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Theatre maker Rosie MacPherson calls for urgent action as Covid-19 closes routes to resettlement.
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Testing isn’t enough to bring audiences back, survey suggests
Mandatory masks, social distancing and temperature tests make audiences feel more comfortable returning to venues – and on-t…
Regional venues rail against ‘illogical’ Tier 3 restrictions
Organisations and local authorities say its unfair and uneconomical to place harsher limits on cultural venues than gyms and…
Royal Academy of Music students ‘feared speaking out’ about sexual harassment
A review highlighting shoddy employment practices and a lack of pastoral support doesn't go far enough to change the conservat…
Arts workers’ skills bolstered frontline Covid responses
Creativity, compassion, collaboration and a tendency towards efficiency meant arts workers were highly responsive in a time of cri…
Culture on referral: tackling the elephants in the room
Would we still see the same benefits to wellbeing if we took art and culture out of ‘culture on referral’ programmes a…
In it for the long haul
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation will be making fewer, larger grants in future and collaborating on longer term projects that have a re…
Breaking new ground: how do the arts affect mental health?
Research into the relationship between culture, health and wellbeing could unlock an understanding of how the mental health of you…
North East cultural workers call out discrimination
Venues in the region – many of them funded by Arts Council England – are suffering from "dysfunctional attitudes…
Resilience: the responsibility of the system, not the people
An ongoing and unspoken sense of crisis has driven those working in the performing arts to accept an intolerable range of behaviou…
Taking up the evaluation challenge
Practitioners have seen with their own eyes how arts and health interventions can make a real difference to young people’s m…
Sustaining mental health in the community
With 30 years’ experience of arts and mental health delivery, darts is very familiar with the key ingredients of an effectiv…
Addressing the weathering effects of racism
Birmingham REP has found a formula that is not only strengthening mental health resilience among young Black men, but also tacklin…
Pick-your-own Mindapples
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 failure of scholarship in the field of arts and health
A DCMS report asserting that ‘the arts can,’ ‘music can,’ and ‘dance can’ improve arts and hea…
Arts improve wellbeing, social cohesion and child development: report
A DCMS-commissioned study cites strong evidence that "can be trusted to guide policy" on arts interventions in some area…
How the arts are mitigating NHS cuts
Is social prescribing a great step forward in healthcare or a cynical move to use cheap or voluntary services to plug increasing g…
Are the arts overclaiming on wellbeing?
When Professor Stephen Clift published a critique of an academic review of the impact of the arts on health outcomes, he was accus…
SAGE modelling illustrates risk of non-distanced shows
A single infectious performer could cause a deadly outbreak, SAGE says, as the Culture Secretary hints at full capacity event…
£5m social prescribing fund isn’t new money
The Government says its funding will support people’s health and wellbeing “following the Covid-19 pandemic”, bu…
Arts and health: think big and embrace the opportunities
A substantial new income stream for the arts sector can go hand in hand with significant savings to the health budget, says Tim Jo…
On equal footing
The experience of running participatory work online has led Theatr Clwyd to rethink the whole concept of ‘reach’. Let&…
Storytelling – a different way of evaluating
Conventional monitoring and evaluation isn’t always helpful in community settings, but with some creative thinking, it can b…
Arts and health partners in a post-Covid world
Delivering arts and health services digitally can extend access for some, but others are excluded. Nesta Lloyd-Jones looks at the…
