profound territory of illness and recovery with humour and humility.
Opportunity
Creative Places Athy Arts Impact Award
Creative Places Athy is seeking proposals from local, national/international professional artists/creatives or arts organisations/collectives that wish to collaborate artistically with individuals or groups in Athy on creative projects that will create an artistic impact for the people and place of the area.
Opportunity
Cruinniú na nÓg 2024 – Dublin City Council Open Call
Dublin City Council is seeking proposals from children and young people, artists/creative practitioners, professional bodies, cultural organisations, and neighbourhood communities/organisations to be part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2024, the national day of free creativity for children and young people.
Event
Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing 2024
This year’s Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing in Waterford features an inspirational line-up of fun, free, inventive, inspirational and sociable arts events for all ages.
Event
Creative Brain Week 2024: Attention, Connection, Love
Creative Brain Week is an annual pioneering event that illustrates innovation at the intersection of arts and brain science, including creative approaches to health.
Opportunity
Mentoring opportunity for artists in Laois with artist Marie Brett
County Laois artists are invited to take part in a mentoring professional development series with artist Marie Brett who has extensive experience of arts and health practice.
Opportunity
National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award 2024
Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival, in partnership with Nursing Homes Ireland, will recognise three outstanding arts projects through the National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award 2024.
Opportunity
Bealtaine Hero Award 2024
The Bealtaine Hero Award offers local, community based groups (or individuals) an opportunity to host an ambitious, creative and experimental event for their community this May that celebrates the spirit of Bealtaine, Ireland’s annual festival celebrating creativity as we age.
Opportunity
Professional Diploma in Art and Health from NCAD – Creative Futures Academy
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in partnership with Creative Futures Academy is now accepting applications for the Professional Diploma in Art and Health 2024. This eight-week, blended course offers grounding in an art and health context and will connect participants with leading figures of practice.
Opportunity
Helium Arts seeks Programme Administrator (part-time) in Mullingar
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is seeking to employ a Programme Administrator.
News
HSE Arts, Creativity and Health Projects awarded funding of over €100,000 by Creative Ireland
The RENEW partnership between the HSE, the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland), Creative Ireland, and the Arts Council was established in 2020 to explore options for collaborative work to further develop arts and health in the HSE.
Event
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.
Event
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.
Opportunity
Arts Act Funding 2024 – Wicklow County Arts Office
Wicklow County Arts Office established its funding schemes to support artists, festivals, communities, arts participation and art form development.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: UCL Programme Coordinator – Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities
University College London is seeking a Programme Coordinator (Health Inequalities) to work on ‘Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities’, a UK Research and Innovation and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) programme.
Opportunity
Kildare Arts Service: First Fortnight Award 2024
Kildare County Council Arts Service invites individual artists and/or collectives in any artform to apply for the First Fortnight Award 2024.
Opportunity
Kildare Arts Service: Arts, Health & Wellbeing Award 2024
Kildare County Council Arts Service invites individual artists and/or art collectives practicing in any artform to apply for the Kildare Arts, Health & Wellbeing Award 2024.
News
Let’s Pause – A reflection by artist Catarina Araújo
A cocoon evokes warmth, a safe haven, a nurturing space. Visual socially engaged artist Catarina Araújo designed her first arts and health project in 2021 with mental health professionals in Cork to explore their experiences of Covid-19.
Opportunity
Call for submissions: Engaging Dementia International Conference 2024
Engaging Dementia is accepting submissions for abstracts, interactive sessions, demonstrations, and posters for their 16th International Dementia Conference, taking place 8-9 May 2024 in Mullingar.
Opportunity
The Arts Council announces Arts Participation Bursary Award 2024
The Arts Council's Arts Participation Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their arts participation practice, including collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices.
Event
First Fortnight 2024: Ireland’s Arts & Mental Health Festival
Every January, the First Fortnight festival challenges mental health stigma and promotes mental health wellbeing through national arts and culture events.
Opportunity
Creative Exchanges Course 2024: Planning and facilitating arts activities for older people
The Age & Opportunity Engage Programme team is hosting a new, two-day Creative Exchanges course designed for both activity co-ordinators working in residential or day care settings, and artists interested in engaging with older people in a care setting.
Opportunity
Funded PhD in Psychoanalysis and Culture at Ulster University, Belfast
Ulster University invites applications for funded interdisciplinary PhD projects in the area of psychoanalysis and culture.
Event
Friday Friends: Living Well with Dementia Art Exhibition
Friday Friends is an exhibition of art works produced by members of the Living Well with Dementia art group in Dublin South.
Opportunity
Artist in the Community Scheme: Development Support Role
The Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme, managed by Create on behalf of the Arts Council, supports artists and communities to work together on innovative collaborative arts projects.
Event
Workshop: In-person training on disability equality for arts organisations
Arts & Disability Ireland will lead an in-person training session on disability equality, tailored for the needs of arts organisations who want to include artists and audiences with disabilities in what they do.
News
Creativity for Wellbeing Workbook
The Creativity for Wellbeing Workbook by Mental Health Ireland uses creative tools to guide you on your journey of self-discovery and wellbeing.
Event
Museum of Birds and Beasts: Talk at the Museum of Country Life
Artists Sharon Whooley and Tess Leak will discuss the Museum of Birds and Beasts, a project that took place in community hospitals across West Cork, at a talk in the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life.
Event
The Vitruvian: Uncovering the Layers of Cancer at Science Week 2023
The Vitruvian: Uncovering the Layers of Cancer is a body of work by leading Irish artist Vincent Devine, co-created with cancer researchers and a patient partner at the UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin.
Event
Bealtaine Gathering 2023
Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival celebrates the arts and creativity as we age.
Event
Songlines: Engaging people with dementia through poetry and song – Webinar
Festival in a Van is hosting an online lunchtime seminar exploring the benefits, challenges, and key learnings of engaging people with dementia through the participatory arts.
Event
Vital Signs on the Road: Delivering Arts to Healthcare Settings – Webinar
Festival in a Van is hosting an online seminar exploring the transformative power of the arts in healthcare settings, with a focus on their Vital Signs tour with Poetry Ireland.
Opportunity
Visual artist sought for Helium Arts’ Outpatients Programme in Dublin
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is seeking to employ a multi-disciplinary visual artist with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice with children and young people to join their Outpatients Programme in Dublin.
News
Dance Bualadh Bos – Short film funded by the artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary
Dance Bualadh Bos is an interactive dance performance created in collaboration with dance artists Ailish Claffey and Philippa Donnellan and older communities in County Kildare.
Opportunity
Experience 2023: An Introduction to Arts, Health & the Older Person
Experience: An Introduction to Arts, Health and the Older Person is a learning programme led by Age & Opportunity and Réalta, the National Body for Arts + Health in Ireland.
Opportunity
Music in Mind: NCH workshops for young people with kidney disease and their siblings
Are you a young person with end stage kidney disease who would like to have fun exploring your musical ability.
Event
Dementia & the Arts Sharing Session at dlr LexIcon
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office is hosting a free sharing session for healthcare professionals and artists interested in dementia inclusive arts activity on 21 November at dlr LexIcon.
Event
Arts Health Research Intensive 2024 at Snape Maltings, Suffolk
The Arts Health Research Intensive training course provides a rich introduction to the evidence base around arts in health and fundamentals of evaluation and research.
Opportunity
Applications open: The Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award 2024
The Arts Council's Arts Participation Project Award supports initiatives in the field of arts participation (participatory, collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices).
Event
How Do We Care? SoloSIRENs Festival 2023
SoloSIRENs is a participatory festival bringing theatre artists and South County Dublin communities together to consider and explore the nature of care in our society.
News
Creative Arts Hub for young people living with mental health difficulties in Louth and Meath
Áit Eile is a new creative arts hub for young people living with mental health difficulties in Louth and Meath.
Opportunity
Invitation to Tender: Arts, Disability and Older Person training review
Age & Opportunity and Arts & Disability Ireland are seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to carry out an Arts, Disability and Older Person training review as part of its joint Access initiative.
Opportunity
Galway Community Circus is hiring an Executive Director
Galway Community Circus has a vision for a future in which play, care and creativity are nurtured through circus education accessible to every child in Ireland.
Event
Free creative workshops for children with physical health conditions
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is inviting children and young people (ages 6-15) with lifelong physical health conditions to explore their creativity this autumn.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is seeking to employ a visual artist (part-time) in Dublin
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking to employ a professional, multi-disciplinary visual artist with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice to support delivery of their Creative Health Programme in Dublin.
Event
Creative Brainwaves: Talks series exploring brain health and the creative arts
dlr Libraries, Arts and Community are partnering with the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) for a five-part series of talks and workshops in October and November exploring how engaging in creative arts can improve your brain health.
Event
Our Vision Our Voice 2023
Our Vision Our Voice 2023 is the continuation of a six year collaboration between Mullingar Mental Health Association, HSE Mental Health Services (service users and Occupational Therapy staff) and visual artist Rosaleen Heavin.
Event
Celebrating National Breastfeeding Week with two exhibitions by Prof. Afif EL-Khuffash in Waterford
Neonatologist and Artist, Professor Afif EL-Khuffash, is showcasing his artwork celebrating breastfeeding mothers at two exhibitions in Waterford to mark National Breastfeeding Week 2023 (1 - 7 October).
News
Celebrating 20 years of Arts and Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI)
Arts and Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI) is a voluntary network of professionals who manage arts and health initiatives in Ireland. This year marks 20 years of the continued conversation, support and advocacy for arts and health practice nationally.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Operations Officer (Temporary Cover) with Create
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, seeks an Operations Officer on a temporary cover basis.
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).
Opportunity
Have your say! Pay and Conditions for Arts & Health Projects
Calling artists and creative producers! If you have worked on arts and health projects, now or in the past, we are inviting you to have your say to improve pay and conditions in the sector.
Opportunity
Music in Mind: NCH workshops for young people with kidney disease
Are you a young person with end stage kidney disease who would like to have fun exploring your musical ability.
Event
Where Art meets Science at Dr Steevens’ HSE Library: Culture Night 2023
Join the HSE National Librarian, Aoife Lawton, and library staff on Culture Night for half hour tours of Dr.
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Creative Interruptions: Moving arts in healthcare from pilot to mainstream
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Arts in Health Programme is hosting a panel discussion for Culture Night reflecting on the opportunities and challenges of embedding excellent long-term arts practice into healthcare settings.
News
Reading for Wellbeing
'Stories can be healing.
Event
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.
Event
Music & Care Healthcare Staff Workshops
Music & Health Ireland will present their Music & Care Workshop Day in Limerick and Meath this September.
Opportunity
Job opportunity: Marketing and Communications Executive with Music & Health Ireland
Music & Health Ireland is a not-for-profit organisation that provides high-quality music-making opportunities in educational, healthcare and community settings.
News
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
Artist in the Community Scheme 2023 – Round Two open for applications
The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
News
Music Speaks at Nursing Homes Week 2023
Nursing Homes Week is Ireland’s national celebration of nursing home care.
Opportunity
Deadline Approaching for Creativity and Change Certificate Course 2023/24
Creativity & Change at MTU is accepting applications for the 2023/2024 course, which begins in September.
Opportunity
Call for artists – Arts and Health artist mentoring and project residency in Offaly
Anam Beo invites professional practicing artists to apply to be a part of its mentoring programme.
News
Tea, Chats & Tunes: Connecting Creativity into the heart of Nursing Home Communities
Tea, Chats & Tunes is a collaborative partnership aimed at connecting residents in nursing homes with their families through the power of music, which has yielded significant findings in a recent evaluation.
Event
UCL Webinar: A WHO Resource on Arts Practice and the Ethics of Care
Are there ethical considerations that artists and arts practitioners keep in mind when working with communities where care is a central goal.
Opportunity
Introduction to Music in Healthcare and Community Settings
Music and Health Ireland, in association with Réalta, the National Body for Arts + Health in Ireland, is pleased to announce details of its forthcoming Introduction to Music in Healthcare and Community Settings training programme.
Opportunity
Grangegorman Histories: Public Funding Call
Grangegorman Histories is a public history programme of research and shared discovery of the Grangegorman site and surrounding communities.
News
Music and Health Ireland presents findings on healthcare staff workshops in Older Persons Services
The Musicians-On-Call programme, initiated by Music & Health Ireland and led by Limerick Arts Office in collaboration with Age Friendly Limerick and Healthy Limerick, is designed to bring the power of music into the lives of older adults in healthcare settings.
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.
Opportunity
Age & Opportunity invites applications from artists for the Artists Care Exchange
Age & Opportunity is seeking applications from professional artists with an interest and background in the arts and older people in a care context, to participate in the second iteration of Age & Opportunity’s professional development arts initiative, the Artists Care Exchange (ACE).
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Financial Accountant with Music and Health Ireland
Music & Health Ireland is a not-for-profit organisation that provides high-quality music-making opportunities in educational, healthcare and community settings.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Project Manager with Music and Health Ireland
Music & Health Ireland is a not-for-profit organisation that provides high-quality music-making opportunities in educational, healthcare and community settings.
Event
The Museum of Birds and Beasts comes to Ballydehob
The Museum of Birds and Beasts has been co-created by Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley with the residents of five community hospitals in West Cork.
Event
Galway International Arts Festival: Salthill Reverie at University Hospital Galway
Salthall Reverie, an exhibition celebrating a very special place, opens on the Arts Corridor at University Hospital Galway on 17 July 2023, presented by Saolta Arts and Galway International Arts Festival.
Opportunity
Vacancy: Youth Participation and Engagement Coordinator with Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking an experienced and well-organised Youth Participation and Engagement Coordinator to develop and coordinate youth voice and influence in Helium Arts and beyond, in the context of arts and health, to support the advancement of the organisation’s Strategic Goals for 2023-2027.
Opportunity
RCPI Open Call: Climate and Health Exhibition
An open call has been issued for artists to submit a piece of visual art exploring the theme of Climate and Health for an exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland to be held in October 2023.
Opportunity
Invitation to Tender: Guidelines on Pay and Conditions for Arts and Health Projects
Réalta, the national body for arts and health in Ireland, invites applications from suitably qualified individuals / organisations to develop and produce guidelines on pay and conditions for arts and health projects.
News
Save the Date! Experience 2023: An Introduction to Arts, Health & the Older Person
Experience 2023: An Introduction to Arts, Health and the Older Person will take place on Thursday 7 December at the Centre for Arts + Health, University Hospital Waterford.
Opportunity
CHI Arts in Health Programme: Call for Expressions of Interest
The CHI Arts in Health programme is seeking expressions of interest from artists / designers / makers / creative collectives to apply to complete a research and development process which will lead to a comprehensive proposal for a permanent artwork for the New Children’s Hospital.
News
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.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts issues Open Call for Artists, Musicians, Writers and Dancers
Waterford Healing Arts invites artists of all art forms, including visual artists, musicians, writers and dance artists, to apply to join its Artist Panel.
News
Health, Education and the Arts join together to launch innovative Arts for Health strategy in West Cork
The inter-agency Arts for Health Partnership Programme in West Cork today celebrated the launch of its innovative new arts and health strategy at Schull Community Hospital with a creative twist as local musicians and artists, including Liz Clark and Eva Coyle, joined together to mark the occasion with residents, staff, and visitors.
News
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
Global Consultation – Arts Practice and the Ethics of Care
A global consultation on Arts Practice and the Ethics of Care aims to identify ethical considerations for arts practitioners when engaging in projects where care is a central concern and considerations for caring for arts practitioners when engaging in contexts of care.
News
The launch of IMMA Horizons: Supporting health and wellbeing across the life course
IMMA Horizons: Lifelong Creativity for the Curious, a new initiative aimed at supporting health and wellbeing through creative programmes and experiences, launched at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) on 14 June 2023.
News
TILDA report presents findings on participation of older adults in arts activities in Ireland and associated health benefits
Older adults in Ireland who participate in arts, creative and cultural activities report higher quality of life and lower levels of depression, stress, worry and loneliness, according to a new report from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin.
Event
Summer Camps 2023 with Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health charity, is hosting free summer art camps specially designed for children and young people (aged 8-15) living with a lifelong physical health condition.
Opportunity
Applications open: Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health 2024/25
The Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) is accepting applications for the 2024/25 Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health programme.
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.
Opportunity
HSE Health and Wellbeing: Invitation to Tender – Evaluation of arts and health project
HSE Health and Wellbeing invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced consultants/ organisations to undertake an evaluation of the Irish Hospice Foundation and HSE Healthy Ireland Pause pilot initiative.
Event
Addiction-Recovery Arts Futures Conference (UK)
This one-day conference at Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus builds from the one day Knowledge Exchange Event Addiction Recovery Arts Network in 2022 which was organised by Dr Cathy Sloan at the London College of Music.
Event
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.
News
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland launches new Arts Strategy
RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has announced a new Arts Strategy aimed at further enhancing the role of art in enriching the learning environment at the university.
Opportunity
International Health Humanities Conference 2023: Call for Proposals
The 11th International Health Humanities Conference is being hosted by the University of Derby from 21-23 September 2023 on the theme of 'History and Practice of Human Care'.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is recruiting for a full-time Family Liaison
Helium Arts is recruiting for the full-time position of Family Liaison, primarily based in their Mullingar office with the option of up to two days a week remote working.
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
Arts Council Agility Award 2023, Round 2
The Arts Council’s Agility Award is open to individual freelance artists and arts workers at any stage of their careers and is available across all art forms and art practice areas supported by the Arts Council.
Opportunity
Réalta, the National Body for Arts + Health in Ireland, seeks Communications Manager and Music Co-ordinator
Réalta, the National Body for Arts + Health in Ireland, has announced details of two new opportunities to join their team.
Opportunity
Arts + Health Bursaries 2023: Documentation Bursary and Emerging Artist Bursary
The national arts and health website is offering two bursaries in 2023, funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.
Event
Dementia Inclusive Gallery Tours at dlr LexIcon this May
The dementia inclusive gallery tours at dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire, are specially designed for people living with dementia, and their caregivers.
Event
Dancing with Dementia – An exploration of dance as an intervention for people with dementia
Dementia Research Network Ireland (DRNI) is hosting a webinar on 9 May exploring dance as an intervention for people with dementia.
News
Literature Dispenser at St Luke’s Hospital, Dublin to celebrate National Poetry Day
To celebrate National Poetry Day on 27 April and Dublin International Literature Festival in May, Ema Staunton, Arts Co-ordinator of St Luke's Radiation Oncology Network, has introduced a literature dispenser, a novel way of sharing original short stories, poetry and comics with patients and staff.
Event
Cúirt International Festival of Literature: Poems for Patience 2023 at University Hospital Galway
Poems for Patience is a long-running series by Saolta Arts in which poems are exhibited on the Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway and then displayed in waiting areas throughout Galway University Hospitals.
Event
Arts for Health Bealtaine Celebrations in West Cork
Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre is hosting a range of free events for Bealtaine, Ireland’s annual festival celebrating creativity as we age, as part of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is seeking three new board members
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking three new board members in the areas of Arts and Culture, Philanthropy and Fund Development, and Healthcare Policy and Management.
Event
Bealtaine Festival 2023 – Celebrating the arts and creativity as we age
Bealtaine, Ireland’s annual festival celebrating creativity as we age, runs throughout the month of May.
Opportunity
Job opportunity: Public Engagement Assistant – Arts, Health and Older People
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is recruiting for the role of Public Engagement Assistant - Arts, Health and Older People.
Opportunity
Artist in the Community Scheme Mentoring Award 2023
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, invites expressions of interest from collaborative socially engaged artists, or artists interested in this area of practice, who wish to avail of a focused period of mentorship to develop and consolidate their practice.
Event
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.
Opportunity
Call for visual artists: Online Creative Health Programme with Helium Arts
Helium Arts invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists to deliver their Creative Health Programme to young people online.
Event
We will tell everyone! Learning about the experience of living with dementia through song
We will tell everyone! is a song written by a Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) group who have been collaborating with Lisa Kelly on her PhD research on telehealth music therapy for people living with dementia and their supporters.
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International Music and Ageing Seminar at MISA, St James’s Hospital
The Discipline of Medical Gerontology in the School of Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, the Creative Life Hub in the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA), St James’s Hospital, and Music & Health Ireland, in association with Bealtaine Festival, have partnered to deliver an international seminar to explore research, education and practice at the intersection between music and ageing.
Opportunity
Invitation to Tender: Artists Care Exchange (ACE) Facilitator
Age & Opportunity is seeking tenders from individuals with an interest and background in the arts and older people in a care context, to act as facilitator of the Artists Care Exchange (ACE).
Opportunity
Baboró artist opportunity: Primary school project exploring the impact of the arts on young children
Baboró International Arts Festival for Children invites Galway-based multidisciplinary artists to apply for Creating Space, a long-term project exploring the impact of the creative arts on young children's emotional and social health and wellbeing.
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A Geometric Progression: GRID Collective exhibition at Tallaght University Hospital
Tallaght University Hospital's opening exhibition of 2023 is A Geometric Progression, a collection of visual artworks by GRID Collective.
Opportunity
Call for Musicians: Soothing Sounds Music Programme at Tallaght University Hospital and CHI at Tallaght
Arts & Health at Tallaght University Hospital in collaboration with Children’s Health Ireland at Tallaght are inviting musicians to apply to be a Musician in Healthcare in TUH and CHI at Tallaght.
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The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital presents ‘Beyond the Surface: Art, Illuminating the Future of Surgery’
The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital will host an innovative multimedia art exhibition entitled ‘Beyond the Surface: Art, Illuminating the Future of Surgery’ from 25 - 28 March 2023 in the Old Historical Surgery Rooms (entrance on Eccles Street).
News
The launch of Réalta – National Body for Arts and Health in Ireland
Réalta, the national body for arts and health in Ireland, was officially launched on Friday 3 March 2023.
Event
BRAVE SPACES
Ageism, classism, racism, sexism, ableism, anti-traveller racism, heterosexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, gender dissonance… we live in an intersectional world with increasingly challenging environments to navigate.
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Psychoanalysis and the Culture-Breast: Noreen Giffney in conversation with Amanda Coogan
What happens to us emotionally and unconsciously when we listen to a song, watch a film, encounter an art object, or read a novel.
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Online movement classes for people with Long Covid, CFS and debilitating conditions
Gentle Movement for Relaxation is a free online movement class hosted by Uilinn West Cork Arts Centre for people living with long Covid, chronic fatigue syndrome, a debilitating condition or any kind of disability.
Opportunity
Invitation for Proposals: Traveller Wellbeing through Creativity 2023
Proposals are invited from Traveller organisations with experience of working with health/wellbeing and/or creative arts, and/or creative practitioners with experience of, or relevant to, working with Travellers, for the Traveller Wellbeing through Creativity 2023 initiative.
Opportunity
Age & Opportunity Creative Ageing Writing Bursary 2023
The Age & Opportunity Creative Ageing Writing Bursary aims to generate discussion, debate and knowledge about the growing arts and ageing sector in Ireland.
Event
Azure Tours at Highlanes Gallery 2023: Dementia-inclusive art viewing programme
The Azure art viewing programme at Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda is designed for people living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia, and their carers.
Opportunity
Helium Arts: Call for artists in Cork and Kerry
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists to join Helium's Artist Panel as Associate Artists.
Event
Creative Health Delivery for People with Complex Health Needs – Online Workshop
Delivering creative health activities to participants living with complex health or psychosocial conditions often requires specialised knowledge, skills, and support.
News
Drawing the Plants: Exhibition by Mary Lee Murphy at University Hospital Galway
Drawing the Plants is an exhibition by artist Mary Lee Murphy, opening at University Hospital Galway on 4 February 2023 to coincide with World Cancer Day.
Event
Creative Brain Week 2023: Innovation at the intersection of arts and brain science
Creative Brain Week explores and celebrates how brain science and creativity collide to seed new ideas in social development, technology, entrepreneurship, wellbeing and physical, mental and brain health across the life cycle.
News
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.
Event
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.
Opportunity
Bealtaine Hero and National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Awards 2023
Applications are now open for Age & Opportunity's Bealtaine Hero Award and National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award.
Opportunity
Calling Cultural Leaders: Applications now open for the 2023 Clore Fellowship
The Clore Fellowship is a unique programme of cultural leadership development that seeks to enrich and transform cultural practice and engagement.
Opportunity
Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme 2023
The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
Event
Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing 2023
Good Vibrations, Celebrating Love, Life and Magic, and Standing Shoulder to Shoulder: Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2023 announces programme of music, movement, poetry, art and stories to make us feel good.
Event
The Museum of Birds and Beasts at LHQ Gallery
The Museum of Birds and Beasts has been co-created by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley with the residents of five community hospitals in West Cork.
News
THE PAINT PROJECT: International Mapping Exercise of Arts Interventions in Renal Units
The PAINT project aims to undertake an international mapping exercise to identify the current provision of arts programmes for renal patients.
Event
What’s the Story? Care Home Resident Group Exhibition at An Táin Arts Centre
What’s the Story.
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.
Event
Helium Arts February mid-term camps for children with physical health conditions
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is hosting free art workshops this mid-term to support children aged 8-12 with lifelong physical health conditions in living life to the full.
Opportunity
Speed Meeting for Slow Art: Matchmaking initiative for older person organisations and artists in Clare
Speed Meeting for Slow Art is a matchmaking initiative by Age & Opportunity, providing creative networking for artists and organisations who work with older people.
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Wherever you go: Learnings from an emerging arts and health practice by Áine Rose Connell
Áine Rose Connell, a visual artist and poet, brings her background as a Speech and Language Therapist and her experience of collaborative poetry making to bear in Wherever you go, a written exploration of her emerging arts and health practice.
News
One Nation One Project: An Arts and Wellness Journey across the United States
One Nation/One Project is bringing together artists, local government, and health providers across the United States with the aim of fostering equitable recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic and creating healthier communities through the arts.
Event
Spring 2023 dance classes for people with Dementia and Parkinson’s: Dance Theatre of Ireland
Dance Theatre of Ireland's dance classes for people living with Parkinson's (Dancing Well with Parkinson's) and Dementia (Movement to Music inclusive of Dementia) are now open for registration for spring 2023.
Opportunity
Arts Council Agility Award 2023, Round 1
The Arts Council’s Agility Award is open to individual freelance artists and arts workers at any stage of their careers and is available across all art forms and art practice areas supported by the Arts Council.
News
Alfie’s Escapades: Waterford Healing Arts Trust hosts posthumous launch of stories by Liz McCue
Waterford Healing Arts Trust hosted the posthumous launch of Alfie’s Escapades, the second book by former renal dialysis patient Liz McCue, on 6 December, to mark Liz’s first anniversary.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award 2023
The Arts Council’s Arts Participation Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their practice in the area of participatory, collaborative, community and/or socially engaged arts.
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.
Opportunity
Call for artists with experience of inclusive arts programming – dlr Arts Office Artist Panel
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office is looking for artists / facilitators from all artform areas with experience devising and delivering workshops, to potentially work as part of dlr Lexicon Gallery’s Learning Programme and / or Youth Creative Engagement Programme.
Opportunity
Poems for Patience: Saolta Arts Poetry Competition 2023
Saolta Arts, the dedicated arts service for the Saolta University Health Care Group, is seeking entries for its annual poetry competition.
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.
Opportunity
Invitation to Tender – Evaluation of the Arts & Creative Charter for Older People Pilot
Age & Opportunity is seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to provide evaluation services for the Arts & Creative Charter for Older People Pilot Project.
Event
I brought the dream of flying… Exhibition by Corina Duyn and Caroline Schofield at GOMA
I brought the dream of flying… is a new exhibition by artists Corina Duyn and Caroline Schofield at GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford.
Opportunity
Helium Arts Seeks an Operations Coordinator
Helium Arts is the national children’s arts and health charity, developing the creativity of children living with lifelong physical conditions through the arts to support their wellbeing including social connections, self-esteem, and sense of agency.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Research and Learning Programmer with Create
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, has a new job opportunity for a Research and Learning Programmer.
News
Amber spreads the LOVE at St Luke’s General Hospital Carlow Kilkenny with a community art installation
Amber Women’s Refuge recently partnered with St Luke’s General Hospital Kilkenny to bring the LOVE Installation to the hospital, raising awareness around gender-based violence.
News
Arts & Creative Charter for Older People
Age & Opportunity recently launched the Arts & Creative Charter for Older People, setting out the arts sector’s commitment to promoting key values and guiding principles in engaging with older people.
Event
Meet and Move for Memory: Dementia-inclusive dance workshops in Kildare
Dance artist Ailish Claffey is leading a series of free dance workshops promoting brain health for older residents of county Kildare, especially those living with dementia.
Event
Dementia and Creativity Awareness Talks at dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire
dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire is hosting a series of talks, co-ordinated by the Global Brain Health Institute, highlighting the impact and benefit of creativity in the lives of people with dementia.
Event
The Floor is Yours 2022 – Networking day for dance artists working with older people
The Floor is Yours! is a networking event for dance artists, companies and organisations working with older people, which aims to strengthen and connect the sector.
Opportunity
Open Call: Opportunities for artists with Saolta Arts
Building on the participatory arts programme at Galway University Hospitals (GUH), Saolta Arts invites professional practicing artists (all artforms) to apply for opportunities in the following hospitals of Saolta University Health Care Group in 2023 – 2024: University Hospital Galway, Merlin Park University Hospital, Portiuncula University Hospital Ballinasloe, Mayo University Hospital and Roscommon University Hospital.
Event
Irish Doctors Orchestra plays UCD Astra Hall to raise funds for Safetynet Primary Care
The all-Ireland Irish Doctors Orchestra will play UCD’s Astra Hall on Sunday 13 November to raise funds for Safetynet Primary Care.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts Trust invites proposals for 2023–2025 Exhibition Programme at University Hospital Waterford
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites artists of all art forms and disciplines to submit proposals for its exhibition programme 2023–2025 at University Hospital Waterford.
News
Culture For Health: European Union Partnership Project
CultureForHealth is a project co-funded by the European Commission responding to the objective of the Preparatory Action – Bottom-Up Policy Development for Culture & Wellbeing in the EU.
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
Dance Bualadh Bos: Interactive dance performance created with older-age communities
Set to an evocative soundtrack, two strangers meet and journey into a world of dance with just a slice of life and a touch of drama along the way.
Event
Running an Inclusive Community Choir: Free Workshop by Embrace Music
Suitable for both new and experienced facilitators, this workshop facilitated by Embrace Music will explore ways of creating a welcoming and inclusive space for community singing.
Event
Bealtaine Gathering 2022
The Gathering is an annual networking event for the community of event organisers, artists, partners and supporters of Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival which takes place each May and celebrates the arts and creativity as we age.
Event
Creative Carers: Arts programme for home carers in West Cork
The Arts for Health partnership programme has launched a new arts programme for home carers in West Cork.
Opportunity
Experience 2022: An Introduction to Arts, Health & the Older Person
Experience 2022: An Introduction to Arts, Health and the Older Person is an online learning programme for arts practitioners led by Age & Opportunity, Waterford Healing Arts Trust and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.
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.
Opportunity
Job Opportunities with Helium Arts: Hospital Programme Coordinator, Remote Programme Coordinator
Helium Arts is the national children’s arts and health charity, developing the creativity of children living with lifelong physical conditions through the arts to support their wellbeing including social connections, self-esteem, and sense of agency.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is seeking a Programme and Operations Manager (Deputy CEO)
Helium Arts is seeking a motivated, experienced and highly organised senior manager to lead both the Programme and Operations functions of the organisation and to deputise for the CEO when required.
Opportunity
Tallaght University Hospital seeks an Arts & Health Administrator, Grade IV
Tallaght University Hospital is seeking an Administration Assistant (Grade IV) to support the vibrant and progressive programme delivered by the Arts & Health Department.
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.
Event
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.
Event
Webinar for Healthcare Managers: Developing arts programmes for older people in long stay care
Taking place as part of the Expanding Arts in Healthcare programme, this webinar will offer practical guidance on developing and implementing arts programming for older people in long stay care.
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.
Event
Webinar for HSE Staff: Inclusive methods of arts engagement for older people in long stay care
Are you interested in developing age-appropriate and inclusive arts activities with artists for older people in your service.
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
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.
Event
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.
News
Brightly Burning Flame: Justin Grounds and the Irish Doctors Orchestra
In June 2022, after two years of working through the pandemic, members of the Irish Doctors Orchestra met together on Heir Island off the coast of West Cork for a week of music making.
Opportunity
Call for artists, creative and wellbeing facilitators to work with older people in care settings
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (dlr) County Council is seeking artists, creative and wellbeing facilitators / practitioners to work with residents in residential care settings and older people attending local day care services in dlr as part of the Cuairt agus Cultúr programme.
Event
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.
Event
Beside the Sea at Riverbank Arts Centre
Beside the Sea is a new music performance by composer Ian Wilson, written in response to his father’s death after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.
Opportunity
Applications invited from artists to join the Artists Care Exchange (ACE)
Age & Opportunity is seeking applications from professional artists with an interest and background in the arts and older people in a care context, to participate in a new Age & Opportunity professional development arts initiative, the Artists Care Exchange (ACE).
News
After West of Sumer: An exhibition of botanical art opens at University Hospital Waterford
After West of Sumer, an exhibition of 15 giclée prints of botanical art, is currently showing at University Hospital Waterford. The title of the exhibition was inspired by the history of the Sumerians, an ancient people who some 5000 years ago recorded some of the first medicinal herbal and botanical preparations onto clay tablets.
Event
International Association for Dance Medicine & Science: Annual conference comes to Limerick
The International Association for Dance Medicine & Science is hosting its 32nd annual conference at the University of Limerick from 28-31 October 2022, with over 500 professionals in the field of dance medicine and science expected to attend.
News
Catarina Araújo announced as Artist in Residence with Waterford Healing Arts Trust
Have you ever wanted to press pause on your busy life.
Opportunity
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.
Event
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.
Opportunity
Open Call: Arts and Inclusion Commissions 2022 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is offering commission opportunities to artists, arts groups or arts organisations working in the area of arts and inclusion.
Event
Arts and Health: Methodologies, Methods and Networking – ECRN Online Event
The Arts Health Early Career Research Network brings together early career researchers working on projects that lie at the intersection of the arts, humanities, health and medicine.
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
New Music Director sought for Bantry Community Choir
Bantry Community Choir is recruiting for a new Music Director.
Opportunity
Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme 2022 – Round 2 deadline
The Arts Council offers awards through the Artist in the Community Scheme twice a year to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
Event
Love in a Cold Climate: Arts and Creativity in Care in Finland – UK and Ireland Tour
In 2021, the Baring Foundation published Love in a cold climate, a report which profiled inspiring examples of arts and creativity with older people in Finland.
Event
The Road of Life: Music and Songwriting Experiences for Older People
Over this summer and autumn, older people across the country have the opportunity to take part in new creative initiatives that are being delivered by Age Friendly Ireland.
In Conversation
Video – 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.
Opportunity
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.
Event
Webinar: Co-creating arts for brain health – a global perspective
To mark world Alzheimer’s Month, the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) is hosting a webinar on 6 September in collaboration with Veronica Franklin Gould, president of Arts 4 Dementia.
News
A Little Unsteadily Into Light: New Dementia-Inspired Fiction
A Little Unsteadily Into Light, an anthology of 14 new short stories exploring personal experiences of dementia, will be published this September by New Island Books.
Opportunity
An introduction to Music in Healthcare for musicians in Athy
Embrace Music, in association with Creative Places Athy, invite expressions of interest from Athy-based musicians to participate in a two-day Introduction to Music in Healthcare training course on 15 and 16 September.
Opportunity
Research opportunity: multisensory arts-based approach to working with people with dementia
dlr Arts Office is looking for suitably qualified individuals or organisations to research, consult and collate learning from an arts-based multisensory approach to working with people with dementia.
Opportunity
Age & Opportunity: Call for expressions of interest for Artists Care Exchange (ACE) Facilitator
Age & Opportunity is seeking expressions of interest from key individuals with an interest and background in the arts and older people in a care context, to act as facilitator for a new Age & Opportunity Arts initiative, the Artists Care Exchange (ACE).
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Premiere of Marie Brett’s film Yes, But Do You Care? with discussion at IMMA, 21 July
IMMA presents Marie Brett's new film, Yes, But Do You Care.
Opportunity
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.
Opportunity
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.
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.
Event
Ageing and Creativity Seminar with Prof Colin Doherty and the Na Cailleacha Collective
Damer House Gallery is hosting a seminar on Ageing and Creativity on 16 July with keynote speakers Prof Colin Doherty, Consultant Neurologist in St James’s Hospital and Consultant in Clinical Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, and the Na Cailleacha Collective.
News
HARP – Health, Arts, Research, People – A model for innovation in arts and health
HARP (Health, Arts, Research, People) is a multi-partner research and innovation programme that has been exploring how the arts can take a leading role in creating ‘A Healthier Wales’.
News
artsandhealth.ie announces recipient of documentation bursary 2022
The artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary aims to encourage high quality, creative documentation of an arts and health project.
News
Áine Rose Connell announced as recipient of artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary 2022
The artsandhealth.ie emerging artist bursary affords time and space for an early career artist to reflect on their arts and health practice.
Opportunity
Performing arts programmer sought for Bealtaine Festival
Bealtaine is Ireland’s national festival celebrating the arts and creativity as we age.
Opportunity
MTU CCAD Arts in Health & Wellbeing 2022-23 Courses
Arts in Health & Education, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design are currently recruiting for their September course intake across the department.
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.
News
The Art of Being Healthy and Well Symposium launched by Ministers Martin and Donnelly
Catherine Martin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and Stephen Donnelly, Minister for Health, jointly affirmed their recognition of the health and wellbeing benefits of creativity and arts at The Art of Being Healthy and Well on 22 June.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award 2023 (Round 1)
The Arts Council’s Arts Participation Project Award supports proposals from professional artists or arts organisations that wish to collaborate artistically with non-arts professionals (individuals or groups).
News
A mind map, with apologies to Jeremy Deller: Reflections by John Conway
John Conway is a visual artist working extensively with health-related communities of interest and in healthcare settings.
In Conversation
Video – Dance and Health: Carolann Courtney in conversation with Philippa Donnellan, Shann Morris and Irene Kelly
Dance and health practice is explored through personal insights into Age & Opportunity’s Artist in Residence in a Care Setting initiative at Naas Day Centre.
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.
Event
A Collection of Conversations – Dementia Inclusive Exhibition at dlr LexIcon and Highlanes Gallery
From mid-June two neighbouring art galleries in Dún Laoghaire and Drogheda present ‘A Collection of Conversations’, a dementia inclusive exhibition.
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.
News
Unmasked at St James’s Hospital honours frontline healthcare workers
Unmasked, a wall art installation by street artist Asbestos, was recently unveiled at St James’s Hospital in Dublin.
Event
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.
Event
Ageing Artfully Going Global: International Online Conference
The coronavirus pandemic forced cultural organisations around the world to change how they engaged with older audiences.
Opportunity
Arts Council Agility Award 2022, Round 2
The Arts Council's Agility Award is open to individual freelance artists and arts workers at any stage of their careers and is available across all art forms and art practice areas supported by the Arts Council.
Opportunity
Vacancy: Arts and Health Manager with Cavan County Council
Cavan County Council is seeking applications from suitably qualified candidates with relevant experience for a part-time position (18.5 hours per week) as Arts and Health Manager on a three-year specific purpose contract.
Event
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.
Event
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.
Opportunity
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.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Arts Programme Administrator with Age & Opportunity
Age & Opportunity is recruiting for a part-time Arts Programme Administrator.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award 2022
The Arts Council's Arts Participation Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their arts participation practice, including collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices.
Event
ReStorying Ageing: Older Women and Life Writing
ReStorying Ageing is a one-day webinar bringing together researchers, writers and the public to explore the diversity of women's experiences as part of Bealtaine Festival 2022.
Event
Celebrating Bealtaine with Arts for Health in West Cork
Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre is celebrating Bealtaine Festival this May with an array of free events at the centre, online, and around the parks of West Cork. As part of the celebration, the Arts for Health partnership programme, which is managed by Uillinn, is bringing arts experiences to older people in care settings across West Cork.
Opportunity
Children’s Health Ireland seeks Arts in Health Programme Administrator Grade IV
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) is seeking to recruit an Arts in Health Programme Administrator to provide administrative assistance to the Arts in Health Programme.
Opportunity
Open Call: WHAT Artist in Residence at University Hospital Waterford 2022
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has issued an open call to artists of all arts disciplines to apply to be Artist in Residence at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) in 2022.
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.
Event
The Ballad of a Care Centre at Riverbank Arts Centre
The Ballad of a Care Centre is a visual art and audio installation by Kildare artist John Conway which is being exhibited as part of Bealtaine Festival 2022.
Opportunity
Arts + Health Bursaries 2022: Documentation Bursary and Emerging Artist Bursary
The national arts and health website is delighted to announce that we will be offering two bursaries in 2022. The documentation bursary will support the production of a short film, audio documentary or publication about an arts and health project. The emerging artist reflective bursary is available for an early-career artist to reflect on their arts and health practice.
Event
Moving Minds Immersive Conference – Dance, Mental Health & Wellbeing
Immerse yourself in dance programmes that are having a big impact on young people’s lives.
News
Over 10,000 patients and staff in Irish hospitals to receive ‘Menu of Poems’ for Poetry Day Ireland
To celebrate Poetry Day Ireland on Thursday 28 April, a Menu of Poems will be distributed throughout Irish hospital wards, waiting rooms and other healthcare settings for patients, visitors and staff to enjoy.
Opportunity
Musicians-On-Call: Call for Musicians in Limerick, Claire and North Tipperary
The Musicians-on-Call (MOC) project is delivered by professionally trained healthcare musicians from Kids' Classics, Ireland’s leading music in healthcare organisation, to bring music-making opportunities to residents and healthcare staff in nursing homes and community hospitals.
Opportunity
Music in Healthcare Settings: Introductory Course for Musicians in Meath and Louth
Music in Healthcare Settings is a three-day introductory course led by Kids' Classics, taking place from 12-14 May.
Opportunity
Call Out: Music in Healthcare Young Graduates Project
Kids’ Classics, Ireland's leading music in healthcare organisation, is spearheading a new initiative to connect young musicians who have completed third-level education to Music in Healthcare as a field of practice.
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Dance and Health: Carolann Courtney in conversation with Philippa Donnellan, Shann Morris and Irene Kelly
Dance activities in health and social care settings can provide a range of benefits from enhancements in physical and cognitive health, to the emotional and social wellbeing of participants, according to the WHO Scoping Review on arts and health interventions (2019).
Event
Bealtaine Festival 2022 – Celebrating the arts and creativity as we age
Bealtaine, Ireland's annual festival celebrating creativity as we age, is back with a bang in May 2022.
News
Arts Council Artist Survey 2022: Financial Impact of Covid-19
The Arts Council has issued a survey for artists to assess the continued financial impact of COVID-19.
Event
Consolation after Covid: Music written in response to loss at Drogheda Arts Festival
Drogheda Arts Festival presents Ficino Quartet in a concert of music curated by Professor Desmond O’Neill, who combined his love of music and medical experience to curate a concert that reflects loss and music.
Opportunity
Basic Income for the Arts – Launch of Government Pilot Scheme
The Irish Government has launched a pioneering pilot scheme to support artists and creative arts workers.
Opportunity
Irish Hospice Foundation Artist Commissions: Moments of Care for HSE Staff
The Irish Hospice Foundation is offering commissions for artists to develop new creative work in support of the health and wellbeing of healthcare staff in the HSE.
Opportunity
MA Social Practice and the Creative Environment 2022-23, Limerick School of Art and Design
MA Social Practice and the Creative Environment (MA SPaCE) at Limerick School of Art and Design is a unique taught master’s programme in socially engaged art practice.
News
Creative Ireland awards over €1million to creative projects for older people
The Creative Ireland programme has announced it is awarding €1,000,000 to creative projects that will enhance the health and wellbeing of Ireland’s older people as they emerge from the pandemic.
Opportunity
Open Call: Commission for multisensory installation for people with dementia
dlr Arts Office invites applications for the creation of a multisensory installation for people with dementia.
Opportunity
Job Opening with Kids’ Classics: Operations Manager
Kids’ Classics CLG is a not-for-profit organisation that provides high quality music making opportunities in educational, healthcare and community settings.
News
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: encounters by the hospital bedside, in a communal room with others we have never have met, or increasingly in the virtual realm where we try to read each other across a screen of faces.
Event
The Hidden Mountain, the Fort and the Five Trees: Marie Brett survey exhibition
Artist Marie Brett has a major survey exhibition across the whole of Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, County Cork, featuring some of her iconic works that consider social, psychological, allegorical, and mystical methods of processing trauma, conflict, and control.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is seeking a Marketing and Communications Executive
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is currently recruiting for the position of Marketing and Communications Executive to join their team, three days a week, based in Mullingar, Westmeath.
Event
The Sunday Service at Cúirt Festival: Reflections on Loss
Sometimes art can express things in ways we as individuals cannot.
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.
News
Impacted by Covid-19? Free Counselling Project by MyMind Centre for Mental Wellbeing
MyMind Centre for Mental Wellbeing are leading a new initiative, backed by the Department of Health, to provide free counselling and therapy to those impacted by Covid-19, including frontline workers in medical and care settings and creative sector workers.
Opportunity
Call for proposals: Regional creative initiatives for older people
Age Friendly Ireland in conjunction with the Creative Ireland Programme are inviting proposals from creative organisations (national and local) and individual creative practitioners to deliver regional creative initiatives for older people in 2022.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award 2022
The Arts Council's Arts Participation Project Award supports initiatives in the field of arts participation (participatory, collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices).
Opportunity
Funding Opportunity – Traveller Wellbeing Through Creativity
Traveller Wellbeing through Creativity is a pilot programme developed by the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland Programme), the Creative Ireland Programme, the HSE and the Arts Council.
News
An artistic intervention: Launch of oncology paediatric mask project
This March, St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network announced the launch of their oncology paediatric mask project.
Event
Azure Tours at Butler Gallery 2022: Dementia-inclusive art viewing programme
The Azure tours at Butler Gallery in Kilkenny are designed for people living with Alzheimer's and Dementia and their families and supporters.
Opportunity
PLATFORM 31 Artist Support Scheme 2022
PLATFORM 31 is a national artist development scheme by Local Authority Arts Offices, supporting artists to investigate how they might develop their practice or make work in a different way.
Opportunity
Helium Arts seeks new board members in the areas of Arts and Culture and Healthcare
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is seeking to appoint three new board members in the areas of Arts and Culture and Healthcare to join their Voluntary Board of Directors.
Event
Time-Lapse exhibition by Maria Noonan-McDermott: A personal exploration of Alzheimer’s
Over the last five years while caring for her mother who was living with Alzheimer’s, artist Maria Noonan-McDermott has been 'unwittingly working towards' her new body of work.
Opportunity
Early-Stage Dementia Awareness Training for the Arts – online programme
Arts 4 Dementia in the UK is delivering Early-Stage Dementia Awareness Training, supporting practitioners and arts organisations who wish to increase their skills and confidence in communicating and working creatively with people experiencing the early stages of dementia and their carers.
News
Moments That Matter
Moments That Matter is a series of artworks by artist John Conway, created for mothers engaging with LauraLynn, Ireland's Children's Hospice.
Event
Dance Theatre of Ireland: Classes for people with Dementia and Parkinson’s, Well-Dance for Seniors
Dance Theatre of Ireland hosts a number of dance for health programmes, both in person and online, for older people and those living with Parkinson's and Dementia.
Event
Creative Brain Week kicks off this March
Creative Brain Week, a Global Brain Health Institute initiative, kicks off online and in person at Trinity College Dublin from 12 - 16 March 2022.
Opportunity
Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme 2022 – Round 1 deadline
The Arts Council offers awards through the Artist in the Community Scheme to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
News
Creative Ireland Programme extended to 2027 – Creative Health and Wellbeing a priority area
This week the government announced that the work of the Creative Ireland Programme, an all-of-government culture and wellbeing initiative, will continue for a further five years.
Opportunity
National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award 2022
Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival, in partnership with Nursing Homes Ireland, wish to recognise two outstanding arts projects through the National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award.
Opportunity
Creative Evaluation: Online workshop programme with Willis Newson
Willis Newson, one of the UK's leading arts and health consultancies, is delivering a programme of three online workshops exploring how to develop and use creative approaches to evaluation.
Opportunity
Kildare County Council Arts Service: Arts, Health & Wellbeing awards and supports
Kildare County Council Arts Service has announced a new suite of grants and workshops to support creative projects and artists working in the area of Arts, Health & Wellbeing in the county in 2022.
Event
MAKE 2022: Art and Healing Symposium
The MAKE 2022 Symposium, hosted by the MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, will explore the role of art in healing, both the intimate, personal healing of illness and bereavement, as well as repair and restoration in society and the environment.
Opportunity
Creativity & Change Spring Training Workshops 2022
The Creativity & Change programme, based at MTU Crawford College of Art & Design in Cork City, is hosting a series of in-person training workshops this spring.
Event
Do we have the “right” story? In Conversation with Dr Suzanne Denieffe, Joe Brennan and Paula Lowney
Our first Arts and Health Conversation of 2022 explores human rights, recovery and creative approaches in mental health.
Event
Panel Discussion: Invisible Cords / Sacred Conversations at Riverbank Arts Centre
Invisible Cords at McKenna Gallery, Riverbank Arts Centre is a collection of artwork developed by Kildare-based visual artist Clodagh Kelly over the last 10 years.
Opportunity
Poems for Patience Poetry Competition 2022
Saolta Arts is seeking entries for its annual poetry competition.
News
THE SINGING BODY: Personal Reflections on an Arts & Health Practice by Sadhbh O’Sullivan
Sadhbh O’Sullivan’s music in healthcare journey began during a Training Notes course in 2013.
Event
Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing 2022
This year’s Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing takes place in Waterford and online on the festival’s new dates, Monday 7 to Saturday 12 February.
Event
SDHRC Research Webinar Series – Health Through Arts: Connecting People & Communities
A new research webinar series from the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health (SDHRC) brings together speakers from the UK, Europe, USA, and Australia to explore important interrogations around the impact of arts-based applications on individuals in healthcare and wellbeing contexts and settings.
Opportunity
Vacancy: Programme Coordinator with Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is seeking a motivated, experienced and highly organised Programme Coordinator to support the management of Helium's national Creative Health Hub programme.
Event
Well Festival Keynote: Why Arts? A conversation with Dr Paul Finucane and Gemma Tipton
As part of Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2022, Dr Paul Finucane will talk about the significance of the arts in his life in a special keynote event in conversation with writer and editor Gemma Tipton.
News
Have your Say: Basic Income Scheme for the Arts
Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, has launched an online consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) pilot scheme to solicit the views of artists, those working in the arts and culture sector and the public.
Event
Pride of Place: Virtual exhibition by Co Louth care home residents
Pride of Place is a virtual art exhibition by County Louth care home residents, running until 31 January 2022.
Opportunity
St Francis Hospice Core Values Poetry Competition
Poets of all ages are invited to participate in St Francis Hospice's 'Our Values in Verse' poetry competition.
Event
Dance Ireland dance classes for people with Parkinson’s 2022
In Dance Ireland's Dance for Parkinson’s classes, participants are inspired to explore movement and music in ways that are energising, fun, stimulating and creative.
Event
Practising Well with Nicola Naismith: Online Conversation Series
The working conditions for creative practitioners in the participatory arts sector are explored in Nicola Naismith's new research publication, Practising Well: Conversations and Support Menu (January 2022, Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University).
Opportunity
Arts Council Agility Award 2022, Round 1
The Arts Council's Agility Award is an open and flexible grant scheme designed around the needs of individual freelance artists and arts workers at any stage of their careers.
Opportunity
Call for short films: WHO Health for All Film Festival 2022
The World Health Organization's Health for All Film Festival invites independent filmmakers, production companies, public institutions, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films on health.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award 2022
The Arts Council's Arts Participation Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their arts-participation practice, including collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices.
Opportunity
Open Call: Create Ireland Artist Mentoring Award
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, invites expressions of interest from collaborative socially engaged artists, or artists interested in/transitioning into collaborative socially engaged arts, who wish to avail of a focused period of mentorship to develop and consolidate their practice.
Opportunity
Open Call: Not the time to be silent – Cover art for collected works
Not the time to be silent is a socially engaged arts response to social distancing formed in March 2020 by Irish artist Siobhan Potter.
Opportunity
Arts Health Research Intensive 2022: Introduction to the evidence base around arts in health
The Arts Health Research Intensive provides a rich introduction to the evidence base around arts in health and fundamentals of evaluation and research.
News
Irish Hospice Foundation and Creative Ireland fund 27 projects creatively exploring dying, death, and bereavement
The Irish Hospice Foundation has awarded seed grants to 27 projects to support creative exploration of dying, death, and bereavement, funded by the Creative Ireland Programme.
Event
First Fortnight 2022: Ireland’s Arts & Mental Health Festival
First Fortnight, Ireland’s annual Mental Health Art & Culture Festival, runs from 2-16 January 2022 with in person and online events spanning art, music, theatre, literature, dance, film, discussion and more.
Opportunity
Call For Abstracts: Singing For Health Research Conference
Early career researchers, practitioner researchers and postgraduate students are invited to submit an abstract to present their work at the Singing For Health Research Conference, taking place online on 18 February 2022.
In Conversation
Video – Looking to the Future: Arts & Health in Ireland
What do we need to progress arts and health practice in Ireland.
Event
The Floor is Yours 2021 – Networking day for dance artists working with older people
Dance Ireland and Age & Opportunity, in consultation with Dance Theatre of Ireland, are hosting a free online networking event on 3 December for dance artists, companies and organisations working with older people.
Arts Council Collection in Healthcare Settings
Arts Council Collection at University Hospital Limerick
Patients, staff and visitors at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) have been able to view 16 pieces of visual art from the Arts Council Collection, hanging between the main reception and the Outpatients entrance to the hospital, since they were installed in September 2019.
Opportunity
Public Art Coordinator position with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is currently seeking applications for the post of Public Art Coordinator following a successful application to the Arts Council Specialist Staffing Scheme.
Opportunity
Story2Remember: Call for health and social care professionals
Are you a health or social care professional with a passion for storytelling.
Event
Creative Activity in the Ageing Population: Webinar
The Creative Ireland Programme and The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin are hosting a lunchtime webinar on 22 November to launch the publication of the 'Creative Activity in the Ageing Population' report.
Event
Discoveries in Distanced Arts: remote creative programmes with older people
Entelechy Arts is hosting a free online workshop on 24 November to share learning and practical tips for how to develop remote creative programmes, co-created with older people.
Opportunity
Experience: An Introduction to Arts, Health & the Older Person
Experience: An Introduction to Arts, Health and the Older Person is an online learning programme, taking place over three mornings from 7-9 December 2021 in partnership with Age & Opportunity, Waterford Healing Arts Trust and Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre.
Event
Checking In 2021: Reflection and Renewal in Arts & Health Practice
Checking In is back! The 2021 edition will bring the arts and health community in Ireland together on Tuesday 30 November to reflect, to share practice and experiences, and to look forward in the particular context of the Covid-19 era.
News
National Map: Singing For Health Groups in Ireland
A national map documenting all Singing for Health and Wellbeing groups in the Republic of Ireland is now available on the Sing Ireland website.
News
An evaluation of Age & Opportunity’s Care Hubs of Arts Excellence
The Care Hubs of Arts Excellence are an initiative of Age & Opportunity’s Arts Programme which focuses on older people’s artistic creativity and creative potential, and supports the meaningful participation and inclusion of older people in cultural and creative life.
Opportunity
Kildare Arts Service First Fortnight Award
Kildare County Council invites applications from individual artists and/or collectives to the Kildare Arts Service First Fortnight Award for projects that address challenges and provoke conversation around mental health.
Event
Patience: Exhibition by Andy Parsons, Artist in Residence at Sligo University Hospital
The Model in Sligo presents Patience, an exhibition of new work by artist Andy Parsons.
Opportunity
What Next? Arts & Ageing Workshops and Clinics
As part of the What Next.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is seeking to employ a visual artist in Galway City (part-time)
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is seeking to employ a professional, multi-disciplinary visual artist to join their Creative Health Programme.
News
What Next? Arts and Ageing Resources
What Next.
Event
What Next for Sustainable Practice: Arts & Health South West Annual Conference 2021
Arts & Health South West in the UK are hosting their annual conference on the theme 'What Next for Sustainable Practice?' This event will take place online on Wednesday 24 November 2021.
News
The Day-Crossing Farm: launch of documentary film and research archive
The Day-Crossing Farm is a large-scale immersive installation with live performance exploring issues of human trafficking, modern-day-slavery and drug farming, created by visual artist Marie Brett with a large team of contributors including people with lived experience of trafficking and forced labour.
Opportunity
Creative networking for artists and organisations who work with older people in Tipperary and Roscommon
Speed Meeting for Slow Art is an initiative by Age & Opportunity to match artists and arts organisations wishing to work with older people through a meet, greet and exchange initiative.
Opportunity
Open Call: Musicians for NCH Health & Harmony programme
The National Concert Hall's community music programme Health & Harmony brings interactive music performances to dementia day care and respite centres throughout Ireland.
Opportunity
Irish Hospice Foundation’s Seed Grants 2022: Creative Exploration of Loss
Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) offer Seed Grants to communities / individuals wishing to creatively process or memorialise loss.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is seeking a Programme Manager (Maternity Cover)
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is seeking a motivated, experienced and highly organised Programme Manager to provide maternity cover.
Event
Looking to the Future: Arts and Health in Ireland – Panel Conversation 20 October
The national website for arts and health celebrates its 10th anniversary in October 2021.
Event
Future Happiness: Resort Residency – Revelations 2021
Resort Residency – Revelations Programme returns to the Donabate / Portrane Peninsula from 8 - 10 October.
Event
Launch of Living Map of Singing for Health and Wellbeing Groups in the Republic of Ireland
Researchers in music therapy at the University of Limerick have mapped all Singing for Health and Wellbeing groups in the Republic of Ireland.
Event
West Cork Feelgood Festival 2021
West Cork Feelgood Festival is bringing all the feels in 2021.
News
Cards Created By You: Staff Art Project at Tallaght University Hospital
Staff at Tallaght University Hospital were invited to take part in the 'Cards Created by You' project in 2020, initiated by the TUH Arts Department.
News
Get involved: Arts and Creative Charter for Older People
The Arts and Creative Charter for Older People, developed by Age & Opportunity, aims to raise the standard of arts practice in relation to older people and to create confidence amongst older people in relation to participating in the arts in Ireland.
Event
From Access to Inclusion, an Arts and Culture Summit: October workshops
In March 2021, Arts & Disability Ireland hosted From Access to Inclusion, an international summit exploring new and innovative ways to create accessible and inclusive experiences.
Event
Opportunity out of Adversity: Engaging Dementia Conference 2021
The 13th International Dementia Conference, organised by Engaging Dementia, is taking place online from 4-6 October 2021 on the theme of Opportunity out of Adversity.
Event
The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic
The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic by Dr Noreen Giffney (Routledge 2021) explores the formative influence of cultural objects in our lives, and the contribution such experiences make to our mental health and overall wellbeing.
News
New Documentary: Yes, But Do You Care? by Marie Brett
Yes, But Do You Care.
Event
Webinar: Arts and Creativity in Later Life – Implications for Public Health and Older People
The Institute of Public Health (IPH) is hosting a public webinar on 28 September to launch two new reports on 'Arts and Creativity in Later Life':.
Event
Bringing Art Home: Arts for Health exhibition in West Cork
Arts for Health Partnership Programme in West Cork is sharing drawings, paintings, poems, and written recollections, reflecting the memories and present-day concerns of the participants who took part in ‘Bringing Art Home – In West Cork’.
Opportunity
Vacancy: Marketing and Communications Executive with Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is currently recruiting for the position of Marketing and Communications Executive to join their team, three days a week, based in Mullingar, Westmeath.
Opportunity
Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2021: Collaborative Arts and Community Development
The Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2021: Collaborative Arts and Community Development aims to support an individual professional artist working in collaborative socially engaged arts practice.
News
St Luke’s Staff Portrait Project
Healthcare staff throughout the world have been deeply impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Opportunity
Open Call: Cork City Mural for the End HIV Stigma Project
The Sexual Health Centre is seeking tenders from suitably qualified artists (individuals or groups) to design and deliver a mural for the End HIV Stigma Project.
Event
Celebrating Arts and Health at Culture Night 2021
The tradition of bringing arts experiences to healthcare settings on Culture Night continues on Friday 17 September, with on-site and online events for health service users and staff taking place around the country.
News
Artworks by Conall Cary and Marielle MacLeman installed at the new Mortuary in University Hospital Waterford
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has announced the installation of new artworks by artists Conall Cary and Marielle MacLeman at the recently opened Mortuary at University Hospital Waterford.
News
Tea, Chats & Tunes
Covid protocols have created physical distance between families who have a loved one in a nursing home or healthcare setting.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts Trust invites artists to submit proposals to make UHW ‘a better place’
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has announced an open call to artists based in Ireland to submit proposals for its A Better Place exhibition, which takes place at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) later in 2021.
News
Other People’s Practices: And More Besides – Publication funded by the artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary
Other People’s Practices brings artists and health service users of the Central Mental Hospital together to collaborate on projects.
Opportunity
Arts and Inclusion Exploration Commissions with dlr Arts Office
dlr Arts Office has launched two commissions aimed at supporting an artist/arts organisation who work or intend to work with people in either the field of Arts and Health or Arts and Disability in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County.
Event
House of Memory comes to Galway International Arts Festival
House of Memory from Architecture at The Edge is coming to this year's Galway International Arts Festival.
Opportunity
Arts Council Agility Award 2021, Round 3
The Arts Council’s Agility Award is now open for Round 3 applications.
Opportunity
Irish Hospice Foundation – Arts & Creative Engagement Production Administrator
The Irish Hospice Foundation is recruiting for the role of Arts & Creative Engagement Production Administrator.
News
Ignite the Spark brings young and old together in Roscommon
Ignite the Spark is an intergenerational project connecting residents of the Sacred Heart Hospital and Care Home in Roscommon and members of Roscommon County Youth Theatre.
News
Visual Voices: Online arts experiences for older people in Clare
Visual Voices is a new series of free online art tours for people of older age in Clare led by Clare Arts Office and funded by the Creative Ireland Programme.
Opportunity
CCAD Arts in Group Facilitation Certificate
The Arts in Group Facilitation Certificate (Level 8, 10 credits) at Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork City focuses on the practical skills of planning and running creative workshops with groups in a range of non-formal contexts.
Opportunity
Cork Midsummer Festival – Head of Participation and Engagement
Cork Midsummer Festival is seeking a Head of Participation and Engagement to deliver high quality participatory arts experiences and lead on activities with the festival team and partners to make an inclusive and accessible festival.
Opportunity
Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme 2021 (Round 2)
The Arts Council's Artist in the Community Scheme 2021 (Round 2) is now open for applications.
News
Art Connects Mental Health: A Time to Breathe
Art Connects Mental Health: A Time to Breathe is a two-year European wide transnational partnership project that provides education, training and awareness-raising at national and European levels using creative processes to promote positive mental health and emotional wellbeing with young people.
In Conversation
Video – Public Art in Healthcare: Claire Meaney in conversation with George O’Neill and Conall Cary
Throughout 2021 we are hosting a public webinar series of curated conversations featuring arts practitioners and healthcare professionals.
Opportunity
Artist Opportunity with Waterford Healing Arts Trust
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is seeking to recruit a professional artist to deliver the Art Kart, an inspiring art programme for children and young people, in the Paediatric Ward of University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
Event
Other People’s Practices: And More Besides… Publication launch and artists panel talk
Other People’s Practices (OPP) is an artist residency and research project.
Opportunity
Arts for Health Learning Residency in West Cork
Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre in partnership with Cork County Council/Creative Ireland, Cork ETB and HSE Cork Kerry Community Healthcare are inviting expressions of interest from artists who would like to take up a learning residency as part of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme.
Opportunity
UL seeks Post Doctoral Researcher and Research Assistant – Arts for Health for Older Adults
The Faculty of Education & Health Sciences, School of Allied Health, at University of Limerick is inviting applications for the positions of Post Doctoral Researcher and Research Assistant for an Arts for Health for Older Adults research project.
Opportunity
Opportunity: Creative Ireland (Waterford) – Creative Arts Programme Co-ordinator
Waterford City and County Council (WCCC) is recruiting for the role of Creative Arts Programme Co-ordinator to link with Social Prescribing and other community services.
News
WHO project explores sustainable strategies for integrating the arts within the health sector
WHO/Europe and the Nordic Culture Fund are partnering on a project to explore effective and sustainable strategies for integrating arts and culture into the wider healthcare sector.
News
artsandhealth.ie announces 2021 bursary award recipients
The artsandhealth.ie bursary award 2021 was offered to artists working in participatory arts and health contexts to reflect on their practice.
In Conversation
Video – 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, explored the theme of cultural leadership during an online conversation in April 2021, produced as part of the artsandhealth.ie conversation series.
Opportunity
Invitation to Tender: Performing Arts Programming services for Bealtaine Festival 2022-2024
Bealtaine is Ireland’s national festival celebrating the arts and creativity as we age.
Opportunity
First Fortnight 2022 call for submissions: Ireland’s Arts & Mental Health Festival
First Fortnight, Ireland’s Mental Health Arts & Culture Festival, challenges mental health prejudice and stigma through arts and cultural action and programmes events that create spaces for unscripted conversations around mental health to happen.
Event
HARD CARE: Project Launch
HARD CARE is a socially-engaged art project by David McGovern making visible people, acts and places of care that sit outside the norm.
Event
Our World in a Window: Children’s touring exhibition by Helium Arts
Our World in a Window is a window gallery exhibition featuring the animations and mechanised artwork produced by 49 children across 18 counties on Helium Arts' Distance Creates remote programme.
News
Creativity & Change: Applications open for 2021/22
The Creativity & Change programme, based at CIT Crawford College of Art & Design, is about creativity and its power to ignite empathy, passion and learning about our world.
News
Can You See What I See? Exploring the person with dementia in new book by artist Caroline Hyland
Around 64,000 people in Ireland are currently living with dementia, while many thousands more provide support to loved ones, primarily at home.
Opportunity
Arts Council Agility Award 2021, Round 2
The Arts Council’s Agility Award is now open for Round 2 applications.
News
Brightening Air: The Ballad of a Care Centre
Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh is a ten day, nationwide season of arts experiences running from 11-20 June 2021, led by the Arts Council and funded by the Government of Ireland.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is recruiting for a Family Liaison to join their team
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is recruiting for the part-time position of Family Liaison, based in their office in Mullingar.
Opportunity
Project co-ordinator sought to develop pilot Artist in the Community Scheme Artist Mentor Panel project
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, is seeking a project coordination service provider to develop the pilot Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme Artist Mentor Panel project.
Event
Conference – Creative Lives: Tackling Inequalities
Creative Lives: Tackling Inequalities (2-3 June) investigates how creative health approaches and social prescribing can be used to connect and communicate life through generations.
Opportunity
Call for proposals: NOAH 2021 Conference – The Art of Resilience
NOAH, the National Organization for Arts In Health in the United States, is inviting international submissions for their 2021 virtual conference titled The Art of Resilience.
News
Arts Council Paying the Artist Survey – 2020 impact
The Arts Council is surveying artists on the impact of 2020 in the context of the Paying the Artist policy.
News
National Arts in Nursing Homes Day – 21 May 2021
The inaugural National Arts in Nursing Homes Day is taking place on Friday 21 May as part of Age & Opportunity's Bealtaine Festival 2021.
News
Mapping Arts and Health in Ireland – New report shows six-fold increase in activity since 2001
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought increased awareness of the importance of the arts in supporting personal and community wellbeing.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts Trust seeks Project Co-ordinator to join their team
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is recruiting for the new full-time position of Project Co-ordinator.
Opportunity
Dance and Older People – Pilot Mentoring Programme for Artists
As part of a continuing partnership supporting professional development for dance artists working with older people, Age & Opportunity and Dance Ireland are piloting Raise the Floor, a programme for professional development in this field.
News
We’ll be Back – A new song for International Nurses Day
On Wednesday 12 May, International Nurses Day, Arts for Health Partnership Programme will be releasing a new song, ‘We’ll be Back’.
Opportunity
Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund – Second round announced
The second round of the Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, in partnership with Business to Arts, is open for applications.
Event
Public Art in Healthcare: Claire Meaney in conversation with George O’Neill and Conall Cary
*This event has been rescheduled for Wednesday 30 June in light of ongoing disruption to HSE networks across Ireland caused by a cyber attack.
News
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, a training centre for adults with mental health conditions.
Opportunity
Musicians-On-Call: Kids Classics call for musicians based in Mid-West Region
The Musicians-on-Call project is delivered by professionally trained healthcare musicians from Kids Classics to bring music-making opportunities to residents and healthcare staff in nursing homes and community hospitals.
News
Waterford Healing Arts Trust announces Artist in Residence for 2021 at University Hospital Waterford
Storyteller Joe Brennan has been selected as Waterford Healing Arts Trust's Artist in Residence for 2021 at University Hospital Waterford.
Event
Bealtaine Festival: Bringing Art Home with Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is marking this year's Bealtaine Festival with events showcasing many of the art programmes and projects with older people that take place at the Centre and throughout the region each year.
Event
Bealtaine At Home 2021 – celebrating the arts and creativity as we age
Bealtaine Festival, Ireland’s national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age, takes place across the month of May.
News
Surviving or Thriving? Podcast series and resources for the arts sector
Waterford Healing Arts Trust in partnership with the Arts Council hosted an online series of panel discussions and workshops in March and April 2021 exploring the personal and professional impact of Covid-19 on the arts sector.
News
Murmurations: A Song Cycle
Murmurations is a three-part song cycle created by Sharon Murphy and Sadhbh O’Sullivan of Embrace Music.
Arts Council Collection in Healthcare Settings
Arts Council Collection at St Vincent’s University Hospital
How does art change the hospital environment.
Opportunity
artsandhealth.ie artist bursary 2021: reflecting on participatory arts and health practice
The artsandhealth.ie artist bursary 2021 is now open for applications.
News
A Bird at My Window and Other Stories
This April, Saolta Arts and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, in partnership with Saolta University Health Care Group, launched the third and final phase of A bird at my window and other stories by Sarah Fuller and Manuela Corbari.
News
Call for participants: Research study on music and dementia
Participants of all ages, with and without a family history of dementia, are invited to take part in a study exploring how music can help people at risk of developing dementia.
Event
IMMA presents Yes, But Do You Care? by Marie Brett
Yes, But Do You Care.
Event
Mental Health and the Arts: Experiencing Empathy Through Creativity
Experiencing Empathy Through Creativity is an online event on 16 April exploring how the experience of empathy is related to creativity and playfulness.
News
Stomping Out Loud! Music and the Brain
Stomping Out Loud! is a new video highlighting the impact of music on brain and mental health.
Opportunity
First Fortnight seeks an experienced CEO
First Fortnight seeks an experienced and dynamic CEO to lead the organisation, furthering the charity’s core objective in challenging mental health stigma and promoting mental health wellbeing nationally through art and culture.
Event
Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference 2021
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference is taking place online from 21-23 June 2021.
News
Emergence anthology celebrates the wisdom and resilience of ageing
Doctors caring for older people in Ireland have contributed their favourite poems and prose to a unique anthology celebrating the wisdom and resilience of ageing.
Event
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, will explore the theme of cultural leadership, including its role within the field of arts and health, during a lunchtime conversation on 21 April.
News
Ciara’s Comic: New publication from the National Hearing Implant and Research Centre
The National Hearing Implant & Research Centre at Beaumont Hospital has launched a publication aimed at children and teenagers.
Event
Bodies of Evidence: Contribution of Dance to Health and Wellbeing
Bodies of Evidence, a virtual symposium on 19 April, explores how we research and evaluate the contribution of dance to health and wellbeing within the wider arts and health landscape.
Opportunity
Artist in the Community Scheme – Increased Award Amounts and Timeframes
Create Ireland has announced a series of enhancements to the Artist in the Community Scheme, which enables artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
Event
Health, Activism and Social Arts Practice – Seminar
Tate Liverpool and Birmingham Institute of Creative Arts are hosting an online seminar on 25 March 2021 exploring Health, Activism and Social Arts Practice.
Poetry Prescriptions
Poetry Prescriptions: Hand Sanitisation by Catherine Cullinane
Catherine Cullinane is a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in Musculoskeletal Triage at University Hospital Waterford.
News
Launch of online version of ‘…the lives we live’ Grangegorman Public Art Book
The Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA) was set up in 2006 to redevelop the grounds of St.
News
Sound Community: Weekly podcast from Gamelan Spréacha Geala
Sound Community is a short weekly podcast from Gamelan Spréacha Geala, a community music group from West Cork.
News
Chronic Chats: participant call out
Chronic Chats is an online creative group for chronically ill people in Mayo led by chronically ill artist and designer Áine O’Hara.
Opportunity
Invitation to tender: Creative Enquiry 2021- Project Management Services
Creative Enquiry Arts and Older People was an investigative collaborative venture that creatively explored fresh approaches to arts engagement with older people and advanced best practice models.
News
National Centre for Creative Health launching in the UK
The National Centre for Creative Health launches in the UK on 9 March 2021.
News
Save the Date: Gráinne Hope in conversation with Moira Sinclair – Arts, Health and Cultural Leadership
The Arts and Health Conversation Series 2021 continues on Wednesday 21 April with Gráinne Hope, founder and Artistic Director of Kids’ Classics, in conversation with Moira Sinclair, Chief Executive of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Chair of Clore Leadership.
Arts Council Collection in Healthcare Settings
‘Artists Portraits 1987’ by Muiris Moynihan at MISA, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
We continue our series highlighting artworks on loan from the Arts Council of Ireland Collection to healthcare settings with a journey to Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St James’s Hospital, Dublin.
Opportunity
Age & Opportunity Creative Ageing Writing Bursary
The Age & Opportunity inaugural Creative Ageing Writing Bursary aims to generate discussion, debate and knowledge about creative ageing in Ireland.
News
Dance and Health: Reflections on Empowerment and Transformation by Helga Deasy
Dance artist and choreographer Helga Deasy was awarded an artsandhealth.ie artist bursary in 2020 to reflect on and interrogate her model for an empowering dance practice, specifically its applicability to her experience of working as a dancer in hospitals and care homes.
Event
Synaesthesia Concert for Brain Awareness Week 2021
Maynooth University psychology department and FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) are hosting a synaesthesia concert on 16 March for Brain Awareness Week.
Opportunity
Arts Council Agility Award 2021
The Arts Council's new Agility Award is an open and flexible grant scheme designed around the needs of professional artists and arts workers.
Opportunity
Opportunity: Visual artist sought to develop Helium Arts’ Remote Creative Health Programme
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking a professional, multi-disciplinary visual artist to develop Helium’s Remote Creative Health Programme for teenagers with long-term health conditions in 2021.
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Surviving or Thriving? Arts Council and WHAT launch online series to support the wellbeing of the Irish arts sector
The Arts Council and Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) have launched an online series designed to support the wellbeing of arts professionals in Ireland, with particular relevance to the present Covid-19 pandemic.
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Switching off and Being Creative: Design & Crafts Council Ireland collaboration with Healthy Ireland
Ireland's craftspeople and makers are sharing their skills with homes and communities across the country inspired by the Government’s ‘Keep Well’ campaign.
Opportunity
Invitation to tender: Research study of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork
Arts for Health is a partnership programme based in West Cork implementing a managed arts programme for older people in healthcare settings.
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From Access to Inclusion Symposium
From Access to Inclusion, an Arts and Culture Summit gathers the most thought-provoking leaders and advocates from across the globe.
Opportunity
Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme – Deadlines 2021
The Arts Council offers awards through the Artist in the Community Scheme to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
News
Age & Opportunity Toolkit for Arts & Creativity in Care Settings
Age & Opportunity has launched 'A Toolkit for Arts & Creativity in Care Settings: A practical guide to making the arts and creativity part of everyday life in a care setting.
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Minding Creative Minds: Online Meet and Greet Session
Minding Creative Minds (MCM), an organisation offering a free wellbeing and support programme to the Irish creative sector, is hosting an online meet and greet session on Monday 15 February.
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Digital Forum for the performing arts community | Theatre Forum, 4-5 February
Theatre Forum's Digital Forum is taking place on 4-5 February 2021 in partnership with The Space, a UK organisation that helps artists and organisations reach new audiences digitally.
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International Social Prescribing Network Conference 2021
'Social prescribing & community - beyond the pandemic' is the theme for The Social Prescribing Network's 2021 conference, the only international conference for social prescribing in the world.
News
Vocal Beats Report Launch: Music-making for Hospitalised Young People
rb&hArts at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust have published an External Evaluation Report on Vocal Beats, a hospital-ward-based music project for children and young people aged 0-25 years old.
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Music, Dementia and Positive Ageing: Live streamed event
Music, Dementia and Positive Ageing, a showcase of current research on positive ageing and dementia through the medium of music, will be live streamed from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick on 15 March 2021.
Opportunity
The Arts in Health International Foundation #ArtsAgainstCovid Awards
The Arts in Health International Foundation (AiHIF) has launched the #ArtsAgainstCovid Awards to acknowledge publicly those initiatives demonstrating the positive effects of arts for health in cases where the individual and collective health of people have been affected by the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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A Windward Calm: Short film explores the making of a hospital sculpture
A Windward Calm is a short documentary, going behind the scenes to explore the making of a suspended kinetic sculpture in a hospital environment.
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Well Dance At Home – Dance programmes for older people and families with Dementia and Parkinson’s
Well Dance At Home is a free programme of online dance classes hosted by Dance Theatre of Ireland.
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Launch of The Discover / Recover Theatre Project: A Social Impact Study
Mental Health Ireland in conjunction with Wexford Mental Health Association is hosting a webinar on 19 January to launch The Discover/Recover Theatre Project: A Social Impact Study with special guest, Minister for Mental Health and Older People Mary Butler TD.
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Our Stories – A series of artworks by John Conway inspired by staff working at the Children Health Ireland hospitals
Our Stories is a series of artworks by John Conway inspired by the artist’s conversations with staff of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin, Tallaght and Temple Street in 2019.
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IMMA Spring 2021 Art & Ageing Programme
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) has announced a series of online and remote arts experiences as part of its spring 2021 Art and Ageing Programme funded through Creative Ireland.
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Guest lecture by Dr Hilary Moss at University of Oxford
Dr Hilary Moss from University of Limerick will be guest speaker at University of Oxford's Faculty of Music Research Colloquia Series on 19 January 2021.
News
As They Blossomed: New poetry collection published by Magic Box Writing Group and Waterford Healing Arts Trust
As They Blossomed, a poetry collection by Magic Box Writing Group, edited by Lani O’Hanlon, has recently been published by Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
Opportunity
Irish Hospice Foundation: new grant scheme to support creativity in the community during COVID-19
Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) has launched a new IHF Seed Grant Scheme to inspire and support creative responses to the themes of dying, death and bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Arts Play Health: Bridging the Gap – online conference
'Bridging the gap between Arts and Play for Health and Wellbeing in Research, Policy and Practice' will take place online the week of 15 February 2021.
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In Conversation: Tess Leak and Sarah Cairns – New Pathways to Connect
We are delighted to announce a new bi-monthly online conversation series beginning this January.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts Trust invites applications for Artist in Residence 2021
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has issued an open call to artists of all arts disciplines to apply to be Artist in Residence at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) in 2021.
Opportunity
Artist Commission: LauraLynn Ireland’s Children’s Hospice
LauraLynn Ireland’s Children’s Hospice, with support from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s Arts Office, has announced an artist’s commission focusing on families that avail of LauraLynn's services.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award 2021
The Arts Council is now accepting applications for the Arts Participation Bursary Award 2021.
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First Fortnight 2021: Ireland’s Arts & Mental Health Festival
First Fortnight, Ireland’s annual Mental Health Art & Culture Festival, will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2021.
News
Age & Opportunity Care Hubs of Arts & Creative Excellence 2020/21
Age & Opportunity has announced the five artists and six care settings participating in the Care Hubs of Arts & Creative Excellence initiative 2020/2021.
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First Fortnight: Grangegorman Histories presents ‘Change Minds’ webinar
Grangegorman Histories will be hosting an introductory webinar to the Change Minds project on 15 January as part of the 2021 First Fortnight (Arts & Mental Health) Festival.
Opportunity
Arts Council Bursary Awards 2021
The Arts Council provides Bursary Awards in order to assist individual artists in the development of their art practice.
Opportunity
Job Opening with Kids’ Classics: Administration / Marketing Assistant (part-time)
Kids’ Classics CLG is a not-for-profit organisation that provides high quality music making opportunities in educational, healthcare and community settings.
Event
Webinar: An Introduction to Dance for Health
The Physical Activity for Health (PAfH) Research Cluster at University of Limerick is hosting a webinar exploring Dance for Health on 30 November at 12pm.
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Irish Doctors Choir: Livestream Autumn Concert on 29 November
This year, the November concert by the Irish Doctors Choir will be performed in aid of the MSF Covid-19 Crisis Fund.
Covid Chronicles
Covid Chronicles: Philip Fogarty | Thoughts of a musician in the wilderness
Philip Fogarty is a musician and sound artist.
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Create Networking Day 2020
Create’s Networking Day 2020 seeks to take stock of collaborative and socially engaged arts practice in a year unlike any other.
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A Psychoanalytic Discussion of the film ‘Mammal’
The Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations Film Club presents a psychoanalytic discussion of the film Mammal (dir.
News
New Irish podcast reveals impact of Covid-19 on Ireland’s artists
New Irish podcast Let’s Talk About The Arts has revealed the impact of Covid-19 on the arts industry.
Event
From Access to Inclusion: An Arts and Culture Summit
From Access to Inclusion, an Arts and Culture Summit gathers the most thought-provoking leaders and advocates from across the globe.
Opportunity
PLATFORM 31 – nationwide artist development scheme by Local Authority Arts Offices and the Arts Council
The Association of Local Authority Arts Offices (LAAOs), in collaboration with the Arts Council, present PLATFORM 31 – a national opportunity for artists to develop their practice and test new ideas of collaboration, research, audience development, place-making and sharing their work.
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Bookings open for Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2020
We are delighted to announce the programme for Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2020, which takes place online from 23 - 26 November.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Researcher, SPICE Project: Engagement and Learning at IMMA
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is seeking to recruit a researcher.
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Be Extra: Wellbeing Wednesdays for creative practitioners
Be Extra is a new Centre for Wellbeing in the Arts run by artists and creatives in the UK.
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Dementia Inclusive Gallery Tours Online at dlr LexIcon
The Municipal Gallery at dlr LexIcon has adapted its dementia inclusive tours to an online experience.
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Hamwe Festival – arts and global health festival
The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is hosting a second series of the Hamwe Festival virtually on 11 – 15 November 2020.
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Galway 2020: New audio artwork brings the sounds of the West of Ireland to patients’ bedsides
On Monday 9 November, Saolta Arts and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture launch another specially commissioned artwork as part of The Deepest Shade of Green programme.
Arts Council Collection in Healthcare Settings
New Series: Arts Council Collection in Healthcare Settings
The Arts Council Art Collection comprises over 1,100 works by Irish artists, which it loans to public spaces including galleries, libraries, schools and hospitals.
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Ageing Voices Lunchtime Panel Discussions
From 9-12 November, Sing Ireland and Creative Aging International will present four lunchtime panel conversations for 'Ageing Voices', a Creative Ireland supported initiative to offer tools and networks which encourage singing for health and wellbeing amongst adults, whether they live in the community or in care.
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Online event: Introduction to singing, health and cultural inclusivity
The Health Research Institute, PART-IM (Participatory and Arts-Based Methods for Involving Migrants in Research) cluster, at the University of Limerick, will host 'Singing with the Voices of the World: A Day of Online Workshops on Singing, Health and Working with Global Voices' on 14 November 2020.
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Nationwide survey of singing for health and wellbeing groups
The University of Limerick has launched a nationwide survey of singing for health and wellbeing groups.
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Taking Risks: Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2020 is moving online
Artsandhealth.ie announces that due to Covid-19 Level 5 restrictions, Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2020 is moving online and will take place over three mornings from Monday 23 to Wednesday 25 November.
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Online discussion: The Role of the Arts in the NHS in Wales
A live discussion panel about the role of the arts in the NHS in Wales will take place on 26 October.
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Webinar: The Promise and Power of Arts-Based Research with Prof. Patricia Leavy
Participatory arts-based research approaches will be explored in a webinar with Prof.
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Creative Enquiry – Arts and Older People: Research Publication 2020
Creative Enquiry - Arts and Older People is an investigative collaborative venture looking at barriers to participation in the arts for older people.
Opportunity
Job Opportunity at IMMA: Art and Ageing Curator (Maternity Leave Cover)
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is seeking a Curator: Art and Ageing to cover maternity leave.
Opportunity
Helium Arts: Visual artists sought to join artist panel as Associate Artists
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health charity, invites applications from multi-disciplinary visual artists to join their artist panel as Associate Artists.
Opportunity
Visual Artists sought for part-time positions in Galway and Cork with Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health charity, is seeking to employ two multi-disciplinary visual artists (one in Galway, one in Cork) to join their Creative Health Programme.
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The Bealtaine Gathering 2020
The Bealtaine Festival, organised by Age & Opportunity, celebrates the arts and creativity as we age.
Opportunity
Cork City Council: Arts in Context Award 2021
Cork City Council invites applications for the Arts in Context Award 2021.
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New Art and Ageing programme launches at IMMA in partnership with Creative Ireland
The Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht, Catherine Martin TD, has announced the launch of a new partnership between the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and Creative Ireland, focused on expanding arts programming for older people.
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Craic’d – Letting the Light In 2020
Craic’d – Letting the Light In 2020 is Kilkenny's sixth annual celebration of World Mental Health Day which takes place each year globally on 10 October.
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The Arts in Palliative Care: Online Symposium
St Columba's Hospice Care in Edinburgh is hosting The Arts in Palliative Care, the first online symposium of its kind in Scotland, on 20 October 2020.
News
AHCI Survey: Mapping Arts and Health in Ireland
Arts + Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI) invite professionals working in the field of arts and health to participate in the Arts and Health Mapping Survey.
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West Cork Feel Good Festival 2020
The West Cork Feel Good Festival is back for 2020, with a mixture of in person and online events running from 3 - 16 October.
Opportunity
Submissions open for the Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference 2021
The Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference is going digital in 2021.
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Your practice. Their place. A CPD session for collaborative artists at Well Festival.
*This event is now sold out* How is accessibility, ownership and collaboration in socially engaged art balanced with artistic integrity, quality and the pushing of boundaries.
Opportunity
Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund
The Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund in partnership with Business to Arts is open for applications.
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Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2020
The Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival is moving online for 2020.
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Why Arts? Dr Gabriel Scally in conversation at Well Festival
Dr Gabriel Scally will give his perspective on the importance of the arts in the challenging times of Covid-19 during an online conversation on 5 October as part of the Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing 2020.
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Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing 2020
The annual Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing in Waterford will be happening in person and online this year, with events for the public and healthcare communities.
News
Gráinne Hope announced as Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health 2020-2021
In September 2020, a new group of emerging interprofessional leaders joined a global movement to protect the world’s population from threats to brain health: the 2020–21 Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI).
Opportunity
Call for Submissions: New Publication on Socially Engaged Art Practice in Ireland
Contested Narratives, Places and Futures, a publication on socially engaged art practice in Ireland, is due to be published in 2022 by Cork University Press.
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How I got to where I am: arts & health online talk – 21 September
There often seems no set career path into the arts and health sector, with people forging their own ways into multiple roles.
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Bringing the arts to healthcare communities on Culture Night 2020
In a year of re-envisioning how healthcare communities experience the arts, the tradition of bringing unique events to health service users and staff on Culture Night continues on Friday 18 September 2020.
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Irish Doctors Choir and Orchestra support Rotunda Foundation during lockdown
To celebrate Culture Night on Friday 18 September, the Rotunda Foundation will share a pre-recorded online performance by the Irish Doctors Choir and Orchestra.
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Online lecture: Understanding Ageing, through the Humanities and Arts
The Ageing Research Centre at the University of Limerick will host an online lecture 'Understanding Ageing, through the Humanities and Arts' by Professor Des O’Neill on Monday 14 September 2020.
News
A summer of reimagining arts in healthcare
The challenge of safely reimagining arts engagement in healthcare environments, and doing so in a way that aids meaningful connection, remains a key preoccupation for the arts and health community during the Covid-19 pandemic.
News
Ageing Voices: Mapping singing groups with older people
Sing Ireland, the national group singing support agency, and Creative Aging International have come together to produce resources and best practice training programmes for musicians, carers, and health care teams working with older people.
News
Life of Objects: Exhibition by Lucy Turner at Tallaght University Hospital
The National Centre for Arts and Health at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) presents Life of Objects by Irish artist Lucy Turner.
News
Artist Anne McLeod selected to make University Hospital Waterford ‘A Better Place’
Artist Anne McLeod has been selected as this year’s A Better Place artist at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
Opportunity
Helium Arts is seeking associate artists (freelance) in various regions to join Artist Panel
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health charity, invites applications from multi-disciplinary artists with experience of collaborative and participatory arts practice with children and young people, to join Helium's Artist Panel.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is seeking to employ an artist (part-time) in Cork City
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health charity, is seeking to employ a multi-disciplinary artist with experience of collaborative and participatory arts practice with children and young people to join their Creative Health Programme.
Opportunity
Arts Council Professional Development Award 2020
The Arts Council's Professional Development Award 2020 is now open for applications.
News
National Gallery of Ireland introduces a dementia inclusive in-home art resource
The National Gallery of Ireland has been providing free, facilitator-led dementia-inclusive sessions on site at the Gallery and in the community over the last five years.
News
UL Research Project: The role of music in supporting perinatal wellbeing
A team of researchers from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and Department of Nursing & Midwifery at University of Limerick are conducting a research project about the role of music in supporting perinatal wellbeing.
Event
Yes, But Do You Care? Marie Brett & Philip Connaughton at IMMA
Yes, But Do You Care.
News
Arts & Health Hub: Network for artists and cultural producers
The Arts & Health Hub is a network for artists and cultural producers interested or working in the field of arts and health.
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Distance Creates: Helium Arts’ home-based arts programme for children with long-term health conditions
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is keeping creativity and connection alive for children and young people with long-term health conditions during times of social distancing.
Opportunity
Age & Opportunity: Invitation to Tender for Research: Artist in Residence in a Care Setting
Age & Opportunity is seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to conduct a piece of research in the context of their Artist in Residence in a Care Setting initiative.
Opportunity
Applications sought: Arts and Cultural Engagement Officer with Irish Hospice Foundation
The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) is seeking to engage the services of a suitably qualified and experienced individual to undertake an eight-month fixed term contract as Arts and Cultural Engagement Officer.
Opportunity
Funding for Artist in the Community Scheme reinstated
The Arts Council and Create have announced a second round to the Artist in the Community Scheme 2020 with additional funding from Government.
News
Creative Ireland ‘Creativity in Older Age’ Programme receives €500,000 investment
A new programme of creative activity for older people to be delivered by the Creative Ireland Programme through its strategic national partners and the local authorities has been announced by the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht, Catherine Martin T.D.
Opportunity
Call for Papers: Arts, Creativity and Health – Public Health Journal
Public Health, an international, multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, is publishing a special issue on arts, creativity and health.
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Facilitating Groups – Social Distancing and Beyond: Webinar Series
UK organisation 64 Million Artists is hosting a trio of seminars this September for creative and cultural practitioners exploring the facilitation of online and in-person groups during Covid-19 and beyond, with a focus on co-creative activities and democratic processes.
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Creativity & Change Special Purpose Award
The Creativity & Change programme is for anyone interested in how creative engagement can nurture global citizenship and empathic action around local and global justice themes.
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Vitamin C: The positive effect of creativity on wellbeing in older people – webinar
The Creative Ireland Programme in association with Healthy Ireland and the HSE Mental Health & Wellbeing Programme are pleased to announce a Creative Conversation webinar on 21 July 2020 which will explore how creative activity impacts on the mental wellbeing of older people.
News
Arts, Culture & Mental Health Month at GM i-THRIVE
It is widely recognised that many mental health problems develop in childhood and adolescence.
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Online talk: Resiliency Moments: Art & Healthcare During a Time of Crisis
Resiliency Moments, developed in response to Covid-19, brings together healthcare workers and artists to address trauma and grief.
News
Day of the Straws: A ‘cyber vault’ of knowledge, cultural lore and wisdom goes live
Day of the Straws is an online experience to be remembered: a response to the collective healing of hope required in this unprecedented time.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award 2020
The Arts Council is now accepting applications for the Arts Participation Bursary Award 2020.
News
Announcing artsandhealth.ie 2020 bursary recipients
The artsandhealth.ie 2020 bursary award was offered to artists working in arts and health contexts to reflect on their practice.
Opportunity
Culture, Health and Wellbeing: An online training course
Culture, Health and Wellbeing is a free online training course created by the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance in England.
News
Highlighting Public Art in Healthcare – a call for information
artsandhealth.ie and publicart.ie are seeking examples of artwork commissioned under the Department of Health, Per Cent for Art Scheme between 2010 and 2020.
Opportunity
Call for researcher: Invitation to Collaboration Scheme: Mapping Arts and Health across the Midlands (MAHAM)
The Arts Office of Laois County Council, working in collaboration with 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), seek to engage the services of a suitably qualified and experienced individual(s) to undertake an arts, health and wellbeing research project on a contract for services basis.
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RCSI Webinar: The Art of Hope and Creativity in a Crisis
The RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) Institute of Leadership, in partnership with the HSE, has been hosting a 30-minute weekly webinar series since early April.
News
Survive, Adapt, Renew: Arts Council publishes report from Covid-19 Expert Advisory Group
The Expert Advisory Group established by the Arts Council to address the Covid-19 crisis in the arts sector published its report on 19 June.
Opportunity
Call for proposals – Caring and Sharing: Health and Humanities in Today’s World
Caring and Sharing: Health and Humanities in Today’s World is taking place at the University of Lisbon, Portugal on 24-25 June 2021.
Poetry Prescriptions
Poetry Prescriptions: The Waters of March by Antônio Carlos Jobim
The Waters of March (Águas de Março) is a song by Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994), a Brazilian songwriter, musician and singer.
In Conversation
In Conversation: Rónán Collins, Geriatrician and Stroke Physician
Professor Rónán Collins is a Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine at Tallaght University Hospital and National Clinical Lead for Stroke.
News
Minding Creative Minds: wellbeing support programme for the Irish Music Sector
Minding Creative Minds (MCM) is the first 24/7 wellbeing support programme for the Irish music sector.
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Move Dance Feel: Online dance sessions for women affected by cancer
Move Dance Feel, a community dance project for women affected by cancer, has developed a free online offering which is open to women at any stage in their cancer journey, pre, during or post treatment.
News
Tune In: a collective response to the changing times
49 North Street and The Happiness Ensemble are collaborating with filmmakers Aoise Tutty Jackson and Maggie Ryan and composer Liam McCabe on creating a collective response to the changing times.
News
Call for submissions: That One Time – Stories from the Frontline
Fighting Words – in partnership with Fighting Words NI – is launching That One Time, a project to draw together a collection of writing reflecting the experiences, thoughts and ideas of frontline workers and their families during this time.
Event
Sustaining the Self: Online event to support self-care among the arts and health community
We are delighted to announce details of a virtual workshop for the arts and health community on Tuesday 23 June.
Covid Chronicles
Covid Chronicles: Reinventing Community by Neil Black
Neil Black lives and works in Derry.
Opportunity
Vacancy: Assistant Arts in Health Curator – Maternity Contract, Children’s Health Ireland
Children's Health Ireland is seeking to recruit an Assistant Arts in Health Curator (Maternity Cover).
