Taking the temperature of arts in health
Erica Ramsay, Geraldine Montgomerie and Holly Dannhauser explore the challenges faced by a local arts in healt…
Erica Ramsay, Geraldine Montgomerie and Holly Dannhauser explore the challenges faced by a local arts in healt…
Underpaid artists have become caretakers for communities that commissioners want to say they’re supporting. Eleonora Belfior…
The initiative will facilitate new interventions by sharing the successes of existing ones, seizing on the UK's growing a…
The creative activity that thrives in everyday society is often the most overlooked and unsupported, writes Robin Simpson. Here&rs…
Rowan Kerek Robertson offers practical advice on protecting yourself and your organisation from online abuse – and what to d…
Theatre maker Rosie MacPherson calls for urgent action as Covid-19 closes routes to resettlement.
Mandatory masks, social distancing and temperature tests make audiences feel more comfortable returning to venues – and on-t…
Organisations and local authorities say its unfair and uneconomical to place harsher limits on cultural venues than gyms and…
A review highlighting shoddy employment practices and a lack of pastoral support doesn't go far enough to change the conservat…
Creativity, compassion, collaboration and a tendency towards efficiency meant arts workers were highly responsive in a time of cri…
Would we still see the same benefits to wellbeing if we took art and culture out of ‘culture on referral’ programmes a…
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation will be making fewer, larger grants in future and collaborating on longer term projects that have a re…
Research into the relationship between culture, health and wellbeing could unlock an understanding of how the mental health of you…
Venues in the region – many of them funded by Arts Council England – are suffering from "dysfunctional attitudes…
An ongoing and unspoken sense of crisis has driven those working in the performing arts to accept an intolerable range of behaviou…
Practitioners have seen with their own eyes how arts and health interventions can make a real difference to young people’s m…
With 30 years’ experience of arts and mental health delivery, darts is very familiar with the key ingredients of an effectiv…
Birmingham REP has found a formula that is not only strengthening mental health resilience among young Black men, but also tacklin…
What do you do every day that is good for your mind? Julia Payne shares some 5-a-day ‘Mindapples’ that have been helpi…
A DCMS report asserting that ‘the arts can,’ ‘music can,’ and ‘dance can’ improve arts and hea…
A DCMS-commissioned study cites strong evidence that "can be trusted to guide policy" on arts interventions in some area…
Is social prescribing a great step forward in healthcare or a cynical move to use cheap or voluntary services to plug increasing g…
When Professor Stephen Clift published a critique of an academic review of the impact of the arts on health outcomes, he was accus…
A single infectious performer could cause a deadly outbreak, SAGE says, as the Culture Secretary hints at full capacity event…