In Conversation
In Conversation: Francis Hegarty, Clinical Engineer and Maker
Francis Hegarty is the Chief Healthcare Technology Officer at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI).
News
APRIL 2020
APRIL 2020 is a project that creatively recorded experiences as they happened during the Covid-19 global pandemic.
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Re-Imagining the Future: UK arts and health webinar
Re-Imagining the Future is a webinar discussion on the big questions for arts and health research and practice.
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Shining a Light on Creative Practices in the time of Covid-19: UK Webinar
As part of Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2020 in the UK, a free webinar discussion on how creative practices are responding and adapting to Covid-19 across the UK will take place on Monday 18 May.
Poetry Prescriptions
Poetry Prescriptions: This Moment by Eavan Boland
‘This Moment’ by Eavan Boland has been chosen by Lani O'Hanlon, author, poet and dance artist.
News
Tallaght University Hospital: Arts and Music Response to Covid-19
Tallaght University Hospital has a longstanding arts programme running in the hospital, led by the National Centre for Arts and Health.
Event
Bealtaine At Home
Bealtaine Festival, Ireland’s national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age, takes place each May.
Opportunity
artsandhealth.ie 2020 artist bursary: reflecting on arts and health practice
Since 2013, artsandhealth.ie has awarded an annual bursary for the documentation of an arts and health project.
Covid Chronicles
Covid Chronicles: Kevin O’Shanahan | A story of a village and a stained-glass window
Kevin O’Shanahan is a Nurse Specialist in Mental Health and the Arts with Cork Mental Health Services, working within the HSE’s Cork Kerry Community Healthcare Organisation.
Poetry Prescriptions
Poetry Prescriptions: Portiuncula by Patricia Hodgins and her son Tyler
This week's poem 'Portiuncula' was written by Patricia Hodgins, Household Assistant at Portiuncula University Hospital, with her son Tyler, in response to Saolta Arts' PUH Artist in Residence Programme 2019.
Poetry Prescriptions
Poetry Prescriptions: Artist poems from Tallaght University Hospital
Today is Poetry Day Ireland, where we celebrate not only the poems we love but the creation of poetry itself and the solace it can bring us.
News
The Poetry Line – receive a poetry call on Poetry Day Ireland
The Poetry Line is a new initiative from Poetry Ireland and Aosdána, in collaboration with ALONE, a charity supporting older people living on their own.
News
That’s Life shine their light in the time of corona
That’s Life is an arts and personal development programme at the Brothers of Charity Services, Galway.
Covid Chronicles
Covid Chronicles: Aideen Barry | Portrait of an Artist in a time of plague
Aideen Barry is a visual artist with an interdisciplinary practice.
Event
Virtual International Conference for Arts in Health
The Virtual International Conference for Arts in Health will take place from 4-6 May 2020.
News
Art Responds: engaging healthcare communities in a time of corona
Since the introduction of Covid 19-related restrictions in March, arts and health practitioners in Ireland have been developing new ways of connecting with health service users, healthcare staff and members of the public who may be particularly vulnerable to isolation and loneliness at this time.
News
Singing for the Brain: Online initiative now opening up to the public
Singing for the Brain is a HSE Cork Kerry Community Healthcare supported initiative, now consisting of seven groups across Cork City and County (Mallow, Fermoy, Youghal, Mitchelstown, Bandon, Farranree, Mayfield).
Covid Chronicles
Covid Chronicles: living inside by Eszter Némethi
Hungarian theatre maker Eszter Némethi, isolating alone in Brussels, reflects on personal and collective pains in the time of corona and the awakening of other senses in the absence of human touch.
Poetry Prescriptions
Poetry Prescriptions: A Dying Race by Andrew Motion
This week's poem, 'A Dying Race' by Andrew Motion, has been chosen by Mary Grehan, Arts in Health Curator for Children’s Health Ireland.
Opportunity
Vacancy: Art and Ageing Curator at IMMA
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is seeking a Curator: Art and Ageing in a full time / permanent role.
Event
Checking In: Online event showcasing new methods of working in arts and health
**This is event is now sold out following an increase in capacity due to demand.
News
The Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital Dublin – Poetry Day Competition
The Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin invites children and adults to take part in a poetry competition to celebrate Poetry Day Ireland on 30 April 2020.
Poetry Prescriptions
Poetry Prescriptions: Hidden by Ben Murnane
Poetry Prescriptions is our new weekly series with a title nodding to William Sieghart’s acclaimed collection, The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul.
News
The Sea, Is grá geal mo chroí
The Sea, Is grá geal mo chroí was a three-month project with residents of Clonakilty Community Hospital, filmmaker Aoise Tutty Jackson and artist Sarah Ruttle that began in autumn 2019.
News
Arts for Health West Cork: Podcast Series
The Arts for Health Partnership Programme in West Cork is releasing a three-part podcast series, beginning on 8 April 2020, each one tackling an issue relating to their Arts for Health work and featuring the key players who make up the programme: artists, healthcare professionals, participants, manager and partners.
News
Arts Council Artist survey: Impact of Covid-19
The Arts Council has launched a survey to capture the impact of Covid-19 on artists with a view to gathering information on what actions the Arts Council can take to support and advocate for artists in the short to medium term.
Opportunity
Culture Ireland ‘Ireland Performs’ Scheme
Culture Ireland has joined forces with FACEBOOK Ireland to launch a new funding scheme in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Opportunity
Arts Council COVID-19 Crisis Response Award
The Arts Council is introducing a special €1m euro fund to enable Irish-based professional artists to provide access for the public to new and original art during the period of COVID-19 isolation.
News
Museum of Song Postal Project
The Museum of Song project by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley was due to take place this April through a series of on-site sessions in community hospitals in West Cork.
News
Sharing moments of beauty: films funded by the artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary
A small moment of magic as brush touches canvas; a glimpse into the creative lives of teenagers living with illness; a poet, a raconteur, and two nurses escaping the clinical confines of dialysis .
News
The Creativity Tonic
The CIT Crawford Department of Arts in Health & Education have launched The Creativity Tonic, a shared online space that offers words, images and tools to support and cultivate hope during this challenging time.
Opportunity
Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme: COVID-19 updates
In response to COVID-19, the Arts Council and Create have made changes to the Artist in the Community Scheme.
News
Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2020 postponed to November
Artsandhealth.ie announces that due to the ongoing restrictions related to Covid-19 / Coronavirus, Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2020 has been postponed and will now take place on Monday 23 November 2020 at Draíocht in Blanchardstown, Dublin.
News
COVID-19: Resources for the arts and health sector
*Updated 14 September 2021* This resource page includes information on supports for artists and arts organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic, specific supports and sharing opportunities for the arts and health sector, online networking hubs for practitioners, mental health supports and government information on COVID-19.
Event
Performance for Care – online symposium 27 March 2020
Performance for Care is an online platform advocating for arts and creativity within healthcare education and professional development.
Event
A Synaesthesia Concert for Brain Awareness Week
*EVENT POSTPONED: In the light of the developing coronavirus situation, this event will be rescheduled for a later date.
Opportunity
Call for submissions – First Fortnight Festival 2021
First Fortnight is Ireland’s Mental Health Arts & Culture Festival, challenging mental health prejudice and stigma through arts and cultural action and programming events that create spaces for unscripted conversations around mental health to happen.
Event
Taking Risks: Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2020 programme announced
Artsandhealth.ie is delighted to announce the programme for Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2020.
In Conversation
In Conversation: Theresa King, Scientist and Artist
Theresa King is a Senior Medical Scientist with the Haematology Laboratory in the Pathology Department at Connolly Hospital, Dublin 15.
News
Viriditas: Saolta Arts brings intimate vocal performances to patients’ bedsides
Saolta Arts and Galway 2020 present Viriditas by Ceara Conway as part of The Deepest Shade of Green, an Arts and Health programme for Galway’s European Capital of Culture 2020.
Event
An Engagement with Nature at Connolly Hospital
An Engagement with Nature is an exhibition by Connolly Collective and invited artists at Connolly Hospital, Dublin 15.
Opportunity
Open Call for artists: HSE South East Acute Hospitals Public Art Panel 2020-2021
Waterford Healing Arts Trust, on behalf of HSE South East Capital Projects Team, invites applications from experienced artists for a place on the HSE South East Acute Hospitals Public Art Panel 2020-2021, leading to art commissions funded by the Per Cent for Art Scheme.
Event
Galway 2020: West of Sumer at University Hospital Galway
Saolta Arts and Galway 2020 present West of Sumer, the first exhibition of The Deepest Shade of Green, an arts and health programme for Galway’s European Capital of Culture 2020.
Event
MindReading 2020: Programme announced
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) is hosting MindReading, a medicine and humanities conference, on 3 April 2020.
Opportunity
Invitation to tender: Arts as an intervention to improve maternal and infant mental health and wellbeing
PAUL Partnership Limerick CLG invites tenders from suitably qualified artist(s) or an arts organisation to deliver a programme of art and music interventions at University Maternity Hospital Limerick.
News
Galway 2020: The Deepest Shade of Green
Saolta Arts and Galway 2020 are presenting The Deepest Shade of Green, an Arts and Health programme for Galway’s European Capital of Culture 2020.
Opportunity
Call for abstracts: Arts Play Health Conference, Edinburgh
Bridging the gap between arts and play for health and wellbeing in research, policy and practice, Arts Play Health is a two-day conference coming to The University of Edinburgh on 9 and 10 September 2020.
Event
ESRI Public Seminar: The impact of social prescribing on general practice use
The ESRI's public seminar series invites researchers from both the ESRI and other institutions to present new research on a variety of public policy issues.
Opportunity
Open Call: A Better Place 2020
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has announced an open call for artists based in Ireland to submit proposals for A Better Place, an exhibition taking place at University Hospital Waterford later in 2020.
Event
Life in TechniColour: Music and film celebration with Helium Arts and CanTeen Ireland
Join Helium Arts for a celebration of live music and movies with young members of CanTeen Ireland, the national young people’s cancer support group.
Event
Save the Date! Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2020
Ireland's annual arts and health gathering, Arts + Health: Check Up Check In, takes place at Draíocht in Blanchardstown, Dublin, on Thursday 23 April 2020.
Opportunity
Saolta Arts poetry competition 2020
Saolta Arts (formerly Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust) is seeking entries for its annual poetry competition.
Event
Living Well with Dementia: Arts activities in HSE CHO 6 (Dublin South)
The Living Well with Dementia programme in HSE CHO 6 (Dublin South) run a number of weekly arts activities that are particularly welcoming to people living with dementia, their families and carers.
Event
Celebrating Arts & Health at MISA: Launch of art loan from the Arts Council and guest lecture by Norma Daykin
Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St.
Event
Dancing Well with Parkinson’s at Dance Theatre of Ireland
Move4Parkinson’s in conjunction with Dance Theatre Ireland (DTI) offer modern dance classes at DTI for people with Parkinson’s and their care-partners.
Opportunity
Call for Proposals: Public Art Now Conference at TU Dublin
Public Art Now is a new conference coming to TU Dublin’s city campus, Grangegorman, from 29-31 October 2020.
Event
Junctures: memory and the built environment, a drawing project
Junctures: memory and the built environment is an exhibition of drawings presented by artist Ciara Rodgers and attendees of Castleisland Daycare Centre, Kerry.
Opportunity
Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme – Deadlines 2020
Create, the national development agency for the collaborative arts, has announced the 2020 submission dates for application to the Artist in the Community Scheme.
Event
Creative Enquiry – Arts and Older People: Sharing event & publication launch
Cork City Council arts office invites arts practitioners and those involved in healthcare and community development to come to a morning of ideas exchange and networking that focuses attention on arts, ageing and wellbeing.
News
MA Arts, Health and Social Change: Manchester School of Art
Manchester School of Art is currently accepting applications for a new course, the MA Arts, Health and Social Change (beginning September 2020).
Opportunity
Vacancy: Arts Programme Administrator at Age & Opportunity
Age & Opportunity is currently accepting applications for the position of Arts Programme Administrator.
Event
MindReading 2020 at RCPI Dublin
MindReading’s fourth annual conference will take place on 3 April 2020 in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
Event
The Hunt Museum: Programme for people living with early onset dementia and their family/carers
The Hunt Museum in Limerick offers a programme for people living with early onset dementia and their family/carers.
Event
Art for Health Exhibition: NCAD Studio+ in partnership with MISA Creative Life
NCAD Studio+ students are hosting an exhibition of work in response to the Art with Health and Well-Being module based in MISA Creative Life, St.
Event
The Creative Well Archive Project 2020-2021
In 2021, The Creative Well and “This Must Be the Place” will celebrate 10 years of arts and health in Kildare.
Event
Saolta Arts presents Elaine Feeney and Sean Borodale in conversation
UPDATE: Saolta Arts' poetry event on 23 January with Sean Borodale and Elaine Feeney has been relocated to a venue at Portiuncula University Hospital.
Event
A Desire for Closeness
International artist Nicola Anthony has worked with individuals in Wexford who feel isolated, displaced, or lonely to create A Desire for Closeness, an immersive installation informed by the stories they told her about their lives.
News
Webinar series: Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America
Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America is an initiative of the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine and ArtPlace America.
Opportunity
Call for creative arts initiatives: Engaging Dementia International Conference, Dublin
Transforming Care & Communities is the 12th International Dementia Conference hosted by Engaging Dementia (formerly Sonas apc).
Opportunity
Arts Council Bursary Awards 2020
The Arts Council provides Bursary Awards in order to assist individual artists in the development of their art practice.
Event
Art, Awareness and Autism: Exhibition at Tallaght University Hospital
Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) welcomes the ‘Art, Awareness and Autism’ exhibition to Hospital Street featuring nine artists from a wider group known as Autistic Artists Ireland.
Event
Art@Work 16: Staff Exhibition at University Hospital Galway
Saolta Arts launched Art@Work 16 by staff from Galway University Hospitals on 12 December 2019.
News
First WHO report on the evidence base for arts and health interventions
The World Health Organisation (WHO) launched its first report on the evidence base for arts and health interventions in November 2019.
Event
First Fortnight 2020
First Fortnight, Ireland's annual Mental Health Art & Culture Festival, will host its ninth edition during the month of January 2020 with over 100 events in 62 venues across 17 counties.
News
Take part: Arts in palliative care international survey
Are you connected with the arts in palliative care.
News
The Sky’s the Limit at Tallaght University Hospital
Tallaght University Hospital recently launched The Sky’s the Limit, a permanent installation of colourful hot air balloons floating above the volunteer coffee shop in the hospital atrium.
Opportunity
Call for contributors: Cultural Heritage for Mental Health, Ghent, December 2020
The second 'Cultural Heritage for Mental Health' international conference will take place in Ghent, Belgium on 10-11 December 2020.
Event
Sing to Beat Parkinson’s: Training residency in Suffolk
Sing to Beat Parkinson’s are hosting their annual training residency at Snape Maltings, Suffolk on 27-28 January 2020.
News
Structural Symmetries: A 25-year tribute to the discovery of the lifesaving BRCA2 gene
The Trinity St.
Event
dangle, align, topple at deAppendix
dangle, align, topple by Rosie O'Gorman is the latest exhibition at deAppendix, a cultural space co-located with a GP surgery in Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Event
Bealtaine Gathering 2019
Age & Opportunity hosts the Bealtaine Gathering 2019 on 20 November in Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
Event
Cork Film Festival: Illuminate & Intinn Film and Mental Health Programmes
Cork Film Festival’s Illuminate film and mental health strand presents a series of film and public discussion events which explore different aspects of mental health and wellbeing, in partnership with Arts+Minds and HSE Cork Mental Health Service, First Fortnight and ESB.
News
The Rhinestone Cowboy Sessions
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.
News
An Introduction to Arts And Health // 10 Things to Consider
AN INTRODUCTION TO ARTS AND HEALTH // 10 THINGS TO CONSIDER is an arts and health resource document written by Mary Grehan and published by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) in 2016.
Opportunity
Applications open: Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health 2020/21
The Global Brain Health Institute is now accepting applications for its 2020/21 cohort of Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health.
Event
That’s How the Light Gets In: Exhibition at University Hospital Waterford
That’s How the Light Gets In, an uplifting group art exhibition by artists Ann Brennan, Blawnin Clancy, Aidan Dunne, Ciara Gormley and Mary Tritschler, considers how light and landscapes can influence our health and wellbeing.
Opportunity
Open Call: Solo Artist’s Exhibition Wall in Connolly Hospital, Dublin 15
Connolly Hospital has announced an open call for artists living in the Fingal catchment area for a solo exhibition.
Event
Memory is Grey: Gillian Cussen at County Hall, Cork
Memory is Grey is based on Gillian Cussen’s experience as a person and as an artist facilitator with people who happen to have some form of memory loss (and their loved ones).
Opportunity
Open Call: MENTAL at Science Gallery Melbourne
Science Gallery Melbourne invites proposals from all disciplines and from all countries to explore the full spectrum of mental health for a new exhibition.
Opportunity
Open Tender: Arts Ability Arts Programme 2020-2022
Wexford County Council invites tenders from professional artists in the fields of visual arts and creative writing to deliver the Arts Ability Programme from 2020-2022.
News
Age & Opportunity announces recipients of the 2019 Artists in Residence in a Care Setting initiative
Age & Opportunity has announced the six artists and care settings who will participate in their 2019 Artists in Residence in a Care Setting initiative, bringing the benefits of arts participation to over 250 older people in care settings nationwide.
News
Launch of Open Gallery at St Luke’s Hospital, Dublin
St Luke’s Hospital Art Centre recently launched Open Gallery, a dedicated space to celebrate creativity and to exhibit patients’ and staff art work alongside each other.
Event
The Floor is Yours! Networking day for dance artists working with older people
Age & Opportunity and Dance Ireland will host a networking day for dancers working with older people in Ireland followed by a performance showcase on 6 December 2019 at Dance Ireland.
Event
The Trial at Dublin Castle
The Trial is a visual art installation on healthcare and human rights in the Irish criminal justice system, created by Sinead McCann and made in collaboration with men from the Bridge Project Dublin who have lived prison experiences, with research by UCD historians, Catherine Cox and Fiachra Byrne.
Event
TIMBRE Launch Event: The Irish Music Brain Research Group
The Royal Irish Academy of Music will host the launch of a new interdisciplinary research network, TIMBRE: The Irish Music Brain Research Group, on Friday 18 October, 7-8pm.
Event
Cúram: Group Exhibition at Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo
Four artists based in the environs of County Sligo have artistic encounters within the realm of health care for older people.
Event
World Mental Health Day 2019
World Mental Health Day falls on 10 October each year.
Event
What Can We Do With Our Vulnerability? Mental Health and the Arts Series at The Duncairn Centre, Belfast
‘What Can We Do with Our Vulnerability.
Event
Activate a conscious place for living
Activate a conscious place for living: Places, Engagements, Personal & Community Narratives will be launched on 17 October 2019 at Áras an Chontae in Tullamore.
Event
Stories from the Well-Field at The Glucksman: CPD opportunity for artists working in care settings
A CPD session for artists interested in facilitating cross-artform participatory projects in care settings for older people is taking place at The Glucksman in Cork on 8 October 2019.
News
Spotlight: Sarah Cairns, Activities Co-ordinator at Bantry General Hospital
Sarah Cairns is the Activities Co-ordinator in St.
News
Watch ‘Stories from the Well-Field’: artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary recipient 2018
Following a two-year residency in St.
Event
Friends and Family: Andy Parsons exhibition at Nazareth House, Sligo
Since 2009, Andy Parsons has worked exclusively from direct observation making large-scale works in painting and drawing.
Event
Other People’s Practices: Artist Talk with Emma Finucane and Glenn Loughran
Other People’s Practices (OPP) is an artist residency and research project founded and directed by John Conway that supports the production of collaborative, socially engaged projects in Usher’s Island, a forensic mental healthcare community setting in Dublin 8.
Opportunity
Call for artists: Helium Arts’ Midlands Artists Panel
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, invites applications from multidisciplinary artists with a participatory arts practice to join an artists’ panel and training programme for Helium's future Midlands Children’s Creative Health Hub.
Event
I’m Here But I’m Not: A photovoice exhibition of living with rheumatoid arthritis
I'm Here But I'm Not is a photovoice exhibition showcasing the lived experience of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Opportunity
Call for submissions: Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture & Health
The Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health is an open access journal, with its first issue scheduled for November 2019.
Opportunity
Arts in Health Research Intensive 2020
The third annual Arts in Health Research Intensive will take place from 27-31 January 2020 at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Event
Webinar: Creativity at the Heart of Wellbeing: How can the arts help reduce loneliness?
Public Health England South West and Arts & Health South West are hosting two webinars on 1 and 8 October on the theme 'How can the arts help reduce loneliness?'.
Event
IMMA Art & Ageing Seminar
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is hosting an Art & Ageing Seminar on 3 October 2019 which will mark the culmination of its two-year Art & Ageing Fellowship.
Event
Culture Night 2019: Arts and health events across Ireland
Culture Night is taking place on Friday 20 September 2019.
Event
Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival
Connecting citizens to the arts, human rights, climate justice and gender equality, the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival is running from 19-29 September 2019, hosted by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders.
Event
Save the date: Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference 2021
The next Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference will be in Bristol from 21-23 June 2021.
Event
Here’s a health to the company: Social singing, health and wellbeing
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick is hosting 'Here’s a health to the company' on 15 November 2019, a special event for researchers and practitioners in the field of social singing, health and wellbeing.
Opportunity
Call for papers: Association for Medical Humanities Conference 2020
'Making space' is the theme for the Association for Medical Humanities Conference 2020 which will be held from 17-19 June at University of Limerick.
News
Waterford Healing Arts Trust publishes independent evaluation of Arts Programme in Renal Dialysis at UHW
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has published an independent evaluation of its Arts Programme in the Renal Dialysis Unit at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
Opportunity
Creative Exchanges – Training Course Autumn 2019
Creative Exchanges is an accredited training course for activities coordinators in care settings and artists interested in engaging with older people in a care setting.
Event
Introduction to Arts & Health: One-day workshop at Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore on 8 November
*This event is now SOLD OUT.
Event
Dublin Fringe Festival: The Examination by Brokentalkers
The Examination is a documentary performance work by award-winning theatre group Brokentalkers exploring mental health and human rights in the prison system in the UK and Ireland.
Event
Ten Years on – Art in the Sacred Heart
Custom House Studios are hosting 'Ten Years on – Art in the Sacred Heart' by residents of the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar, opening 29 August 2019 at 7.30 pm and running until 22 September.
Event
Introduction to Creative & Credible: Evaluating arts for health programmes (UK)
Willis Newson and the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) are hosting a training workshop, Introduction to Creative & Credible, on 15 October 2019 at the RSPH London head office.
Event
Stories from the Well-field: A CPD session for artists in care settings for older people
As part of the Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2019, artist Tess Leak, puppeteer Eoin Lynch, activities co-ordinator Sarah Cairns and composer Justin Grounds will present a CPD session on 9 October for artists interested in facilitating cross-artform participatory projects in care settings for older people.
Event
Be Creative, Be Social and Be Well! Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2019
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2019 is taking place from 7 to 12 October at various locations across Waterford City and County.
Event
Engaging the Senses at The Civic, Tallaght
Engaging the Senses is a symposium and gathering with conversation, demonstrations, and playtime workshops for parents and arts, healthcare and early years professionals interested in exploring multi-sensory, creative play through the arts for very young children with complex needs.
Opportunity
Invitation to tender: Project Co-ordinator with Arts Care, Northern Ireland
Arts Care, Northern Ireland’s leading Arts and Health Charity, invites tenders for a highly motivated and experienced, self-employed Project Co-ordinator to deliver a regional Arts Care/Public Health Agency 'Here and Now' Older People’s Arts, Health and Wellbeing project.
Opportunity
Call for projects: The Persistence of Memory – Dementia and Digital Aid Tools for Decision-Making (Switzerland)
Since 2003, the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) has been running an artists-in-labs programme, facilitating artistic research by way of long-term residencies for artists in scientific laboratories and research institutes.
News
artsandhealth.ie announces recipient of 2019 documentation bursary
The artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary is an annual award which aims to encourage high quality, creative documentation of arts and health practice nationally.
News
Launch of Saolta Arts
Saolta Arts, formerly Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust, was officially launched on 6 August 2019 by Mrs Sabina Higgins at University Hospital Galway.
Event
Social Value Training Workshops: Arts and Health (Wales)
Wales Arts Health and Well-being Network is working with the Bangor University Social Value Hub to deliver Social Value training workshops in North and South Wales on 11 September and 2 October 2019.
News
Trad@Heart 2019: Music in Healthcare Festival
For the second year running, Kids' Classics will present Trad@Heart in Louth, a complimentary traditional Irish music programme across hospitals and health settings in the community during August 2019.
Event
Introductory Music in Healthcare Workshop: Trad@Heart Festival
An Introductory 'Music in Healthcare Settings' Workshop led by Kids' Classics through their Training Notes initiative will take place on 13 August 2019 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.
Opportunity
Call to Artists and Arts Organisations: A Visual Art Project with Children and Young People attending Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Hospitals
As part of Children’s Health Ireland’s (CHI) commitment to placing arts, creativity and imagination at the heart of the child’s and young person’s experience of their services, CHI Arts is responsible for developing creative arts programmes for children and young people, their families, staff and visitors which will be rolled out in current CHI sites with a view to shaping the future arts programmes in the new hospital and Outpatient and Urgent Care Centre.
Event
OFFSET: intergenerational printmaking exhibition at University Hospital Galway
Offset, an intergenerational printmaking exhibition at University Hospital Galway, will be officially launched on 6 August 2019 by Mrs Sabina Higgins.
Event
The Trial: Touring art installation on healthcare and human rights in the Irish prison system
The Trial is a visual art installation on healthcare and human rights in the Irish criminal justice system, created by Sinead McCann and made in collaboration with men from the Bridge Project Dublin who have lived prison experiences, with research by UCD historians, Catherine Cox and Fiachra Byrne.
Opportunity
Call for papers: WHO/Europe Public Health Panorama special issue on arts and health
Public Health Panorama, the journal of the World Health Organisation Europe, will dedicate a special issue to arts and health in the WHO European Region in early 2020.
News
Work from the Arts Council collection on loan to St. Vincent’s University Hospital
The Arts Council, the state agency responsible for developing the arts, has loaned 30 pieces of visual art from its collection to St.
Event
Create Networking Day 2019
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, will host its annual Networking Day on 26 September 2019 at Millennium Hall, Cork City in partnership with Crawford Art Gallery (Cork), Counterpoints Arts (London), Cork City Arts Office and Heart of Glass (St Helens).
Opportunity
Age & Opportunity – Six Artist Residencies in Care Settings
*DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO Friday 16 August.
Event
Conference: Creative Arts and Dementia: Developing Best Practice (UK)
Creative Arts and Dementia: Developing Best Practice is a new UK conference developed in collaboration with the Journal of Dementia Care, the Creative Dementia Arts Network (CDAN) and the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA).
Event
Art is the Place we Meet
Art is the Place we Meet is a group exhibition by the residents’ Art Group in Leopardstown Park Hospital, Dublin.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award 2020
The Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award supports initiatives in the field of Arts Participation for projects commencing on or after 1 January 2020.
Event
Irish Museums Association Education + Outreach Forum 2019
The Irish Museums Association's annual Education + Outreach Forum will take place on Friday 5 July 2019 at the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts and History, Dublin.
Opportunity
New AIC Scheme Recent Graduate Research and Development Award
Create has announced a new Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme award for Recent Graduates, introduced in 2019.
Opportunity
Open competition: Grangegorman Public Art commissions
‘…the lives we live’1 Grangegorman Public Art invites artists and curators to apply for one of three art commission opportunities associated with three distinct building projects currently in development at Grangegorman.
News
Mary A. Kelly selected as winner of the 2019 RCSI Art Award
Mary A.
Event
In Bloom: Dorothee Kölle at Atrium Gallery, Nazareth Home, Sligo
In Bloom, a solo exhibition by artist Dorothee Kölle, opens at Nazareth House Nursing Home in Sligo on 12 June 2019.
News
WHAT announces Artist in Residence 2019 at University Hospital Waterford
Catherine Sweeney Brown has been selected as the Artist in Residence for 2019 at Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) / University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
Opportunity
Job Opportunity: Programme Manager with Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking a motivated, experienced and highly organised individual to develop the role of Programme Manager, four days a week, from Helium’s Mullingar Office.
News
visions4people: Artistic research meets psychiatry
visions4people is a new publication by Tyyne Claudia Pollmann offering a kaleidoscopic overview of artistic research in the context of psychiatric residential environments and conveys their particular challenges.
Opportunity
Call for UK venues: Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award, Artist Commission 2020
Engage invites galleries, museums and visual arts venues throughout the United Kingdom to submit proposals to host the 2020 Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award (ARMA), Artist Commission, worth £15,000.
News
Artists Practising Well: Research Report by Clore Fellow Nicola Naismith
Artists Practising Well is a new research report by visual artist Nicola Naismith, focusing on the topic of affective support for creative practitioners working in participatory arts in health and wellbeing.
Opportunity
Arts Consultant/CPD Facilitator sought by Cavan County Council Arts Office
Cavan County Council Arts Office are seeking an Arts Consultant/CPD Facilitator as part of an action research project with young people based on the themes of resilience and emotional literacy.
Opportunity
Artist Facilitator sought by Cavan County Council Arts Office: arts and health action research project
Cavan County Council Arts Office are seeking an artist facilitator to work with young people on an action research project based on the themes of resilience and emotional literacy.
News
Seek the happiness of Traveller Pride
As part of Cork Traveller Pride 2019, a celebration of Traveller culture & ethnicity, a new artwork 'Seek the happiness of Traveller Pride' is being unveiled at Cork University Hospital on 28 May.
Event
Seven Summer Stars: A showcase of artwork by young people with Cystic Fibrosis
Seven Summer Stars are a group of young teenagers with cystic fibrosis who have been making art and connecting creatively since March 2019 as part of Helium Arts’ pilot online art programme.
Event
Can You See What I See? at DLR LexIcon
‘Can You See What I See?’ is a series of hand painted illustrations by artist Caroline Hyland strongly informed by listening to people with dementia, and to those who support them, their families, friends and the medical professionals.
Event
Artist Deirdre Dunne selected to make University Hospital Waterford “A Better Place”
Artist Deirdre Dunne has been selected via a public vote to be this year’s A Better Place artist at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
Opportunity
Call for applications: artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary 2019
Are you involved in an arts and health project.
Event
Burning Bright at Galway Arts Centre
Burning Bright is Galway Arts Centre’s programme for older people.
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Knocknacarra : Sale Agreed | An exhibition by Hilary Morley at University Hospital Galway
Saolta Arts (formerly Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust) presents ‘Knocknacarra : Sale Agreed’, an exhibition by Hilary Morley, on the Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway from 16 May to 30 June 2019.
Opportunity
Call for theatre companies: 5×5 at the Abbey Theatre with the Irish Dementia Working Group
The Irish Dementia Working Group (IDWG) supported by The Alzheimer Society of Ireland (ASI) is seeking a theatre company to support, plan and facilitate the 5x5 initiative at the Abbey Theatre from 10-14 June 2019 inclusive.
Event
Living Portraits by Rachel Macmanus
Living Portraits is a selection of drawn portraits by artist Rachel Macmanus of the residents of St Joseph's Hospital in Ennis, Co. Clare.
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In the Making at Linenhall Arts Centre
In the Making celebrates art made by older people in healthcare settings in Mayo.
News
Spotlight: Same as it ever was: Prof. Rónán Collins and Composer Ian Wilson
This month's spotlight is on 'Same as it ever was', an inter-generational music project initiated by Prof.
News
Tracing Autonomy: A reflective approach in support of a person’s autonomy in life
Tracing Autonomy is a collaboration between artists Jeni Pearson and Kirsty Stansfield and philosopher Dr Ben Colburn exploring autonomy, creativity and end of life.
News
Reflecting Through Art, Music Makers and a Green Campus at Cork University Hospital
Cork University Hospital is bringing a number of projects and events to patients and visitors in May and June 2019, led by the CUH Arts Department and Arts Committee.
News
Fragments: An Arts for Health Residency at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
Fragments is an arts for health residency taking place in Studio 3, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre from 6 May to 27 June 2019.
Event
Bealtaine National Events at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing
Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St James's Hospital in Dublin is hosting a series of events as part of Bealtaine Festival, celebrating creativity as we age.
News
Patients and staff in Irish hospitals to receive a Menu of Poems for Poetry Day Ireland
To celebrate Poetry Day Ireland on Thursday 2 May 2019, a Menu of Poems will be distributed throughout Irish hospital wards, waiting rooms and other healthcare settings for patients, visitors and staff to enjoy.
Event
Cork International Choral Festival – community outreach performances at Cork University Hospital
As part of the community outreach programme of the 65th Cork International Choral Festival, the Arts Committee of Cork University Hospital has organised a free concert by the Hamburg Academy of Music And Theatre Choir on 2 May 2019 at 3pm in the CRC Atrium.
News
‘Home… Away from Home’ at Wexford General Hospital
The first Artist Residency at Wexford General Hospital commenced in February 2019.
Event
SeaChange: Community Arts Encounters Conference
Cork Community Art Link and Community Arts Partnership, in association with Blue Drum and The School of Applied Social Studies UCC, have developed an all-island initiative to explore, through a range of discussions and deliberations, the power of community arts to promote, advocate for and ultimately deliver positive change.
News
An Open Door wins Community Award at Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2019
'An Open Door,' a short film exploring Skibbereen’s pioneering adult mental health service, 49 North Street, has won the Community Award at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2019.
In Conversation
In Conversation with Kevin O’Shanahan: Creativity and Mental Health
As part of our ongoing 'In Conversation' series, we met with Kevin O’Shanahan, a Nurse Specialist in Mental Health and the Arts with Cork Mental Health Services, working within the HSE’s Cork/Kerry Community Healthcare Organisation.
Event
Bealtaine Discussion: A Conversation on Death and Dying
Taking inspiration from Damien Hirst’s iconic shark in formaldehyde sculpture The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), this multidisciplinary discussion will explore how we conceive, imagine, understand, process and articulate the difficult subject of death and dying.
Opportunity
Evaluator sought by Cavan County Council Arts Office: arts and health stakeholder project
Cavan County Council Arts Office is seeking an evaluator to assess the initiation, process and implementation of a network of stakeholders.
Opportunity
Call for Writers – Mental Health Narrative Project
Writers are invited to apply to be part of a research team exploring human rights and recovery for those living in mental health community houses.
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Exhibition by Rosemarie Langtry at Roscommon University Hospital
Roscommon University Hospital is hosting an exhibition of work by contemporary visual artist Rosemarie Langtry until 24 May 2019.
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A Celebration of Waterford Healing Arts Trust in 25 Objects
A Celebration of Waterford Healing Arts Trust in 25 Objects is an exhibition reflecting the evolution of WHAT over the last 25 years and features a carefully curated collection, including paintings, sound recordings and sculptures.
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Poems for Patience 2019 at Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Poems for Patience 2019, an exhibition of poems selected and introduced by poet Ailbhe Darcy, was officially launched on 12 April at University Hospital Galway as part of Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
News
Call for Participants: Self-Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Photovoice Study
Do you want to use photography to share your experience of living with RA.
Opportunity
Job Vacancy: Manager at Anam Beo (Part-time)
Anam Beo, an Offaly-based arts & health organisation, is seeking a dynamic part-time Manager to lead it into its next phase of development.
News
National Concert Hall launches national Health and Wellbeing Programme
The National Concert Hall (NCH) launched its national Health and Wellbeing Programme on 26 March 2019.
Opportunity
Age & Opportunity Artist in Residence in a Care Setting: Information Workshop
In 2019, Age & Opportunity, supported by the National Creativity Fund, the HSE and the Arts Council, will offer six artist residencies in care settings around Ireland.
Event
International Social Prescribing Network Conference 2019 (UK)
The second International Social Prescribing Network Conference on the theme 'from system to local' will take place 11-12 July 2019 at Marylebone campus, University of Westminster.
Event
Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health
Can literature and narrative improve the lives of young people.
Event
Irish Aphasia Theatre: workshop and performance evening
Irish Aphasia Theatre uses theatre, movement and music to engage participants who have aphasia in the Irish arts.
Opportunity
Open Call: Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival
Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival (NIMHAF) is now in its fifth year, celebrating mental health, challenging stigma and fighting inequalities.
Opportunity
Job Vacancy: General Manager at Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking a motivated, experienced and highly organised individual to develop the role of General Manager, part-time.
Event
Other People’s Practices: Artist Talk with Emma Finucane
Other People’s Practices is an artist residency and research project that supports professional artists to produce collaborative, socially engaged projects in Usher’s Island, a post/semi-post forensic mental healthcare setting.
Opportunity
Call for care settings: Age & Opportunity artist residencies 2019
Age & Opportunity/ Bealtaine is expanding their Artist(s) in Residence in a Care Setting, with six residencies to take place across the country during 2019.
Event
Age of Arts symposium at Science Gallery Dublin
Age of Arts is an afternoon of discussion about how creativity, science and the brain can work together through an arts and social spectrum as we age.
Opportunity
Call for artist submissions: 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.
News
Helium Arts launch Creative Health Hubs in Limerick and Cork
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, have developed a Creative Health Hub model which uses an “arts on referral” approach to connect their hospital-based work with their community-based activities.
Opportunity
Call for tenders: Visual Arts Curator for Bealtaine 2020
Age & Opportunity wishes to recruit a curator who will work with the artistic director of Bealtaine Festival to develop, manage and promote the visual arts programme of the 25th Bealtaine Festival in 2020.
Opportunity
Open Call: Participatory arts opportunities in Saolta University Health Care Group
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust (GUHAT) invites professional practicing artists to apply for three opportunities in Saolta University Health Care Group hospitals in 2019 – 2020.
News
Are you a young teen with CF interested in making art?
Young teenagers with Cystic Fibrosis are invited to take part in a new online art programme led by Helium Arts in partnership with Cystic Fibrosis Ireland, Waterford Healing Arts Trust and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Event
The Examination by Brokentalkers
As part of the Wellcome Trust Prisons Project, the School of History at UCD is collaborating with international, award-winning theatre group Brokentalkers on The Examination.
Event
Melancholia and the Brain: Public Event at Trinity College Dublin
‘Melancholia and the Brain’ is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project that sets out to investigate and illuminate the lived experience of depression through the intersection of Neuroscience, Arts and the Humanities.
Event
Whisper and Beyond: Sinead Dinneen at Dunamaise Arts Centre
Whisper and Beyond is an exhibition by Sinead Dinneen relating to personal perceptions and experience of living with Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer.
Event
Conference: Places Matter | building inclusion in the arts
Places Matter | building inclusion in the arts is a joint conference by the Arts Council and Local Government taking place on 27-28 March 2019 at NUI Galway.
Event
Life Expressions II at Roscommon University Hospital
Life Expressions II is an exhibition by Mote Park Artists at Roscommon University Hospital, running until the week of 4 March 2019.
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CREATE: exhibition celebrating pregnancy and newborn research opens in Galway Hospital Campus
CREATE: The Art of Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond, is a free art exhibition developed by the HRB Mother and Baby Clinical Trial Network, currently taking place around the campus of University Hospital Galway in conjunction with Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust.
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Promoting Autonomy: Bookings open for Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2019
*This event is now sold out.
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through art we care international symposium (Brussels)
IN/FINITY, KMSKB and VUB host 'through art we care' on 28 February 2019, an international conference on innovative and inclusive practices in arts and health for professional art and health workers and researchers.
Opportunity
Open Call: Exhibition proposals for A Better Place at University Hospital Waterford
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites artists based in Ireland to submit proposals for A Better Place, an exhibition taking place at University Hospital Waterford later in 2019.
Opportunity
Open Call for Musicians: Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork
West Cork Arts Centre is seeking a composer/musician to join a team of artists (visual, music, film, poetry) in the delivery of an arts programme for older people that takes place in 11 healthcare settings across West Cork.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts Trust: Open call for musicians for Healing Sounds on the Wards programme
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is seeking musicians to join the organisation’s Healing Sounds on the Wards programme, a live music performance programme for and with patients of University Hospital Waterford.
Event
Arts4Dementia social prescribing conference (UK)
Arts4Dementia is hosting the first UK conference on social prescribing for dementia on 16 May 2019 at the Wellcome Collection in London.
Event
SMART Talk on Arts and Health
Claire Meaney, Acting Arts Director of Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), and Emma Eager, Project Co-ordinator of artsandhealth.ie, the national website for arts and health, will talk about arts and health practice in Ireland as part of SMART Talks in The MART Gallery, Dublin on Thursday 7 February 2019.
News
Marielle MacLeman awarded Arts Council AIC Scheme Bursary Award 2018: Collaborative Arts in Health Contexts
Marielle MacLeman has been awarded the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2018: Collaborative Arts in Health Contexts.
Event
‘Got it?’ A Health Literacy Collaboration at Tullamore Library
Anam Beo Arts and Health Organisation is currently exhibiting 'Got it?' at Tullamore Library, a health literacy and collaborative community art project.
Event
Happenings by Olwyn Colgan at deAppendix
Happenings by Olwyn Colgan is the latest exhibition at deAppendix, a cultural space co-located with a suburban GP surgery in Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Opportunity
Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme – Deadlines 2019
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
Event
Stories from the Well-field: A project-sharing including puppetry, poetry and live music
Stories from the Well-Field is an interactive performance created by a group of Arts for Health participants in St.
Event
Arts and health research cluster at UL: spring 2019 events
The arts and health research cluster at University of Limerick is hosting a number of events in spring 2019 including the Humanities & Medicine Seminar Series, the UL GEMS Medicine and the Humanities Exhibition and seminars on Music in Healthcare and Singing and the Body.
Opportunity
Poems for Patience competition 2019
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries for its annual poetry competition.
Event
Home Sweet Home: Concert and Screening Event
Nothing’s the same yet it is… A series of catastrophic climate events leaves the world in turmoil.
News
Arts in Medicine Summer Intensive at University of Florida
The Arts in Medicine Intensive at the University of Florida Centre for Arts in Medicine is taking place from 6-17 May 2019.
News
Professional development programme for Arts and Health Professionals (UK)
Aesop Institute in collaboration with Canterbury Christ Church University is running a new CPD programme for practitioners interested in devising and running successful arts and health programmes.
News
Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America
Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America is a two-year national initiative led by the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine in partnership with ArtPlace America.
News
Canaletto and the Art of Venice: Dementia-Inclusive Tours at the National Gallery of Ireland
The National Gallery of Ireland is offering dementia-inclusive tours and workshops on 14 January and 11 February 2019, relating to the exhibition Canaletto and the Art of Venice.
Event
Save the Date! Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2019 takes place 11 April – keynote speaker announced
Following the success of last year’s event in Cork, artsandhealth.ie is delighted to announce that Arts and Health Check Up Check In 2019 takes place at Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford on Thursday 11 April.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts Trust opens call for Artist in Residence 2019
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has issued an open call to artists of all arts disciplines to apply to be Artist in Residence at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) in 2019.
Event
Art@Work 15: Exhibition at University Hospital Galway
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is hosting Art@Work 15 on the Art Corridor of University Hospital Galway until 31 January 2019.
Event
Creative Well: Creating Space
The Creative Well presents Creating Space, an exhibition of works from The Open Studio, at the Riverbank Arts Centre from 12 January to 16 February 2019.
Event
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: A symposium on men, movement and mental health
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: A symposium concerned with Men, Movement and Mental Health is taking place as part of First Fortnight Europe on 17 January 2019 at Rua Red Arts Centre, South Dublin.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award 2019
The objective of the Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award is to support individual professional artists whose practice centres on collaboration with groups of people in any of the following contexts: communities of place and/or interest, health, disability, cultural diversity and older people.
Event
WOMB: First Fortnight Europe
Outlandish Theatre Platform in partnership with First Fortnight 2019 and Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital present WOMB, a parallel perspective on woman and society created and performed with community participants and professional performers.
Opportunity
Call for Tenders: Arts Participation Adviser Services to the Arts Council
The Arts Council wishes to procure the services of an Arts Participation Adviser to meet the needs of the organisation both from a quality and service delivery perspective.
Event
First Fortnight European Mental Health Art & Culture Festival
First Fortnight will host the European Mental Health Art & Culture Festival in January 2019.
Opportunity
Call for applicants: Project Manager, Arts and Older People Creative Enquiry and Residency Programme 2019-2020
Cork City and Cork County Council and the creative enquiry partnership is seeking an experienced project manager to lead the Arts and Older People Creative Enquiry and Residency Programme 2019-2020 funded by the Arts Council Invitation to Collaboration scheme.
Event
Musicians, Performance and the Brain: A One Day Symposium
Musicians, Performance and the Brain is a symposium devoted to neurological aspects of skilled musical performance; neurophysiology of musicianship; impact (benefits) of music on the brain; musician’s dystonia and other aspects of musician’s health and the act of performance.
Event
Launch of Le Chéile Anthology
Le Chéile Limerick is launching “The Le Chéile Anthology”, a book of prose and poetry from members of its weekly creative writing group, on 6 December 2018 in The Granary Library, Limerick.
Event
Patterns by Outlandish Theatre Platform
PATTERNS, the latest installment of Outlandish Theatre Platform's Open Theatre Practice, will take place in the Coombe Hospital's Rita Kelly Theatre on 2 December 2018, with a performance and a workshop seminar.
News
Fairland Collective announced as Bealtaine Artist in Residence in a Care Setting
Age & Opportunity has announced the Fairland Collective as the newly appointed Bealtaine artists in residence at St.
Event
The Museum of Making and Mending at Cork County Library
The Museum of Making and Mending is running from 16 November until the end of December 2018 at Cork County Library, County Hall.
News
SCRUBS-CUH Workplace Choir: To Vienna and beyond
SCRUBS, the Workplace Choir at Cork University Hospital, is travelling to Vienna on 28 November to take part in the annual International Advent Singing Festival, a prestigious four-day event.
Event
Can You See What I See? at Rua Red, Tallaght
‘Can You See What I See?’ is a series of hand-painted illustrations by artist Caroline Hyland strongly informed by listening to people with dementia, and to those who support them; their families, friends and medical professionals.
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Gardenland by Fiona Cawley at University Hospital Galway
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is hosting ‘Gardenland,’ a solo exhibition by Fiona Cawley, on the arts corridor at University Hospital Galway from 3-29 November 2018.
News
Health Inside
Health Inside is a new public art intervention by visual artist Sinéad McCann and UCD historians Catherine Cox and Oisín Wall about the Irish prison system and prisoners’ health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Event
The Hospital Worker’s Song: Fiona Dowling and George Higgs at Tallaght University Hospital
Visual artist Fiona Dowling and composer George Higgs present The Hospital Worker’s Song in collaboration with Tallaght University Hospital Choir (TUH Choir) and The National Centre for Arts and Health on 27 November 2018.
In Conversation
In Conversation with Declan McCarthy: Creativity and Mental Health
There is increasing recognition within the Irish mental health sector of the role that the arts and creativity can play in supporting a person’s recovery journey.
News
77 Years A-Dreaming: Moving and humorous memoir by Jack Kelly to be launched at WHAT
77 Years A-Dreaming: Reflections and Recollections of a Wonderful Life, by Portlaw amateur historian and renal dialysis patient Jack Kelly, will be officially launched by Mary Butler, TD, at Waterford Healing Arts Trust on Friday 30 November at 6pm.
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Hospital Voices: New choral work created at University Hospital Waterford to launch 25th Anniversary of Waterford Healing Arts Trust
Hospital Voices, a new choral work created by composer Eric Sweeney and poet Edward Denniston during their time as Artists-in-Residence at University Hospital Waterford / Waterford Healing Arts Trust this year, will be performed for the first time on 6 December 2018 at the hospital chapel.
Event
An Open Door at Cork Film Festival
An Open Door is a short film by Aoise Tutty exploring Skibbereen's pioneering adult mental health service, 49 North Street, which provides a space for hope and recovery for the local community.
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Ciúin by Joanne McAndrew at Connolly Hospital, Dublin
Joanne McAndrew's first solo exhibition, Ciúin, opens on 30 October 2018 at Connolly Hospital in Dublin.
Event
Wingbeats Conference 2018 (UK)
The third in LIME Music for Health's highly successful series of Wingbeats Conferences is taking place on 23 November 2018 at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Event
Illuminate at Cork Film Festival 2018
Illuminate is Cork Film Festival’s unique series of film and discussion events that uses film to explore different aspects of mental health and wellbeing.
Event
‘Got it?’ A response to health literacy
What is the best way to clearly communicate necessary information.
Opportunity
Call for Artists: Become a Creative Associate with Helium Arts
Helium Arts invites applications from multidisciplinary artists with a participatory arts practice and experience working with children and young people to apply for the role of 'Creative Associate' for Helium Arts’ Creative Health Hub initiative, to begin in January 2019.
Opportunity
World Health Congress Europe 2019: Call for Abstracts – Arts for health and social change
The 2019 World Health Congress Europe is taking place in Manchester from 5 to 7 March.
Event
Last Breath by Marie Brett: Screening and Artist Discussion at IMMA
Last Breath is a short film by artist Marie Brett exploring ideas of an ultimate great unknown: the experience of death and dying.
News
MindReading: online toolkit using literature to support mental wellbeing
The MindReading online toolkit is a collection of resources about using literature to support mental wellbeing at times of illness.
Event
Memento Aldi by Danny Kelly at deAppendix
Memento Aldi is an installation of Danny Kelly’s recent painting at deAppendix, a cultural space co-located with a suburban GP surgery in Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
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Symposium on ‘Singing, Health & Wellbeing’ at City of Derry International Choral Festival
City of Derry International Choral Festival will host a Symposium on 'Singing, Health & Wellbeing' with industry experts on 24 October 2018 at Ulster University Magee.
Event
Talk by Katy Dymoke: Working with touch and movement in arts and health
As part of UCC's Perforum Autumn 2018 series of talks 'Inclusivity and the Performing Arts', Katy Dymoke will present on ‘Working with touch and movement in arts and health’ on 18 October at the Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre in Cork.
Event
Last Breath by Marie Brett at Draíocht
Last Breath is a short film by artist Marie Brett exploring ideas of an ultimate great unknown: the experience of death and dying.
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National Conference: One Thursday at the Gallery – Art, Music, Theatre and Dementia
In conjunction with MISA Creative Life and the National Gallery of Ireland, the Dementia Services Information and Development Centre bring you 'One Thursday at the Gallery' - a recognition of the increasingly important role the arts are playing in the world of dementia care.
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A Night on the Town: Mental Health Week at Cork University Hospital
As part of Mental Health Week 2018 at Cork University Hospital, the Arts Committee of CUH is hosting A Night on the Town on Friday 12 October, a free lunchtime musical variety show extravaganza.
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Introduction to Arts & Health at Connolly Hospital on 9 November
*This event is now sold out.
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HSE Sing for Wellbeing Concert
Ten HSE workplace choirs will perform in the HSE Sing for Wellbeing Concert in the University of Limerick Concert Hall on Sunday 21 October 2018.
News
Gráinne Hope of Kids’ Classics announced as a Clore Fellow 2018/19
Gráinne Hope, Artistic Director of Kids' Classics, has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship to take part in the Clore Cultural Leadership programme 2018/2019.
Event
Whisper and Beyond: Exhibition by Sinead Dinneen and DCU School of Nursing and Human Sciences
Whisper and Beyond opens on 14 November 2018, the result of the latest arts and health collaboration at the School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University.
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In the Picture at Uillinn: Tour of ‘Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger’ for people with dementia
In the Picture is a gallery programme by Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre for people living with dementia and their family, friends or professional carers.
Opportunity
Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2018: Collaborative Arts in Health Contexts
The Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2018: Collaborative Arts in Health Contexts aims to support individual professional artists in any artform working collaboratively in the field of Arts and Health.
News
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust shortlisted for 2018 GSK Ireland IMPACT Awards
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust has been shortlisted for the 2018 GSK Ireland IMPACT Awards.
News
Portrait of a Patient by Sinead Lawless
Visual artist Sinead Lawless was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis in 2006, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease.
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University of Limerick Humanities and Medicine Lunchtime Seminar Series 2018-19
University of Limerick's Humanities and Medicine Lunchtime Seminar Series 2018-19 is taking place at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance from September 2018 to April 2019.
News
Naas General Hospital Music Programme
Kildare County Council has launched a new music programme in Naas General Hospital, which will see trained musicians working in the field of arts and health visiting selected inpatient wards and the day hospital.
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Lastingly: A CPD workshop for artists in palliative care settings led by Marielle MacLeman
Lastingly is a CPD workshop designed for artists interested in facilitating participatory workshops in palliative care.
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Culture Night 2018
Culture Night is taking place on Friday 21 September 2018 with healthcare settings around the country hosting events for service users and the general public.
News
Arts and Health Check Up Check In 2018: Video highlights from the day
Arts and Health Check Up Check In 2018 took place at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork on 26 April on the theme of 'building momentum'.
News
I AM NOT A PIECE OF MEAT by Anna Furse
I AM NOT A PIECE OF MEAT is a digital artwork and immersive digital experience by Prof.
News
Spotlight: Connolly Collective at Connolly Hospital
This month’s Spotlight is on the Connolly Collective art group at Connolly Hospital, Blandchardstown.
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Can You See What I See? at University Hospital Waterford
Waterford Healing Arts Trust is currently hosting an exhibition by artist Caroline Hyland at University Hospital Waterford.
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Fragments by Jessie Keenan: Dublin Fringe Festival 2018
Fragments, created by choreographer Jessie Keenan, considers the imperfect nature of memory and the instability of its fragile reconstruction through an intricate and delicately nuanced new dance work as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2018.
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Save the Date: Introduction to Arts & Health at Connolly Hospital on 9 November
An Introduction to Arts and Health, a one-day national workshop, will take place at Connolly Hospital, Dublin on Friday 9 November 2018.
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Light up the night with Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing “Stars at Night” project
Waterford Healing Arts Trust is looking for people based in Waterford to take part in lantern-making workshops this September to help light up the night at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) as part of the Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2018.
News
Per Cent For Art Commission by Maree Hensey and Mark Ryan: Acute Adult Mental Health Unit, University Hospital Galway
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust announces the installation of a new Per Cent For Art commission by artists Maree Hensey and Mark Ryan in the Acute Adult Mental Health Unit at University Hospital Galway.
Opportunity
Call for artists: Age & Opportunity Artist’s Residency in a Care Setting
Age & Opportunity’s arts and culture programme wishes to engage an artist in residence within a care setting.
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Conference: Collaborative approaches to music and wellbeing research (UK)
The School of Music at University of Leeds is hosting a conference on 'collaborative approaches to music and wellbeing research' from 9 to 10 November 2018.
News
Sebastian Barry leads special Book Club at Waterford Healing Arts Trust
Award-winning author and Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry led a special Book Club event at Waterford Healing Arts Trust on 9 August 2018.
Opportunity
FutureLearn free online course: Dementia and the Arts
FutureLearn is hosting a free online course on 'Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives'.
Opportunity
FutureLearn free online course: Medicine and the Arts – Humanising Healthcare
FutureLearn is hosting a free online course delivered by the University of Cape Town which will explore the intersection of medicine, medical anthropology and the creative arts.
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Rights in their Eyes and A Portrait of Me at Tallaght University Hospital
The National Centre for Arts and Health (NCAH) is hosting two unique exhibitions at Tallaght University Hospital from August to October 2018 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ireland’s Ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - a human rights treaty which includes political, social, cultural and health rights all children under the age of 18 are entitled to.
News
Lightgift by Mark Garry at St Luke’s General Hospital, Kilkenny
Lightgift, a site-specific artwork by Mark Garry, will be unveiled in the main concourse of St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny (SLGHK) on 13 August 2018.
News
Dementia Journal: Special Issue on the Arts and Dementia
The August 2018 edition of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice is dedicated to the Arts and Dementia, comprising a collection of 10 papers that encompass a range of pioneering scholarly work from both Europe and the US.
Event
Introductory ‘Music in Healthcare’ Workshop: Trad@Heart Festival
An Introductory 'Music in Healthcare' Workshop delivered by Training Notes in partnership with Create Louth, the Arts Service of Louth County Council, will take place on 15 August 2018 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda as part of the Trad@Heart music in healthcare festival.
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Trad@Heart: Music in Healthcare Festival
Create Louth, the Arts Service of Louth County Council, in partnership with Kids' Classics, is hosting Trad@Heart this August, a complementary traditional Irish music programme across hospitals and health settings in the community.
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KCAT exhibition at St. Luke’s General Hospital, Kilkenny
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Free online course: Museums as spaces for wellbeing
The National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing in England has launched a free online course: Museums as spaces for wellbeing.
Event
Engage International Conference 2018: A Social Prescription
Engage is the lead advocacy and training network for gallery education in the UK.
Opportunity
Vacancy: Arts & Culture Assistant Manager, Age & Opportunity
Age & Opportunity is the national organisation that provides a range of opportunities for older people who want to get more involved in arts and culture, sport and physical activity and education and personal development.
Opportunity
Arts Health Research Intensive 2019
The Arts Health Research Intensive will take place at Snape Maltings in Suffolk from 4-8 February 2019, presented by the Arts Health Early Career Research Network and the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine in partnership with Snape Malting's Creative Campus.
Opportunity
Applications open: Creative Exchanges 2018
Creative Exchanges is a course developed by Age & Opportunity for anyone leading creative activities with older people in care settings.
Event
Exhibition by Treacie Linnane-Faulkner at Roscommon University Hospital
Roscommon University Hospital is currently hosting an exhibition of paintings by Roscommon-based artist Treacie Linnane-Faulkner.
Opportunity
Scholarship: NCAD MFA Fine Art / MFA Digital Art with National Forensic Medical Hospital
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is offering a Scholarship through its School of Fine Art for the recipient artist to work with the National Forensic Medical Hospital (NFMH) in a period that covers the hospital’s relocation from its current location in Dundrum and its future new-build facility at Portrane (both are Dublin locations).
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award 2019
The Arts Council's Arts Participation Project Award supports initiatives in the field of Arts Participation for projects taking place between January and December 2019.
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Unconscious Objects: A series of conversations on art and psychoanalysis at IMMA
Unconscious Objects is an interdisciplinary programme bringing together art and clinical psychoanalysis in an effort to consider what they might have to offer each other: both fields emphasise experience, encounter and creativity.
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70 Ways Art Improves Our Health
To celebrate 70 years of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, Paintings in Hospitals has initiated a daily countdown of 70 ways art has contributed to the UK's physical, mental and social health.
News
artsandhealth.ie announces recipient of 2018 documentation bursary
The artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary is an annual award which aims to encourage high quality, creative documentation of arts and health practice nationally.
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Eric Sweeney and Edward Denniston announced as Composer and Poet-in-Residence with Waterford Healing Arts Trust
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has announced that Eric Sweeney and Edward Denniston have been selected as Composer and Poet-in-Residence, respectively, at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
News
Slí na Sláinte at Connolly Hospital
Slí na Sláinte is a new art in health project by staff affiliated with Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown.
News
Aidan Warner receives Innovation Award at Cork Kerry Community Healthcare Staff Recognition Awards
Aidan Warner, who was the HSE South representative for arts and health before retiring this year, received an Innovation Non Clinical Award at the recent Cork Kerry Community Healthcare Staff Recognition Awards, recognising his work as Principal Community Worker, South Lee, and his contributions to arts and health practice in Ireland.
Event
110 Skibbereen Girls
110 Skibbereen Girls, a year-long project exploring the poignant story of 110 girls from Skibbereen who escaped famine for Australia in 1848, will culminate with the unveiling of a bronze sculpture which will incorporate some Sydney Sandstone donated by the Australian Embassy on 20 July 2018.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award 2018
The Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award supports professional artists in any artform to develop their art practice.
Opportunity
Introductory Course to Music in Healthcare Settings by Kids’ Classics
Kids' Classics is facilitating a five-day introductory workshop for musicians in County Louth and Meath (guitarists / harpists / accordionists) interested in exploring the idea of bringing music into healthcare and community spaces with a focus on geriatric settings.
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Raw Portraits by Ailish Claffey
Raw Portraits is a series of intimate film studies and live performances originally created in response to Ailish Claffey’s experience as dancer in residence through the National Centre for Arts and Health and expanded in collaboration with Cathy Coughlan, through digital media.
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Kildare Dance & Health Seminar
Kildare County Council Arts Service will host a Dance & Health Seminar for dance and healthcare professionals on 19-20 July 2018 as part of its Dance & Movement Summer School programme.
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Rethinking Dementia through Theatre and Drama
The Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute is hosting 'Rethinking Dementia through Theatre and Drama' on Friday 15 June 2018 from 9am-4pm.
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Practice and Power: 20-23 June 2018, Dublin
Create and the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) network are hosting Practice and Power, a major transnational event exploring questions of negotiation, exchange and representation in contemporary collaborative arts practice, from 20-23 June 2018 in Dublin.
Opportunity
First Fortnight Submission Call – Europe’s Mental Health Arts Festival
First Fortnight are hosting Europe’s Mental Health Arts Festival in January 2019.
News
Eight artists selected to develop artworks as part of the Children’s Hospital Group Public Art Programme
Eight artists have been selected as part of the Children’s Hospital Group Public Art Programme to develop innovative artworks for the public spaces surrounding the new children’s hospital and the two new paediatric outpatients and urgent care centres at Connolly and Tallaght Hospitals.
Event
European Mental Health Arts Festival: Public Consultation Forum (First Fortnight)
First Fortnight will be hosting the European Mental Health Arts Festival in Ireland in January 2019.
Opportunity
Well Festival: Call for artwork(s) to light up the night at University Hospital Waterford
Waterford Healing Arts Trust invites proposals from artists to display a visible and engaging temporary artwork or artworks at the back of University Hospital Waterford during Well Festival 2018.
News
Theatre for Positive Mental Health: New Europe-wide, transnational project
Ireland's Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company is the lead partner on Theatre for Positive Mental Health, a new Europe-wide, transnational project using creative processes of theatre and film to promote positive mental health and well-being.
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T H R I V E: Exhibition by artist Tory Irvine at University Hospital Galway
T H R I V E, a contemporary abstract art exhibition by artist Tory Irvine, will run in the Arts Corridor at University Hospital Galway from 7 June to 1 July 2018.
Opportunity
Creative Ireland 2018/19 funding
A culture-based wellbeing initiative, the Creative Ireland Programme is guided by a vision that every person in Ireland will have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential.
Event
Mind Reading: The Role of Narrative in Physical and Mental Health and the Experience of Illness
Mind Reading: The Role of Narrative in Physical and Mental Health and the Experience of Illness is a two-day programme of talks and workshops taking place on 18-19 June 2018 at the University of Birmingham.
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Therapeutic harp with Jayne Demakos: programme of Irish events
Jayne Demakos is a US-based certified therapeutic harp practitioner with a special interest in music for the dying.
News
MSc in Creative Arts and Mental Health (UK)
Applications are currently open for a new MSc in Creative Arts and Mental Health offered by Queen Mary University of London and the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine's Centre for Psychiatry.
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Solos and Notions
Solos and Notions is a diverse exploration of creativity by older people in County Offaly.
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Magical Geographies at Wexford General Hospital
Magical Geographies is a design and artworks exhibition by first year students of Art and Visual Communications at Wexford Campus School of Art and Design (IT Carlow).
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Invitation to Contribute – Treasury of Participatory Arts and Older People
Small Things (UK) is currently working with The Baring Foundation to create a treasury for participatory artists working with older people.
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The Bealtaine Debate: Does Age Have a Bearing on Creativity?
Does Age Have a Bearing on Creativity.
Opportunity
Call for Musician at the National Children’s Hospital
The National Centre for Arts and Health (NCAH) at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) is inviting musicians to tender for the role of Musician at the National Children's Hospital (NCH).
News
Spotlight: Arts Committee in University Hospital Limerick
This month's Spotlight is on the Arts Committee in University Hospital Limerick.
Event
Pathway at Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Pathway is a documentation exhibition showcasing a collaborative art commission between residents of Nazareth Care Village and artists Catherine Fanning and Brigitta Varadi.
Event
CREATE: The Art of Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond
CREATE is a new exhibition in the Science Gallery Dublin that will explore the world of pregnancy and newborn health research.
News
Artist Sinead Hehir selected to make University Hospital Waterford ‘A Better Place’ in 2018
Artist Sinead Hehir’s paintings have been selected via a public vote for exhibition at University Hospital Waterford under the A Better Place exhibition strand later this year.
Event
Making Meaningful Connections Through Music: Workshop for Musicians
Music in healthcare specialist Dr Jane Bentley will lead a CPD workshop for musicians entitled Making Meaningful Connections Through Music: A spectrum of possibilities for working with people with dementia at Waterford Healing Arts Trust Centre, University Hospital Waterford on Thursday 3 May from 2-5pm.
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The Emerging Role of Music in Dementia Care – Public talk by Dr Jane Bentley at WHAT Centre
Music in healthcare specialist Dr Jane Bentley will give a public talk entitled The Transformative Power of Connection: The Emerging Role of Music in Dementia Care at Waterford Healing Arts Trust Centre for Arts and Health, University Hospital Waterford on Thursday 3 May at 6.30pm.
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Old Haunts: Michael Wann at Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo
Old Haunts, a solo exhibition by Michael Wann, is running at Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo from 24 April to 15 May 2018.
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Poems for Patience XV at Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Poems for Patience XV, an exhibition of poems selected and introduced by Michael Coady, will launch at University Hospital Galway on 24 April 2018 hosted by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust in association with Cúirt International Festival of Literature and supported by Poetry Ireland.
News
Lifemusic training with Henrietta Street Senior Services
In 2017, Klawitter Theatre Group in collaboration with Dr.
Event
A Day In The Life: Exhibition by residents of Kinvara Nursing Home at Signal Arts Centre
Signal Arts Centre in Bray is exhibiting 'A Day in the Life', works by residents and artists of Kinvara Nursing Home, from 16 to 29 April 2018.
Event
Lysis at Drogheda Arts Festival
Lysis by Upstate Theatre Project will premiere at Drogheda Arts Festival from 3-7 May 2018.
Event
Engaging the Senses: Symposium and workshop exploring multi-sensory, interactive arts for young children with complex needs
Helium Arts in partnership with Kildare County Council Arts Service is hosting ‘Engaging the Senses’, a symposium and practical workshop for arts, healthcare and early years professionals interested in exploring multi-sensory, creative play through the arts for very young children with complex needs.
Opportunity
Call for applications: artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary 2018
Are you involved in an arts and health project.
News
Article on Amulet Artwork & Perinatal Death published in international journal Nurse Education Today
Artist Marie Brett has worked with scholars at University of Limerick's Faculty of Education and Health Sciences and Midwife Consultants in Perinatal Bereavement Care on a paper about Brett's AMULET artwork and the influence its exhibition had on midwifery students’ perceptions of caring for parents experiencing perinatal death.
Event
Talk: The Emerging Role of Music in Dementia Care
Kids' Classics CLG in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy of Music presents: 'The Emerging Role of Music in Dementia Care - The Transformative Power of Connection' on 1 May 2018.
Event
The Trial: visual art installation on healthcare and human rights
The Trial is a multi-screen visual art installation on healthcare and human rights in the Irish criminal justice system.
News
Masters in Social Practice and the Creative Environment (MA SPACE) 2018-19
The Limerick School of Art and Design is currently seeking applications for their Masters in Social Practice and the Creative Environment (MA SPACE) 2018-19.
Event
Spring into Summer exhibition at Tallaght Hospital
Spring into Summer, a new exhibition at Tallaght Hospital, opens on 12 April 2018.
Opportunity
Helium Arts seeks Performer for Inclusive Early Years Theatre Project
Helium Arts is seeking a multidisciplinary performer to join their Pop Up Picnic team to deliver an immersive and multi-sensory performance project for young children with complex needs.
Event
Transitioning Embodiments in Health Humanities Symposium
University of Limerick will host a symposium on Transitioning Embodiments in Health Humanities on 4 May 2018.
Opportunity
Call for tenders: WHAT independent evaluation of Arts Programme in Renal Dialysis Unit at UHW
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) wishes to commission an independent evaluation of its Arts Programme in the Renal Dialysis Unit at University Hospital Waterford (UHW), with a view to informing the next phase of the programme.
Event
LIVED LIVES: From Tory Island to Swift’s Asylum Touring Exhibition
Lived Lives is a mediated exhibition about suicide which is touring from November 2017 to November 2018.
Event
Dance & Health Professional Development Event: TOCHT Festival of Dance
TOCHT Festival of Dance in Kerry will host the second in a series of three Dance & Health Professional Development Events on 26 and 27 April 2018.
Event
Daughter of the Dagda at NUI Galway
Daughter of the Dagda is a multimedia exhibition at National University of Ireland Galway, taking place in association with NUIG School of Medicine.
Opportunity
Arts Council Open Call 2018
The Arts Council Open Call supports the creation of original and ambitious work of excellence which can be collaborative and/or experimental.
News
Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance launched in England
A new alliance of cultural organisations from across England was launched on 13 March 2018 to develop and promote the role of arts and culture in supporting health and wellbeing.
News
Dementia friendly guided tours at glór
In 2018, glór arts centre in Ennis with Clare Arts Office is introducing regular dementia friendly guided tours to accompany glór’s visual arts programme.
Opportunity
Opportunity for Artists: Iontas arts and mental health programme
Waterford Healing Arts Trust and the Waterford Wexford Mental Health Services invite artists of all arts disciplines, living in Waterford and its environs, to apply for a place on a panel of artists who will deliver aspects of the Iontas arts and mental health programme.
Event
Exhibition by Sue Byrt Foxe at Roscommon University Hospital
Roscommon University Hospital is currently hosting an exhibition of paintings by Sue Byrt Foxe, inspired by her love of colour and the natural environment.
Opportunity
WHAT Open Call: Composer and Poet-in-Residence 2018
Waterford Healing Arts Trust invites poets and composers to submit an application (together or individually) to be Artists-in-Residence at University Hospital Waterford for a period of up to six months in 2018.
Opportunity
Open Call: RCSI Women on Walls Portrait Commission
Women on Walls at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in partnership with Accenture is a campaign that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits that will create a lasting cultural legacy for Ireland.
Event
Nothing by Outlandish Theatre Platform
Outlandish Theatre Platform is theatre company in residence at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital in Dublin (2016 - 2019).
Event
Interiority: Workshop with Professor Anna Furse
Following Arts and Health Check Up Check In 2018 at Crawford Art Gallery on 26 April, keynote speaker Professor Anna Furse, FRSA, will share her knowledge of theatre, writing, medical humanities and interdisciplinary collaborations further at a special workshop the following day, Friday 27 April, at the same venue.
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Bookings now open: Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2018
Building Momentum is the theme for this year's Arts + Health Check Up Check In, our annual gathering for healthcare professionals, artists and anyone interested in learning more about this dynamic field of practice.
News
Spotlight: SCRUBS-CUH Workplace Choir
The Spotlight series highlights the role of healthcare professionals who are developing, leading and collaborating on arts and health initiatives.
Event
Save the Date! Symposium exploring multi-sensory, interactive arts for young children with complex needs
Helium Arts in partnership with Kildare County Council Arts Service is hosting a symposium and practical workshop for arts, healthcare and early years professionals interested in exploring multi-sensory, creative play through the arts for very young children with complex needs.
Event
The Trial at Kilmainham Gaol Museum
The Trial, a visual arts installation on the theme of healthcare in Irish prisons, past and present, will open to the public from 13-26 April in the Old Courthouse in Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Dublin.
Opportunity
Call for HSE staff musicians: Traditional music group for Cork University Hospital
The Cork University Hospital (CUH) Arts Committee invites HSE staff musicians at CUH, and from local HSE health centres and offices, to join a traditional music group based at CUH.
Event
Celebration of Health Service Choirs
SCRUBS, the Cork University Hospital workplace choir, in conjunction with the Arts Committee of CUH and the South/South West Hospitals Group, is hosting the second annual Celebration of Health Service Choirs on Saturday February 24 2018.
News
Advice to a Younger Generation Tour
The 'Advice to a Younger Generation Tour' kicked off in December 2017 when Skibbereen Day Care hosted students from Rath National School and The Starling Band.
News
Dance Unlimited: Meet and Move at McAuley Place
Are you interested in dance and movement.
Opportunity
Call for papers: 2018 European Design4Health conference
Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam University invites papers from researchers and practitioners for the fifth European Design4Health conference, taking place from 4-6 September 2018.
Opportunity
Call for entries: Poems for Patience poetry competition 2018
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries for its annual poetry competition.
News
Dance Classes for People with Parkinson’s at Dance House
Dance Classes for People with Parkinson’s are taking place every Friday from February to May at Dance House in Dublin.
Event
Last Dance: afternoon performance at Uillinn
Baroque violinist Justin Grounds and contemporary dancer Inma Pavon will take part in an afternoon performance at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre on 23 February.
Opportunity
New Children’s Hospital: Assistant Arts in Health Curator Vacancy
The new children’s hospital is recruiting an Assistant Arts in Health Curator, Grade V, to assist the CHG Arts in Health Curator on delivering all aspects of the CHG Arts in Health Strategy.
Event
HeadSpace2018
HeadSpace2018 is a two-day celebration of scientific and creative investigation into brain health and dementia at Trinity College Dublin.
Opportunity
A Better Place 2018: Open Call for Artists
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) has announced an Open Call to artists based in Ireland to submit proposals for their annual exhibition A Better Place, which will take place at University Hospital Waterford from June to August 2018.
Event
Public Age Project Screening
The Public Age project sought to reveal how important well-designed public space is to health, wellbeing and positive ageing in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County.
Event
The Creative Well 2018
The Creative Well is a visual arts and health programme that provides space and place for arts participation in many forms for all in Co. Kildare.
Event
Arts and Health research cluster at UL – Spring 2018 events
The Arts and Health research cluster, based at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in the University of Limerick, facilitates collaborative research between arts and health disciplines.
News
Azure dementia-friendly tours at Highlanes Gallery Winter / Spring 2018
Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda is part of the Azure Network, an alliance of cultural organisations that aim for greater inclusion of people with dementia in an Irish cultural context.
News
Helium Arts’ Pop Up Picnic
Helium Arts’ Pop Up Picnic is a multi-sensory performance experience created for families with young children who have complex needs.
Opportunity
Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme – 2018 deadlines
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
Opportunity
Proposals sought: CREATION: The Art of Pregnancy and Birth
The HRB Mother and Baby Clinical Trial Network is seeking proposals for CREATION, a free exhibition hosted in Science Gallery Dublin in May 2018 and touring nationally.
News
New Brokentalkers theatre commission with Mountjoy Prison and PACE
As part of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000 research project at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, UCD are commissioning a collaborative theatre project between UCD and acclaimed Irish theatre company Brokentalkers.
Opportunity
Drugs.ie “Let’s Talk about Drugs” National Youth Media Awards Competition 2018
The Drugs.ie “Let’s Talk About Drugs” National Youth Media Awards is an annual drug education competition that aims to help young people explore and understand various issues relating to drug and alcohol use in Irish society.
Opportunity
Job opportunity: Arts Officer at Brain Injury Matters, Belfast
Brain Injury Matters is currently recruiting for an Arts Officer as part of their Youth and Adults Services Team.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award – 2018 deadline
The Arts Council’s Project Awards will support specific project activities in Arts Participation to commence in the second half of 2018.
Event
Webinar: Arts and Mental Health: The similarities and differences between Arts Therapies and Arts Practices
Arts and Mental Health: The similarities and differences between Arts Therapies and Arts Practices is the latest webinar from the RSPH Arts, Health and Wellbeing Webinar Series.
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Save the Date! Arts + Health Check Up, Check In 2018
Following the success of last year’s event in Sligo, artsandhealth.ie is delighted to announce that Arts and Health Check Up, Check In 2018 takes place at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork on Thursday 26 April.
News
Last Dance at Clonakilty Community Hospital
‘Last Dance’, a five-week collaborative project with residents of the Clonakilty Community Hospital, Baroque violinist Justin Grounds and contemporary dancer Inma Pavon, culminated in a special event in the wards of the hospital on 12 December.
News
Red House Legends: Poetry collection by Martin McShea launched at Waterford Healing Arts Trust
Red House Legends: Woodford to Waterford, A Life’s Journey in Verse, by poet and retired teacher Martin McShea, was recently launched at Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
Opportunity
PhD scholarship at University of Limerick: Singing and Mental Health
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, is delighted to announce an opportunity for a well-motivated and capable graduate to undertake a PhD in the Music Therapy Department under the supervision of Dr Hilary Moss.
Event
The Collective: Group show from The Creative Well Open Studio
The Creative Well presents 'The Collective', a group show of works from The Open Studio, at the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge from 5-26 January 2018.
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First Fortnight in Cork
First Fortnight, Ireland’s annual arts and mental health festival, is coming back to Cork in January 2018 with seven events taking place across Cork city and county.
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Art@Work 14: Annual staff exhibition at University Hospital Galway
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust presents Art@Work 14, the annual staff exhibition at University Hospital Galway.
Event
Winter Music Season at Cork University Hospital
The Arts Department at Cork University Hospital is currently hosting its most extensive Winter Music Season, extending to Wilton Community area, Cork City and Cork County.
Event
First Fortnight 2018
First Fortnight, Ireland’s annual arts and mental health festival, is taking place in January 2018 with more than 100 events across 17 counties throughout the month.
In Conversation
In Conversation with Marie Denham: Illustrator, Puppeteer and Nurse
For the last of our current In Conversation series with professionals who have a dual practice as artists and healthcare practitioners, we met up with Marie Denham at her work space in A4 Sounds.
News
Spotlight: Andy Neary, Manager of the HSE Rural Training Centre, Castlebar
The Spotlight series highlights the role of healthcare professionals who are developing, leading or collaborating on arts and health initiatives.
Event
Experience and Encounter in Practice and Theory | Freud Museum (UK)
'Experience' and 'Encounter' in Practice and Theory is session 3 of an international, multidisciplinary seminar on psychoanalysis and sexuality which will take place in the Freud Museum, London on Saturday 24 February 2018.
News
Launch of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme Strategy in West Cork
The Arts for Health Partnership Programme in West Cork celebrated the launch of their Strategic Plan 2017-2020 at Dunmanway Community Hospital on 28 November.
Event
Emma Finucane at Mermaid Arts Centre
An exhibition by Emma Finucane will launch at Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray on 30 November 2017.
Event
Dance & Health: We’re Dancing
Dance Ireland will host an afternoon of reflection on and celebration of the impact of dance on people's lives at DanceHouse on 1 December 2017.
Opportunity
Open Call: Public Art Commissions at Sacred Heart Hospital
The HSE and the management of the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar, Co. Mayo wish to invite proposals for site-specific artwork for the newly constructed 74 bed hospital which is currently under construction with a view to completion by the end of 2017.
News
Applications open: Arts in Group Facilitation Certificate at CIT
The Arts in Group Facilitation Certificate is an experiential course run by the Department of Arts in Health and Community Practice at Cork Institute of Technology.
Opportunity
Public Art Commission: St. James’s Hospital Commemorative Artwork
St.
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Create Networking Day for Collaborative Arts 2017
Create, the national development agency for the collaborative arts, will host its annual networking day on Friday 1 December at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama Theatre and Performance in NUIG.
Event
Positive in Prison: HIV stories from a Dublin Jail
Positive in Prison: HIV stories from a Dublin Jail is a radio drama exploring AIDS / HIV in Mountjoy prison initiated as part of the History of Health in Prison project.
News
Call for abstracts: The Art of Clowning – Connecting Culture, Health and Science
RED NOSES Clowndoctors International is hosting 'The Art of Clowning – Connecting Culture, Health and Science', a Healthcare Clowning International Meeting from 4-6 April 2018 in Vienna.
Event
Can You See What I See? at Tallaght Hospital
‘Can You See What I See?’ is a new exhibition by Caroline Hyland hosted by the National Centre for Arts and Health and open to the public on Hospital Street, Tallaght Hospital until February 2018.
In Conversation
In Conversation with Ciara McMahon: Visual Artist and GP
In the second of our In Conversation series celebrating Arts and Health Month this November, artsandhealth.ie talks to Ciara McMahon, a visual artist and GP based in Dublin, about the ways in which her medical and art practices inform each other and the impetus behind the deAppendix cultural space co-located with her general practice.
Event
Art in Mind: Panel Discussion at National Gallery of Ireland
Art seems to impact us all differently.
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Conference: A national health service? Exploring how museums can improve our wellbeing
'A national health service.
News
The Natural Heart / An Chroí Nádúrtha
The Natural Heart / An Chroí Nádúrtha is a workshop developed and facilitated by Cabrini Cahill, a staff nurse in a residential nursing home and a theatre practitioner.
In Conversation
In Conversation with Mary Clancy: Visual Artist and Dentist
To celebrate Arts and Health Month this November, artsandhealth.ie is pleased to present our inaugural In Conversation series.
News
Introduction to Arts & Health: One-day workshop in Limerick is fully booked
An Introduction to Arts and Health, the one-day workshop taking place at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) on Friday 10 November is now fully booked, with a lengthy waiting list.
News
Call for Papers: European Healthcare Design Congress and Exhibition
The fourth European Healthcare Design Congress and Exhibition has issued a call for papers on the theme of 'Utopia or dystopia.
Opportunity
Applications sought: Post Doctoral Researcher and Research Fellow in Arts in Health
The University of Derby is currently seeking a Post Doctoral Researcher and Research Fellow in Arts in Health to work for the newly formed Arts in Health Centre of Excellence which is part of the College of Health & Social Care Research Centre (CHSCRC).
Event
Swift 350 Festival
The Jonathan Swift Festival is celebrating the 350th birthday of Jonathan Swift, author, satirist and founder of St.
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A Year Out by Jenny Richardson at University Hospital Waterford
Artist Jenny Richardson’s moving exhibition, A Year Out, is currently on display at University Hospital Waterford.
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Illuminate at Cork Film Festival 2017
Illuminate is an annual series of curated film and discussion events at Cork Film Festival which each focus on a differing aspect of mental health.
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Cork Jazz Festival at Cork University Hospital
There will be a double bill of jazz at Cork University Hospital on Friday 27 October 2017 to celebrate 40 years of the Cork Jazz Festival.
Opportunity
The Arts Council seeks Arts Participation Manager
The Arts Council is currently seeking applications for the role of Arts Participation Manager.
News
Under One Sky Commission at University Hospital Waterford
Waterford Healing Arts Trust announces the installation of a new commission by Marielle MacLeman in University Hospital Waterford entitled Under One Sky.
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Lunchtime concert by Hilary Dring at Cork University Hospital celebrating Pastoral Care Week 2017
Cork University Hospital will host a Piano Recital by pianist Hilary Dring in the Cardiac Renal Centre Atrium at 1pm on Wednesday 25 October.
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Introduction to Arts & Health: One-day workshop at University Hospital Limerick on 10 November
An Introduction to Arts and Health, a one-day national workshop, takes place at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) on Friday 10 November 2017.
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Keeping in Touch at University Hospital Galway
Keeping in Touch is an exhibition of paintings at University Hospital Galway by artists who attended art college together in Galway Mayo Institute of Technology.
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Swift 350 Festival: Swift Historical Tours at St Patrick’s University Hospital
As part of the Swift 350 Festival, celebrating the 350th birthday of Jonathan Swift - the writer of Gulliver's Travels and founder of St Patrick's University Hospital - St Patrick's Mental Health Services will host three atmospheric tours in November exploring Swift's Dublin and his legacy in the environs of the hospital.
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Connolly Collective art exhibition at Connolly Hospital
Connolly Collective is an art group comprised of artists and staff who are attached to Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown.
News
Peter and the Wolf: Children’s Hospital Tour by Kids’ Classics
Kids’ Classics in partnership with Beaumont Hospital School have created a new production of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, in a new music arrangement by Ciáran Hope which is narrated by Nick Grennell and performed by Kids’ Classics musicians.
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The New Normal: Exhibition and Launch
The New Normal is a limited edition, hand-printed publication; the result of a long-term collaborative art project between a community of breast cancer survivors and visual artist John Conway.
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A Face in the Crowd – November Tour presented by Wexford Mental Health Association
The Discover Recover Theatre Project by Wexford Mental Health Association presents A Face in the Crowd, a performance inspired by true life stories of mental health difficulties.
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SS2017 @ Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore
SS2017 will open at Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore on 16 October 2017.
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Galway Jazz Festival at University Hospital Galway
Galway Jazz Festival is partnering with Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust to present a performance by three of Ireland’s finest jazz musicians in University Hospital Galway on Sunday 8 October.
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Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2017
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2017 takes place from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 October in Waterford with a line-up of 36 fun, inventive and sociable arts events throughout Waterford City and County, for all ages, all free.
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The Claddagh Rogues at Cork University Hospital
The Claddagh Rogues will perform a free lunchtime concert at Cork University Hospital on 2 October 2017 to celebrate Mental Health Month.
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Pizza and Poetry with TASK: Mental Health Week in Kilkenny
TASK (Training and Support Kilkenny) is a full time rehabilitative training programme for adults.
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West Cork: Free music sessions on World Mental Health Day
The Claddagh Rogues, UK musicians Ros Hawley and Mark Fisher, and Gamelan Spréacha Geala are part of the line-up for World Mental Health Day on 10 October at 49 North Street, the new Centre for Wellness and Creativity in Skibbereen.
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PHOTOVOICES
PHOTOVOICES is a collaborative participatory photographic exhibition exploring the experience of having a mental illness in the Midlands of Ireland in 2017.
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Live Life and Sing: Celebrating Mental Health Week in West Cork
Live Life and Sing, in association with the West Cork Feel Good Festival, celebrates life, singing and community in West Cork for Mental Health Week.
Opportunity
Art Instructor sought for Occupational Therapy Department at St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services
Applications are invited for the position of Art Instructor with the Occupational Therapy Department at St.
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In the Picture: Dementia friendly gallery tour at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre this October
In the Picture invites people living with dementia and their family, friends or professional carers to visit an exhibition at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre and discuss with others in a safe and welcoming environment.
News
Training Notes: An Introductory Course to Music in Healthcare Settings
An Introductory Course to Music in Healthcare Settings is a four-day introductory workshop for musicians interested in exploring the idea of bringing music into healthcare and community spaces with a focus on geriatric settings.
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Anima screening at Wexford Documentary Film Festival
Anima, a film by Colm Mullen exploring Marie Brett's research on death and care, will be screened at the Wexford Documentary Film Festival 2017.
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Bittersweet at Galway Arts Centre
Bittersweet is a collaborative installation by Red Bird Youth Collective and artists from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Day Hospital at Merlin Park Hospital.
News
Participate in arts based research enquiry at St Patrick’s University Hospital
St Patrick’s Mental Health Services have initiated the 'Collaborative stakeholder inquiry in mental health: Considering the role and impact of arts-based research methods in recovery-oriented service development'.
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TDP ’17: Dance & Health Professional Development Events
Tipperary Dance Platform hosts the first in a series of three dance and health professional development events on 10 and 11 October 2017 at Nenagh Arts Centre.
News
Call for abstracts: Health Humanities & Arts in Health International Symposium
The University of Derby will host the Health Humanities & Arts in Health International Symposium on 27 and 28 November 2017.
Opportunity
Artist opportunity: facilitation of gallery tours for people with dementia
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Arts Office is seeking expressions of interest from professional visual arts practitioners who have an interest in training to facilitate dementia friendly gallery tours in dlr LexIcon.
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Puzzle Paths Perspectives at Cork University Hospital
Puzzle Paths Perspectives, the first solo exhibition by John McGuinness (Aongaise), runs from 13 September to 2 October 2017 at Cork University Hospital and is part of the hospital's Culture Night programme on 22 September.
News
Bosom Pals – Eight Poets Share their Experiences of Breast Cancer
Eight women poets — Marie Cadden, Marion Cox, Mary Hanlon, Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec, Mari Maxwell, Robyn Rowland and Lorna Shaugnessy — who have had experiences with breast cancer are being published in a collection of poems called Bosom Pals.
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Head in the Hedgerow at University Hospital Galway
Head in the Hedgerow, an exhibition by artist Hugh Barr, is currently on display at University Hospital Galway and will continue until 16 October 2017.
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The Claddagh Rogues – Touring Ireland for Mental Health Month
The Claddagh Rogues are embarking on a nationwide performance and discussion tour for Mental Health Month in October 2017.
News
It’s time to talk about mental health and wellbeing in the creative sector
Ulster University and wellbeing charity Inspire have come together on the SHoWCaSE: A snapshot of health and wellbeing in the creative sector project.
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Aistriú: Exhibition by The Art Room at Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar
Aistriú is the latest exhibition from The Art Room at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Castlebar.
News
Spotlight Series: Niamh Kent and Ailín Farrell, Occupational Therapists
We are delighted to introduce our new Spotlight series, shining a light on healthcare professionals and the arts and health initiatives they are involved in.
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CDAN Expert Seminar: Music and Dementia at Wellcome Trust
The Creative Dementia Arts Network (CDAN) and MHA present Music and Dementia, An Expert Seminar at Wellcome Trust, London on 20 November 2017.
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Well Festival presents Songbirds – A CPD workshop for musicians working in healthcare settings
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing in Waterford presents Songbirds: Music, Communication and Wellbeing, a CPD workshop for musicians working in healthcare settings, on Wednesday 11 October at 2pm.
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The Point of Viewing: Exhibition by Darragh Lyons at University Hospital Waterford
Waterford Healing Arts Trust presents a new solo exhibition by Waterford artist Darragh Lyons at University Hospital Waterford.
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Culture Night South: Arts and Health Events
Culture Night is taking place on Friday 22 September 2017 with arts and health events around the country, many of them open to the public.
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Culture Night East: Arts and Health Events
Culture Night is taking place on Friday 22 September 2017 with arts and health events around the country, many of them open to the public.
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Daughters of the Revolution 2017/18 Tour
Daughters of the Revolution is a theatre piece exploring women’s experience of maternity in Ireland by writer and director Kate Harris of 4elements Theatre Company.
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What does art do in hospitals? International Seminar, Copenhagen
With the seminar “What does art do in hospitals?” KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Copenhagen focuses on the many important questions raised in the discussion concerning art and hospitals.
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Lean on Me: Kildare Arts and Wellbeing Culture Night Event
Three of Co. Kildare’s most interesting choral groups lean on each other to create an intergenerational sound some 100 voices strong.
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Rapids at Dublin Theatre Festival
Exploring instances of disclosure and the presence of stigma in the lives of men and women who are HIV+ in Ireland today, Rapids is a new work from Talking Shop Ensemble and Shaun Dunne that looks to playfully and respectfully make the private public.
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‘Rhythm and Wellness: A multi-dimensional perspective’ – Talk at RIAM
Kids’ Classics CLG in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy of Music present ‘Rhythm and Wellness: A multi-dimensional perspective’ on 21 September 2017.
Opportunity
Art and Ageing Fellowship: Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) wish to appoint a Fellow to work with their Art and Ageing Programme.
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Arts and Health Research Showcase at IWAMD – full programme announced
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (IWAMD) at University of Limerick will present an Arts and Health Research Showcase on 27 September 2017.
News
Local children take part in hoarding art project at site of new children’s hospital
Children and young people from Dublin 8 are taking part in an art project that will see a section of the hoarding erected around the new children’s hospital transformed to a design of their creation.
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Interiority: An Exploration of the Inward Gaze
Prompted by the idea that Shakespeare’s soliloquies may have been influenced by his attending public anatomical dissections in Renaissance London, INTERIORITY brings together artists with speakers from the fields of medicine and health, anatomy, history and cultural theory in three public talks, to explore the relationship between body and mind: how we imagine and experience our interior selves, and how this affects our way of expression in the world.
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Culture Night at St. Patrick’s University Hospital
St.
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CUREkenny Arts for Health and Wellbeing Festival
CUREkenny is the first Festival of Arts for Health & Wellbeing in St.
News
The Trial: Participatory project on access to health provision on release from prison
The Trial is the working title for a new visual art project due for public exhibition in April 2018.
News
Health Inside: Thinking About Prisoners’ Right to Healthcare
Health Inside: Thinking About Prisoners’ Right to Healthcare is a new public art project due for exhibition in June 2018, which will focus on health and welfare provision in Irish and English prisons.
Opportunity
Invitation to Tender – Dance and Health Research Project
The Arts Services of Kildare, Kerry and Tipperary County Councils and Dance Ireland invite tenders to produce a training framework for dance artists working in healthcare contexts.
Event
Anima screening at Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival
Anima, a film by Colm Mullen exploring death and care, will be screened at the 2017 Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival.
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The Broken Puppet: Symposium on Puppetry, Disability and Health
The Broken Puppet, a two-day Symposium on Puppetry, Disability and Health, will take place at University College Cork (UCC) from 1 to 2 August 2017.
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364/24: St Francis Hospice and artist Marie Brett
St Francis Hospice and visual artist Marie Brett have been awarded an Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Project Realisation Award for 364/24, a new filmic artwork by Marie exploring experiences of the moment of death.
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Applications open: Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health
The Global Brain Health Institute is now accepting applications for its 2018 class of Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health.
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MFA Scholarships at NCAD supporting art practice at the National Forensic Medical Hospital
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is offering three full-time MFA Fine Art / Digital Art Scholarships that will support art research and practice carried out at the National Forensic Medical Hospital at Dundrum and in its transition to a new facility at Portrane in the Dublin Area.
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Making Sense: The Art of Mental Health at Skibbereen Arts Festival
This year's Skibbereen Arts Festival, running from 28 July to 6 August, will include a number of arts and mental health events.
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Creative Arts Facilitator (Relief Panel) sought for the Twilight Programme at St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services
The Twilight Programme at St.
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Can We Ever Really See Each Other? Exhibition in UHG for Galway International Arts Festival
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust presents 'Can We Ever Really See Each Other?', a new exhibition by Nicola Gunwhy for Galway International Arts Festival 2017.
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Save the Date: Arts and Health Research Showcase at University of Limerick
An Arts and Health Research Showcase will take place at the Irish World Academy of Music (IWAMD), University of Limerick, on Wednesday 27 September 2017.
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Arts and Health Check Up, Check In 2017: Documentation from the day
The second Arts and Health Check Up, Check In took place at The Model, Sligo on 5 May 2017.
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New publication – Arts in Health: Designing and researching interventions
Arts in Health: Designing and researching interventions is a new book by Daisy Fancourt, published by Oxford University Press, which provides an overview of how to go about undertaking research and practice in the field of arts and health.
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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.
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The Arts Health Early Career Research Network
The Arts Health Early Career Research Network has recently been established in the UK to bring together early career researchers working on projects that lie at the intersection of the arts, humanities, health and medicine.
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101 Visions of the Future
At a time of great political, social and environmental change it seems appropriate to ask the question 'How do you see the Future?’ Students from Cork University Dental School and Hospital were invited to reply to this question with a two-minute sketch as part of the 101 Visions of the Future art project.
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Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award 2017
The purpose of the Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Award is to support individual professional artists whose practice centres on collaboration with groups of people in any of the following contexts: communities of place and/or interest, health, disability, cultural diversity and older people.
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Dance, Health and Wellbeing Symposium
Sensing Movement: A Dance, Health and Wellbeing Symposium by the National Centre for Arts and Health will take place at Rua Red Arts Centre, Tallaght on 28 July 2017.
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Temple of Treasures: Transforming Temple Street Hospital into a game environment
Young people, their families and staff at Temple Street Children’s University Hospital took part in an interactive game event on 13 June 2017.
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Joanna Hopkins awarded the inaugural Bealtaine Artist’s Residency in a care setting
The Bealtaine Festival, celebrating creativity as we age, has awarded visual artist Joanna Hopkins the inaugural Bealtaine Artist’s Residency in a care setting.
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Call for volunteer artists and musicians at Tallaght Hospital
The National Centre for Arts and Health at Tallaght Hospital is seeking volunteer artists and musicians of all genres to facilitate sessions with patients.
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Twist of the Wrist at Tallaght Hospital
Twist of the Wrist, an exhibition of artworks created by artists, crafters and makers who all share a love of textiles, will be on display at Tallaght Hospital until September 2017.
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International Arts & Dementia Conference at Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
Butler Gallery in Kilkenny is hosting an international conference, Arts & Dementia: A European Perspective, on 4 July 2017.
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Live Streaming – Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference 19-21 June 2017
The Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference is taking place in Bristol from 19 – 21 June 2017.
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Radiophone … Dial a tune!
Radiophone is an interactive installation where visitors are invited to pick up an old-style telephone.
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The Visual Time Traveller at University Hospital Waterford
The Visual Time Traveller exhibition by Alison Hackett will open at University Hospital Waterford on 16 June 2017.
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Creativity & Change: CIT Accredited Award now open for applications
The Creativity & Change CIT Level 9 Accredited Special Purpose Award is now open for applications for the 2017/18 academic year.
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Gamelan Spréacha Geala events in West Cork this June
West Cork’s newly formed Gamelan Spréacha Geala, (translating as ‘Bright Sparks' Gamelan) will be part of two events in June 2017, which are free and open to all ages.
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Thursday’s Child
Renal dialysis patient Liz McCue was described as 'a pioneer in the work she has done' by Dr Sean Leavey, Consultant Nephrologist at University Hospital Waterford, as he officially launched her autobiography Thursday’s Child – Stories of survival from a feisty renal warrior, at Waterford Healing Arts Trust on 8 June 2017.
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Children’s Hospital Group Public Art Programme – Call for Expressions of Interest in Research and Development Phase
The Children’s Hospital Group (CHG) invites Expressions of Interest from experienced artists to enter into a phase of Research and Development between August and October 2017 leading to proposals for a range of ambitious artworks that will be integrated into the new children’s hospital public realm spaces and its Paediatric Outpatient and Urgent Care Centres.
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The Public Age Meeting House
Public Age is a project commissioned by the dlrCountyCouncil / HSE Arts and Health Partnership that reveals the importance of well-designed public space to the health and wellbeing of positive ageing.
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HSE publishes Positive Ageing Research Strategy
The Health Service Executive (HSE), Health and Wellbeing Division, published its ‘Healthy and Positive Ageing for All’ Research Strategy 2015-2019 on 1 June 2017.
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No it’s not me…that’s not me…
'No it’s not me…that’s not me…', an article by Helen O'Donoghue of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and artist Marie Brett, has been published in Engage, the international journal of visual art and gallery education.
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Singing in a choir: Hilary Moss presents at Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference
The Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference is taking place in Bristol from 19 – 21 June 2017.
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Arts and Health Seminar: Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore
Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore (MRHT) will host a daylong Arts and Health Seminar on Thursday 6 July 2017.
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Pathway at Nazareth Care Village, Sligo
Pathway is a collaborative art commission between residents of Nazareth Care Village in Sligo and artists Catherine Fanning and Brigitta Varadi.
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Bealtaine 2017: The Creative Doors
As part of visual artist Tom Meskell’s ongoing residency at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Castlebar, County Mayo, he has been exploring ideas regarding the patient’s creative visual environment.
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Wicklow Music and Health Gathering
The Wicklow Music and Health Gathering will take place in the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, on Thursday 1 June 2017.
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Commission: CÚRAM Public Engagement Programme 2017, Galway
CÚRAM, in partnership with Galway City Arts Office, invites proposals from artists across Ireland who are interested in working as part of CÚRAM’s public engagement programme.
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Per Cent for Art Commission: New Emergency Department Fit Out Project at University Hospital Limerick
Under the Per Cent for Art Scheme, UL Hospitals and HSE Estates wish to invite submissions and commission original artwork pieces with the primary aim of enhancing the care environment of persons and also the general environment for the staff that care for them and indeed the general built environment for all visitors and users of the new Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick.
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Per Cent for Art Commission: Renal Dialysis Department at University Hospital Limerick
Under the Per Cent for Art Scheme, UL Hospitals and HSE Estates wish to invite submissions and commission original artwork pieces with the primary aim of enhancing the care environment of persons and also the general environment for the staff that care for them and indeed the general built environment for all visitors and users of the new Renal Dialysis Department at University Hospital Limerick.
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An evening of storytelling at St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services
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Screening of Anima and Essential Pause? at the Kaleidoscope Palliative Care Conference
The 15th Kaleidoscope Palliative Care Conference hosted by St.
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Arts Officer sought for Tallaght Hospital
The National Centre for Arts and Health is currently recruiting a full-time Arts Officer (Grade VI) to take a lead role in promoting and developing the arts in all forms as a medium of vital patient support in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin.
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Hidden Talents: Exhibition by Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Staff
Hidden Talents 2017 is the third annual exhibition of artworks by staff members of Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, hosted by Arts Care Belfast City Hospital in the Tower Gallery.
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Creativity, the patient’s voice and the built environment at the International Dementia Conference in Dublin
The 9th International Dementia Conference, organised by Sonas apc, will take place at Citywest Hotel in Dublin on 15 and 16 May 2017 on the theme of Building Knowledge, Leadership and Communities.
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Open Call: Documentation of Work for Arts and Health Seminar
A one day Arts and Health Seminar will be held at Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore on 6 July 2017.
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Bealtaine 2017 at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is celebrating this year's national Bealtaine Festival, celebrating creativity as we age, with a multidisciplinary exhibition, showcasing many of the art programmes and projects with older people that take place at the Centre and throughout the region, along with gallery tours, workshops and once off events.
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Arts Council Arts Participation Bursary Clinics 2017 at VISUAL Carlow and Limerick City Gallery
The Arts Council, in association with Create, will hold two information clinics on 12 May and 7 June which will take place in advance of the deadline for the Arts Participation Bursary Award on 13 July 2017.
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Join the Voices of Spring community choir – for people with dementia and their carers
Do you like to sing.
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Celebrating Music & Health Practice As We Age: Seminar at RIAM
Musical Memories in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy of Music present ‘Celebrating Music & Health Practice As We Age’ on Thursday, 11 May 2017.
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Barry Edwards makes UHW A Better Place
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust is delighted to announce that Barry Edwards has been selected through a public vote to exhibit his paintings in University Hospital Waterford (UHW) in the second of a series of annual exhibitions entitled A Better Place.
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Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust at Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference 2017
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust will be contributing to the Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference in Bristol, which is taking place from 19 - 21 June.
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WHAT welcomes its 2017 Artist in Residence to University Hospital Waterford
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is delighted to welcome Ciara Harrison to University Hospital Waterford as the 2017 Artist in Residence.
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Arts and Health Check Up, Check In 2017: Programme and Contributors
Arts and Health Check Up, Check In 2017 is taking place on Friday 5 May at The Model, Sligo.
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The Creative Well: Upcoming events and opportunities
The Creative Well arts and wellbeing project is in residency with 'This Must Be the Place' at the Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare throughout 2017.
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An evening of entertainment during Clonakilty Wellness Week
The Fig & Olive Cafe will host an evening of free entertainment on 4 May 2017 as part of Clonakilty Wellness Week in West Cork.
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Call for Nominations: Allianz Business to Arts Awards 2017
The Allianz Business to Arts Awards champion the spirit of collaboration between businesses, artists and arts organisations.
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HSE Survey: Mapping of Mental Health Promotion Activity
The development of a national mental health promotion plan has been identified as a priority in Connecting for Life – Ireland’s National Strategy to Reduce Suicide 2015-2020.
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Poems for Patience 2017 with Yrsa Daley-Ward
The launch of Poems for Patience XIV, an exhibition of poems selected and introduced by Yrsa Daley-Ward, will take place at University Hospital, Galway on 28 April 2017.
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Call for applications: artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary 2017
Are you involved in an arts and health project.
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Open Call Opportunity for Artists with Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is currently seeking expressions of interest from multi-disciplinary artists in County Galway and Roscommon to join an artist panel (visual arts, film, music, literature).
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The Claddagh Rogues at Cork Lifelong Learning Festival
James O'Flynn and his band The Claddagh Rogues are performing a free gig at Cork Lifelong Learning Festival on Thursday 6 April 2017.
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Call for artists: Bealtaine Artist’s Residency in a care setting
The Bealtaine Festival has created an opportunity for a visual artist to engage with a care setting and its residents over four months, developing specific skills in relation to working in arts and health settings.
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Arts for Hospice: Arts and Older People programme and exhibition
Arts for Hospice is an exhibition of selected artwork created by Northern Ireland Hospice adult service users.
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Inventing Solutions by Carol O’Connor at deAppendix
Inventing Solutions, an exhibition of Carol O’Connor’s current body of work, opens at deAppendix on 4 April 2017.
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Continuance by Clare Lymer at the Science Gallery
Continuance by Clare Lymer is an installation of video works exploring the human experience of isolation suffered by tuberculosis patients.
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Uillinn Arts and Health Residency 2017
Cavan County Council in partnership with Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre will facilitate Cavan visual artist Kim Doherty to spend four weeks working at the Uillinn Arts and Health Residency in 2017.
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The Creative Gathering: Arts and Health Seminar, Derry
The Creative Gathering is an opportunity for people to gather together from across Northern Ireland and beyond to explore and showcase the positive impact of the arts and creativity on the health and wellbeing of community living.
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Design & Health Project: Type 1 – A creative day for teenagers with diabetes at National Craft Gallery
National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny will host a creative design and making day for teenagers who have diabetes on Monday 10 April 2017.
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MA in Socially Engaged Art, NCAD – 2017 call for applications
Applications are now being sought for the MA in Socially Engaged Art + Further Education at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin for enrollment in Autumn 2017.
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Arts in Health Research Cluster: Launch and Talks, Limerick
The launch of the newly established Arts in Health Research Cluster will take place on 30 March 2017 at The Health Hub, Rutland Street in Limerick City.
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Making the Impossible Possible – Artist Talk with Rachel Tynan at WHAT
Artist Rachel Tynan presents WHAT’s annual talk entitled 'Making the impossible possible' at the WHAT Centre for Arts and Health Centre, University Hospital Waterford, on 6 April.
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Creative Ireland – Local Authority Community Engagement Workshops
Creative Ireland is the Government’s Legacy Programme for Ireland 2016 – a five-year initiative, from 2017 to 2022, which places creativity at the centre of public policy.
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Call for submissions: Creatively Connected Online Film Festival
Submissions are currently being sought for the first Creatively Connected Online Film Festival, organised by The Foundation for Art & Healing, U.S.
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Arts and Health Research Cluster at University of Limerick
The newly established Arts and Health research cluster at University of Limerick aims to facilitate collaborative research between arts and health disciplines.
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Little Flowers by Austin Hearne at deAppendix
Little Flowers, the current body of work by Austin Hearne, is currently on show at deAppendix, a cultural space co-located with the Amaranta Family Practice in Blackrock, Co.Dublin.
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Helium Arts’ Teddy Bear Check Up
Children will be invited to have their Teddies’ vital signs checked and student doctors from UCD Paediatric Society will be on call to treat any minor bear ailments during Helium Arts’ Teddy Bear Check Up at Lloyds Pharmacy this April.
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Arts and Health Check Up, Check In now open for bookings
Bookings are now being accepted for Arts and Health Check Up, Check In, a unique arts and health get-together hosted by artsandhealth.ie, Create and Arts Initiative in Mental Health, Sligo.
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SICK! Festival 2017 (UK)
SICK! Festival will take place in Manchester and Brighton from 8-25 March 2017.
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Transplant and Life: Exhibition exploring lives of organ transplant patients (UK)
Visitors to the Royal College of Surgeons’ Hunterian Museum in London can explore the lives of patients who have received organ transplants, those on the waiting list, and live donors via a newly commissioned exhibition which innovatively merges sound, photography and video.
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Planet of the Capes: Interactive film and music showcase
Helium Arts and CanTeen Ireland are hosting an interactive film and music showcase at The Sugar Club in Dublin on 1 April.
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Free online course: Medicine and the Arts – Humanising Healthcare
FutureLearn is offering a free online course delivered by the University of Cape Town exploring the intersection of medicine, medical anthropology and the creative arts.
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Kicking the bucket 2017 – Call for participants
Back by popular demand! Visual artist Sinead Dinneen and curator Katie Verling are looking for new participants to take part in their Kicking the Bucket programme in Limerick this spring.
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Imagining Galway: Exhibition by Galway Print Studio at University Hospital Galway
In August 2016, Galway Print Studio was selected to represent Ireland at Euro Celtic Art 2016, part of the 46th Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany.
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Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award – 2017 deadline
The Arts Council’s Project Awards will support specific project activities in Arts Participation to commence in the second half of 2017.
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Evaluation of Iontas arts and mental health programme: Call for tenders
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) wishes to commission an independent evaluation of the Iontas arts and mental health programme so far, with a view to informing the next three years of the programme.
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Spring film workshops for young people with epilepsy
This spring, Epilepsy Ireland in partnership with Helium Arts will host a series of film workshops for young people age 16-21 living with epilepsy.
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Azure dementia-friendly tours at IMMA spring 2017
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is part of the Azure Network, an alliance of cultural organisations that aim for greater inclusion of people with dementia in an Irish cultural context.
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Palimpsest Project by Helium Arts
For the past three years, Helium Arts has collaborated with CanTeen Ireland, the national young people’s cancer support group, on the Two Suitcases community film project.
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Mind-Reading 2017: Mental Health and the Written Word
'Mind-Reading 2017: Mental Health and the Written Word' is a one-day programme of talks and workshops which seeks to explore productive interactions between literature and mental health both historically and in the present day.
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Call for applications: WHAT Artist-in-Residence Programme 2017
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites artists of all arts disciplines to apply for its 2017 Artist-in-Residence programme.
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The Artist/Analyst is Present: Screening and discussion at IMMA
As part of the 8th Irish Annual Psychoanalytic Film Festival, a screening of The Artist Is Present followed by a panel discussion will take place on Saturday 4 February 2017 at 12.30pm in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
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In the Picture: Spring dates for Dementia Friendly Gallery Programme at Uilinn, West Cork Arts Centre
In the Picture, the Dementia Friendly Gallery Programme at Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, will start up again this spring.
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Open Call Opportunity for Composer/musician
West Cork Arts Centre is seeking a composer to join a team of artists (visual, music, film, poetry) in the delivery of an arts programme for older people that takes place in 11 healthcare settings across West Cork.
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A Better Place: Call for exhibition proposals
WHAT and Permanent TSB invites submissions from artists based in Ireland for a series of wall-based, visual art exhibitions to take place in University Hospital Waterford in 2017 that aim to make the hospital A Better Place for patients.
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Lunch time Talk and Performance: Marie O’Connor (Speaker) & Mairead Delaney (Performance Artist)
Marie O'Connor, author, health correspondent and Chairperson of the Survivors of Symphysiotomy (SoS) group, will give a lunch time talk on the practice of symphysiotomy in Science Gallery Dublin, Pearse St, Dublin on Wednesday 18 January from 1 -2pm.
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Acting Assistant Arts Director, WHAT
WHAT (Waterford Healing Arts Trust) wishes to appoint an Acting Assistant Arts Director for a period of up to 2 years to assist in all aspects of planning, delivering and promoting the programme of the Trust and managing the organisation.
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Training opportunity for Waterford Musicians
The Arts Office, Waterford City & County Council is pleased to offer an opportunity to musicians to participate in an introductory workshop exploring the idea of bringing music into hospital, healthcare and community settings in the Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan Thursday 26 January from 10am to 12.30pm.
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Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme 2017
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
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Save the date: Arts and Health – Check Up, Check In
Following on from the first Arts and Health- Check Up, Check In event which took place in Dublin in January 2016, artsandhealth.ie have joined forces with Create and the Arts Initiative in Mental Health, Sligo to bring you the second such event in May 2017.
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Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust annual poetry competition
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries for its exciting annual poetry competition.
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First Fortnight 2017 presents Rebel Rhythms at Triskel Christchurch
First Fortnight, the annual arts and mental health festival, is back in Cork on Saturday 14 January with Rebel Rhythms, a day of music, visual art, spoken word and discussion at Triskel Christchurch.
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Claddagh Rogues at First Fortnight Cork
James O’Flynn and his band Claddagh Rogues have battled their fair share of demons to consistently produce passionate music rooted in their troubled lives.
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Arts Participation (for Healthcare Professionals) QQI Level 5
The Arts Participation (for Healthcare Professionals) QQI Level 5 course sets out to give participants the chance to explore and develop art making with the aim of building the confidence and expertise to work on arts projects within healthcare settings.
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Skibbereen Day Care creates a Museum of Making and Mending
The people attending Skibbereen Day Care Centre have been creating once more.
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Celebration of Health Service Choirs – Cork – February 2017
Following the HSE’s ‘We’ve got a song to sing’ project, and the involvement of so many hospitals in the HMI/Lyric FM Workplace choir of the year competition, the Arts Committee of Cork University Hospital in conjunction with the South/South Western Hospital Group is hosting a celebration of Health Service choirs in Cork on 25 February 2017.
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WHAT is recruiting
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is recruiting two Community Employment (CE) positions.
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Project Manager for Fireflies Project (Maternity Leave Cover)
Helium Arts is seeking an experienced project manager to lead the Fireflies Project from the end of January 2017 to mid-June 2017.
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Cork University Hospital Staff art exhibition
Cork University Hospital (CUH) staff members are exhibiting their artwork in the Annual CUH Staff Art Exhibition in The Gallery in the Staff Dining Room of the hospital.
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Everyday creativity link to long term wellbeing
Researchers have identified a link between everyday creative activity and an “upward spiral” of increased wellbeing and creativity in young adults.
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Dementia research
Arts activities have been cited as a key tool in preventing dementia in guidance prepared for health commissioners.
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The Nutcracker at Cork University Hospital
The Arts Committee of Cork University Hospital (CUH) will host a performance of The Nutcracker by Kids Classics on Wednesday 21 December at 11.30am in The Atrium of the Cardiac Renal Centre, CUH.
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Luisne: A one-day light installation by Marie Lee
Luisne, a one-day light installation by Marie Lee, a recent honours graduate of the Waterford Institute of Technology’s (WIT) Visual Art course, will be on show in the foyer of University Hospital Waterford (UHW) on Friday 25 November.
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Anna Furse/ AN ANATOMY ACT / Show and Tell
Create is delighted to partner with Live Collision to welcome Anna Furse to Dublin as part of a CAPP Research Residency which will culminate in the premiere of an animated lecture performance An Anatomy Act.
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Kicking the Bucket radio documentary
The Kicking the Bucket radio documentary will air as part of RTE Radio One’s Documentary on One series on Saturday 26 November at 2pm.
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Wingbeats conference, Manchester
Manchester’s LIME Music for Health is hosting a conference to explore best practice in music for health entitled Wingbeats on 17 November 2016 from 10am – 4pm in the Boardroom at Ronald McDonald House, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
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Cultural participation and its effects on wellbeing and health – webinar
The Royal Society for Public Health is holding a webinar to look at evidence from Norway and Australia on the impact of culture and its effect on wellbeing and health on 22 November 2016.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ARTS AND HEALTH // 10 THINGS TO CONSIDER
AN INTRODUCTION TO ARTS AND HEALTH // 10 THINGS TO CONSIDER is a printed arts and health resource document which was launched at The Model, Sligo, at the end of October.
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Opportunity to Lend Artworks
As part of ‘…the lives we live’*, Grangegorman’s public art programme, Pathway 6 explores lending and acquisitions policies.
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Dialysis Patients in Cork University Hospital publish their poems
Tiny, Kind Gestures is a collection of haiku poems created by patients during their dialysis treatment and will be launched in the Cardiac Renal Atrium at Cork University Hospital on Wednesday 2 November 2016 at 5pm.
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Jazz Weekend in Cork University Hospital
The Gillibillies, a 9 piece band, will help celebrate the Jazz Weekend in Cork University Hospital (CUH) on Friday 28th October.
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Symphony of Colour exhibition
Symphony of Colour an exhibition by artist Mary Geeleher continues at University Hospital Galway until 31 October 2016.
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The Benefit of Singing on Health and Wellbeing survey
Hilary Moss, Senior Lecturer, Music Therapy at the University of Limerick is conducting an international research project entitled The Benefit of Singing on Health and Wellbeing.
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WHAT goes to The Model, Sligo
Mary Grehan and Claire Meaney, Arts Directors of one of Ireland’s leading Arts and Health programme, the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), are coming to Sligo for a three-day residency at The Model from 25 – 27 October.
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Birthday celebrations for artsandhealth.ie
artsandhealth.ie, the national independent website for the arts and health sector in Ireland, is turning 5 on 5.10.16! To mark this occasion we have created a short celebratory film and invited Ireland’s Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan to write a specially commissioned essay entitled Opening the Box.
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West Cork Gamelan
The gamelan is a spectacular set of tuned bronze percussion instruments played by an ensemble of up to 20 musicians.
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A galaxy of stars will light up Bantry for this year’s Feelgood Festival
Singing priest Liam Lawton, broadcaster Evelyn Grant and world renowned musician Mel Mercier will headline a sparkling programme of events during International World Mental Health Week in Bantry this October 2016.
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Call for abstracts: Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference 2017
Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference, Bristol 2017 invite abstracts for presentations, workshops, performances and films that provoke new ways of researching, conceptualising and creating and will encourage delegates to question assumptions and learn about different approaches to current issues and areas of practice.
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The Science Behind a ‘Sing-Song’ – A public seminar on singing and health
The MA Music Therapy team at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance are delighted to announce a guest lecture at the University of Limerick entitled The Science Behind a ‘Sing-Song' - A public seminar on singing and health on 23 November at 4pm.
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Sligo Hospital Musical Society
Sligo Hospital Musical Society is celebrating its 20th Anniversary.
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Sit Up exhibition at Clonakilty Community Hospital
Sit Up is an exhibition of work by students on this years 'Arts Participation for Healthcare Professionals' course at Clonakilty Community Hospital, facilitated by Toma McCullim celebrating Active Ageing Week from 26 September to 3 October, 2016.
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WHAT: Call for musicians
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is inviting applications from suitably qualified people to join a panel of musicians to perform for and with patients of University Hospital Waterford as part of our monthly Healing Sounds programme from January 2017 for one year.
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Symphony of Colour exhibition
Symphony of Colour is a new exhibition by Mary Geeleher at the Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway.
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Portraits, solo exhibition by Pat Murphy in University Hospital Waterford
Portraits is a solo exhibition by renowned Waterford artist Pat Murphy featuring people he met in Cuba in 2004 alongside more recent self-portraits on view in University Hospital Waterford as part of the 2016 Well festival of arts and wellbeing.
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Share your feel-good poetry and prose
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), Ireland’s leading Arts and Health programme, is calling on all avid readers of poetry and/or prose to share with us their favourite poem / piece of prose for a unique event as part of the forthcoming Well festival of arts and wellbeing.
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Antidote, Louth’s arts & wellbeing programmme
October is Louth’s arts and wellbeing programme month with An Táin Arts Centre and the library in Dundalk and Droichead Arts Centre in Drogheda hosting varies events through the month.
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Help us celebrate our birthday!
Bob Geldof and Kate Winslet celebrate their birthday on 5th October and so does artsandhealth.ie.
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artsandhealth.ie’s Introduction to Arts & Health, Sligo
Thursday 27 October 2016 , 9.30am – 4.30pm in The Model, Sligo.
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Arts and Health Culture Night Events
Members of Arts + Health Co-ordinators Ireland have organised arts and health events in their area for this years Culture Night on 16 September.
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Well, festival of arts and wellbeing
In October this year, the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) will join forces with Garter Lane Arts Centre and Waterford Library Service to celebrate the health benefits of participation in the arts for everybody through the Well festival for arts and wellbeing.
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This is Me – WHAT Artist in Residence open studio event
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust's (WHAT) artist in residence Caroline Schofield invites people to drop by her studio in the WHAT Centre for Arts & Health, University Hospital Waterford on Thursday 20 October between 12 noon and 2pm to explore the name(s) they like to be called in an open studio event entitled This is me.
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University of Florida – discipline language inquiry
The University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine recognises that numerous terms are used to describe arts in medicine, arts in healthcare, arts and health, etc.
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Out the Other Side – Stories of breast cancer survival
The launch of Out the Other Side – Stories of Breast Cancer Survival, a collection of uplifting individual real-life stories of women who have survived breast cancer will take place in the Cardiac Renal Atrium at Cork University Hospital, Wilton, Cork on Thursday 01 September 2016 at 18:00.
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Arts Care: call for professional artists
Arts Care is an arts and health organisation that continues to influence and transform society through high quality creative practice.
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Exploring “The Mental”
Exploring “The Mental”, an exhibition examining a much neglected aspect of local and national heritage, will be on view at St Canice’s Psychiatric Hospital, Kilkenny, from 20-28 August during Heritage Week 2016.
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MSc in Creative Arts & Mental Health at Queen Mary University of London
The Queen Mary University of London is offering a MSc in Creative Arts & Mental Health.
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One Beat at a Time: music commission by Arts & Disability Ireland
One Beat at a Time is a new music commission by Arts & Disability Ireland featuring Derrick Devine, Ailís Ní Ríain and Kevin Nolan and curated by Dylan Tighe.
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Early-Stage Dementia Awareness Training for Arts Facilitators, London – 13 September 2016
This Arts 4 Dementia Early-Stage Dementia Awareness Training for Arts Facilitators aims to give arts practitioners and facilitators increased skills and confidence in working creatively with people experiencing the early stages of dementia and their carers or families.
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Island Collaborations exhibition, Chelsea
Island Collaborations is an exhibition by Kate Hughes that explores the lives of cystic fibrosis patients, and how cross-infection rules affect their experiences.
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IPH Open Conference “Breaking down boundaries – innovation, participation and creativity in public health”
Following the success of the Open Conference held in Dublin last year Institute of Public Health invites you to attend the 5th Public Health Open Conference which will take place on Tuesday, 11 October 2016 in Titanic Belfast.
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Head in the Hedgerow, Roscommon University Hospital’s inaugural art exhibition
Head in the Hedgerow by artist Hugh Barr opened at Roscommon University Hospital (RUH) on Tuesday 9 August and will continue until Wednesday 31 August.
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Call for proposals – engage Journal 39: Visual Art and Wellbeing
Proposals are invited for engage 38, which will focus on the theme of visual arts and wellbeing.
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The Sick of the Fringe returns to Edinburgh
The Sick of the Fringe is returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 5 -29 August 2016 to explore the connections between health, art and science.
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Songbirds
Songbirds is a music-making project run by LIME Music for Health at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
Opportunity
Arts and Culture Co-ordinator, Age & Opportunity
Age & Opportunity is recruiting an Arts And Culture Co-ordinator (Part-Time).
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Anam Beo Short Films Premiere
Anam Beo, Offaly's arts, health and wellbeing programme present a viewing of I’m Not Nursing Home Material and In Your Face and other shorts at Birr Theatre on Wednesday 3 August at 2.30pm.
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Exhibition: Phantom Limb, Liverpool
Phantom Limb is an interactive exhibition focusing on medicine, memory and the treatment process on view at the University of Liverpool Victoria Gallery and Museum from 9 July to 3 December 2016.
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John Gibson Grand Piano Concert Recital at CUH
Pianist-composer John Gibson will give a Grand Piano Concert Recital on Friday 22 July at 11am in the Cardiac Renal Centre (CRC) Atrium of Cork University Hospital (CUH).
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Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Request for submissions
The Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare (the Committee) is examining future models of health care in Ireland.
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€9m Arts and Culture Capital Scheme is open for applications
The Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys TD, has today announced that the Arts and Culture Capital Scheme 2016 is open for applications.
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Open Call for a Socially Engaged Commission at Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool is fully committed to challenging the ways in which art is presented to the public and how this can evolve through working in social contexts.
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The Space Between at The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon
The Space Between is an exhibition of new work by Sarah Fuller and Maria Kerin on view in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon until 11 August.
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Irish Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2016 – Losing Myself
Níall McLaughlin and Yeoryia Manolopoulou are representing Ireland at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition with Losing Myself.
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The savage loves his native shore
The savage loves his native shore is an exhibition by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust for Galway International Arts Festival 2016 on view in the Institute for Lifecourse and Society, Corrib Village, NUI Galway and University Hospital Galway Arts Corridor.
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Dance Talks: Dance for Parkinson’s with David Leventhal
A Dance Talk Dance for Parkinson's with David Leventhal will take place on Saturday 23 Jul 2016 from 4 - 5.30pm in DanceHouse.
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WHAT welcomes its 2016 Artist in Residence to University Hospital Waterford
WHAT (the Waterford Healing Arts Trust) is delighted to welcome Caroline Schofield to University Hospital Waterford as the 2016 Artist in Residence.
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Call for ideas: South Tipperary Positive Mental Health Festival 2016
To coincide with World Mental Health Day on Monday 10 October members of the South Tipperary Action Network (S.T.A.N.) are organising a Positive Mental Health Festival.
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RSPH webinar – Movement, Dance and the Neurodegenerative Condition
The Royal Society of Public Health will stage the next in its series of online webinars on the theme of ‘Movement, Dance and the Neurodegenerative Condition’ on 5 July 2016.
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Revelation exhibition at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny
Revelation is a limited edition of twenty nine specially commissioned prints created by members of Graphic Studio Dublin and invited artists on long-term display in the new Oncology Ward of St.
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Marie Brett recipient of 2016 artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary
artsandhealth.ie is delighted to announce that visual artist Marie Brett is the recipient of a bursary to produce a documentation of her arts and health project Whispers?.
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Recollect exhibition at University Hospital Galway
Recollect is an exhibition by artist Noelle Gallagher on display at University Hospital Galway until 4 July.
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E.gress Special Closing Event, IMMA
A special closing event of E.gress, a soulful and stirring filmic work exploring the twilight world of dementia, will take place at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 14 July 2016.
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Dance and Health Seminar, Kildare
Kildare County Council Arts Service is delighted to announce the 2016 Dance & Movement Summer School Programme running from 18 July 2016 - 22 July 2016.
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Stories in the Bag at Cork University Hospital
Stories in the Bag is a series of creative writing workshops in the Paediatrics Department of Cork University Hospital taking place this summer.
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The Swift Joyce Walking Tour at St. Patrick’s Hospital
The Twilight Programme at St.
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SOUND – Arts & Health
The North West Arts & Health Network, alongside the Manchester School of Art Future Technologies Research Centre and Arts and Health Research Centre present Sound - Arts and Health with artist Vic McEwan and Dr.
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World Music Day in Healthcare Settings
On 21 June every year, World Music Day is celebrated throughout the world.
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Damn Fine Print at St. Patrick’s Hospital
Damn Fine Print is teaming up with nine artists for a residency at St Patrick's Hospital in Dublin 8 to be launched on 16 June at 7pm in the hospital.
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Save the Date! Introduction to Arts + Health Workshop
artsandhealth.ie’s annual Introduction to Arts & Health one-day workshop will be held in The Model, Sligo on Thursday 27 October 2016 from 9.30am to 4.30pm.
Opportunity
Arts Participation (for Healthcare Professionals) level 5 NVQ
Enrollments for Arts Participation (for Healthcare Professionals) level 5 NVQ are now being accepted.
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Helium Arts Family Promenade Day at IMMA with CanTeen
Helium Arts is hosting a unique family promenade day at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Saturday 25 June 2016.
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Arts and Dementia: Research into Practice Conference, UK
The Arts and Dementia: Research into Practice conference will take place on 21 September 2016 in Nottingham.
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Call for papers: arts and dementia
The First International Research Conference on the Arts and Dementia will take place in March 2017.
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Exploring the importance of creative activity to palliative care, Glasgow
The successful creative arts service at The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice at Carlton Place, Glasgow is opening its doors to figures from the world of arts and healthcare.
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A national showcase of the role of the arts in the 21st Century hospital, UK
The widespread use of the arts in hospital environments is, arguably, the great success story of the arts and health movement in this country over the last 20-30 years.
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Music Exploration Officer with Wexford Mental Health Association
Wexford Mental Health Association is seeking a Music Exploration Officer (MEO) for a fixed term contract of one year for 14 hrs per week.
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Unsung Heroes
Go on, give yourself a medal! That’s what artist Helle Helsner expressed to the women in the Tuesday group in Clonakilty day care centre who over the last eight weeks have been designing, sculpting and shining up a series of hand crafted bronze medals inspired by the centenary celebrations.
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400 Older People in West Cork Hospitals Send Each Other Mail
Artists, residents and day visitors of eleven community hospitals and day care centres throughout West Cork are displaying the work of their Envelope project at the Uillinn Centre in Skibbereen until 6 June 2016.
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Poetry making in the dialysis ward, Cork University Hospital
Haiku Island Press (designer Orlagh O’Brien and artist Tess Leak) will be returning to run poetry making sessions at the Department of Renal Medicine, Cardiac Renal Centre (CRC), in Cork University Hospital (CUH) this summer, with the aim of making a limited edition book.
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Arts Council – Arts Participation Bursary Award
The Arts Council have announced an Arts Participation Bursary Award to support professional artists to develop their art practice.
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A Better Place in University Hospital Waterford
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is delighted to launch the first of its planned series of exhibitions entitled A Better Place in University Hospital Waterford (UHW) on Thursday 2 June.
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When breath turns to air…
When breath turns to air.
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This Is Not My Beautiful House – Seminar, Dublin
Age & Opportunity is working to create a society where we have more choices than compromises as we age.
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Bealtaine at Galway University Hospitals
The Bealtaine Festival celebrates its 21st birthday this year and runs nationwide throughout the month of May.
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E.gress screenings in Limerick and Kilkenny this May
E.gress is a soulful and stirring film exploring the twilight world of dementia.
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Call for applications: Art in Health Curator, Children’s Hospital Group
The Government has approved the development of a new children’s hospital, to be co-located with St James’s Hospital, Dublin, which will be governed and managed by its own governing body and will bring together the services of three existing children’s hospitals (Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, and the paediatric services at Tallaght Hospital).
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Cloudlands at ArtBox Gallery, Dublin
Cloudlands, a touring exhibition by Helium Arts exploring the creative lives of teenagers in hospital, will open at ArtBox Gallery in Dublin on 19 May 2016.
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Ghosts of Grangegorman at the RHA
Ghosts of Grangegorman, a space-specific installation by Alan Counihan based on the belongings of dead or discharged patients of Grangegorman Mental Hospital, (later St Brendan's Hospital) is now showing at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin as part of the RHA Annual Open Exhibition until 11 June 2016.
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Aer Lingus to screen the Cloudlands Documentary
Helium Arts has announced that Aer Lingus will screen the Cloudlands Documentary on all transatlantic flights between 1 June and 31 July 2016.
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In the Picture: Dementia Friendly Gallery Programme at Uillinn
On Tuesday 10 May, 11am, West Cork Arts Centre invites people with dementia, their professional and /or family carers to visit your local art space, to look and experiment with others in a safe and welcoming environment .
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Spark Artist Residency Programme, Leitrim
Leitrim County Council Arts Office seeks interest from artists who wish to participate in the 2016 SPARK artists’ residency programme at Prior PLM Medical in Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
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Gavin Clayton has joined the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine
Gavin Clayton has joined the faculty of the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine.
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Nature’s Reflection at University Hospital Waterford
Nature’s Reflection is a series of photographs by Kate Quinn that document her dialysis journey.
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The Creative Well exhibition at Riverbank Arts Centre
The Creative Well Curation Project presents In Courage an exhibition of artwork by contemporary Irish artists Maria McKinney, Pat Curran, Doireann Ni Ghrioghair and Mary Fitzgerald in The McKenna Gallery, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, from 3 – 27 May 2016.
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Recruitment of new board member, Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is recruiting a new board member to advise on the area of Arts Strategy.
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A Menu of Poems: Poetry Day 2016
To celebrate Poetry Day on Thursday 28 April 2016, a Menu of Poems called Soul Food will be distributed throughout Irish hospital wards, waiting rooms and other healthcare settings for patients, visitors and staff to enjoy.
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Dance Talks: Dance and Health
Get your monthly fix of inspiration and creative conversation at Dance Talks.
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Cloudlands Tour is coming to Cork this April
The Cloudlands National Tour, exploring the creative lives of teenagers in hospital, continues to Cork from 22 to 28 April 2016 at The Atrium, Cork City Hall and Cork University Hospital.
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Working Lives – Seminar
Working Lives is a panel discussion in glór, Ennis taking place on Friday 6 May from 2 – 4pm as part of VOLTage.
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CARE presented by WillFredd Theatre
WillFredd Theatre presents CARE in glór, Ennis in association with Cahercalla Community Hospice, Ennis on Thursday 5 May at 8pm.
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FIRST CITIZENS SPEAK! exhibition
FIRST CITIZENS SPEAK! is an exhibition by Deirdre O’Mahony on view in glór, Ennis from Thursday 5 - 28 May.
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The Care Seminar
The Care Seminar is an event focusing on creativity and the arts in health, care and wellbeing.
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Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
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Gemma Hodge makes UHW A Better Place
WHAT is delighted to announce that artist Gemma Hodge was selected through a public vote to exhibit her paintings in University Hospital Waterford (UHW) in the first of a series of annual exhibitions entitled A Better Place.
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Northern Ireland Mental Health Film and Arts Festival
The third Northern Ireland Mental Health Film and Arts Festival is being held in May.
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Death/Disease/Design Symposium
On 21 April from 9.30am to 5.30pm, the ACADEMY research centre at Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD) hosts an interdisciplinary academic conference on Death/Disease/Design, featuring keynote speaker Marie Brett.
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Post-graduate Research Assistant (PGRA) in Arts & Health.
The University of Derby, College of Health & Social Care Research Centre is seeking a Post-graduate Research Assistant (PGRA) in the Arts & Health.
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Health Research Futures Lab: Research Showcase
The Health Research Futures lab (funded by the Irish Research Council) is building capacity amongst Irish researchers to work in interdisciplinary research teams and act as a live experiential learning environment, where full time researchers/artists are developing their capacity to work in interdisciplinary teams in a safe environment.
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Fampyra- My Story by Seamus Burke
Fampyra- My Story is an exhibition by artist Seamus Burke on view in the arts corridor of University Hospital Galway from 5 April.
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Infusion Art Cafés
Infusion Art Cafés is a day of creative exchange around using cafés and public spaces to connect people with their creativity and with each other in Crawford Art Gallery, Cork on 12 April 2016 from 9.45am to 16.30pm.
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Cloudlands at Garter Lane and University Hospital Waterford
The Cloudlands National Tour by Helium Arts invites audiences into the creative lives of teenagers in hospital.
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E.gress screening in Waterford
E.gress is a soulful and stirring film produced by artist Marie Brett and musician Kevin O’Shanahan following an intensive collaboration with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
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RSPH Webinar: Creative Arts in Hospitals
The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) UK, will host a webinar on Creative Arts in Hospitals on Thursday 14 April 2016 at 1pm BST.
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Arts & Age Conference, Belfast
The Arts Council's (NI) Arts & Age Conference 2016 'The Art of Wellbeing' is an opportunity to experience the positive impact that the arts are having on the health and wellbeing of older people in Northern Ireland.
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Arts and Dementia seminar, Winchester, UK
An Arts and Dementia seminar will take place on 29 April from 12-4pm in The Chapel, King Alfred Campus, University of Winchester, UK and is hosted by the Centre for Arts as Wellbeing at the University of Winchester (as part of Research and Engagement Week 2016), in partnership with the University of Southampton.
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Documentation of Arts and Health Check Up, Check In
In January 2016 artsandhealth.ie came together with Create and The LAB Gallery in Foley Street Dublin to present the first Arts and Health Check Up, Check In , an event which is designed to promote solidarity among arts and health practitioners in Ireland.
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16 Voices: 1916 witnessed in word and song at St. Luke’s Hospital
As part of a series involving the reading of Witness Statements from participants in the 1916 Rising, members of the staff at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny have invited Eibhlín O’Carroll (Alice’s Restaurant, Naas) to host the reading of the personal description penned in June/July 1916 by Nurse Aoife de Burca (Eva Burke) of her week in the GPO.
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Under the Microscope at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
Under the Microscope at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is an exhibition focusing on the complexities of heart disease in young people and on the pioneering work of researchers at GOSH in developing gene therapy for children with rare diseases.
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The Bell Room at Drogheda Arts Festival
Based on oral history from psychiatric nurses from around the country, The Bell Room is a performance installation that examines the job of caring as told by those on the frontline.
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Into the Light at The Sanctuary, Dublin
Corina Duyn's Artist Book Into the Light will have its Dublin launch at The Sanctuary on 2 April 2016.
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Per Cent for Art Call for Proposals: TUSLA Child and Family Agency
TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency, is seeking expressions of interest from artists of all levels of experience in developing a new artwork to be situated in their new offices based in Heuston South Quarter.
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Out the Other Side: Stories of Breast Cancer Survival
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust’s latest exhibition, Out the Other Side – Stories of Breast Cancer Survival, is a collection of uplifting individual real-life stories of women who have survived breast cancer.
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I’d Like to Tell Her: Celebrating International Women’s Day at St. Luke’s Hospital
In advance of International Women's Day on 8 March 2016, St.
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Journeys and After the Gallery at Blackrock Hall Primary Care Centre
HSE Blackrock Hall Primary Care Centre and the HSE Cork Arts + Health Programme present Journeys, a site-specific commission by artist Sharon Dipity, and the After the Gallery exhibition by members of Arts+Minds with artist Julie Forrester, launching 4 March 2016 at Blackrock Hall.
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Call for applications: WHAT Artist in Residence 2016
WHAT (Waterford Healing Arts Trust) invites applications from artists of all arts disciplines for a six month residency based at University Hospital Waterford.
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Health Futures Research Lab: Call for participants
The Health Research Futures Lab is a funded workshop aimed at enabling interdisciplinary research/project work across Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS, including Business) and Science Technology Engineering & Maths (STEM).
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In the Picture: A family’s experience of a gallery programme tailored for older people
West Cork Arts Centre's In the Picture programme offers opportunities for older people – living in residential settings or being cared for in their own homes in the West Cork area – to participate in bespoke facilitated experiences in the galleries.
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Call for applications: artsandhealth.ie 2016 documentation bursary
Are you involved in an arts and health project.
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Bring Me Back Alive at Firkin Crane Theatre
Shine a Light Suicide Awareness presents Bring Me Back Alive by Patricia McCann at Firkin Crane Theatre, Cork on 26-27 February 2016.
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Monday’s Child
Barnstorm Theatre Company takes its award-winning production of Monday’s Child on tour from 20 February 2016, taking in 12 venues in 11 counties.
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E.gress at The Model, Sligo
A soulful and stirring film that maps a twilight world of loss and change, E.gress explores how individuals diagnosed with dementia find new ways to adjust to a changing world.
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Arts Council Arts Participation Project Awards – 2016 deadline
The Arts Council's Project Awards will support specific project activities in Arts Participation to commence in the second half of 2016.
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Creativity and Wellbeing Plus: Showcase of international arts and health events
The fifth annual London Creativity and Wellbeing Week will take place from 13-19 June 2016.
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Kicking the Bucket: Seminar series on funeral practices and personal choices
KICKING THE BUCKET is a creative and thought-provoking seminar series on funeral practices and personal choices led by visual artist Sinead Dinneen and curator Katie Verling.
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Get involved in Bealtaine 2016
The Bealtaine Festival, Ireland's national celebration of creativity as we age, is having its 21st birthday this May.
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Internationally Acclaimed Pianist Junsuke Kita to play in St Luke’s Hospital
Internationally acclaimed virtuoso pianist Junsuke Kita will play a grand pianoforte concert on St Valentine’s night in the recently opened front concourse of St Luke’s General Hospital Carlow/Kilkenny.
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Cloudlands National Tour: Exploring the creative lives of teenagers in hospital
The Cloudlands National Tour by Helium Arts invites audiences into the creative lives of teenagers in hospital.
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What would Kathleen Lynn say?
What would Kathleen Lynn - political activist, suffragette, pioneering doctor and the only female commander during the 1916 Easter Rising - say to the recent cuts to rural GP services in Ireland in 2016.
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Generations of Still Motion at University Hospital Waterford
Generations of Still Motion, the first solo exhibition by Jennifer Reynolds, is on show in the Postroom Corridor of University Hospital Waterford (UHW) from 8 February to 11 March 2016.
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World Psycho-Oncology Conference, Dublin October 2016 – Call for Abstracts ‘Science, Arts and Practice’
The 18th International Psycho Oncology Society World Congress will be held in Dublin from 17-21 October 2016 in association with the Irish Cancer Society.
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Paediatric Unit Installation unveiled at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny
The latest edition to the art collection at St.
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Inkspirations : Revisited by Kaumal Baig
Inkspirations: Revisited, an exhibition of ink drawings by Kaumal Baig, will be at Cork University Hospital from 1-29 February 2016.
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Arts participation course for healthcare professionals
Arts Participation (for Healthcare Professionals) is a QQI Level 5 accredited course supported by the Arts for Health partnership programme in West Cork.
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Currently Untitled
Currently Untitled (formerly the Breast Cancer Project) is the research phase of a collaborative community arts project, run by Visual Artist John Conway and Counselling Psychologist Dr Nicola Elmer.
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Changing Minds Festival at the Southbank Centre, London
Changing Minds is a weekend arts and mental health festival at the Southbank Centre in London, taking place from 6-7 February 2016.
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Amongst Other Things exhibition: Azure Tours for people with dementia
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office is hosting Azure Tours for people with dementia to engage with the Amongst Other Things exhibition in February 2016.
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E.gress Cork screening: A film exploring the twilight world of dementia
A soulful and stirring film that maps a twilight world of loss and change, E.gress explores how individuals diagnosed with dementia find new ways to adjust to a changing world.
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Puppet workshops for children with Epilepsy Ireland and Helium Arts
Epilepsy Ireland in partnership with Helium Arts will be hosting a series of puppet-making workshops for children with epilepsy and children whose parents have epilepsy in Galway, Cork and Dublin from March to May 2016.
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‘Visions’ exhibition by Stefanie Fleischer at University Hospital Waterford
‘Visions’ is a solo exhibition by Stefanie Fleischer on view in University Hospital Waterford as part of the Staff Art Wall.
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RIPE Exhibition: Here & Now Festival, The Art of Ageing Well
Arts Care will launch the 'RIPE' art exhibition at Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast on 19 January 2016.
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The Art of Mental Health at First Fortnight
Visual Artists Ireland in partnership with First Fortnight, the arts and mental health festival, and The LAB Gallery, Dublin, will host a series of talks and discussions between 13-19 January 2016 for artists and freelancers in the visual arts around good mental health.
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Love & Mercy: First Fortnight film screening at Dunamaise Arts Centre
Love & Mercy is part of a national cinema tour by See Change in January 2016 as part of the First Fortnight arts and mental health festival.
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Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme: 2016 deadlines
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on projects.
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Creative & Credible: New evaluation resource for arts and health practitioners
The University of the West of England and Willis Newson have launched an online evaluation resource for the arts and health community.
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FutureLearn: Free spring 2016 courses of interest to the arts and health community
FutureLearn provides free online courses from top universities and specialist organisations.
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Denis Roche presents Open Window: TCD Medical Humanities Seminar
Artist Denis Roche will present Open Window – Creating and Curating a ‘Virtual Window’ to Reduce Hospital Anxiety, Depression & Isolation on Wednesday, 13 January 2016 as part of Trinity College Dublin’s Medical Humanities & Health Initiative Seminar Series.
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Arts Council Bursary Awards – next deadline 21 January 2016
The deadline for the next round of the Arts Council's Bursary Awards is Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 5:30 pm.
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Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust annual poetry competition
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries for its annual poetry competition.
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Art@Work13 – Annual Staff Exhibition at Galway University Hospitals
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is currently hosting the 13th annual staff exhibition which has expanded to include two sites, University Hospital Galway and Merlin Park University Hospital.
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Symposium: Cinematic Encounters with Violent Trauma and its Aftermath
The symposium 'Cinematic Encounters with Violent Trauma and Its Aftermath' centres on a screening and discussion of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary film, The Act of Killing (2012).
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Trauma: Built to Break at the Science Gallery
How does trauma affect the brain, the body, the national psyche, or all three.
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Laying Your Cards on the Table at First Fortnight
Laying Your Cards on the Table is an event taking place between 8-15 January 2016 in Dundalk Library as part of First Fortnight, Ireland's annual arts and mental health festival.
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Alan Counihan presents Personal Effects in the WHAT Centre, Waterford
WHAT (the Waterford Healing Arts Trust) starts its 2016 programme of public events with a presentation by artist and writer Alan Counihan of Personal Effects, his ground-breaking, artistic exploration of institutional care for the mentally ill based on the belongings of dead / discharged patients.
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Art facilitator required for Headway Ireland, Dublin
Headway Ireland is seeking a self-employed art facilitator to work with their clients in the day service (Donnybrook and Blackhall Green).
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Make A Sound / Reconnected
Featuring two pieces of sound and visual art, respectively entitled Make A Sound and Reconnected, a new exhibition hosted by Headway represents work undertaken by two groups of clients with brain injury attending the Headway training centre in Cork.
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Write Your Mind: Premiere of play on youth mental health
Write Your Mind, a play about youth mental health, will have its premiere at Birr Theatre & Arts Centre on 10 December 2015.
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Arts and Health Check Up, Check In now open for bookings
Bookings are now being accepted for Arts and Health Check Up, Check In, the unique arts and health get-together planned by artsandhealth.ie, WHAT, Create and Dublin City Council’s The LAB.
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First Fortnight 2016 – What to see, hear, do
First Fortnight, Ireland's annual arts and mental health festival, is back in January 2016 challenging mental health stigma with a jam-packed programme of music, theatre, comedy, dance, spoken word, discussion events and lots more.
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‘It Made You’ now available: Album by songwriters of St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services
It Made You is an original album of songs written by service users of St.
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‘Life – a reflection through the lens’ at St. James’s Hospital
The PhotoVoice Group Dublin is hosting an exhibition of their work, Life - a reflection through the lens, at St.
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Call for papers – International Research Conference on the Arts and Dementia
The First International Research Conference on the Arts and Dementia will take place from 9-10 March 2017.
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Flying South – Where mental health goes open mic
Flying South is a free, monthly, mental health themed arts and open mic night in Dublin.
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Off the Wall: Group exhibition at GMIT, Mayo Campus
Off The Wall is a group exhibition by four Mayo-based artists, Breda Burns, Bryan Gerard Duffy, Conor O’Grady and Jo Killalea.
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Woodblock Prints: Exhibition at Wexford General Hospital
Wexford Campus School of Art and Design (IT Carlow) continues its collaboration with Wexford General Hospital in an exhibition of Woodblock Prints by the first year honours degree students of Art and Visual Communications.
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Tenders invited to facilitate Arts + Health and Bealtaine Programmes in Sligo
Tenders are sought from suitably experienced artist-facilitators to work closely with Sligo County Council Arts Office to facilitate and administer the Arts + Health and Bealtaine Programmes.
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Artist commission for paediatric emergency department at Tallaght Hospital
Tallaght Hospital invites expressions of interest from artists for a new commission at the paediatric emergency department.
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E.gress: Artist talk with Marie Brett and poet Mary Dorcey
Artist Marie Brett and poet Mary Dorcey will discuss the intersections of poetry, film, public artworks and gallery contexts in relation to E.gress, a film exploring the twilight world of dementia, on 27 November 2015 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
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Get involved! Drugs.ie National Youth Media Awards 2016
The Drugs.ie 'Let’s Talk about Drugs' National Youth Media Awards invites secondary schools and colleges nationwide to enter its 2016 competition.
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All Kinds of Everything at Merlin Park University Hospital
All Kinds of Everything is the latest exhibition by participants on the arts programme at Unit 7 of Merlin Park University Hospital.
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Beosach: New Journal by Age & Opportunity
Beosach is a new online journal of the Arts & Culture Programme of Age & Opportunity.
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November is International Arts & Health Month
Arts & Health Month takes place in November every year and brings together organisations and individuals worldwide to promote the integration of the arts into a wide variety of healthcare and community settings for therapeutic, educational, research, social and expressive purposes.
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Access: Re-imagining Grangegorman at Dublin Live Art Festival
Dublin Live Art Festival 2015 launches on 19 November with Access, an immersive evening of performance and participatory events that invite the public to access and re-imagine Grangegorman, the former psychiatric facility recently redeveloped to house the Dublin Institute of Technology.
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TULCA Festival: ‘It’s all up in the air’ by Rhona Byrne at University Hospital Galway
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is coming to University Hospital Galway.
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Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship – Call for submissions
Artists from Ireland and abroad who are working in supported studio settings are invited to apply to Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship, an exhibition of contemporary art in Cork at the Crawford Art Gallery, the CIT Wandesford Quay gallery and Cork City Hall.
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Dance Ireland: Dance classes for people with Parkinson’s disease
Following a successful pilot in spring 2015, Dance for People with Parkinson's Disease returns to Dance Ireland on 30 November with a six-week course led by professional dance artist Ailish Claffey.
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Open network event for arts and health artists in West Cork
The Arts for Health partnership in West Cork will host an open network meeting for artists working in healthcare settings at Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre on 11 November from 11:30am to 1pm.
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Creative Exchanges: new course for winter 2015/16
Age & Opportunity has announced dates for its Creative Exchanges course in winter 2015/16 which will take place at The Model in Sligo.
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Making Great Art Work – Programme of engagement for the Art Council’s new 10-year strategy
The Arts Council has recently launched a new 10-year strategy, Making Great Art Work: Leading the Development of the Arts in Ireland.
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Lived Lives: A Pavee Perspective
Lived Lives: A Pavee Perspective is an experiential art installation which creates new knowledge and understanding around suicide among Travellers.
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TCD Medical Humanities Seminar: A Reflection on a Painting of Schrodinger
As part of Trinity College Dublin's Medical Humanities & Health Initiative Seminar Series 2015-16, Professor Jim Malone, Robert Boyle Professor (Emeritus) of Medical Physics, TCD, will present Science, Medicine, Mystery and Social Consequences: A Reflection on a Painting of Schrodinger.
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Images sought for Portrait Month – Art is a wound turned into light community
Art Is A Wound Turned into Light is a community Facebook page which is used as a forum to display the work of Irish artists whose work is appropriate to the area of mental health.
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The Ultrasounds and SCRUBS: Two Workplace Choirs at Cork University Hospital
Music and song is alive and well among the staff working on the Cork University Hospital campus with two workplace choirs in existence, both participants in the recent HMI Workplace choir competition in conjunction with RTE Lyric FM.
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Launch of ‘The Bare Necessities Of Life – Reactions to Kids’ Classics Live Music in a Children’s Hospital in Ireland’
An independent evaluation on the National Concert Hall’s Music Programme for Children in Hospital which is led by Kids' Classics was launched on 20 October 2015.
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Arts Development UK National Seminar: Arts, Health & Wellbeing
Arts Development UK will host a national seminar on 1st December 2015 aimed at officers involved in both policy and practice related to arts, health and wellbeing commissioning and service provision.
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Helium Arts wins GSK Ireland IMPACT Award
Helium Arts, the children's arts and health organisation, has won a 2015 GSK Ireland IMPACT Award.
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A Better Place: Call for exhibition proposals
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites submissions from artists based in Ireland for a series of wall-based, visual art exhibitions to take place in University Hospital Waterford in 2016, 2017 and 2018 that aim to make the hospital A Better Place for patients.
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Awakening Birds poetry book at Cork University Hospital
In September 2015, Orlagh O’Brien and Tess Leak took their collaboration Haiku Island Press into Cork University Hospital’s Renal Department to begin the research phase of their book-making project funded by Cork City Council and supported by Arts Officer Edelle Nolan.
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Create Networking Day for Collaborative Arts 2015
Create’s annual Networking Day will take place on 30 November 2015 in IMMA.
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Storyboards – celebrating 10 years of Anam Beo
Since 2005 Anam Beo, Offaly’s Arts, Health and Wellbeing organisation has been providing a programme of arts to help promote health and wellbeing through creativity in health centres around Offaly.
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Update on the inaugural Arts and Health – Check Up, Check In
Plans are firming up for the first Arts and Health Check Up, Check In, a gathering of arts and health care practitioners and artists who work in healthcare settings, which will take place in The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin on 29 January 2016.
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The Little Things: Comics-based exhibiton at University Hospital Waterford
An exhibition of art based on comics by artist in residence with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) Marie-Jeanne Jacob in collaboration with local young people is set to be unveiled at University Hospital Waterford on 5 November 2015.
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Training Notes, Music in Healthcare in Meath
Meath County Council Arts Office in partnership with Kids’ Classics is implementing a ‘Training Notes’ programme for musicians in Meath interested in working in healthcare settings.
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Exhibition by Corina Thornton and Sioban O’Leary at Cork University Hospital
An exhibition of paintings by artists Sioban O'Leary and Thorn (Corina Thornton) is on display in the Cork University Hospital Art Gallery until 31st October 2015.
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Arts Council / HSE Joint Arts and Health Research Project
As the statutory bodies with national responsibility for health and the arts respectively, the HSE and the Arts Council have agreed to work together to explore the potential for a formal framework to support the development of arts and health practice in Ireland.
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Illuminate at Cork Film Festival – film and discursive events exploring mental health
Illuminate is a series of carefully curated film and discussion events at Cork Film Festival which each focus on a differing aspect of mental health.
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Lifesongs at Mermaid Arts Centre
Klawitter Theatre Group in collaboration with Lifemusic CIC UK will present Lifesongs with nursing home residents from Ireland and music students of Chichester University at the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray on 16 November 2015.
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Warriors One in Three at deAppendix
Warriors One in Three, a solo exhibition by Amanda Graham, launches at deAppendix in Dublin on 20 October 2015.
Opportunity
The Lumen – Call for submissions on theme of trauma
The Lumen is an annual new writing and arts journal on the mutual dialogue between medicine, the arts and the humanities based at the University of Edinburgh.
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RSPH Arts, Wellbeing and Health Webinar Series
The Royal Society for Public Health in the UK will be hosting a series of webinars on arts, wellbeing and health beginning in November 2015.
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The Empty Chair at Imagine Arts Festival
The Empty Chair is a short film written, acted and filmed by five members of The Belong Club for people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
Opportunity
Pregnancy Dreaming
Artist Niamh O’Connor and art therapist Pia Lück will host Pregnancy Dreaming art workshops in Mullingar this October for women experiencing pregnancy (1 month – 9 months).
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Visual Journal Workshop with Ester Kiely: Exploring mindfulness and personal expression
Artist Ester Kiely will facilitate a Visual Journal Workshop in Galway on 11 October 2015.
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Art installation created in University Hospital Galway to mark Mental Health Week
Work has been taking place on an innovative art project in University Hospital Galway to mark Mental Health Week (5-10 October 2015).
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West Cork Feel Good Festival
The little festival with a big feel good factor, The West Cork Feel Good Festival takes place this year in Bantry on October 9 and 10 in celebration of World Mental Health Day.
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South Tipperary Positive Mental Health Festival
South Tipperary Action Network is holding a 10-day festival to promote positive mental health in the community.
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E.gress National Tour launches 3 November at IMMA: A film exploring the twilight world of dementia
E.gress is a soulful and stirring artwork that maps a twilight world of loss and change exploring how individuals diagnosed with dementia find new ways to adjust to a changing world.
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Art Is A Wound Turned Into Light at NUI Galway
Art Is A Wound Turned Into Light is a new exhibition on mental health at NUI Galway, featuring work by 17 Galway-based artists.
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A Story to be Told – A Celebration of the Arts for Mental Health & Wellbeing at St Patrick’s University Hospital
The Twilight Programme at St.
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Azure Tours at dlr LexIcon October-November 2015
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office is inviting people with dementia to engage with the over & over + over and over solo exhibition by Susan Connolly at the Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon.
Opportunity
Hands-On Healing at Baboró: Workshop for artists working in healthcare settings
Galway University Hospital Arts Trust will host a free professional development workshop for artists and art and play therapists at Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.
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Into the Light: Launch of Corina Duyn’s unique artist book and exhibition at Lismore Library
Padraig Naughton, Director of Arts and Disability Ireland, will launch Into the Light, an artist book and exhibition by Corina Duyn, at Lismore Library on 24 September at 7pm.
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It Made You: Album by songwriters of St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services
It Made You is an album of original songs written by songwriters of St.
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Arts and Spirituality Ireland Conference 2015
The 2015 Arts and Spirituality Ireland conference, Risking Mystery II: Artists and Mystics, will take place on Saturday, 17 October at Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.
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Culture Night 2015: Arts and health round-up
Culture Night is nearly upon us and around the country there are lots of arts and health events taking place in hospitals, healthcare settings and community spaces.
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Music and Health: NCAH arts and health seminar on 23 October 2015
'Music and Health: Promoting excellence in practice' is a public arts and health seminar presenting the best of Irish Music Therapy and Music and Health Practice.
Opportunity
Per Cent for Art Commission: Acute Mental Health Unit Sligo
Under the Per Cent for Art Scheme, the Mental Health Services Sligo/Leitrim wishes to commission art works in tandem with the construction of a new Acute Mental Health Unit (AMHU) for adults at Sligo Regional Hospital.
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Possibility: A new exhibition by sculptor Mags O’Dea at deAppendix
deAppendix will host Possibility, the current body of work by sculptor Mags O'Dea, from 15 September to 16 October 2015.
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Little Miracles art exhibition
Little Miracles art exhibition is a collaboration between two Dublin Mental Health service providers - EVE Goirtin and H.O.P.S.
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Illuminations set to shine a light on brain injury
Headway, the national association for Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), will host Illuminations, an outdoor art installation specially designed for the 2015 Culture Night programme on Friday 18 September.
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The Meath Foundation supports Arts and Health Research
The National Centre for Arts and Health announces the support of The Meath Foundation to develop its Arts and Health Research Programme.
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The Creative Well Open Studio – in partnership with Riverbank Arts Centre
The Creative Well Open Studio is for adults interested in visual art.
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Anne Enright to launch poetry book The Healing Station
The National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght Hospital is delighted to announce that internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright will launch The Healing Station by Michael McCarthy.
Opportunity
€210,000 announced for Music Capital Scheme 2015
Music Network today welcomed the announcement by Heather Humphreys TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, confirming capital funds of €210,000 for the Music Capital Scheme 2015.
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Ghosts of Grangegorman documentary
Alan Counihan's radio documentary, Ghosts of Grangegorman, traces the development of his 2014 exhibition, Personal Effects: a history of possession based on the belongings of dead or discharged patients from Grangegorman Mental Hospital.
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Poetry making in Cork University Hospital
Haiku Island Press, designer Orlagh O’Brien and artist Tess Leak, will be running poetry making sessions in the Department of Renal Medicine, Cork University Hospital this autumn, with the aim of making a limited edition book.
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Michael Harding to launch Into the Light
Michael Harding to launch Into the Light a unique book created by artist and writer Corina Duyn on Sunday 6 September at 3pm, at the Dechen Shying Care Centre, Dzogchen Beara, Allihies, West Cork.
Opportunity
Public art commissions in the HSE: Call to artists for Public Art Panel
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), on behalf of the HSE South/ South East and Saolta University Healthcare Group, invites artists to apply for a place on a new Public Art Panel leading to permanent art commissions under the Per Cent for Art Scheme within some new health care developments in the above HSE areas.
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Well festival of arts and wellbeing 5-11 October 2015
Every year Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) joins forces with Garter Lane Arts Centre and the Waterford Library Services to celebrate the benefits of participation in the arts for everybody through the Well festival of arts and wellbeing.
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New art commission by Francis Lanuza in Kilrush
Foxford-based architect and visual artist Francis Lanuza has just completed his first Irish commission as an emerging artist, entitled Healing Hills.
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Save the date: Arts and Health – Check Up, Check In
artsandhealth.ie, Create and Dublin City Council’s The LAB are delighted to present Arts and Health- Check Up, Check In, a networking event for arts and health care practitioners and artists who work in healthcare settings in The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin on 29 January 2016.
Opportunity
Connecting Minds symposium, Liverpool
Liverpool John Moores University is hosting a symposium named Connecting Minds - Arts and Dementia, on 4 September 2015 from 9.00am - 17.00pm in the Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, 4th Floor Events Suite.
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Kids’ Classics nominated for Allianz Community Arts Award
A project by Kids’ Classics has been shortlisted for the Allianz Community Art Prize, one of 10 prestigious prizes that will be awarded during the Allianz Business to Arts Awards event at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on Tuesday 1 September at 6pm.
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Creative Arts Facilitator (Relief Panel), St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services
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Building Memories – Reflecting on St. Otteran’s Hospital
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Mná mo Chroí exhibition launched at St. Luke’s General Hospital
Coinciding with the Kilkenny Arts Festival, an art exhibition at St.
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Spaces for Dementia Project (Bristol)
A project based at Southmead Hospital Bristol aims to improve the environments of the elderly and complex care wards to make them more dementia friendly.
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Marie Brett receives Arts Council award for national exhibition tour
Marie Brett is excited to announce that she has received an Arts Council Touring and Dissemination of Work Award, to exhibit the artwork arising from the E.gress project, to arts venues and health settings in Dublin, Cork, Sligo, Limerick, Kilkenny and Waterford during 2016.
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These Tangled Threads at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
These Tangled Threads is an exhibition by Toma McCullim on view in the Tower Stairwell of Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre from 25 July until 14 August.
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The Art of Social Prescribing – Liverpool (UK)
The Cultural Commissioning Programme is hosting a one day conference e to explore the latest academic and applied research with particular reference to the role that arts and cultural activities play in social prescribing.
Opportunity
Helium seeks theatre director to lead development of early years performance project
Helium Arts invites applications from theatre directors to lead the development of an immersive and multi-sensory performance project for toddlers with complex needs: Creating space for family fun & giving a voice to toddlers through play and the arts, in partnership with the Jack and Jill Foundation.
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Rainbow/Cumasú at Skibbereen Arts Festival
When the sun starts to shine again through the rain clouds! Skibbereen Arts Festival presents Rainbow/ Cumasú with artist Toma McCullim.
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Making Sense 2 at Skibbereen Arts Festival
Skibbereen Arts Festival presents Making Sense 2, a panel discussion on poetry and being well with Dr.
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The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, Sydney 2015
The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, Sydney 2015, 7th Annual International Arts and Health Conference will run from 17 - 19 November 2015 in Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Opportunity
Write Your Mind: a play about youth mental health
Jigsaw Offaly invite writers to submit stories or theatrical monologues on the topic of living with mental health issues.
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Music to Small Ears receives Project Award funding from the Arts Council
Music to Small Ears, an early years, arts and health music project with composer and musician, George Higgs, has received 2015 Project Award funding from the Arts Council.
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Culture Night at Castletownbere Community Hospital
The residents, friends, relatives and staff of Castletownbere Community Hospital are delighted to welcome internationally renowned pianist David Syme to perform a selection of familiar and favoured music for the hospital community as part of Cork counties Culture Night celebrations on Friday 18 September at 6:30pm.
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International Creative Ageing Conference -Sydney
A new International Conference about Ageing Well will take place in Art Gallery of NSW and Sydney Opera House from 25 - 27 August 2015 and will be officially opened by the Hon John Ajaka MP, Minister for Ageing.
Opportunity
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre Artists’ Residency Programme
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is offering an Artist in Residence studio opportunity to an artist who is in receipt of, or applying for, Arts Council, Local Authority or Ealaín na Gaeltachta bursaries.
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Opportunity for artists: Arts for Health Partnership Programme
West Cork Arts Centre welcomes applications from artists of all disciplines, for a 16 week professional development opportunity working as a learner alongside an artist/musician in Clonakilty Community Hospital as part of the Arts for Health partnership programme.
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Arts Council arts participation bursary award
The Arts Council announces the Arts Participation Bursary Award deadline is 16 July 2015.
Event
Book launch by Arts for Health participants, West Cork
By The Smoke of the Train is a book that documents an eight week collaborative project, facilitated by artist Anne Harrington Rees, with staff and clients at Dunmanway Day Care Centre.
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‘+ by Claire McCluskey at deAppendix
'+ an exhibition by Claire McCluskey is opening on Tuesday 16 June between 7 - 9 pm in deAppendix, Dublin.
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Play your part in World Music Day 2015
On June 21 each year, music making is celebrated all around the world, under a variety of festival names, such as: Fête de la Musique, Love Live Music or World Music Day.
Opportunity
Request for tenders: Researcher(s) in the area of Arts & Health
The Arts Council in partnership with the HSE has published a Request for Tenders (RFT) for a Researcher(s) in the area of Arts & Health.
Opportunity
Azure at dlr Municipal Gallery
As part of the Municipal Gallery programme in dlr LexIcon, the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council/HSE Arts and Health Partnership is delighted to announce that we will be offering art appreciation tours of upcoming exhibitions for people affected by dementia, their families and carers.
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Cloudlands premieres at The Lighthouse Cinema
Cloudlands, the result of the 2014 artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary, portrays the importance of creativity in the lives of teenagers who spend significant amounts of time in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital.
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In the Picture: Dementia Friendly Gallery Programme
In the Picture is a Dementia Friendly Gallery Programme at Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.
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International perspectives on arts and health
International Perspectives on Arts and Health, Sharing best practice across the continents is a free seminar that takes place in Trinity Lecture Theatre, Centre for Learning, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin on Friday 29th May 2015 from 10.00 a.m.
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Radio/Silence: An interactive radio play by teenagers at Cork University Hospital
On 8 June 2015, the paediatric ward of Cork University Hospital (CUH) will be transformed as teenage patients take part in Radio/Silence, an interactive radio play that will be broadcast on CUH radio.
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National College of Art and Design – Arts and Health Module
The National College of Art and Design/Creative Life St James Hospital - Arts and Health Module is drawing to a close.
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Clonakilty Wellness Week
Clonakilty Wellness Committee is delighted to bring the award winning, Clonakilty Wellness Week.
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Lonradh: a visiting programme for individuals with dementia and their carers
Lonradh is a visiting programme at Crawford Art Gallery Cork for individuals with dementia and their carers.
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Art, Design and New Technology for Health: The Sackler Conference 2015
The Art, Design and New Technology for Health: The Sackler Conference will explore the role of interactive and digital art in healthcare environments.
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The Creative Well exhibition and lecture series
The Creative Well has worked for the past four years throughout Co. Kildare providing a fun and relaxed space for people to engage their creativity through experimentation, exploration and play.
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Nimble Spaces Ways to Live Together: New Cultures of Housing
Nimble Spaces Ways to Live Together: New Cultures of Housing is an international conference exploring participative design, spatial justice, social housing, co- housing and new ways to imagine housing in the 21st Century.
Opportunity
Post Graduate Cert: Dementia Studies (Arts and Activities)
Do you want to develop a specialist role using the arts or providing activities for people with dementia.
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Moving Conversations: The Art of Dying
Dare we speak of the unspoken, life's challenging frontier - unrehearsed, unknown, often imagined and widely feared.
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BEAG: Early Years Art Programme, Cork
BEAG (Building Early Arts Group) is a unique Cork-based programme that explores the endless possibilities of play, art, imagination, creativity and expression with and for children under 3 years.
Opportunity
PhD Studentships: The Arts and Dementia (TAnDem) UK
Applications are invited for three PhD Studentships (two based at the University of Worcester and one at the University of Nottingham).
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WHAT welcomes a new team of musicians for its Healing Sounds in the Wards programme
WHAT (Waterford Healing Arts Trust) welcomes a new team of musicians for its Healing Sounds in the Wards programme for the coming year.
Opportunity
An introduction to arts and health: What is arts and health?
Friday 28 August 2015, 9.30am – 5pm in the WHAT Centre for Arts and Health, University Hospital Waterford What is meant by the term ‘arts and health’.
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London Creativity and Wellbeing Week
The fourth annual London Creativity and Wellbeing Week will take place from 4 - 12 June 2015.
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Lying in Wait – exhibition now on view at Tallaght Hospital gallery
Lying in Wait, an exhibition of a selection of artworks produced by adult patients attending Tallaght hospital over the last 6 months, is now on view in Tallaght Hospital main gallery on Hospital Street.
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Poetry Day 2015 | Flow – a Menu of Poems for healthcare settings
In celebration of Poetry Day on Thursday 7 May 2015, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust in collaboration with the Arts and Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI) and Poetry Ireland has produced a Menu of Poems entitled Flow for circulation to patients, visitors and staff in a range of healthcare settings in Ireland.
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Dulce Domun exhibition at Wandsford Quay Gallery, Cork
Dulce Domun is a group exhibition curated by Marie Brett and John McHarg pondering ideas of home and displacement.
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Arts and Health Week at RUA RED
From 11 – 16 May 2015 the first ever Arts and Health Week will take place at RUA RED, featuring a variety of events led by the National Centre for Arts and Health.
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HÚSAKÓRIÐ choir at Cork University Hospital
The Choral Gathering Trail will have a free choral performance by HÚSAKÓRIÐ choir from Copenhagen at the Cardiac Renal Centre CRC (main atrium) Cork University Hospital (CUH) on Thursday the 29 April at 11.00 am.
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Reflecting Through Art Exhibition 2015
The CUH Arts Committee are delighted to bring the annual Reflecting Through Art exhibition 2015 to Cork University Hospital (CUH).
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WHAT welcomes its 2015 Artist in Residence to University Hospital Waterford
WHAT (the Waterford Healing Arts Trust) is delighted to welcome Marie-Jeanne Jacob to University Hospital Waterford as the 2015 Artist in Residence.
Opportunity
Masterclass: Arts in Health Care: Reflection through Creative Practice
Arts in Health Care: Reflection through Creative Practice is a one-day masterclass that offers an opportunity for health care artists and practitioners to reflect on their work nourish their creativity and learn about reflective practice.
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Naomi Shihab Nye to launch Poems for Patience
On Friday 24 April 2015, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust will celebrate the twelfth series of Poems for Patience as part of Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
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Panchaea: In Search of an Equal Utopia and a Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Panchaeais a socially engaged art project involving services users of the Carlow Mental Health Services.
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All that work and all this finding out: The Creative Well exhibition
The Creative Well: Open Studio in partnership with Riverbank Arts Centre presents All that work and all this finding out in Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge from 5-29 May.
Opportunity
Arts & Disability Ireland and the Arts Council announce Arts and Disability Connect
Arts & Disability Ireland and the Arts Council announce Arts and Disability Connect (ADC) a scheme open to artists with disabilities working in any artform.
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The Fox Got You exhibition, Oxford
The Fox Got You is an art and science exhibition by photography artist Françoise Sergy.
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News from the National Centre for Arts and Health
The National Centre for Arts and Health is delighted to present its 2014 Annual Report which details all the projects, events, activities and therapeutic work carried out by artists at the centre during 2014.
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New Artist in Residence at deAppendix
deAppendix is delighted to announce that its current Artist in Residence is Ciara McKeon, a visual artist and curator whose practice focuses on live performance art.
Opportunity
Call to Artists for Participatory Arts & Mental Health Panel – Waterford
Waterford Healing Arts Trust and the Waterford Wexford Mental Health Services invite artists practicing literature, drama, animation, photography, multimedia, dance, or film to apply for a place on a panel of artists who will deliver aspects of the Iontas arts and mental health programme in Waterford.
Opportunity
Call for applications: artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary
artsandhealth.ie invites applications from arts and health practitioners (artists working in healthcare settings, healthcare professionals, arts and health partnerships etc.) for a bursary to produce documentation of an arts and health project.
Opportunity
Visual Arts Development Manager (Maternity Cover), UK
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity is looking for a Visual Arts Development Manager (maternity cover) for an initial period of 9 months.
Opportunity
Research Officer – Centre for the Arts as Wellbeing (University of Winchester)
The University of Winchester is seeking to appoint a Research Officer to undertake research with the Centre for the Arts as Wellbeing.
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Arts 4 Dementia Best Practice Music Symposium
Arts 4 Dementia Best Practice Music Symposium is a one-day symposium examining orchestral and vocal practices that enable people with early stage dementia to re-engage in fulfilling musical life in the community.
Opportunity
MA in Socially Engaged Art, NCAD – Call for applications
Applications are now being sought for the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult and Community Education at NCAD).
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Back Alleys by Amanda Jane Graham at Galway University Hospital
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is delighted to present Back Alleys by Longford based artist Amanda Jane Graham currently on display at University Hospital Galway (UHG) until April 17.
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Join Helium Arts on 28 March at IFI!
Helium Arts invites you to their film screening on 28 March at the Irish Film Institute where they'll be showing their brand new film made in collaboration with CanTeen Ireland, the nationwide support group for young people who have or have had cancer.
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Pilot Project: Contemporary dance classes for people with Parkinson’s Disease
A new pilot project of contemporary dance classes for people with Parkinson's Disease will be led by professional dance artist, Ailish Claffey in DanceHouse, Dublin in April/May.
Opportunity
Creative Exchanges Programme Dublin
Age & Opportunity’s Creative Exchanges course will take place this summer in the Irish Museum of Modern Art .
Opportunity
Call for pregnant artists
ProCreate Project (UK) is looking for pregnant artists to participate in a project entitled The Placenta Effect.
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Life Class by Dr Conleth Murphy, Jennings Gallery, UCC
Life Class is Dr Conleth Murphy’s first solo exhibition at the Jennings Gallery, UCC which opens on Wednesday 25 March (6pm) and runs until Wednesday 6 May 2015.
Opportunity
CÚRAM: Artist in Residency
Applications are sought from dynamic individuals for 6 month position as an Artist in Residence with the Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM) at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
News
Jameson Film Festival at St. Luke’s Hospital
On the 10 March, the Jameson Film Festival was welcomed to St Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar.
Opportunity
Galway University Hospital Arts Trust poetry competition
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries for its exciting annual poetry competition.
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Panel Discussion on Oscar-winning drama Still Alice features voices of advocates living with dementia
On Saturday, 7 March following the 15.45 screening of Still Alice, the IFI and Alzheimer Society of Ireland will host a panel discussion to explore issues raised by the film, and broaden out to look at the value of film and the arts for both awareness-raising and therapeutic purposes for people living with Alzheimers and dementia.
Opportunity
Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award
The Arts Council's Arts Participation Project Award supports initiatives in the field of arts participation.
Opportunity
Anam Beo – Call for musicians
Anam Beo is an independent organisation primarily funded by the HSE and Offaly Council with 10 years experience of delivering arts and health programmes and projects in Offaly.
Event
Here and Now with Sarah Ruttle and Sarah Cairns
A series of sessions entitled Here and Now will take place on Fridays in 2015 in the West Cork Arts Centre gallery setting where people with dementia, their professional and /or family carers are invited to participate in facilitated discussions about a selection of artworks on exhibit.
Opportunity
Arts for Health, Working with people with Dementia
Arts for Health, Working with people with Dementia is a professional learning development session aimed at artists working in care settings and care workers delivering arts programmes.
Event
Lying in Wait exhibition at Rua Red
Lying in Wait is an exhibition of a selection of artworks produced by adult patients attending Tallaght hospital over the last 6 months on view in Rua Red Arts Centre from 10 March until 22 April.
Event
Writing for Wellbeing Conference, Wales
Lapidus Day 2015: Writing and Words for Wellbeing Conference offers an insight into new developments in writing and health.
Opportunity
WHAT Healing Sounds: Call for musicians
WHAT is inviting applications from suitably qualified people to join a panel of musicians to perform for and with patients of University Hospital Waterford as part of its Healing Sounds programme from April 2015 for one year.
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A Feast of Words: arts and wellbeing
A Feast of Words: arts and wellbeing, is a collection of events, taking place in March that hopes to be a tonic for inquisitive minds seeking stimulating encounters with various art forms.
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Arts & Health Conference, Ginkgo Projects, Glasgow
Lateral Thinking, the value of joined up agendas between the arts, health and environment is an arts and health conference hosted by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Ginkgo Projects.
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Belonging at Jennings Gallery, College of Medicine and Health, UCC.
Belonging is an exhibition of paintings by Thérèse Healy-Kelly featuring depictions caught in the polarities of country and coast on view at Jennings Gallery, College of Medicine and Health, ativan, UCC.
Opportunity
Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme (Scéim An Ealaíontóra Sa Phobal)
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on projects through the Arts Council's Artist in the Community Scheme (Scéim An Ealaíontóra Sa Phobal) managed by Create.
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Constructing Narrative by Eleanor Brennan
Constructing Narrative, an exhibition of new work by artist Eleanor Brennan will be on display in University Hospital Galway until 12 March on the Arts Corridor.
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No, wait…a solo exhibition by WHAT’s artist-in-residence
No, wait…, the first solo exhibition of John Conway, artist in residence with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) will be launched in University Hospital Waterford (UHW) on Thursday, 5 March.
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Welcome Disturbances exhibition and events
The LAB Gallery, brought to you by Dublin City Council is pleased to present, Welcome Disturbances from 30 January - 11 April 2015.
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Dublin City Council Libraries’ Mind Yourself Programme
Still reeling from the hustle and bustle of the festive season, or have those new year resolutions already fallen by the wayside.
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Irish Times video of Amulet exhibition
The Amulet: a national exhibition tour by artist Marie Brett is hosted by The Lab Gallery, Dublin until 28 March 2015.
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Helium’s Cloudands Project running in Temple Street and Cork University Hospital
Helium’s Cloudlands project connects artists and teenagers living with chronic illnesses through collaborative projects and is entering its final year in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and Cork University Hospital.
News
New Director for Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Director / Chief Executive, artist Ailbhe Murphy.
News
The WHAT Arts and Health Library: Call for material
The WHAT Arts and Health Library is a national resource for learning and research in the field of arts and health.
Event
Stories From The Front
Stories from the Front is a theatre show at Liberty Hall on 14 January at 7pm as part of the First Fortnight Festival.
Event
Talking Heads – Conversations on Mental Health
The Talking Heads art exhibition will be the start of a year long public project exploring the importance of mental health.
Opportunity
Arts, Health and Wellbeing: Evaluation of Arts Interventions in Health and Social Care Settings, UK
Arts, Health and Wellbeing: Evaluation of Arts Interventions in Health and Social Care Settings is a two day course taking place on 6 and 7 February 2015 at the University of Winchester.
Opportunity
Call for applications for WHAT Artist in Residence
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites artists of all arts disciplines to apply for its 2015 Artist in Residence programme.
News
TV3 Documentary A Disconnected Rhythm
A Disconnected Rhythm is an arts documentary and moving story of how a composer, a team of dedicated medical professionals and patients with Parkinson’s Disease come together to create an inspirational piece of music.
Opportunity
Chaos and Comfort: the arts from long term impact to social change (UK)
The North West Arts and Health Network in collaboration with Manchester School of Art, MA Health & Wellbeing Students, presents a free day event, to share your work in a critically supportive community and find out more about arts/health research and practice.
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Bitesize arts and health training, Cornwall, UK
Are you interested in designing and delivering your own arts and health projects.
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Annual exhibition of staff artwork at Galway University Hospitals
Art@work is the annual exhibition organised by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust that showcases art produced by the staff of Galway University Hospitals.
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Amulet Touring Exhibition Launches in Dublin with Live Performances and Discussion Event
The Amulet touring exhibition by artist Marie Brett opens at The LAB Gallery, Dublin, on 15 January continuing to 28 March 2015, with a series of accompanying events.
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Minister for the Arts launches Mental Health project in Cork
Minister Heather Humphreys visited 2020 Art Gallery, Griffith House, North Mall, Cork on Monday 8 December, to launch Talking Heads, Conversations on Mental Health, a new art exhibition and lecture series that will begin in January 2015.
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Niche Winter Garden
The Winter Garden will open on Wednesday 10 December in Niche Community Garden in Knocknaheeny in Cork.
Opportunity
Arts Council Bursary Awards
The Arts Council provides Bursary Awards in order to assist individual artists in the development of their art practice.
Opportunity
Nenagh Hospital: tender for public art work under the ‘Per Cent for Art Scheme’
Nenagh Hospital has recently undergone significant redevelopment works to provide a modern theatre suite, pre-operative assessment unit, consulting rooms, staff facilities and a refurbished day ward at first floor level.
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Kids’ Own/HSE Northwest Children’s Mental Health Book Project
Kids' Own is delighted to be working in partnership with the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and the Psychology Service (PCCC) in Sligo, on a brand new children's collaborative mental health book project, funded by HSE Northwest.
Opportunity
HeadSpace: Call for art, writing, photography
HeadSpace is a mental health-themed literary and artistic anthology which is distributed for free to hospitals and mental health support services, as well as being available for general purchase.
Opportunity
Creative Exchanges course 2015
Age & Opportunity announce dates for its Creative Exchanges course in 2015.
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ARTzheimer’s Exhibition
ARTzheimer's is a unique art exhibition detailing one man's journey through Alzheimer's.
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How to See Clearly from a Distance commissioned by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust has commissioned an art work especially for patients within the Saolta University Health Care Group as part of Tulca Festival of Visual Arts 2014.
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Open Network Event for Arts and Health Artists
Artists working in healthcare settings are invited to an open network event at West Cork Arts Centre on Wednesday 19 November from 11:30am – 1:00pm at West Cork Arts Centre, North Street, Skibereen.
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Arts Participation (for Healthcare Professionals) FETAC Level 5
The Arts Participation (for Healthcare Professionals) Fetac Level 5 course sets out to give participants the chance to explore and develop art making with the aim of building the confidence and expertise to work on arts projects within health care settings.
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De Naturis, an exhibition of paintings by Dr Carmel Ann Daly at University Hospital Waterford.
De Naturis is an exhibition of paintings by Dr Carmel Ann Daly which is on view at University Hospital Waterford throughout November and December as part of the Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s Staff Art Wall.
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Christopher Banahan at University Hospital Galway
An exhibition entitled Contact by Christopher Banahan is view on the Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway until 8 December.“Contact…That was the word uttered by the inside voice when l first saw [Christopher Banahan’ s ] ‘Millennium’ - Contact.
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Lyric FM Music and Health
Lyric FM Culture File ran a feature Music and Health on its programme on 13 October 2014 entitled Music at Tallaght Hospital.
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Dialysis Unit Art Programme Update report
The art programme for patients in the Renal Dialysis Unit at Tallaght Hospital continues to develop, with six artists now working in the unit, lead by Ms Lucia Barnes, Artist and Nurse.
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General Practice exhibition at Tallaght Hospital
General Practice by Fionn McCann is an exhibition selected from The Trinity College Dublin Art Collection on view in Tallaght Hospital from 29 October 2014 - 22 April 2015.
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The Art of Recollection
Garter Lane Arts Centre presents The Art of Recollection, an exhibition in the FOH space of drawings and paintings by eight ladies from Abbeylands Nursing Home and a group of 2nd year students from Waterpark Secondary School.
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Creative Exchanges Network Day
Age and Opportunity is delighted to announce Creative Exchanges Network Day: Making meaning through arts in care settings; a day of facilitated creative workshops, discussion and you! The event will take place in Block T, Smithfield, Dublin on 2 December.
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The Amulet touring exhibition changes venue in Cork
The Amulet, a national touring exhibition exploring the hidden world on infant loss with artist Marie Brett has now part-moved to a new venue in Cork.
News
Lunatic: There I Go
Lunatic: There I Go is a new theatre production that explores resilience and identity in the face of adversity.
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Cork Film Festival launch a new series exploring the area of mental health
Arts + Minds and the HSE Cork Mental Health Services are delighted to have been involved in the development of Illuminate, an exciting new series of film and discursive events that explore the area of mental health as part of Cork Film Festival.
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The Watercolour Society of Ireland returns to University Hospital Waterford
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust welcomes back the Watercolour Society of Ireland to University Hospital Waterford after an absence of thirteen years.
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Pregnancy Dreaming with artist Niamh O’Connor
Visual artist Niamh O’Connor has been awarded an Artist in the Community Scheme Research and Development Award, with Mentoring, to explore a proposed new project called Pregnancy Dreaming.
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Cloudlands Online Gallery
The Cloudlands Gallery is a dedicated online space which brings together the collaborative work of teenagers and artists participating in Helium’s Cloudlands Project at three Irish hospitals: Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, University Hospital Galway and Cork University Hospital.
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Postcards from the Centre: small interactions in a big way
Through Anam Beo's arts and health programme, creative and enthusiastic participating groups from the Irish Wheelchair Association, Riada House, Birr Nursing Unit, Clara Day Care, the Attic Therapy Centre and Ofalia House created up to 300 small artworks using collage and mixed media on a standard postcard.
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Music to Small Ears with composer George Higgs
Helium Arts in collaboration with composer George Higgs are developing an early years music project in Mullingar this November.
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WHAT wants you!
Are you a musician.
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May the depths you have reached hold you still
May the depths you have reached hold you still is a salon event and ongoing exhibition at deAppendix, 30 Ardagh Grove, Blackrock, Co.Dublin on view until 24 October 2014.
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World Mental Health Day 10/10/2014
Arts + Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI) is an all-Ireland support network of professionals who are responsible for managing arts and health initiatives.
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Call for artists: Talking Heads – Conversations on Mental Health
January 2015 will mark the start of a brand new public project exploring the importance of mental health.
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Professor Clive Lee talks about Anatomy and the Arts at University Hospital Waterford
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is delighted to welcome Clive Lee, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) to University Hospital Waterford where he will give a public talk entitled Anatomy and the Arts on Wednesday, 29 October at 7pm in the Elva Theatre, RCSI, UHW.
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Music and Health radio piece
Tonight, Wednesday 8 October, on Lyric FM Culture File there will be a special feature on Music and Health, focusing on the work at the National Centre for Arts and Health, Dublin.
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Reclaim Your Creative Soul
The Twilight Programme at St Patrick’s Mental Health Services presents Reclaim Your Creative Soul a Celebration of the Arts for Mental Health Awareness & Wellbeing in October 2014.
Opportunity
UCD Art in Science Invites Applications for 2015 Artist’s Residencies
UCD Art in Science invite applications to the one year residency at Parity Studios, UCD College of Science, commencing February 2015.
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Confidentiality, Consent and Decision Making in Arts and Health Participatory Art Practice
Visual artist Sarah Ruttle has produced a document following a project of exploration looking at issues that arise in confidentiality, decision making and consent within an arts and health context.
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Live Life and Sing with Bantry Community Choir
In celebration of World Mental Health Day in October, a week long festival of arts and wellness will take place in various locations throughout West Cork.
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Third Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition
The Third Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition is open for submissions.
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Skibbereen Day Care Centre participants produce glass art work based on past occupations
100 older people attending the Skibbereen Day Care Centre have been busy working with glass and digital art techniques recently with artist Michael Ray, an award winning visual artist, living in West Cork and have transferred photographs of themselves and handwritten extracts of conversations into six colourful interconnected glass panels.This latest project to come out of Arts for Health West Cork evolved from an idea to try to include all 100 local residents attending Skibbereen day care centre in one single connecting project and it has been a huge success.
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Another Expanse, a solo exhibition by Dominic Thorpe curated by WHAT
Another Expanse is a solo exhibition by Dominic Thorpe curated by WHAT (the Waterford Healing Arts Trust) which will run in Waterford Central Library from 29 September until 16 October in conjunction with the second Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing.
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Excursion by Pat Byrne
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is hosting a new exhibition by artist Pat Byrne titled “Excursion” on the Arts Corridor, University Hospital, Galway.
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The Amulet – National Touring Exhibition
The Amulet, National Touring Exhibition by artist Marie Brett which explores the hidden world of infant loss is coming to Cork, to three individual venues, and being opened at Cork City Hall by guest speaker Dr.
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Taking Flight – Menu of Poems
Menu of Poems, will be distributed on hospital wards, in waiting rooms, Community and Day Care Centres and other health settings for patients, visitors and staff to enjoy this Thursday 2 and Friday 3 October.
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Nest Space: a Mental Health Awareness Week event
Nest Space is created by Beehouse Arts in collaboration with Art Hive, Voluntary Groups, Mental Health Services, the community, friends and family to promote awareness, provide information in a creative, social and enjoyable environment.
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Mad Men: conversations on mental health
The Imagine Festival in Waterford is hosting a conversation on mental health entitled Mad Men in St.
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Jane McCormick exhibits work at Farmleigh
Centred is an exhibition organised by Ceramics Ireland celebrating the breadth of contemporary Irish ceramic practice.
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The Feel Good Factory
Featuring artwork created by participants of WHAT's weekly Open Studio Workshop, The Feel Good Factory is an exhibition of diverse subject matter and media celebrating each participant's work, their individuality and one of the things that makes them feel good: making art! The exhibition will be on view in the FOH space at Garter Lane Arts Centre, from 7 October to 1 November.
Opportunity
Call for marketing graduate
WHAT WANTS YOU Are you a marketing graduate? Are you ready for a challenge with a difference? WHAT wants to hear from you!.
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Call for Dance and Older Persons Project
dlr County Council/ HSE Dublin Mid Leinster Arts and Health Partnership is seeking project proposals from professional dance practitioners/companies who are interested in engaging with older people from Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County.
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St Luke’s Symposium Musical Event
Synaptic Serenades: Musical Narratives of Stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease, will be held after a symposium on Architecture, Design and Medicine on Tuesday 14 October 2014, from 18:30 – 20:30 at 6 Kildare Street, Dublin.
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Architecture, Design & Medicine – St Luke’s Symposium
‘Exploring the interplay of medicine and architecture today and in Victorian Dublin’ is the theme of the forthcoming St Luke’s Symposium Heritage Centre Lecture, held on Tuesday, 14 October from 10am to 3:15pm at 6 Kildare Street, Dublin.
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dotMED Conference 2014 – a Meeting with a Big Future
dotMED is an annual, creative medical humanities conference run by Dr Ronan Kavanagh and Dr Muiris Houston.
Opportunity
Research worker: London
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a part time research worker (2 days per week) to support the evaluation of an innovative creative project for older people with mental health problems.
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Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2014: Collaborative Dance
The Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2014: Collaborative Dance aims to support individual professional dance artists working in the area of collaborative dance or with groups of non-dancers.
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Wanted – your favourite feel-good poem or short prose
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust is inviting people to send them those pieces of poetry and prose that bring solace and joy in preparation for a public reading as part of the second Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing in Waterford.
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A Creative Response to Mental Health Problems
In this workshop for mental health professionals, Cork-based Community Mental Health Nurse, Mary Dineen will discuss Arts+Minds, a unique arts and health programme co-ordinated by mental health nurses which aims to enhance the health and wellbeing of mental health service users in Cork through the arts.
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The Amulet Exhibition Tour: Limerick Panel Discussion Event
The national touring exhibition, The Amulet, exploring the hidden world of infant loss, was launched at Galway Arts Centre in August, with curator and Galway Arts Centre head of visual art, Maeve Mulrennan, describing the exhibition as “honest, heartbreaking and, due to Marie’s skill as an artist, a space for exploring what words cannot express”.
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Symphony of the Sea project, West Cork
Symphony of the Sea is a recent collaboration between musician and composer Justin Grounds, visual artist Tess Leak and participants of Clonakilty Community Hospital, as part of the West Cork Arts Centre-managed Arts for Health Partnership Programme.
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New website: The Amulet
A new website has been launched by artist Marie Brett, which charts the arts and health project entitled The Amulet.
Opportunity
Community Garden Artist in Residence: Jobridge Internship Opportunity
Niche Community Health Project, based in Knocknaheeny / Hollyhill Community Garden is seeking a Community Garden Artist in Residence under theJobridge Internship scheme.
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Melancholia – 2 day international multi-disciplinary seminar
Melancholia is a two-day international, multidisciplinary seminar exploring the topic of ‘melancholia’ from clinical, theoretical, film studies, and visual arts practice and curatorship perspectives.
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CUH Art to go online!
Cork University Hospital (CUH) is embarking on an exciting new project to open up to the digital world the art collection in the hospital.
Opportunity
Create seeks new Director
The Board of Create, Ireland’s national development agency for collaborative arts, is seeking to recruit an experienced Director to lead this dynamic and vibrant arts organisation to the next stage of its development, nationally and internationally.
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Creative Exchanges course, Dublin
Age & Opportunity has announced new dates for its Creative Exchanges course taking place in Dublin this autumn.
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Writing Clinic with Kathy D’Arcy in University Hospital Waterford
Do you have stories in you that you'd like to try writing.
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‘Get ‘Well’ Soon’ with Well, festival of arts and wellbeing
Well, festival of arts and wellbeing will be returning soon to Waterford this October.
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Arts and Health Co-ordinators promote wellbeing through the arts on Culture Night
The Arts and Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI) are delighted to announce their Culture Night programme for 2014 which integrates a range of arts experiences into various facets of our healthcare system for the benefit of health service users, staff and the wider community.
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Host by John Conway at University Hospital Galway
Host is an exhibition of paintings and drawings being shown in the arts corridor of University Hospital Galway from 26 August to 30 September 2014.
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Peer dialogue for Professional Artists working in participative art within arts and health
Artist Sarah Ruttle invites you to Cork University Hospital to participate in a professional development opportunity on Friday 12 September from 10.30-12.30pm in The Boardroom, Cork University Hospital, Wilton, Cork.
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An introduction to arts and health: What is arts and health?
Friday 7 November 2014, 10am – 5pm in the WHAT Centre for Arts and Health, University Hospital Waterford What is meant by the term ‘arts and health’.
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Call for artist and writer to lead collaborative book project exploring mental health with young people in County Sligo
Kids’ Own, in partnership with the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and the Psychology Service (PCCC), in Sligo/Leitrim/West Cavan, invites applications from artists and writers to lead a collaborative book project with young people exploring mental health and celebrating and promoting children’s wellbeing.
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Shadow Puppetry project as part of Iontas: Arts and Mental Health Programme
Artist Philip Cullen recently delivered a shadow-puppetry project in Newport Day Centre, Dungarvan as part of Iontas, an arts and mental health programme for clients of the Waterford Mental Health Services. Iontas is a partnership between WHAT (the Waterford Healing Arts Trust) and the Waterford Wexford Mental Health Service (WWMHS) and offers clients of six mental health settings in Waterford participatory arts experiences in a range of artforms - visual art, shadow puppetry, music, writing and dance.
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Art exhibition at St. Luke’s Hospital to coincide with Kilkenny Arts Festival
To coincide with the Kilkenny Arts Festival, an exhibition of fine art paintings and sculptures will be launched at St.
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Recent Advances in the Science of Singing, Wellbeing and Health
Recent Advances in the Science of Singing, Wellbeing and Health is a symposium taking place at the Royal College of Music, London on 10 September 2014 which will present findings from recent scientific research on the value of group singing for wellbeing and health.
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First Fortnight seeks administrator
First Fortnight, a charity-based organisation with the expressed aim of challenging mental health prejudice through the creative arts, is seeking an administrator.
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Artist volunteers required – Tallaght Hospital
The National Centre for Arts and Health based at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, is seeking professional artists (of all artforms) willing to volunteer to facilitate art sessions for patients.
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Call for Evaluation Consultant – Kid’s Classics
Kids’ Classics, the National Concert Hall (NCH) and The Community Foundation for Ireland are seeking to appoint an Evaluation Consultant to examine the impact of the Kids’ Classics programme of music activities and performances in a hospital paediatric setting.
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Making Sense talk at Skibbereen Arts Festival
Skibbereen Arts Festival will host a panel discussion on ‘Why the Creative Arts should play a Central Role in our Mental Health and Well- Being’ with Dr.
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Shadow Traders exhibition
What happens when two artists explore the forsaken? Shadow Traders is an exhibition of ambitious new artwork produced collaboratively by Marie Brett and John McHarg exploring wondrous accounts of uneasy experience resonating in place and objects, particularly dis-owned and forgotten private collections.
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The Starling Song Project featuring Liz Clark
As part of the Skibbereen Arts Festival, the Arts for Health Partnership Programme will present two projects: The Starling Song Project featuring Liz Clark at West Cork Hotel on Thursday 31 July at 7.30pm and an exhibition by residents of the Skibbereen Community Hospital entitled River Green at Field's Coffee Shop from Monday 28 July to Monday 4 August.
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New #wellMAKING project to demonstrate how craft activities improve wellbeing, UK
The #wellMAKING Craftivists Garden is asking people from across the UK to knit, crochet and hand-embroider flowers while reflecting on the importance of wellbeing and what we need in order to flourish as individuals and as a society.
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Launch of HeadSpace 3
A match made in a very quirky heaven; creative mental health magazine HeadSpace are teaming up with the fantastic comedy improv troupe The Improrphans to bring you a launch party for HeadSpace Issue 3.
Opportunity
Sketch assignment for a public art commission, Stockholm
Stockholm County Council invites professional artists to apply for a sketch assignment for a public art commission at the upper part of the façade of Building 74 in the New Technology, Quarter, to be built in the hospital area at Södersjukhuset.
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An + Aisthēsia exhibition
An + Aisth?sia, an exhibition by Karen Conway for Galway International Festival of Art, is on display on the Arts Corridor at Galway University Hospital from 14 July to 23 August 2014.
Opportunity
New commission opportunity with HSE – deadline August 5
Create, the national development agency for Collaborative Arts, is delighted to be working with the HSE to create an exciting and unique commission opportunity for artists under the Per Cent for Art Scheme.
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Designing and Delivering Arts and Health Projects – Training (UK)
Arts for Health Cornwall is hosting a training programme from September to December 2014 on designing and delivering your own arts and health projects .
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Launch of New Arts, Health, and Early Years Research Partnership
Helium Arts in partnership with HSE Cork North, NUI Galway School of Psychology, NUI Galway Drama and Theatre Studies, and The Irish Association of Infant Mental Health announce the launch of a new research partnership which will aim to reveal whether there are connections between early experiences of the performing arts (dance/music/theatre/clowning/puppetry etc.) and developing positive attachments and interactions between parents and babies.
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New exhibition on Hospital Street, Tallaght Hospital
The National Centre for Arts and Health at Tallaght Hospital is delighted to present Emerging Artists Showcase, an exhibition featuring photographic works by Anna Janiszewska, Sharon Murphy, Linda Plunkett and Anna Thompson; all recent graduates from IADT-Dun Laoghaire BA(Hons) in Photography.
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National Centre for Arts and Health announces two new publications
The National Centre for Arts and Health announces two new publications The art of medicine: Aesthetic deprivation in clinical settings: a peer reviewed perspective published in The Lancet.
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Cork artist blooms post stroke
Cork artist, Eugene O'Driscoll's exhibition entitled In Bloom is on view in the Hospital Dining Room Gallery at Cork University Hospital from 2 – 31 July 2014.
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Minister Deenihan and artist Guggi open Art Walk in Beaumont
A new contemporary art exhibition space called Art Walk, for patients and visitors to Beaumont Hospital and St Luke's Radiation Oncology Centre, was opened by Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Mr Jimmy Deenihan, TD and renowned Irish artist, Guggi in May 2014.
Opportunity
Creative Exchanges course
Age & Opportunity has announced new dates for its Creative Exchanges course taking place in Cork this summer.
Opportunity
Call for candidates: arts and health evaluative review
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in partnership with the HSE Health Promotion and Improvement, HSE Dublin South East/Wicklow invites applications from candidates with relevant experience: • To design and conduct an evaluative review of the Musical Memories choirs • To produce a general evaluation template that can be used to review arts and health projects funded by the partnership in the future.
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Helium Arts recipient of the 2014 artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary
artsandhealth.ie is delighted to announce that Helium Arts, children’s arts and health organisation, is the recipient of a bursary to produce a documentation of an arts and health project.The aim of the artsandhealth.ie bursary award is to encourage high quality, creative documentation of arts and health practice nationally.
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Artistic Director for Sirius Arts Centre
Sirius Arts Centre is a vibrant multidisciplinary arts centre located in east Cork in the town of Cobh, Co. Cork and has a reputation for delivering a quality local, national and international arts programme.
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WHAT announces its 2014 Artist in Residence
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust has appointed John Conway as its 2014 Artist in Residence.
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Exploring confidentiality, decision making and consent
Visual artist Sarah Ruttle is carrying out a research project supported by the Arts Council, to identify the tensions that arise in confidentiality, decision making and consent within arts and health participatory practice.
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Helium Summer Film Screening
Helium Arts will hold its annual film screening on 12 July 2014 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
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World Music Day 2014 at West Cork Arts Centre
On June 21 each year, music making is celebrated all around the world.
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The Room shortlisted for 2014 ICCL Human Rights Film Award
The Room, the result of the 2013 artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary, has been shortlisted for the 2014 Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) Human Rights Film Awards.
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Peer dialogue for professional artists working in arts and health participatory practice
Artist Sarah Ruttle invites you to the WHAT Centre for Arts & Health, University Hospital Waterford on Friday 20 June from 10am – 1pm to participate in a peer dialogue for professional artists working in participative art within Arts and Health.
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Flowers, Kaleidoscopes and Viruses
Flowers, Kaleidoscopes and Viruses is an exhibition of 140 artworks at Wexford General Hospital from June 2014 to May 2015.
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Seminar: Art and Design Strategies in Healthcare
Helium Arts in partnership with Create are hosting seminars on Art and Design Strategies in Healthcare with Jackie Sands (Arts & Health Improvement Senior with the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde) and Vicky Charnock (Arts Coordinator at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool) in Dublin and Cork this June.
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Call for papers on Culture, Museums and Wellbeing
Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice is calling for the submission of papers related to research, theory, and policy for a special issue of Arts & Health coming out in the autumn of 2015.
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Personal Effects: a history of possession
PERSONAL EFFECTS is a multi-media installation by artist and writer Alan Counihan.
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Call for applications: artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary
artsandhealth.ie invites applications from arts and health practitioners (artists working in healthcare settings, healthcare professionals, arts and health partnerships etc.) for a bursary to produce documentation of an arts and health project.
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Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork: Placement Programme 2014
West Cork Arts Centre welcomes applications from artists of all disciplines for the Arts for Health Partnership Programme: Placement Programme 2014.
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WillFredd Theatre presents CARE
WillFredd Theatre and St.
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The Amulet Exhibition Tour: Exploring the Hidden World of Infant Loss
We all have amulets, those special objects often hidden away in drawers and cupboards which mark a significant time, occasion or person in our lives.
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WHAT launches The Room, an arts and health documentary film
In 2013, artist Tom Meskell and award-winning documentary maker Róisín Loughrey were awarded an inaugural bursary from artsandhealth.ie, the national arts and health website managed by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), to document through film an arts programme involving people who have an acquired brain injury, which is facilitated by Tom at Sacred Heart Hospital in Castlebar, Co.
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Olivia Hassett at deAppendix
In / Between is a site specific performative installation by Olivia Hassett in deAppendix, 30 Ardagh Grove, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
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Sixth Annual International Arts and Health Conference, Australia
Arts and Health Australia is excited to be partnering with the National Gallery of Victoria to present the 2014 international arts and health conference in Melbourne from 11 to 13 November, 2014.
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The Art of Making at the Jennings Gallery, UCC
How does making art impact on health.
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CARE at St. Francis Hospice, Raheny, Dublin
WillFredd Theatre invites you to St.
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Stockholm City Council: Call for artist in residence
Stockholm City Council, Art Department is looking for artists to be part of an exchange of ideas between artists and researchers in life science.
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Iontas: a new Arts and Mental Health Programme for clients of the Waterford Mental Health Services
WHAT (the Waterford Healing Arts Trust) and the Waterford Wexford Mental Health Service (WWMHS) have joined forced to roll out a new arts programme entitled Iontas which offers clients of six mental health settings in Waterford participatory arts experiences in a range of artforms - visual art, shadow puppetry, music, writing and dance.
Opportunity
Typecast commission
Create, in partnership with the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) and Coolmine Therapeutic Community is seeking expressions of interest from artists and craftspeople with experience of working within the context of substance misuse and recovery, to create a new contemporary collaborative artwork utilising clay as a key material.
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Personal Effects: A History of Possession
Personal Effects: A History of Possession is a work by artist and writer Alan Counihan on display in The Long Stores, Old St.
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Validation workshop
Validation is a way of working and communicating with older people who have dementia and it is particularly focused on people who are in later stages of dementia.
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Arts and mental health: a public lecture
The Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing in conjunction with the Mental Health Nursing Team at School of Nursing and Midwifery, TCD, are holding a public lecture on the topic of “Being Human: Creativity in mental health care”.
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CALM: Music and Health training
CALM (Ceol Agus Lán Maitheas), with the support of Meath County Council Arts Office FEACH Programme, is offering a 3 day intensive introductory training workshop for musicians in Music and Health with an emphasis on geriatric care, to take place between Wednesday 25 and Friday 27 June at the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath.
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Call for proposals from performing arts practitioners: Arts and Disability public art commission
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (DLR) County Council Arts Office invites proposals for a performing arts commission focusing on the exploration of sensory disabilities.
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Poems for Patience XI at Galway University Hospital
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust in association with Cúirt International Festival of Literature announce the launch of Poems for Patience XI an exhibition of poems selected and introduced by Theo Dorgan.
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WHAT launches The Room, an arts and health documentary film
In 2013, artist Tom Meskell and award-winning documentary maker Róisín Loughrey were awarded an inaugural bursary from artsandhealth.ie, the national arts and health website managed by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), to document through film an arts programme involving people who have an acquired brain injury, which is facilitated by Tom at Sacred Heart Hospital in Castlebar, Co.
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Better with a Book: Exploring the Relationship between Literature and Mental Health
The Reader Organisation’s fifth annual national conference takes place at the British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB on Thursday, 15 May 2014, 9am-4.30pm and will explore how their shared reading model uses literature to improve mental health, reduce social isolation and enhance quality of life.
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Furiously Mad – an exhibition of visual, sound and the performing arts by Pool Arts
The exhibition Furiously Mad is open to the public from 2 April to 6 July, 10am to 5 pm at the People's History Museum Manchester.
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Department of Health UK new building guidance notes includes arts
The Department of Health UK has updated its guidance on best practice in the design of healthcare facilities.
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Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival Launch Writing Competition
The organisers of the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival have launched a new competition for writers, asking for submissions on the topic of Power.
Opportunity
Twilight Programme Position Vacant
Applications are now invited for the position of Creative Arts Facilitator (Relief Panel).
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Jim McNaughton – Tilestyle €10,000 Artist’s Bursary
The Jim McNaughton/TileStyle €10, 000 bursary will be awarded towards the evolution of a work, body of work or project by an emerging artist(s) in any art form.
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Creative Exchanges
Age & Opportunity’s Creative Exchanges course offers high-quality training that leads to a FETAC Level 6 award.
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Call for applications: artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary
artsandhealth.ie invites applications from arts and health practitioners (artists working in healthcare settings, healthcare professionals, arts and health partnerships etc.) for a bursary to produce documentation of an arts and health project.
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Robert Burns and medicine: Exploring links between physical illness, mental disorder and creativity
The symposium, Exploring links between physical illness, mental disorder and creativity will examine connections between the life and works of Robert Burns’s life and medicine.
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Lost – a photographic exhibition by Seamie Gallagher
Lost, a photographic exhibition by Cork based photographer Seamie Gallagher, runs daily until 4 April at the Arts Corridor in University Hospital, Galway.
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Poetry Competition
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries again for its exciting annual poetry competition.
Opportunity
Practice: A day away for artists
Artists do you want to spend a day in the company of other artists who are passionate about working with children and young people.
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Medical Humanities: New Frontiers or Back to the Past?
The Royal Irish Academy will host a one-day symposium entitled Medical Humanities: New Frontiers or Back to the Past.
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Association of Medical Humanities Annual Conference, UK
The University of Southampton Faculty of ambien Medicine will host the Association of Medical Humanities Annual Conference from 7 – 9 July 2014.
Opportunity
Introduction to Music Facilitation in Groups
CIT Cork School of Music is running an introductory course for using music with groups begining in February 2014.
Opportunity
Call for Abstracts: Trespassing Journal
Waterford Healing Arts Trust presents Waking Up in Waterford, a solo exhibition by Paul Bokslag in Waterford Regional Hospital.
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Waking Up in Waterford by Paul Bokslag in Waterford Regional Hospital
Waterford Healing Arts Trust presents Waking Up in Waterford, a solo exhibition by Paul Bokslag in Waterford Regional Hospital.
News
Art Out Loud: What art means to children
Art Out Loud is a permissive space for children to talk about their lives surrounded by artworks from the Louth Local Authorities' Art Collection (Taisce Lú).
News
Arts for Health, West Cork release a new CD
The Fiddle and the Harrow, an album of original songs by participants of the Arts for Health programme, was released in February 2014.
Event
MAKE Symposium
MAKE symposium explores ideas of making in Art and Technology with distinguished speakers from the fields of textile art, ceramics, digital technology, and science.
News
HeadSpace Magazine: Issue 2
In January, the second issue of HeadSpace Magazine was launched.
Opportunity
Creative Well Newbridge: call for applicants
“I have to say this has been the most wonderful experience and it has brought out our hidden talents.
Opportunity
Call for applications for Artist in Residence
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites artists of all arts disciplines to apply for its 2014 Artist in Residence programme.
Opportunity
Call for Presentations for 3rd Global Conference: Body Transformations
The 3rd Global Conference: Body Transformations will take place in Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom from Saturday 30 August - Monday 1 September 2014.The conference seeks to explore the many layers and levels of bodies, and the ways in which bodies can transform and shift.
Opportunity
International Design and Health awards
The 10th International Design and Health Awards are inviting entries.
Opportunity
Essay prize
The World Association of Cultural Psychiatry is inviting submissions of a 4000 word essay about an arts-based project that contributes to a greater understanding of mental health/illness.
News
Music for our smallest patients!
The National Centre for Arts and Health have announced that Mairead O'Donnell, Traditional Musician in Residence, will continue to work with the babies in Tallaght Hospital and their parents by bringing music to the bedside.
Event
This, somewhere else by Myra Jago
The National Centre for Arts and Health is delighted to announce a new exhibition entitled This, somewhere else by Myra Jago on display in Hospital Street, Tallaght Hospital from February to July 2014.
Opportunity
Research Associate in community / participatory arts
The University of Birmingham School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine is inviting applications for a research associate to join a project examining the ways that creative arts practices can be used to inform health-related policy and service development.
Event
WillFredd Theatre announces new production CARE
On a hilltop in Raheny, staff are working around the clock.
Opportunity
The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme deadlines announced
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on projects.
Event
First Fortnight
First Fortnight, the 10-day mental health arts festival, kicked off on Thursday 2 January 2014.
Opportunity
2014 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an annual international award for an unpublished poem on a medical subject.
News
New Executive Director Announcement
The Global Alliance for Arts & Health has announced Steven Libman as its new Executive Director.
Opportunity
PhD Studentship – Community health and wellbeing in contemporary British fiction and culture
The University of Leeds is offering a PhD studentship, based in the School of English and the Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities, commencing in February 2014.
Event
dreamMirror exhibition by Jeffrey Gormly
dreamMirror is an exhibition of artworks by Jeffrey Gormly artist in residence with WHAT (Waterford Healing Arts Trust) that will go on display in the outpatients corridor of Waterford Regional Hospital on 14 January.
News
Arts for Health Partnership Programme launch strategy
Arts for Health, an arts programme taking place in community hospitals and day care centres throughout West Cork, and managed by West Cork Arts Centre (WCAC), celebrated the launch of its three year strategy at an event in Clonakilty Community Hospital in December.
Opportunity
Call for abstracts
The Global Alliance for Arts and Health invites submissions of abstracts for presentation at the 2014 Annual International Conference, Enhancing Lives Through Arts & Health: 25th Anniversary Conference & Celebration.
News
Cloudlands Year 2 at University Hospital Galway
Cloudlands, an artist in residence programme produced by Helium for teenagers in hospital, will continue for a second year at University Hospital Galway thanks to a private donation through the Community Foundation for Ireland.
Opportunity
Call for papers: Collect, Exchange, Display: Artistic Practice and the Medical Museum
Sunbmissions of papers are invited for a conference entitled Collect, Exchange, Display: Artistic Practice and the Medical Museum which will take place in the MacRae Gallery of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London on 6 June 2014.
Opportunity
Call for proposals under Creative Europe
The Culture sub-programme of Creative Europe supports cultural and creative organisations with a view to helping them operate transnationally and promoting cross-border circulation of works of culture and mobility of cultural players.
Opportunity
Arts Council: Arts participation bursary award
The Arts Council has announced an Arts Participation Bursary Award with a view to supporting professional artists to develop their art practice.
Opportunity
Postgraduate Certificate in Arts in Health Care Settings: open for applications
The Postgraduate Certificate in Arts in Health Care Settings course accredited and delivered by NUI Maynooth in partnership with the National Centre for Arts and Health at Tallaght Hosiptal is one of very few courses aimed specifically at artists (of all art forms) working in healthcare settings.
Opportunity
Performance Research News: call for submissions
This second manifesto promotes action and makes clear the vision of those interested in the relationship between the arts and society in the North of England.
News
Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork launch strategy
Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork, are launching their ground-breaking arts and health strategy on Tuesday 10 December, 2013 at Clonakilty Community Hospital.
News
Artists awarded Artist Action Research Project Awards
George Higgs and Aideen Barry have been awarded Action Research Project Awards as part of an enquiry convened by Create, the Arts Council, Arts & Disability Ireland and WHAT (Waterford Healing Arts Trust) which aims to explore the points of intersection, divergence, synergy and tension that exist between arts and health and arts and disability practice and inform thinking and collaborative practice within and between these sectors.
Opportunity
Training: Evaluating arts, health & wellbeing initiatives
Willis Newson is the UK’s leading independent arts consultancy working with health, community and education partners in public spaces.
Opportunity
Development Manager at LAHF
London Arts and Health Forum (LAHF) is looking to appoint a new Development Manager on an initial six month contract to support the implementation of its programme of projects.
Event
Beyond evidence: theorising arts and health
The Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series at the University of Glasgow present 'Beyond evidence: theorising arts and health' on Thursday 24 April 2014.
Opportunity
Call for Papers: Alternative Psychiatric Narratives
Proposals for 20 minute papers touching on any aspects of alternative psychiatric narratives are welcomed from postgraduate and early career researchers across the humanities and social sciences for the Alternative Psychiatric Narratives conference taking place on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 May 2014 in Birkbeck College, University of London.
Opportunity
Artist commission Blackrock Hall, Primary Care Centre, Cork
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts on behalf of HSE South Cork Arts and Health Programme is seeking expressions of interest from artists with experience of working within the context of arts and health for a unique opportunity to create site-specific work for the HSE Floor, Blackrock Hall Primary Care Centre in Cork.
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Rhona Byrne awarded commission to work with patients of dementia unit
Cowper Care, Dementia Care Unit, Dublin with support from Create have commissioned artist Rhona Byrne to develop a new site-specific project.
Opportunity
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust: Call for Submissions
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking applications for its 2014 exhibition programme.
News
An Exercise in Social Embroidery – five years of interactive Arts Cafés and Common Thread Café
Following its launch in October by Una McCarthy, the Arts Council’s Head of Festivals and Local Arts, the book An Exercise in Social Embroidery - five years of interactive Arts Cafés and Common Thread Café is now on sale on the Junction Festival website.
Event
Pat & Patricia: festive dance performance
Pat & Patricia is a festive dance performance for older people which takes place on 16 December from 3 - 4pm in Dance Limerick, Johns Square, Limerick.
News
Body Conscious exhibition catalogue
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) recently launched the third and final exhibition in the series Body Conscious on the theme of the body featuring artworks by Vera Klute in Waterford Regional Hospital.
Event
Arts, Health and Social Care Symposia: Starts and Ends of Life
Arts, Health and Social Care Symposia Series will take place on Tuesday 19 November 2013 from 11.00am - 7.00pm in the Mary Seacole Building at the University of Salford.
Opportunity
Information Officer internship at WHAT
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) wishes to engage an Information Officer under the Jobbridge programme.
Event
A Six-pack of Mental Health Films at Cork Film Festival
As part of its commitment to the use of film to explore some of the burning issues of our time, and its passion for documentary, the 58th Cork Film Festival presents six compelling programmes exploring mental health, all at €6 or less.
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Close to You
Trinity College Dublin's BioSoc presents Close to You, a Tangled Thread theatre company production written and performed by Jennie Eggleton, at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Westland Row, Dublin 2 on 19 November 2013 at 7pm and 20 November at 6pm.
Event
Open network event for arts and health artists: West Cork
Artists working in healthcare settings are invited to an open network event at West Cork Arts Centre on Tuesday 12 November from 11:30am – 1:00pm.
Opportunity
Public art commissions in HSE (South-East): Call to artists for Public Art Panel
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), on behalf of the HSE (South-East) Capital Projects Team, invites artists to apply for a place on a new Public Art Panel leading to permanent art commissions under the Per Cent for Art Scheme within new health care developments in the south east area in 2014/2015.
Opportunity
Postgraduate Certificate in Arts in Health Care Settings course at NUI Maynooth.
The Postgraduate Certificate in Arts in Health Care Settings course at NUI Maynooth is one of very few courses aimed specifically at artists (of all art forms) working in healthcare settings.
Opportunity
Create Networking Day For Collaborative Arts
Are you an artist who makes art outside of traditional spaces; a theatre-maker who works with non-professional or community casts; a dancer who choreographs with older people.
Opportunity
Job opportunity: festival project co-ordinator
Arts Care is Northern Ireland’s leading arts in health organisation.
Opportunity
Call for papers: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference
The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter will be holding an interdisciplinary medical humanities conference for postgraduate researchers from 24-25 July 2014.
Opportunity
Training: delivering successful arts and health projects
Arts for Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly is one of the UK’s leading arts and health organisations.
Opportunity
Call for expressions of interest to write a case study for artsandhealth.ie
Are you involved in arts and health practice that you wish to showcase to a wider audience.
News
Artlines
Arts for Health and Special Collections at Manchester Metropolitan University have received an award from the Wellcome Trust to commission an archivist and a conservator to assess the extent and condition of archives relating to arts and health, and to make recommendations as to how best to preserve, link, develop and promote these collections.
News
Unfolding Time: book and CD by Renal Dialysis patients
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), in partnership with the Dialysis Unit of Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH) recently launched a book and CD entitled Unfolding Time.
Opportunity
Music Capital Scheme Deadline Reminder
The Music Capital Scheme is managed by Music Network and funded by The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Event
Body Conscious III, exhibition by Vera Klute opening in Waterford Regional Hospital.
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is delighted to present the third and final exhibition in the series ‘Body Conscious’ on the theme of the body featuring artworks by Vera Klute in Waterford Regional Hospital.
Event
New exhibition at Tallaght Hospital
An emerging artist showcase of work by photographic artist Alison Baker Kerrigan is on view at Tallaght Hospital until 31 January 2014.
Opportunity
World Mental Health Congress: call for papers
The 8th World Congress on Mental Health, entitled Mental Wellbeing in All Policies, will take place in London next September.
Opportunity
New Horizons, Arts and Health training programme (UK)
The Royal Society for Public Health (UK) has launched a new training programme in arts and health as part of its Training Solutions programmes and courses.
Event
Beyond the Box exhibition
beyond the box is a new exhibition from Helium Arts exploring the hospital experience through the eyes of artists and young patients.
Event
World Premiere: performance of Matter
The premiere of Ian Wilson and Leontia Flynn’s new work, Matter, which was written during a residency with people with Parkinson’s disease at the Age Related Health Care Unit at Tallaght Hospital, will be performed on Wednesday 23 October 2013 at 1:00 pm in the hospital atrium.
Event
E.gress: exhibition and discussion
E.gress is a new audio-visual artwork, produced by artists Marie Brett and Kevin O’Shanahan as part of a collaboration with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
News
Marie Brett: Art Collection & Symposium
The international Birth Rites art collection, curated by Helen Knowles, has made a new acquisition of one of artist Marie Brett's works, Anamnesis which was produced as part of the artist's Amulet project.
News
Famous Dublin landmarks come to the Coombe as part of a nostalgic photographic exhibition
The Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital (CWIUH) will launch Within a Stone’s Throw on Wednesday 2 October 2013.
Opportunity
Inspiring Communities Course in Kilkenny
‘Inspiring Communities’ is a course which explores the potential of culture and volunteering to build creative and resilient communities.
Event
West Cork Sound and Vision 2013
On 10 October, the West Cork Mental Health Forum, in association with the HSE, present West Cork Sound and Vision; a celebration of the Arts and Wellbeing to mark World Mental Health Day.
Event
The Arts and Mental Health Recovery Seminar
Arts + Minds and HSE Cork Mental Health Services are pleased to announce The Arts and Mental Health Recovery Seminar, practice, value and potential of the arts within the HSE Cork Mental Health Integrated Service Area.
News
We haven’t had an earthquake lately…looking on the bright side through poetry and prose
Waterford Healing Arts Trust would like you to pause for a moment and think is there a poem or piece of prose you turn to when you want to be cheered up or soothed or generally feel better.
Opportunity
The Malady and Mortality Conference: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture
Falmouth University will host the Malady and Mortality Conference: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture on Thursday 19 Sept 2013.
Event
The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing International Conference
The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing 5th Annual International Arts and Health Conference will take place in Sydney from 12 - 14 November 2013 in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of NSW.
Event
Scottish Health Humanities Seminar and Masterclass 3
Lisa Nicoll and Dr John McAteer, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (SCPHRP) will give a lecture entitled "Promoting young people’s health and wellbeing through the arts" in the Scottish Health Humanities Seminar and Masterclass Series on 16 October 2013.
Opportunity
3 Day Music and Health Workshop
CALM (Ceol Agus Lán Maitheas), with the support of Meath County Council Arts Office, is offering a 3 day intensive training workshop for musicians in Music and Health with an emphasis on geriatric care.
Event
Smile Arts Festival
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Opportunity
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Rural Health & Creative Community Engagement
The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), provides university-level education through a unique partnership of thirteen colleges and research institutions located throughout the Highlands & Islands.
Opportunity
HeadSpace magazine: Call for submissions
HeadSpace is a writing and art magazine based on mental health that was launched in May 2013.
Opportunity
Call for participants: Helium film project at IMMA for teens living with chronic illness
Two Suitcases is a national film project run by Helium in which teenagers living with chronic illness collaborate on writing, filming and editing their own scripts with support from professional filmmakers and artists.
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Well, a festival of arts and wellbeing in Waterford
'One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Arts Ability exhibition of selected works 2003-2013
Visitors to Wexford County Council headquarters in Carricklawn, Wexford Town may have noticed a sudden increase in the number of paintings on display in the foyer.
News
A Gathering Place – A Menu of Poems
To coincide with All Ireland Poetry Day on Thursday 3 October 2013, a unique poetry collection – a Menu of Poems, will be distributed on hospital wards, in waiting rooms, Day Care Centres and other health settings for patients, visitors and staff to enjoy.
Opportunity
Call for Submissions -Wall of Hope Project
A mental health festival will take place in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary from 6 -13 October to raise awareness of mental health issues.
Event
Let’s Connect Exhibition
Artwork that helps us feel connected provides the background to an exciting exhibition which will be launched by Kathleen Lynch TD, Minister for Disability, Equality, Mental Health and Older People on the 5 September 2013 at the Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portaloise at 5pm.
Opportunity
Call for papers: music and singing across the lifespan
Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice has announced a call for papers for a special issue of the journal on Music and Singing Across the Lifespan.
News
The Magician and the Swallow’s Tale
In 2012 the Arts Council awarded Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust an Arts Participation Project Award to work with visual artist Marielle MacLeman in Unit 7, Merlin Park University Hospital.
Event
Body Conscious III by Vera Klute at Waterford Regional Hospital
Waterford Healing Arts Trust is delighted to present the third and final exhibition in the Body Conscious series featuring the artworks of Vera Klute.
Opportunity
Facilitation Skills for Artists Working with Groups
Create, Visual Artists Ireland and 126 Galway are providing day long training this October in Facilitation Skills for Artists Working with Groups led by artist Marie Brett.
Opportunity
Invitation to Tender for Public Art Work under the Per Cent for Art Scheme
The Acute Psychiatric Unit at University Hospital Limerick, Dooradoyle, in Limerick has a large re-development building project underway.
Opportunity
Artist work placement scheme, Tallaght Hospital
The National Centre for Arts and Health based at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, is currently seeking artists willing to volunteer to facilitate art sessions for patients on our work placement scheme.
Opportunity
Music Matters: Music & Health Forum
The next Music Matters Forum will take place on Saturday, 28 September 2013 from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm at Camphill Jerpoint, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny.
Opportunity
Creative Exchanges – Arts in the Community
Age & Opportunity have developed high quality accredited training for those who work in a care environment or are interested in working with older people in care in order to provide you with an understanding of the value of creative activity to all of us as we age and the skills necessary to successfully engage older people in creative activities.
Opportunity
BA Visual Art: Erris, Mayo
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and Mayo County Council are delighted to announce the establishment of a fully accredited BA in Visual Arts Programme in North Mayo, commencing mid September 2013.
News
A Swallow’s Tale in a Thousand Skies: pictures, words and messin’ from Merlin Park dialysis patients and staff
In 2012 the Arts Council awarded Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust an Arts Participation Project Award to work with visual artist Marielle MacLeman in Unit 7, Merlin Park University Hospital.
News
Amulet radio programme
Community Radio Youghal (CRY) will re-broadcast the documentary programme The Amulet on Friday the 9 August between 4 and 5pm.
News
deAppendix and Amaranta Family Practice short listed for the Allianz Business to Arts Awards
deAppendix together with Amaranta Family Practice has been short listed for the Allianz Business to Arts Awards, in the section 'best use of creativity in the community'.
Opportunity
Call for volunteer artists to work with patients
The Arts Officer at Tallaght Hospital is seeking volunteer artists to participate in an exciting art project for patients in the hospital.
Opportunity
Call for WHAT Healing Sounds Panel of Musicians 2014
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is inviting expressions of interest from musicians living in the South East of Ireland to join a panel of musicians for our Healing Sounds programme from January 2014 for one year.
Opportunity
The Creative Well Celbridge – call for new participants!
From September 2013 a Creative Well programme will be delivered in Celbridge, Co. Kildare.
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Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust present two exhibitions for Galway Arts Festival
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust present two exhibitions this year's Galway Arts Festival.
Event
House Trees and Other Tales at deAppendix
House Trees and Other Stories is a solo exhibition by Kathy Herbert at deAppendix.
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Speak-Easy Green – The Path to Wellness
Speak-Easy Green - The Path to Wellness is a celebration and awareness event taking place in the grounds of Old St-Luke’s Hospital, Clonmel on Friday 12 July from 3 - 5pm.
Event
E*gress at West Cork Arts Centre
E*gress is an audio-visual installation at West Cork Arts Centre which engages with the paradox of absence and presence and its relation to dementia.
Opportunity
Call for conference workshop presentations
Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery and School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork in association with Critical Voices Network Ireland announce a call for presentations for the Meanings of Madness: Critical and Creative Perspectives conference which will take place on 14 November 2013.
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Helium Screening: Films from the Two Suitcases Project
Helium Children's Arts and Health will launch the next phase of the Two Suitcases Project with a screening of short films made by young members of the ensemble on Friday 26 July 2013 at 2.30 pm in the Auditorium, Digital Exchange Building, The Digital Hub, Crane Street, Dublin 2.
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Recipients of the artsandhealth.ie Film Documentation Bursary announced
artsandhealth.ie is delighted to announce that artist Tom Meskell and film maker Roisin Loughrey are recipients of a bursary to produce a short film documentation of an arts and health project.
Opportunity
An introduction to arts and health: What is arts and health?
Saturday 28 September 2013, 10am – 3pm in the WHAT Centre for Arts and Health, Waterford Regional Hospital What is meant by the term ‘arts and health’.
Event
Springboard exhibition
Springboard, the new exhibition at the Civic Square Gallery at Gorey Library, features recent works in painting, ceramics, print and textile from the Five Towers Art Group.
News
AHRC publishes Health and wellbeing, The contribution of the arts and humanities
A new publication highlighting the contribution of the arts and humanities to enhancing health and wellbeing has been produced by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK.
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Face it: abstract portraits influenced by experiences of mental health
Face It is an exhibition of abstract portraits by Susanne Wawra influenced by experiences of mental health.
Opportunity
blueSCI: social entrepreneurial approaches to arts and mental health
a one day workshop at the WHAT Centre for Arts and Health, Waterford Regional Hospital with Stuart Webster Monday, 7 October 2013 from 10am – 4pm This one-day workshop presented by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust and Cork Arts + Health programme, HSE South and led by Stuart Webster, founder director of blueSCI Arts and Culture Mental Health and Wellbeing service, Manchester, will explore social enterprise in the context of arts and mental health practice.
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Call for singing/ choral directors
The Dun laoghaire-Rathdown/HSE Arts and Health Partnership and the Living Well with Dementia Stillorgan – Blackrock Project, are looking for two Choral Directors to pilot an Arts and Health project for people with dementia.
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Love:Live Music Day 2013
In celebration of National Love: Live Music Day on Friday June 21 many healthcare settings are programming an eclectic mix of live music events nationally.
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Upcoming performances by Clon Drums
Clon Drums will be performing at several festivals and events this summer in West Cork including: Mad Pride Village Fair, Skibbereen June 16 2013.
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The Waterford Healing Arts Trust announces its Artist in Residence 2013
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust, based at Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH), has announced Jeffrey Gormly as its Artist in Residence for 2013.
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Reimagining Birth International Research Symposium: Schedule & Registration:
The schedule has been announced for the Reimagining Birth International Research Symposium, taking place at the Humanities Institute, University College Dublin (UCD) from the 2- 3 July 2013.
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Arts and health featured on Arts Tonight on RTE Radio One
Arts Tonight presented an arts and health special on RTE Radio One on Monday 17 June.
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Call for expressions of interest to write a case study for artsandhealth.ie
Are you involved in arts and health practice that you wish to showcase to a wider audience.
News
International premier of Bewitched at the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Conference, Bristol, UK
Bewitched by Ian Wilson will be performed at a major Arts and Health Conference in Bristol, UK (www.culturehealthwellbeing.org.uk).
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This Never Happened II
This Never Happened II is a collection of poetry and stories by patients in Units 5 & 6 Merlin Park University Hospital and staff in University Hospital Galway.
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Waiting Room
Waiting Room is a one day arts and health event that invites the audience to interact with and interrogate the rhythms, materials, and activities in waiting rooms.
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New MA in Socially Engaged Art at NCAD
A new two year taught Masters in Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult and Community Education) will commence at NCAD in September 2013.
Opportunity
Opportunity for Artists – Arts for Health partnership programme
West Cork Arts Centre welcomes applications from artists of all disciplines for a 16-week professional development opportunity working with visual artist Sarah Ruttle in Clonakilty Community Hospital as part of the Arts for Health partnership programme.
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Common Ground
Common Ground has been integral to the arts landscape of Dublin 8 since 1998, facilitating dialogue and collaboration between a selection of artists and the residents of Inchicore, Rialto, Kilmainham and Bluebell.
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Exhibition by Multiple Sclerosis Galway Art Group to celebrate MS Awareness Day
In celebration of MS Awareness Day on 29 May, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust presents The Ability of Art exhibition by the Multiple Sclerosis Galway Art Group.
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The Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing Annual Symposium
The Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing has announced its 4th Annual Symposium entitled 'Recovery and Mental Health in Ireland: The State of Play'. This symposium will be held on 6 June 2013 in the Douglas Hyde Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Athlone Institute of Technology.
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International Music and Health Symposium in Ireland 19-21 June
CALM and Kids’ Classics will present a three day symposium on Music & Health from 19-21 June 2013 at Solstice Arts Centre, Navan & DKIT Dundalk, in association with Meath County Council Arts Office and Create Louth, the Arts Service of Louth Local Authorities.
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Cumasú – The Wellness Bus launches in West Cork
Cumasú - The Wellness Bus has its official launch in Bantry on 27 May 2013.
Opportunity
Summer deadline for Arts Council Bursary Awards
The deadline for the next round of the Arts Council’s Bursary Awards is Thursday, 11 July 2013 at 5.30pm.
News
Derry-Londonderry City of Culture 2013
Derry-Londonderry was awarded the inaugural UK City of Culture designation for 2013.
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Lonradh programme at Crawford Art Gallery for individuals with dementia continues throughout 2013
Lonradh, a tailored art programme for individuals with dementia and their carers, will continue at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork until the end of 2013.
News
Kids’ Classics
Kids’ Classics, directed by cellist Gráinne Hope, is a programme that delivers monthly music workshops to children in the hospital schools of Temple Street Children's University Hospital, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, and The National Children's Hospital, Tallaght.
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Bealtaine 2013 in West Cork
For Bealtaine 2013, West Cork Arts Centre is celebrating the many programmes and projects with older people that take place at the Centre and throughout the region.
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The Creative Well is nominated for a Biomnis Healthcare Innovation Award
The Creative Well, a participatory arts and health programme in County Kildare, has been announced as a finalist in the Biomnis Healthcare Innovation Awards in the 'Innovation in Quality of Service Delivery - Community Based' category.
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Love:Live Music Day at the Waterford Healing Arts Trust
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust presents a live performance by local Russian Orthodox music group, the Orthodox Music Ensemble, in the foyer of Waterford Regional Hospital on Friday, 21 June 2013 at 3 pm as part of National Love:Live Music Day.
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Dr. Fergus Shanahan of UCC wins Hektoen International essay competition
Hektoen International has announced Dr.
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Artefacts
The launch of Artefacts will take place during the Bealtaine Festival, a collection of artwork sculptures undertaken by residents of Clonakilty and Dunmanway Community Hospitals in collaboration with guest artist Helle Helsner.
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CURE by Fearghus Ó Conchúir at Dublin Dance Festival
The premiere of Fearghus Ó Conchúir's new work, Cure, will take place at the Dublin Dance Festival on 15-16 May 2013.
Event
Arrested Development: Myra Jago in conversation with Jeanette Donnelly
To coincide with an exhibition of works by Myra Jago created during her residency at deAppendix, the artist will take part in an informal salon on 8 May 2013.
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Arts Clinic at Phizzfest 2013
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Anam Beo at Birr Theatre and Arts Centre
Anam Beo, an independent arts and health organisation that delivers the Offaly Arts-in-Health programme, is hosting an exhibition at Birr Theatre and Arts Centre as part of the Bealtaine Festival.
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Helium’s Story Dress pilots at a children’s hospital in Dublin
Story Dress, a storytelling and technology performance project for children in hospital developed by Helium, piloted at a children's hospital in Dublin in April 2013.
Event
Arts and Health panel discussion at ALAAO EU Conference
The Association of Local Authority Arts Officers (ALAAO) with Arts Development UK will host a two-day conference on 25-26 April marking the beginning of a new dialogue across the Irish Sea exploring shared experiences, responsive and effective local arts development and building future forums for European exchange.
Opportunity
Call for Entries – Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival
The international film competition at the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2013 is now open for submissions.
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Aporia – a photographic exploration of one person’s life with M.E.
Aporia, Sarah Tehan's first solo exhbition, is on display from 23-27 April at SITEATION, Dublin.
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Azure: Exploring greater inclusion of people with dementia in cultural settings in Ireland
Initiated in 2012, Azure is an exploratory partnership project between Age & Opportunity, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Butler Gallery and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
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The Portrait Anatomised: depictions of people with epilepsy
Portraits by Susan Aldworth currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London depict three individuals with epilepsy.
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Jane Clarke wins Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust poetry competition
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust launched a poetry competition in 2013 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Poems for Patience project.
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All Wrapped Up – public performances to showcase the creative results of the WHAT programme
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) will showcase a series of felted works produced by women who have undergone treatment for breast cancer and participated in the Trust’s All Wrapped Up programme via two public dance performances by Transition Year students of Newtown School on Friday 26 April 2013.
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Learning Needs of Artists – CREATE survey
Create, Ireland's national development agency for collaborative arts, and Dublin City Arts Office are inviting artists who work collaboratively to take part in a survey about their professional development needs.
Opportunity
Applications sought: Arts and Wellbeing Specialist, County Kildare
Applications are invited for the post of Arts and Wellbeing Specialist (one year career break) at ARAS, a community project for those living with drug or alcohol addiction and their families or friends, servicing the Kildare and West Wicklow area.
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The Happy Wall
In a unique idea sparked from a fifth year student's imagination, Thurles Library presents The Happy Wall at The Source Arts Centre from 13-25 May 2013.
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Box of Frogs nationwide tour
Actress Mary McEvoy, comedian John Moynes and broadcaster Dil Wickremasinghe team up for the nationwide tour of Box of Frogs: A Revue of the Mind in May and June 2013.
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Bealtaine Festival 2013 – Arts in Care Settings programme
Bealtaine, Ireland's annual festival to celebrate creativity as we age, takes place in venues around the country during the month of May.
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International Dementia Care Conference, 16-17 April, RDS Dublin
The fifth International Dementia Care Conference, organised by Sonas apc, will take place at the RDS Dublin on the 16-17 April on the theme of 'Innovation, Inclusion, Empowerment'.
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Launch of Poems for Patience and This Never Happened at Cúirt Festival of Literature
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust will launch the tenth series of the Poems for Patience initiative at the 2013 Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
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Participatory music programme at Mayo General Hospital
Since 2009, Mayo Artsquad has facilitated participatory music sessions in the acute mental health unit at Mayo General Hospital.
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If You Were In My Shoes at Naas General Hospital
The community exhibition If You Were In My Shoes is on display at Naas General Hospital until Thursday 4 April 2013.
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Myra Jago residency at deAppendix art space
Myra Jago is artist in residence for March and April at deAppendix, a cultural space in the heart of Dublin’s suburbs.
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Through the Lens Arts and Health Film Festival 2013
Through the Lens, Ireland’s only arts and health film festival, returns in 2013 for a special season of films aimed at medical professionals, students, service users, artists, filmmakers and the general public.
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My Place at University Hospital Galway
My Place, an exhibition by 30 artists from The Iris Learning Centre and the Kilcornan Arts Group of the Brothers of Charity Services Kilcornan, Clarinbridge opens this week at the Foyer and Arts Corridor in University Hospital, Galway.
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Panchaea: In Search of an Equal Utopia and a Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Panchaea, new socially engaged artwork by Denis Roche in collaboration with Emma Finucane, Brian Maguire and mental health service users in Carlow, is currently on show at the VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow.
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SKIN: an artistic atlas – exhibition and public lecture series at the RHA
SKIN, a new exhibition at the RHA Charles Gallagher Gallery in Dublin, has been organised to coincide with the public launch of the Irish Skin Foundation.
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Side by Side – Men with Alzheimer’s and their wives take part in Wexford art project
The Wexford branch of the The Alzheimer Society of Ireland recently collaborated with visual artist Helen McLean on a 10-week art project for men with Alzheimer's and their partner-carers.
Opportunity
Call for applications – artsandhealth.ie bursary for film documentation of an arts and health project or programme
artsandhealth.ie invites applications from arts and health practitioners for a bursary to produce a short film that documents an arts and health project / programme with a view to encouraging high quality, creative documentation of arts and health practice nationally.
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‘Reimagining Birth’ at UCD: Symposium on the Visual Culture/Art/History/Design of Childbirth in the 21st Century
Papers, presentations and workshop proposals are sought for ‘Reimagining Birth’: An International Research Symposium on the Visual Culture/Art/History/Design of Childbirth in the 21st century.
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Healing Sounds 2013 at Waterford Regional Hospital
The Healing Sounds music programme continues this year at Waterford Regional Hospital with another exciting line-up of live music performances.
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Reflecting Through Art – exhibition by mental health service users in Cork
The launch of the Reflecting Through Art Project 2013, an exhibition under the auspices of Cork Mental Health Foundation, takes place on 7 March at Cork International Airport.
Opportunity
Call for submissions – The Lumen: a magazine for new medical writing and visual art
The Lumen, an Edinburgh-based magazine for new writing and visual art on all aspects of medicine, illness and healthcare, is now accepting submissions for its first issue in summer 2013.
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If You Were In My Shoes – seminar and exhibitions
An international seminar on 30 May 2013 organised by Kildare County Council Arts Office will share with European partners the learning from the inter-generational arts project, If You Were In My Shoes.
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Body Conscious 2 at Waterford Regional Hospital
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) presents the second in a series of exhibitions entitled Body Conscious on the theme of the body featuring artworks by Susan O’Brien Duffy and Lucia Barnes.
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The Creative Well offers new programme in Kilcock, Co. Kildare
The Creative Well is seeking participants for its fifth programme, taking place in Kilcock, Co. Kildare from 10 April - 26 June 2013.
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Impact Art Fair – call for submissions
The Impact Art Fair is the UK’s first national art fair showcasing work exclusively by artists who have experienced mental health issues, disability, ill health or other socially excluding circumstances.
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United in Colour – Headway clients exhibit at Tallaght Hospital
United in Colour, an exhibition of artwork by Headway clients, is currently on display in the main corridor of Tallaght Hospital.
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Seeders at Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan
Seeders, an exhibition of sculpture and tapestry by artists Corina Duyn and Pascale De Coninck, opens at the Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan, on 2 March 2013.
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WHAT organises 3-day residency programme to celebrate Music in Hospitals – 7 Years On
In celebration of Ireland hosting the EU Presidency in 2013, the Waterford Healing Arts Trust will bring together key musicians involved in the Music in Hospitals programme for a three-day residency in Waterford from 1-3 May.
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Arts for an Active Mind exhibition
An exhibition of artwork by participants on West Cork Arts Centre's Arts for an Active Mind programme goes on display from 18-28 February 2013 at the Eldon Hotel, Skibbereen.
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Call for papers – Arts & Health Journal Music and Singing Issue
Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice has announced a call for papers for a special issue on Music and Singing Across the Lifespan.
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Per Cent for Art at Waterford Regional Hospital
In March 2012, HSE South commissioned an original artwork for the refurbished Emergency Department in Waterford Regional Hospital under the Per Cent for Art scheme.
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Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Woods? Exhibition at University Hospital Galway
Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Woods?, an exhibition by Galway artist Maev Leneghan, is currently on display at the Arts Corridor in University Hospital, Galway. The exhibition runs daily until 15 March 2013, all work is for sale and members of the public are welcome.
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Call for papers – The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing international conference
The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, 5th Annual International Arts and Health Conference, will take place in Sydney, Australia, from the 12-14 November 2013.
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The Amulet project at Cork and Waterford – exhibitions and public talk
Anamnesis, an exhibition of new works by Marie Brett, will open at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cork on 8 March 2013 and at The Index Gallery, Waterford Central Library, on 23 April 2013.
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Creative Spaces – exhibition at Naas General Hospital
Creative Spaces is an exhibition of artwork in various media by members of the Brushstrokes Art Studio, Naas.
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The Missing Spark at Linenhall Arts Centre
The Missing Spark is an exhibition of paintings at Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, by 4th Year Art & Design students from GMIT Castlebar.
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Lonradh at Crawford Art Gallery – A visiting programme for individuals with dementia and their caregivers
The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork is developing a service for individuals with dementia and their family members and caregivers.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts Trust call for applications: Artist-in-Residence Programme 2013
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites artists to apply for its 2013 Artist-in-Residence programme.
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Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference, 24-26 June 2013, Bristol, UK
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference will take place from 24 – 26 June 2013 in Bristol, UK.
Opportunity
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust Poetry Competition
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries for a poetry competition as part of its 2013 Poems for Patience programme.
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Something to Sing About!
Something to Sing About! is a network of choirs for cancer survivors, founded in Galway in September 2012 by Dr Paul Donnellan, Consultant Medical Oncologist at University Hospital Galway.
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Cloudlands Dublin: Artist at Work in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital
Cloudlands is a new performance arts and technology project produced by Helium for teenagers with chronic illnesses.
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Affecting Perception: Art & Neuroscience – new exhibition and seminar series, Oxford, UK
Affecting Perception: Art & Neuroscience, a new art-science exhibition organised by the AXNS Collective, will take place from the 2-31 March 2013 at the O3 Gallery, Oxford, UK.
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Music Matters: Music and Health Ireland seminar and workshop
Music Matters, a seminar and workshop organised by Music and Health Ireland, will take place in Cork on 23 February 2013.
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Call for conference papers ‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority
The Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Glasgow is organising a conference on the theme of ‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority from the 23-25 August 2013.
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Arts and Health Partnership Programme announces support for four new projects
The Arts and Health Partnership of the HSE Health Promotion Service, Dublin South East/Wicklow and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office has announced its support for four new projects in healthcare settings across the County.
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Call for case studies of arts and health practice – deadline 4 February 2013
Have you been involved in any interesting arts and health projects recently that you wish to showcase to your peers.
Opportunity
Rehab launches €150,000 Visual and Performing Arts Fund for people with disabilities and mental health difficulties
The Rehab Group has launched a new Visual and Performing Arts Fund which will provide €150, 000 over the next five years to promote careers in the arts for people with disabilities and people with mental health difficulties.
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European Arts Ability Weekend part of Arts Council programme to mark Ireland’s EU Presidency
European Arts Ability Weekend will take place in Wexford Arts Centre from 22-24 March 2013 as part of Culture Connects, the Arts Council programme marking Ireland's EU Presidency.
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HOPE Exhibition at St. Patrick’s University Hospital
HOPE is an exhibition of contemporary art inspired by the recovery process of service users at St.
Opportunity
Arts Council Project Awards – deadline 21 March 2013
The Arts Council's Project awards support specific project activities under each of the following artform/arts practice areas: Arts Participation Project Award Dance Project Award Film Project Award Music Project Award Theatre Project Award Traditional Arts Visual Arts Project Award The deadline for all the above awards is 5.30pm on Thursday 21 March 2013.
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Global Alliance for Arts and Health international conference – call for presentations
The Global Alliance for Arts & Health will hold its 24th annual international conference, Healing Communities through the Arts, from 11-12 April 2013 in Washington, DC, USA.
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First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival 2-12 January 2013
First Fortnight, Ireland's mental health arts festival, is taking place from 2-12 January 2013.
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Cowper Care: artist’s commission – arts and dementia care
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, in tandem with Cowper Care, is seeking expressions of interest from artists with experience of working within the field of arts and health and arts and older people to engage with the context of dementia care in the creation of work for a Dublin based nursing home that provides care to older people.
Opportunity
Hektoen International Medical Humanities essay competition
Hektoen International, a Journal of Medical Humanities, is currently running a Grand Prix Essay Competition.
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Helium seeding project developed from REFLECT Lab: bursary recipients
In autumn 2012, Helium offered a bursary to artists and healthcare professionals who took part in the REFLECT Lab project in the Northwest in 2011.
Opportunity
Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme deadlines for 2013
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on contemporary collaborative arts projects.
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Art@Work annual exhibition at University Hospital Galway
Art@Work, the annual exhibition organised by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust, will be launched on 19 December 2012 on the Arts Corridor of University Hospital, Galway.
Opportunity
Wellcome Trust 2013 Arts Awards funding deadlines
The Wellcome Trust invites individuals and organisations from the UK and the Republic of Ireland to apply for funding through its Arts Awards, which support imaginative and experimental arts projects exploring biomedical science.
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X-HALE 2013 short film competition
The Irish Cancer Society has launched X-HALE 2013, a short film competition for youth groups on the subject of young people and smoking.
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The Arch of Arts in Health international conference – call for virtual papers and presentations
The Arch of Arts in Health International Conference will take place from March 17-19 2013 in Haifa, Israel.
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The Things We Miss
The Things We Miss, an exhibition of artwork by children who attended St Bernadette’s Paediatric Unit, will be officially opened by Brendan Flynn, on the Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway (UHG) on Tuesday 4 December at 4.30pm.
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Can the visual arts play a role in medical education? A new model
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, presents a lecture on Saturday 1 December at 12.00noon entitled Can the visual arts play a role in medical education.
Opportunity
Postgraduate Certificate in Arts in Healthcare Settings
Applications are still being accepted for the Postgraduate Certificate in Arts in Healthcare Settings at NUI Maynooth Kilkenny Campus.
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Call for case studies of arts and health practice
Have you been involved in any interesting arts and health projects recently that you wish to showcase to your peers.
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The Azure Project: some blue sky thinking on dementia and the arts
A round-table discussion entitled The Azure Project: Exploring the potential for greater participation of people with dementia in cultural settings in Ireland will take place on Friday 23 November 2012 at IMMA at the National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2.
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International Symposium: The Experience of Illness – Learning from the Arts
An international symposium The Experience of Illness: Learning from the Arts is taking place at University College Cork, Ireland on the 30 Nov and 1 Dec 2012.
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Living Loss: The Experience of Illness in Art
Living Loss: The Experience of Illness in Art is an exhibition of artworks on view in the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork (UCC) from 23 November 2012 to 10 March 2013.
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HSE staff exhibit artwork in the annual insideOut exhibition, Waterford
insideOut10 is the tenth and final in a series of annual exhibitions organised by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) that showcases art produced by HSE staff in Waterford.
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Shining a light on the world of St. Senan’s Hospital, Enniscorthy
Climbing Mountains in our Minds, a new collection of poetry, prose and photographs about life in St.
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OAK: Online Arts DocK: new creative website for teenagers living with health conditions
OAK, the Online Arts DocK, a private web-space where teenagers living with health conditions can interact, share stories, artwork, films and music, and develop online arts projects in a safe and secure environment, was launched by Helium, the arts and health organisation for children and young people, in the autumn.
Opportunity
Invitation to tender for Arts Ability services
Wexford County Council invites tenders from suitable, qualified and experienced individuals and/or companies to deliver Arts Ability services.
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Examinations of arts and health
The Arts Office of County Louth is developing a framework for an arts and health programme which will involve artists in residence within healthcare settings.
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Helium’s Cloudlands Project launches in hospitals in Dublin, Galway and Cork
Cloudlands, Helium’s latest Artist in Residence project, commenced at the end of November in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, Dublin; Galway University Hospital and Cork University Hospital. Cloudlands is a performance arts and technology project for teenagers with chronic illnesses.
Opportunity
Professional development workshop for artists and childcare workers
West Cork Arts Centre will host a professional development workshop for artists and childcare workers as part of their Early Childhood Arts Programme on Saturday 17 November from 11.00am – 1.00pm.
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The Things We Miss
The Things We Miss, an exhibition of artwork by children who attended St Bernadette’s Paediatric Unit, will be officially opened by Brendan Flynn, on the Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway on Tuesday 13 November at 4.30pm.
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Entangled by Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly
Entangled, a site specific binocular installation for Merlin Park University Hospital, will be situated at the Lily Pond in Merlin Park for the duration of Tulca 2012 – What Became Of The People We Used To Be.
Opportunity
Arts Council arts participation bursary award
The Arts Council announces the Arts Participation Bursary Award deadline is 17 January 2013.
Opportunity
Culture, Health and Wellbeing international conference – call for abstracts
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference will take place from 24 - 26 June 2013 in Bristol, UK.
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All About Us: Launch of publication by Renal Dialysis Patients
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), in partnership with the Dialysis Unit of Waterford Regional Hospital launched a publication entitled All About Us in October.
Opportunity
Project Manager Cloudlands (Maternity Leave)
Helium Arts is seeking an experienced project manager to lead the Cloudlands Project from December 2012-July 2013.
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Pictures at an exhibition: art meets the science of Alzheimers
Pictures at an Exhibition: Art meets the Science of Alzheimers is a programme of projects, culminating in a unique seminar, exploring the experience of dementia and the arts.
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Music Network healthcare project documented in radio programme
RTÉ Radio 1's Documentary on One 'If Music Be the Food of Life, Play On', is the story of three professional Irish musicians who recently undertook a Music Network training programme to become Music in Healthcare trainers.
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The National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing (England)
The new National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing (England) is designed to raise awareness of the impact the arts can have on health and wellbeing, to bring together the work that is happening across the country and to act as a resource for the whole sector.
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Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) Call for Healing Sounds Panel 2012/13
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is inviting expressions of interest from soloists and established music ensembles to join a panel of musicians for our Healing Sounds programme from December 2012 for one year.
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Songs and Stories exhibition at St Columbanus Nursing Home, Killarney
Over seventy people packed the activities room at St Columbanus Nursing Home in Killarney on Thursday 11 October, when Sean Hurley of Radio Kerry officially launched an exhibition of art, stories, and songs, compiled by residents of the nursing home.
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Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust: call for submissions
Galway University Hospitals (GUH) Arts Trust is now accepting submissions for its 2013 exhibition programme.
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Visualising long-term illness: artist’s talk
Venue: The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1 Date: 15 October 2012 Time: 6.00pm to 8.00pm What inspires artists to make work about illness.
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An introduction to arts and health: What is arts and health?
Saturday 10 November 2012, 10am – 1pm in the WHAT Centre for Arts and Health, Waterford Regional Hospital What is meant by the term ‘arts and health’.
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Call for abstracts for the Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference 24 – 26 June 2013 in Bristol UK
The Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference, taking place between 24 - 26 June 2013 in Bristol UK, is delivered by Arts & Health South West on behalf of the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing with the support of the Royal Society for Public Health.
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Creative writing and chronic pain
The National Centre for Arts and Health, with Chronic Pain Ireland, are offering creative writing classes to people living with chronic pain.
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Art in the Renal Dialysis Unit of Tallaght Hospital: review and evaluation
At Tallaght Hospital, the art programme in the Dialysis Unit continues to expand and develop because of the generous funding and support from the Punchestown Kidney Research Fund.
Event
Arts and Alzheimers Project and Seminar
The National Centre for Arts and Health is delighted to announce a unique project and event entitled Arts and Alzheimers.
Opportunity
Call for Expressions of Interest to Conduct a Literature Review
The Arts Education Research Group in Trinity College Dublin, in partnership with the Arts Council and Create, are seeking an experienced candidate to undertake a literature review of Evaluation of Participative and Collaborative Arts in Social and Community Contexts.
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The Starling Song Project
In celebration of this year’s Positive Ageing week, West Cork Arts Centre has launched The Threshing Machine Made a Devilous Sound, a unique CD of original songs created by older people working in collaboration with singer songwriter Liz Clarke and artist Tess Leak.
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West Cork Mental Health Forum and the HSE present West Cork Sound and Vision
On 10 October, the West Cork Mental Health Forum, in association with the HSE, present West Cork Sound and Vision; a celebration of the Arts and Wellbeing to mark World Mental Health Day.
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Life Lines – A Menu of Poems – 2012
In celebration of All Ireland Poetry Day on 4 October 2012, Naas General Hospital Arts Committee has been coordinating the project A Menu of Poems – 2012 on behalf of the Arts and Health Coordinators of Ireland.
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Mark World Mental Health Day with Arts + Minds
Arts + Minds is pleased to invite you to the launch of the research report Beyond Diagnosis - the transformative potential of the arts in mental health and recovery on Monday, 8 October 2012 at 1.30pm in Millenium Hall, Cork City Hall.
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Samples by Dylan Tighe
Dylan Tighe presents SAMPLES, a series of discussions and events exploring the influences, sources and themes of his project RECORD in Dublin this October.
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IMMA Collection Exhibition at St. Patrick’s University Hospital
All at Sea, an exhibition developed in partnership with the Art Committee at St Patrick’s University Hospital (SPUH) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s National Programme, is on view to the public at the Art Gallery at St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin 8, until Thursday 1 November 2012.
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All About Us: Launch of publication by Renal Dialysis Patients at Waterford Regional Hospital
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), in partnership with the Dialysis Unit of Waterford Regional Hospital is launching a publication entitled All About Us on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 2pm in the Dialysis Unit.
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The Open Door…where people make music together…
Following on from a successful Autumn 2011 to Summer 2012 programme, The Open Door music sessions return to West Cork Arts Centre from 7.00pm – 8.00pm beginning on Thursday 27 September.
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All Wrapped Up
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust, in partnership with the Breast Cancer Services of Waterford Regional Hospital is launching a creative project entitled All Wrapped Up in October 2012 which aims to engage those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer in the design and creation of their own individual wrap/scarf.
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WHAT celebrates All Ireland Poetry Day with Waiting List
In celebration of All Ireland Poetry Day on Thursday 4 October, the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is delighted to host a lunchtime reading by Waterford-born poet Shirley McClure entitled Waiting List in Waterford Regional Hospital.
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The Arts Clinic at the Mater Hospital
Phizzfest present a lunchtime seminar with artists and health care professionals on 5 September 2012 at 12.30 pm in the Freeman Auditorium, Mater Hospital.
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Two Suitcases Project: Free Mid-Term Film Week for Teenagers Living with Chronic Illness
Helium has been awarded an Arts Council Young Ensembles Scheme grant for the development of the Two Suitcases Project.
Opportunity
Aesthetic Screening Clinic
We are delighted offer you a golden opportunity for a limited period to partake in an Aesthetic Screening Clinic entirely free of charge.
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Cloudlands: New Artist in Residence Project with Teenagers in Hospital
Helium is currently seeking applications from suitably qualified artists in Dublin, Cork and Galway to participate in Cloudlands, a new arts and technology project for teenagers with chronic illnesses.
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The Arts in Healthcare: Why and for whose benefit?
Thursday 20 September 2012, from 6.30 - 8.00pm in the Science Gallery, Dublin The Science Gallery presents a 'Questions and Answers' style debate with panellists: Professor Desmond O'Neill, Consultant in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine and Chairman of the National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght Hospital; Mary Grehan, Arts Director of Waterford Healing Arts Trust; Kevin Shanahan, musician with MusicAlive and Arts and Mental Health Coordinator, West Cork Mental Health Services; Jacky Jones, columnist in HEALTHplus, The Irish Times and Health Promotion consultant.
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Converging Lives
In 2011, visual artist Marie Brett and musician Kevin O’ Shanahan collaborated with The Alzheimer Society of Ireland’s Bandon day care centre on a project entitled Converging Lives.
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Artist Mentoring Programme at Barretstown Camp
Helium has been working in partnership with Kildare County Council Arts Office to provide training, mentorship and support to fourteen artists engaged in an exciting programme at Barretstown Camp.
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Evaluating arts + health collaborative practice
One day Continuing Professional Development workshop, Wednesday 31 October 2012, 10am - 4pm, Room 3015, Arts Building, Trinity College Admission €30 The Waterford Healing Arts Trust and Create are delighted to be working together to co-host a one day learning opportunity for mid-career and established artists of all disciplines who work collaboratively in a range of different settings, including but not exclusively arts and health.
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A Window to our Words
Over 25 talented writers from the Killagoley Training & Activation Centre (K.T.A.C.) recently celebrated the launch of a new series of creative writing.
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Forthcoming exhibitions by Arts Ability CWCW (New Ross) Ltd Studio Group
Arts Ability is Wexford County Council's arts and health programme.
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St. Senan’s: A Collective Response
Later this autumn, a new book of creative writing and photographs will be published to acknowledge St.
Opportunity
Advance notification of tender opportunity – Arts Ability, Wexford County
During the second half of 2012 Wexford County Council will invite tenders from suitable, qualified and experienced individuals and/or companies to deliver a number of services, including the Arts Ability Service.
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Reignite the Spark: arts and health document
Reignite the Spark is a snapshot of the Arts and Health Partnership between Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office and the HSE, Health Promotion Service, Dublin Mid Leinster that has been working quietly but to great effect for the past four years in residential and day care settings across the County.
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The Quiet Heart exhibition
The Quiet Heart is an exhibition of artworks by Martin Fahy Artist-in-Residence with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust on display in Waterford Regional Hospital and the WHAT Centre for Arts & Health.
Opportunity
WHAT – Post of Acting Assistant Arts Director (Maternity Cover)
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust wishes to appoint an Acting Assistant Arts Director (Maternity Cover) to assist in all aspects of planning, delivering and promoting the programme of the Trust.
Opportunity
Creative writing workshops for people living with chronic pain
The National Centre for Arts and Health with Chronic Pain Ireland are offering creative writing classes to people living with chronic pain.
Opportunity
First Fortnight Festival Call for Submissions
First Fortnight is now accepting submissions for work of all artforms to be included in the First Fortnight 2013 Mental Health Arts Festival taking place in Dublin in the first two weeks of January 2013.
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Two Suitcases: short film screening
Two Suitcases is a short film based on Ben Murnane's experiences of living with Fanconi Anaemia, a rare genetic disease in which the bone marrow stops working properly.
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Healing Sounds music programme at Waterford Regional Hospital
The Healing Sounds programme will continue to provide exciting live music performances in Waterford Regional Hospital during August to October 2012, from a diverse range of musicians.
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Call for case studies for artsandhealth.ie
Arts and health practitioners are invited to submit case studies of high quality arts and health projects to artsandhealth.ie.
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Call for volunteer artists to work with patients at Tallaght Hospital
The Arts Officer at Tallaght Hospital is seeking volunteer artists to participate in an exciting art project for patients in the hospital.
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13th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference: School of Nursing & Midwifery Trinity College Dublin
The 13th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference hosted by the School of Nursing & Midwifery Trinity College Dublin will take place from 7-8 November2012.
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Using Theatre for Positive Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in young people and adults
Acting for the Future uses participative drama workshops together with a professional theatre performance and an excellent support structure to promote positive mental health, suicide prevention and challenge stigma around mental health.
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International Symposium: The Arts in a Time of Crisis, UK
The Arts in a Time of Crisis: Living and dying creatively in a changing world is an international symposium taking place on 2-3 November 2012 in The Education Centre, St Christopher’s Hospice, London.
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Call to partake in The Apple Arts and Wellbeing Cafe
You are invited to partake in The Apple Arts and Wellbeing Café that is taking place during the Clonmel Junction Festival 6 to 15 July 2012.
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Creating a Culture of Creativity – Beag Seminar
The second annual BEAG seminar Creating a Culture of Creativity, celebrating the work of the BEAG Early Years Arts project, takes place at 6pm on Friday 29 June at City Hall, Cork.
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Nemeton: an installation of reverential artefacts
Nemeton is an installation of reverential artefacts by Marie Brett (artist) and John McHarg (art therapist) on view from 11 June - 13 July 2012 in St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal.
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Evaluation of the Waterford Healing Arts Trust: Call for Expressions of Interest
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) one of Ireland’s leading arts and health organisations based in Waterford’s Regional Hospital wishes to commission an independent evaluation with a specific focus on: evaluating the capacity of WHAT to sustain its current output and its potential to grow going forward reviewing progress made on the delivery on WHAT’s strategy from 2008-2010 making recommendations for the priorities and focus of the next WHAT strategy 2013-2018 .
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Love: Live Music Day at Waterford Regional Hospital
In celebration of Love Live Music Day the Tramore Gospel Singers and the Brothers of Charity Music in Motion Choir will perform a special concert in association with Waterford Healing Arts Trust on Thursday June 21 at 7.30pm in the Waterford Regional Hospital foyer.
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Record by Dylan Tighe for Cork Midsummer Festival
Dylan Tighe, director of the Irish Times Irish Theatre Award 2009 winner for Best Production, launches an ambitious new project entitled Record which explores depression and the concept of mental illness with courage, imagination, subversive humour and radical honesty.
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The Apple Arts and Wellbeing Café, Clonmel Junction Festival
Make a note in your diary to attend the Apple Arts and Wellbeing Café between 6 and 15 July as part of the Clonmel Junction Festival.
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An Introduction for Musicians to Drumming in Healthcare Settings
Kids’ Classics presents a Drumming in Healthcare Workshop for Musicians on Friday, 29 June 2012 from 9.30am-12.30pm in DIT Rathmines.
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Fairview Community Nursing Unit Photographic installation
Artist Annabel Konig recently finished installing 31 photographic images in a nursing unit in Dublin, Ireland.
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Body Conscious: an exhibition by Dorothy Ann Daly at Waterford Regional Hospital
Body Conscious, an inspiring exhibition by artist Dorothy Ann Daly, will be launched in Waterford Regional Hospital on Friday 29 June.
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Major developments in art service for children at Tallaght Hospital
In 2010 the National Centre for Arts and Health at Tallaght Hospital developed a significant arts programme tailored to the needs of children in our hospital.
Opportunity
The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme – Second Round
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on contemporary collaborative arts projects.
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Arts for Health Partnership Programme launch SPECTRUM
SPECTRUM is a book which reflects a five month collaborative visual art project led by the Arts for Health artists’ team Sharon Dipity, Julia Pallone, Tess Leak, Anne Harrington Rees and Sean O’Laoghaire with participants from six long-term residential units in West Cork.
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Wise Ways Touring
Wise Ways Touring is an Arts Council funded tour begining at KCAT (Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent), Callan, Kilkenny in July then moving to Axis, Ballymun, Dublin in September and Aras Eanna on Inis Oirr, from the end of September to October.
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Integrated dance performed at Rathfredagh Cheshire Home, Co. Limerick
The President of Ireland, Michael D.
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Call for case studies of arts and health practice for artsandhealth.ie
Arts and health practitioners are invited to submit case studies of high quality arts and health projects to artsandhealth.ie.
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Creative Voices: film, drama and writing workshops for teenagers living with chronic illness
Creative Voices: film, drama and writing workshops for teenagers living with chronic illness will take place in Dublin on 26 June and 29 June 2012.
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The Next Step Art Exhibition
The Next Step Art Exhibition is on display in The Camden Palace Hotel, Camden Quay, Cork from 18 May to 25 May 2012.
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Waterford City Dawn Chorus
Would you like to attend a music performance at dawn.
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Waterford Shadow Puppet Theatre performs Loneliness
The Waterford Shadow Puppet Theatre’s performance of Loneliness will take place in Garter Lane Theatre, Waterford, on Thursday 24 May 2012 at 2pm.
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Arts Health Network Canada seeks Executive Director
Arts Health Network Canada - British Columbia (AHNC-BC) is currently seeking its first Executive Director.
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General Practice: Photographs by Fionn McCann at the Gallery of Photography
General Practice is an exhibition of photographs by Fionn McCann on display at the Gallery of Photography Ireland from 16 May – 27 May 2012.
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Visual Thinking Strategy Seminar at Jennings Gallery, UCC, Cork
The Jennings Gallery/College of Medicine and Health, in collaboration with the Glucksman Gallery, is pleased to facilitate a visit from Yoon Kang- O'Higgins, VUE National Programs Director and Karin DeSantis, VUE Aesthetic Development Director, to Cork on 15 and 16 May to conduct a two day training session in VTS as part of the Learn to See – See to Learn initiative to integrate the arts into the professional curricula of the College of Medicine and Health.
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Creative Connections: Documentation now available from arts, health & early years seminar and workshop
Creative Connections, a 2-day professional development programme in the area of arts, health & early years was held at the end of March, with a very exciting line-up of speakers and artists from around Europe contributing.
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MusicAlive involved in two Bealtaine Festival events 2012
MusicAlive will be involved in two events as part of the Bealtaine Festival 2012; a garden party in the hospital grounds in Skibbereen, West Cork and a performance in St.
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The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, International Arts and Health Conference, Australia
The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, 4th Annual International Arts and Health Conference, will present best practice and innovative arts and health programmes, effective health promotion and prevention campaigns, methods of project evaluation and scientific research.
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WHAT Call for Healing Sounds Panel 2012/13
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust is inviting expressions of interest from soloists and established music ensembles to join a panel of musicians for our Healing Sounds programme from July 2012 for one year.
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Galway University Hospitals celebrates a morning of poetry
On Friday 27 April 2012, Galway University Hospitals will launch the ninth series of Poems for Patience as well as a collection of poetry by patients; This Never Happened.
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Best Foot Forward at Garter Lane Theatre, Waterford
Best Foot Forward is a unique intergenerational production celebrating the significance of the arts across the generations.
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New WHAT Artist in Residence 2012
Waterford Healing Arts Trust is delighted to announce that Martin Fahy is the WHAT Artist in Residence for 2012.
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Launch of the International Health Humanities Network
The International Health Humanities Network provides a global platform for innovative scholars, medical, health and social care professionals, voluntary sector workers and creative practitioners to join forces with informal and family carers, service-users and the wider self-caring public to explore, celebrate and develop new approaches in advancing health and wellbeing through the arts and humanities in hospitals, residential and community settings.
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The Amulet: Book Launch
The Amulet is a collaborative arts and health project creatively exploring the issue of pregnancy and infant loss.
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Arts Care 21st Anniversary International Arts in Health Conference, Belfast
Arts Care is Northern Ireland’s leading arts in health organisation and in 2012 it will celebrate 21 years of delivering high quality, sustainable arts and ClownDoctor programmes across a diverse range of healthcare services in all of Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Trusts.
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Connections and Collaborations: Creative Dementia Arts Conference
Creative Dementia Arts Network present the Connections and Collaborations: Creative Dementia Arts Conference on Monday 11 June 2012 in The Albany, Deptford, London.
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Colourful Perspectives of Hospital Life: a new exhibition in Tallaght Hospital
Colourful Perspectives of Hospital Life is an exhibition of artwork by people who have experienced hospital life either from a patient's view or/and an artist's view.
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Graduate Diploma / MA in Community / Arts / Education
The National College of Art and Design is offering a one year course level 9 Graduate Diploma/ MA in Community/ Arts/ Education.
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Garter Lane Arts Centre open call for artworks
Garter Lane Arts Centre is thrilled to announce an open call for artwork to be exhibited in the upcoming group show ‘What kind of old do you want to be?’ The artists and selected work will show at the Garter Lane Theatre Gallery in May 2012.
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Creating a New Old – Conference
Age & Opportunity and the Bealtaine festival announce 'Creating A New Old', a global conference on arts, culture and creative ageing taking place in Dublin, Ireland from 8 to 10 May 2012.
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Coombe Maternity Hospital celebrate a unique evening of poetry
On Thursday 8 March 2012, the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital (CWIUH) marked International Women’s Day with a unique celebration of Irish poetry in the Coombe Hospital Education Centre.
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Music Network Seminar – The Wealth of Music & Health
Music Network will host a day long seminar in music and health on 23 May at The Coach House, Dublin Castle.
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Perspectives: leave your comment
artsandhealth.ie now invites comments in the perspectives section of the website.
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Tipperary Arts and Health Open Meeting
This event has now been postponed - for more information contact tipperaryartsandhealth@gmail.com.
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Final recital of Bewitched
The National Centre for Arts and Health is proud to announce that President Michael D.
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Orient Occident Artist Talk & Workshops
Anne Korff will give an artist talk and workshop on the symbolism within her paintings for patients, staff and visitors to Universiy Hospital Galway.
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Documenting Arts + Health CPD Artists Clinic
Documenting Arts + Health is a continous professional development peer based artists clinic suitable for artists of all disciplines who are working collaboratively in healthcare settings and are interested in exchanging and developing good documentation techniques to support their practice.
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In A-sy-lum Art Flourishes
A-sy-lum is an exhibition at Newtownbarry house featuring mainly outsider art from Wexford Mental Health Services.
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Kildare County Council Artist Mentoring Programme
Kildare County Council Arts Service is delighted to announce that sixteen artists across artforms including, visual arts, drama music and photography have been shortlisted for their new Artist Mentoring facilitated in partnership with Barretstown and Helium.
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The Creative Well: Further programmes scheduled following successful pilot
Following its successful pilot in Naas last autumn, The Creative Well Programme will be facilitated in two further locations in County Kildare this spring.
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Music Matters – Music & Health Seminar and Workshop
The National Concert Hall and Music & Health Ireland present Music Matters Seminar and Workshop on Saturday 21 April 2012 from 10.30am to 5.30pm in The Kevin Barry Room at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
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Introductory Music and Health Lecture and Workshops at WIT
In March 2012 the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) will deliver an introductory lecture and workshops to third year psychiatric nursing students at the Waterford Institute of Technology.
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Documenting Arts + Health: CPD peer based artists clinic
Documenting Arts + Health is a continous professional development peer based artists clinic suitable for artists of all disciplines who are working collaboratively in healthcare settings and are interested in exchanging and developing good documentation techniques to support their practice.
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Healing Sounds Music programme at Waterford Regional Hospital
The Healing Sounds music programme is a live music performance programme at Waterford Regional Hospital.
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Arts for Health: open network event
Artists working in healthcare settings are invited to an open network meeting at 11.00am, Tuesday 20 March 2012 at West Cork Arts Centre.
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Seminar and workshop exploring arts, health and early years
Helium, in association with Westmeath County Council Arts Office, presents a continuous professional development opportunity for professionals across the arts, health and early years sectors interested in investigating the role of the arts within the parent-child relationship and wellbeing among 0-3 year olds.
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Music Participation Residency in Our Lady’s Hospital Crumlin
The first ‘Classically Inspired’ Music Residency will take place in Our Lady’s Hospital Crumlin this April.
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Call for papers: conference on arts and health projects and practices, Helsinki
Arts - Health - Entrepreneurship.
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London Creativity and Wellbeing Week
London Creativity and Wellbeing Week is a brand new idea hoping to shine a light on all the different ways that the arts help and improve the health of Londoners.
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Emergence exhibition at Waterford Regional Hospital
Emergence is an exhibition of artworks by the Arts Ability group from the County Wexford Community Workshop (New Ross) on display in Waterford Regional Hospital from the 13 March to 27 April 2012.
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The Creative Well: A New Prescription for Mental Health
The Creative Well programme is a social model for supporting wellbeing and mental health through the arts and within the context of local communities.
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Eamon Sweeney, Allison Sleator & Kathleen McPhail perform at Waterford Regional Hospital
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) present a music performance by Eamon Sweeney, Allison Sleator and Kathleen McPhail at 1.30pm on Monday, 20 February in the main foyer of Waterford Regional Hospital.
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WHAT Call for applications for Artist-in-Residence
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites artists to apply for its 2012 Artist-in-Residence programme.
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East meets West in University Hospital Galway’s latest exhibition
Orient Occident is an exhibition of new paintings by Anne Korff and opens at the University Hospital, Galway on Thursday 9 February 2012.
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Arts + Health Co-ordinators Ireland new web presence
Arts + Health Co-ordinators Ireland (AHCI) is an all-Ireland support network of professionals who are responsible for managing arts and health initiatives.
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Professional development opportunities for artists interested in the area of arts, health & children
Are you an artist interested in developing your practice in arts and health and children.
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Bewitched – Final tour date
The National Centre for Arts and Health is proud to announce the final tour date of Bewitched by Composer in residence Ian Wilson.
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State of Existence exhibition at University Hospital Galway
State of Existence by Gerard Bleeker is the first exhibition in a new arts space in University Hospital Galway and will be on display until 2 March 2012.
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ConTempo String Quartet at University Hospital Galway
The Galway Music Residency, Contempo String Quartet will perform in the foyer of University Hospital Galway on Wednesday 8 February at 2.00pm.
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Stories and Music for Children in Hospital: CPD workshop and talk
Helium in partnership with Waterford Healing Arts Trust presents a continuous professional development talk with artists Caoimhe Conlon (Musician) of Music Alive and Fiona Dowling (Storyteller) on 3 March 2012 at the WHAT Centre for Arts & Health, Waterford Regional Hospital.
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Exhibitions at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital Tallaght
The Adelaide and Meath Hospital currently has an exhibition of artworks by local artist Hugh McCarthy.
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Act the Maggot – Chrysalis Craic! Free taster workshop
Valentine who.
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Bewitched Music Tour at University of Limerick
In 2010, the National Centre for Arts and Health at AMNCH hosted a residency funded by The Arts Council of Ireland.
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Operational Manager required for NI Clown Doctor programme
Arts Care is Northern Ireland’s leading arts in health organisation.
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Kildare County Council Artist Mentoring Programme
Kildare County Council Arts Service invites applications from professional artists across artforms with an interest in working with children in healthcare to participate in a new Artist Mentoring Programme.
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The Open Door: Drop in … Listen or Sing!
In November 2011 West Cork Mental Health Services appointed Kevin O’ Shanahan as an Arts and Mental Health Co Ordinator to investigate the potential for developing arts and health activities in the wider West Cork community.
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The Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme: Deadlines 2012
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on collaborative arts projects.
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Bewitched Tour at Galway University Hospital
The next performance of Bewitched by composer Ian Wilson will take place on Wednesday 25 January 2012 at 11am at Galway University Hospital, in partnership with the Galway University Arts Trust.
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Music in health settings seminar – exploring models of working
Following a performance of Bewitched by Ian Wilson at 1.15pm on Wednesday 1 February 2012 in the University of Limerick Concert Hall, a seminar entitled Music in health settings - exploring models of working will take place from 2.30pm to 3.30pm in the same venue.
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Podcasts of National | Dialogue Arts + Health
National | Dialogue Arts + Health was a one-day event that took place in RUA RED, Tallaght, Dublin on Tuesday 6 December 2011.
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Creating a New Old – Conference
Age & Opportunity and the Bealtaine festival announce 'Creating A New Old', a global conference on arts, culture and creative ageing taking place in Dublin, Ireland from 8 to 10 May 2012.
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Call for papers: Artification Ideas and Practices
The research project Artification and Its Impact on Art will arrange a three-day conference on the theme of artification on 15-17 August 2012 in Finland.
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Arts and Wellbeing Conference: Recent Developments, Future Challenges
The Royal Society for Public Health, UK, presents an arts and wellbeing conference in Portland Place, London on 9 February 2012.
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First Fortnight 2012 Mental Health Arts Festival underway
Ireland’s first mental health arts festival is under way.
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Position available at London Arts in Health Forum
In 2012, the London Arts in Health Forum (LAHF) is expanding its staff team - specifically the organisation is looking to recruit a Marketing and Development Associate to join the organisation from February to support the Director in raising the profile of LAHF's work and developing strategic opportunities for the organisation as it joins Arts Council England's National Portfolio.
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Music performance at Waterford Regional Hospital
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) will begin the New Year with a performance by musicians Kate Powell and Wiliam McGlynn in Waterford Regional Hospital on 9 January 2012.
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NUI Maynooth Arts and Health Course
The Postgraduate Certificate in Arts in Healthcare Settings at NUI Maynooth was a collaboration between The National Centre for Arts and Health at The Adelaide and Meath Hospital and NUI Maynooth.
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Rheumatology patient is runner up in international art competition
A patient-artist from the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Tallaght (AMNCH) who created a work entitled The Claw was a selected finalist in an exhibition for the duration of the World Congress of Physical Therapy 2011, in Amsterdam, 20-23 June.
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Turning on a Sixpence at University Hospital Galway
Jack McCann, Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Galway University Hospitals from 1989 to 2010 launched his first book of poetry entitled Turning on a Sixpence at University Hospital Galway on 20 December 2011.
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Memory Found exhibition at Rua Red
Memory Found was a collaborative art project between artist Lucia Barnes, patients with dementia and staff at the Charlie O’Toole Day Hospital, The Adelaide & Meath Hospital, Dublin, and family carers of people with dementia, which was hosted at The Carers Association’s, North Dublin office based in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15.
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Exhibition along hospital street, AMNCH
An exhibition of paintings by Hugh McCarthy is on display along Hospital Street, AMNCH Tallaght, from 5 November 2011 to 4 February 2012.
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Lighting the Darkness exhibition
Lighting the Darkness is a collaborative arts and health exhibition presented by ArtWorks.
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Art@work 9 exhibition at Galway University Hospitals
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust presents the ninth annual staff art exhibition entitled Art@work.
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Bewitched – The Music Tour
In 2010, the National Centre for Arts and Health at AMNCH hosted an exciting new residency funded by The Arts Council of Ireland.
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National Dialogue Arts and Health
National | Dialogue Arts + Health is a one-day event taking place in RUA RED, Tallaght, Dublin on Tuesday 6 December 2011.
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Apertures & Anxieties exhibition at the RHA
Apertures & Anxieties is an exhibition celebrating 300 years of Trinity's School of Medicine and is on display in the RHA Gallery, Dublin from the 16 November – 21 December 2011.
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One-to-one music sessions in Newport Day Care Centre
Following on from the success of a pilot participatory music programme earlier this year the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is now running this programme in Newport Day Care Centre, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
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West Cork Mental Health Services appoints an Arts & Mental Health Co–ordinator
West Cork Mental Health Services (WCMHS) covers a geographical area from Courtmacsherry in the east to Terelton at the north most point, to the peninsulas and Islands.
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‘Where Are We Now?’ A symposium examining arts for children in hospital
Where are we now.
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Scales & Tales at Cork University Hospital
Scales & Tales, a six-month residency of music and storytelling at Cork University Hospital, concluded in November.
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Facing It – Imaging Madness exhibition
Facing It - Imaging Madness is an exhibition on view in the Broadcast Gallery, Dublin until the 10 December 2011.
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Through the Lens Film Festival
The National Centre for Arts and Health and Rua Red Arts Centre invite you to Through The Lens, Ireland's first arts and health film festival.
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European Training Session: Music in Health Settings, Paris
Musique & Sante (Paris) will deliver European Training Session: Music in Health Settings in partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) in Paris in June 2012.
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A new online arts and health library
A new online arts and health library has been developed as part of the Greater Manchester Arts and Health Network website.
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Clouds as Memories and Other Stories
Clouds as Memories and Other Stories is an exhibition by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust artist in residence Clare Henderson and is on display in the hospital from 11 November to 11 December 2011.
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insideOut9 – Annual staff art exhibition at Waterford Regional Hospital
insideOut9, the annual exhibition organised by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust, that showcases art produced by the staff of the Health Service Executive in Waterford, will be launched in Waterford Regional Hospital on Friday 18 November by the Director of Nursing, Claire Tully.
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Conference: Medicating Human Distress: Concerns, Critiques and Solutions
Medicating Human Distress: Concerns, Critiques and Solutions is a two-day conference organised by the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork and the Critical Voices Network Ireland, 16 and 17 November 2011.
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3rd Annual International Arts and Health Conference, Canberra
3rd Annual International Arts and health Conference, 14 – 17 November 2011 National Gallery of Australia & National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
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MAC exhibition at Jennings Gallery, Cork
MAC is an intervention by PhD artist researcher Sheelagh Broderick emerging as a response to workshops held with healthcare professionals earlier this year.
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New Postgraduate Certificate in Arts and Health
The Postgraduate Certificate in Arts in Healthcare Settings is the first accredited course in arts and health in Ireland.
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Where are we now? a symposium examining arts for children in hospital
Helium, in collaboration with Kids' Own Publishing Partnership, is hosting Where are we now? a symposium examining arts for children in hospital in the context of the Puppet Portal Project on Friday, 28 October 2011 in The Ark, Dublin.
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Lingerging Space exhibition at Waterford Regional Hospital
Lingering Space is an exhibition by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust Artist in Residence Maria McKinney on view in Waterford Regional Hospital from 13 October to 11 November 2011.
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Shine On
Shine On is a new anthology of prose and poetry in aid of the Irish voluntary body, Shine.
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Arts Facilitation in Community & Health Settings
The Department of Art Therapy & Continuing Visual Education at Crawford College of Art and Design is interested in exploring the potential for arts based facilitation in community and health settings through a day long event on the 27 October 2011.
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Music Network seeking musicians for music in healthcare settings workshop
Music Network is seeking professional musicians to participate in a one day workshop in music in healthcare settings on Tuesday 22 November 2011.
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Arts and Health Co-ordinators Ireland, Dialogue Arts + Health
Dialogue Arts + Health aims to bring together artists who are experienced or interested in developing contemporary art projects in healthcare settings.
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REFLECT Lab brings healthcare professionals and artists together in the Northwest
Ireland’s first REFLECT Lab co-mentoring project kicked off in April when representatives from The Sage Gateshead, UK, came to Sligo to facilitate the inaugural cohort meeting.
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The Creative Well, a new prescription for mental health
The Creative Well, a new integrated pilot initiative, has been launched in Naas, Co. Kildare.
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Portraits exhibition at University Hospital Galway
Portraits is an exhibition of new work by Conor O’Donnell and Ray Tsang on display in The Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway from 16 September 2011 to 10 October 2011.
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Menu of Poems for All Ireland Poetry Day through a range of hospitals and day centres
In celebration of All Ireland Poetry Day on 6 October 2011, Waterford Healing Arts Trust in partnership with Poetry Ireland and nine other hospitals / arts and health programmes around the country will circulate a short Menu of Poems compiled by poet Mark Roper on the theme 'A Moment in Time' to health service users.
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Arts + Minds World Mental Health Day, Cork
Arts + Minds in partnership with Crawford Art Gallery, Cork will host a short lunchtime event to mark World Mental Health Day and celebrate the creative achievements of Arts + Minds project participants.
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Cork Simon’s band The Claddagh Rogues launch CD
The Cork Simon Week 2011 lunchtime performance showcase takes place in the recently restored Triskel Christchurch on 6 October at 1pm.
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Music and Health Ireland: a LinkedIn discussion group
A new discussion group was launched recently on the LinkedIn website.
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A Time for Hope and Desperation shortlisted for PPI Radio Awards
A Time for Hope and Desperation, written and directed by Rebecca Moran, has been shortlisted for a PPI Radio Award in the Radio Drama category. This radio play was the culmination of an arts and health collaboration between the playwright/director Rebecca Moran and the Kilkenny based chronic illness self-management programme Ceart Patientwise.
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12 students graduate from the first Post Graduate Certificate in Arts in Healthcare Settings
The Postgraduate Certificate in Arts in Healthcare Settings at NUI Maynooth was a collaboration between The National Centre for Arts and Health at The Adelaide and Meath Hospital (AMNCH) and NUI Maynooth.
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Scales & Tales at Cork University Hospital
Providing children and teenagers with the opportunity to express themselves creatively in the hospital environment is at the heart of Scales & Tales, a six-month residency of music and storytelling at Cork University Hospital.
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West Cork Mental Health Services and MusicAlive announce an expanded Music & Health Programme.
West Cork Mental Health Services have established a reputation as one of the most innovative service providers in the area of mental health care inIreland.
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In Sound Health: Irish Musicians Embark on European Training Project in Healthcare Settings
Music Network is embarking on a new and exciting professional development project for Irish musicians working in healthcare settings.
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Exhibition by Dr Chandru Kaliaperumal at Cork University Hospital
Dr Chandru Kaliaperumal, a Specialist Registrar in Neurosurgery at Cork University Hospital, is currently exhibiting a series of paintings and prints in the hospital’s staff dining room gallery.
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Art collection post available at Cork University Hospital
Cork University Hospital Campus Arts Committee is seeking a person to archive and catalogue their extensive art collection at Cork University Hospital (CUH).
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Arts for Health partnership programme appoints an artist to their Placement Programme 2011
Arts for Health partnership programme, West Cork has recently appointed a new artist to join the team for the next 16 weeks.
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The Other Woman exhibition at University Hospital Galway
The Other Woman is an exhibition of artworks by Nuala O’Sullivan on display in The Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway from 16 September to 10 December 2011.
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The Amulet receives Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Award
Marie Brett, who formerly received a Research and Development award through the Artist in the Community Scheme, has now been awarded a Project Realisation Award in the 2011 Second Round of the Scheme.
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Separate Storms exhibition at Waterford Regional Hospital
Separate Storms is an exhibition of artworks by participants of the Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s Open Studio Workshop on display in Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH).
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Azure Tours at Butler Gallery: Supporting people living with Dementia and Alzheimer’s
The Azure tours are free facilitated events for people living with Alzheimers and Dementia and their families and supporters.
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Helium Arts seeks new board members in the areas of Arts and Culture and Healthcare
Opportunity: Helium Arts is seeking three new board members in the areas of Arts and Culture and Healthcare Deadline: Thursday March 31st Following a series of scheduled retirements by rotation, Helium Arts wishes to appoint up to 3 new board members, to join the Voluntary Board of Directors, as we implement our new five-year Strategic Plan (2023-2027).
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Platform 31 Artist Support Scheme 2022
Following on from its successful pilot in 2020-21, the Association of Local Authority Arts Officers (ALAAO) is once more collaborating with the Arts Council to present PLATFORM 31 – a national opportunity for artists to be supported to investigate how they might develop their practice or make work in a different way.
