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Building the Barricades - People's Palace Projects

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The research team surveyed 1,400 Maré residents over the age of 18, including 200 active drug users living on the streets or at risk of homelessness. They conducted in-depth face-to-face interviews and organised focus groups, mapping local health services, social services and cultural activities that were recognised by residents as support networks that could improve their well-being.

Between June to October 2020, the research team also conducted three sub-studies, across social sciences, health and culture, to better understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the residents' mental health, well-being, available cultural activities and income.

In addition to familiar research tools from medicine and social sciences, the project used the arts to produce narratives and images that reflect on and challenge the stigma and social exclusion associated with young people from the favelas and peripheries.

The acclaimed Brazilian anthropologist Luiz Eduardo Soares also wrote a separate study of the narrative produced by the artists on the research team, who were working with drama, music, poetry and photography.

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Building the Barricades: the Mental Health Impact of Violence in Rio's Largest Favela - People's Palace Projects

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The international research project Building the Barricades investigates the impact of armed conflict and urban violence on the mental health (...)

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The Narrative-Based Medicine Lab (NBM Lab) is Canada's home for teaching, research, and innovation in Narrative-Based Medicine.

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Mireille Norris, Medical Education Black Health Theme Lead, shares recommendations for art, music, dance, and food we can experience this Black History Month around Toronto and at home.

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PhotoVoice - Ethical photography for social change | PhotoVoice

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PhotoVoice believes everybody should have the opportunity to represent themselves and tell their own story. We work in partnership all over the world on projects and activities which combine ethical photography and community participation to help deliver positive social change.

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We have worked on a diverse range of projects and issues both in the UK and internationally.

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Training and Events

We provide a range of training courses, as well as exhibitions, events, and more.

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We can design and deliver participatory photography projects, tailored to the specific needs of organisations and institutions.

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PhotoVoice's Statement of Ethical Practice has been updated and expanded, and released under Creative Commons.

Ethical Practice

PhotoVoice supporters get a range of benefits, including exclusive access to resources and discounted places for training and events.

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PhotoVoice develops community engagement programmes using a range of approaches, including:

Research

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Communications

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New Londoners book given to new Hackney Citizens

PhotoVoice is delighted to announce a new collaboration with Hackney Council and Trolley Books, where those attending their citizenship ceremony will be gifted with a copy of the acclaimed book 'New Londoners'.

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PhotoVoice is a UK charity that uses ethical photography to promote positive social change. We also provide photography training and consultancy.

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The nation’s largest funder of health and care research, providing the people, facilities and technology for research to thrive.

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Welcome to Iniva's new website. We are in the process of updating content throughout. We welcome your feedback at info@iniva.org

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Abi Rigby

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A new podcast series by Post-Grad Community Ambassador Abi Rigby (MA Fashion Futures, London College of Fashion, 2024). STREST launches soon.

As the host of new podcast STREST, I'm on a search to find out how to make it as a creative without 'selling out' or giving up.

Inspired by the Nap Ministry and 'radical resting' movements, this podcast attempts to uncover vital tips and tricks to help us value our wellbeing in a Capitalist world of work.

As someone who has a habit if work/burn out/work/burn out (anyone else?), it might seem a bit ironic that I'm adding another job to my list. But, I'm here to learn alongside listeners and to ask the questions often forgotten in a bid to hold up our savvy reputations while not seeming like shallow corporate fiends, like:

What's the point in socialising if it's not going to further my career?

Is it antifeminist to never want to work again?

How can I save the world when I don't have time to descale my kettle?

Will my social media reach improve if I include my feet in every post?

And the more serious:

Is doing what I love worth it if I'm burnt out trying to make it happen?

Each interview will be a part of my own journey towards a sustainable work/life balance. I'll be chatting with people across various fields, from designers to community organisers and wellbeing officers. Tune in for insightful interviews, thought-provoking discussions, and the camaraderie of shared experiences.

We'll deep dive into industries where sacrificing your personal life is a statement of your dedication (fashion, I'm looking at you), and address the impact of social media on 24/7 work commitments and information overload. STREST leaves no stone unturned in the quest for a healthier, more fulfilling creative life.

Get in touch if you'd like to be involved.

Post-Grad Podcasts

Part of our Post-Grad Conversations platform, Post-Grad Podcasts celebrates and documents the voices and experiences of postgraduate students.

Whether through a video or recorded podcast, Post-Grad Conversations connects you with our global postgraduate network, celebrating and unpacking ideas important to you. Find out more.

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As the host of new podcast STREST, I'm on a search to find out how to make it as a creative without 'selling out' or giving up. Inspired by the Nap Ministry and 'radical resting' movements, this podcast attempts to uncover vital tips and tricks to help us value our wellbeing in a Capitalist world of work.

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Arts Council England has published guidance for anyone thinking about applying for Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant funding for arts, museums and library projects in Creative Health.

The information pack includes additional information for your Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants application. Make sure that you have also read the main Guidance for applicants. See ACE's website for more information about Project Grants.
What can you apply for in relation to Creative Health?
Creative health projects vary in size, location, discipline, audience, and outcome. They can address specific conditions or wider issues which impact on health and wellbeing. As the development agency for creativity and culture in England, it is important to us that the creative and cultural content and purpose of the project is a valued, core component. National Lottery Project Grants is about making a difference to the creative and cultural lives of people in England. We'd expect to see creative and cultural practitioners involved in the design and delivery of any activities we support, and that people participating in and benefiting from a project are having a high quality creative or cultural experience. Creative and cultural outcomes sit alongside health and wellbeing, clinical or medical aims and outcomes in a creative health project, but to be eligible for Project Grants: - the focus of your activity and your application must clearly be on the creative or cultural content of the project; and - the creative or cultural focus of the project must sit within our supported disciplines.
Examples of the types of creative health project ACE can generally support include:

Public programming including displays or exhibitions in which creativity or culture is used to address a health condition or group of people.

Outreach activity or community engagement projects which are linked to addressing a health or wellbeing condition, or reaching a specific group of people, through use of creative or cultural activities.

Provision of creative or cultural activities in a clinical setting in which creativity is an integral outcome.

Group based projects which use creativity or culture that address a health condition or are aimed at a specific group.

Projects which are delivered to people in their own homes or one to one.

Digital and technology-based projects which address a health condition or are aimed at a specific group of people.

Provision of creative or cultural projects for people in the community using social prescribing services.

Participant led creative or cultural projects in cultural, community or clinical settings.

Touring activity or activity which is focused on scaling up existing creative health provision.

Research and Development projects which develop a new idea or explore a new way of working in creative health. For example, projects which identify gaps in provision, developing and testing new ways of working.

What you cannot apply for:

Any creative health activity where health or clinical outcomes are the only or primary outputs of the project, or where the creative and cultural focus of the activity is not clear.
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National Lottery Project Grants: Guidance Library Creative Health update (Feb 2024)

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Arts Council England has published guidance for anyone thinking about applying for Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant funding for arts, museums and library projects in Creative Health. The information pack includes additional information for your Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants application. Make sure that you have also read the main Guidance for applicants.

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Better Making - CSM Fine Art / DPS / Social prescribing

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Better Making - CSM Fine Art / DPS / Social prescribing

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Social Prescribing Day on 14 March promotes support for people's wellbeing through non-medical interventions based on social interaction and connection. NHS England use a standardised social prescribing model and define it as "an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing."

Since 2019, the Art Programme at Central Saint Martins have been researching and testing a contemporary art social prescribing offer with diverse groups of people seeking support with their wellbeing. Five years on, the team are now expanding with a vision to establish a leading art-school produced social prescribing hub: Better Making.

We believe that art schools, artists, and designers play a valuable role in social prescribing. Our aim is to enhance art school-led social prescribing research and innovation, and revitalise the civic relationship between art, art schools, and local communities." - Anne-Marie Creamer, Alex Schady and Elizabeth Wright, Fine Art Better Making team

Work with communities, charities and local government

'Better Making' is an arts school social prescribing service for vulnerable young people which boosts their mental health, employability and social connection while learning conceptual and fine art techniques and collaborating to make public art. This differs from other craft and individual-outcome-oriented arts social prescribing provision to centre the emerging technologies and critical and conceptual practices of contemporary fine art. Better Making also benefits our students who can be social prescribing producers as well as users, giving them additional skills and creating opportunities for public art commissioning and employment.

Fine Art staff and students initiated this work through a long-term commission from Essex County Council and with the charities Arts4Dementia and Phoenix Futures. The purpose of these collaborations is to connect people struggling with their mental health through practical workshops, bringing their expertise in emerging technologies and collaborative creative practices. Every workshop is documented within a virtual studio built specifically for the project and includes detailed workshop plans, documentation of activities and 3D scans of finished work. Better Making are in the process of producing their first public art commission, due to be unveiled in December 2024.

Student facilitators received industry standard training on how to plan and deliver activities under the social prescribing model. They produced a workshop plan and with staff and co-compiled a training handbook for other participants on how to use the software and follow a 3D Digital workflow.

Care for new students

Building on these successful collaborations and already working with UCL's Creative Heath MASc, the Better Making team are testing ways to develop an internal ecology for social prescribing within CSM.

In 2024 the project team will be collaborating with colleagues and services across the University to pilot social prescribing with new students who will be referred by the UAL Counselling and Health Advice team.

Working with UAL's Head of Counselling Marie Kan, our College counselling team and Associate Dean of Students, Wellbeing and Inclusion, Jennifer Alsop, the work will test a new support mechanism to improve the wellbeing of our first year students. Through peer to peer training, Better Making will be used as a case study for the UCL Creative Health students who are contributing to the development of this strand of the project.

In summer term, a number of first year students will be 'referred' to social prescribing workshops by the counselling team using the social prescribing model. The series will be led by Art Programme staff and Graduate Teaching Assistants and evaluated by the Better Making team, supported by an Advisory group of staff and students. Funded by the CSM Creativity in Action Fund, this work is about supporting wellbeing through creative activities and groups and rethinking how we integrate care within UAL systems.

Better Making

The community workshops with Essex County Council and the two national charities have informed a mission statement and longer-term plan. The Better Making approach is guided by national best practice and by a newly appointed Better Making Advisory board, including experts on social prescribing across UAL and the UK reviewing the work. The team has also developed a Making Better Ethical Framework.

This project provided professional training for social prescribing work for students and helped us build community links. The existing workshop model was adapted and developed to include key safeguarding training, informed by the Making Better Ethical Framework and a new Social Prescribing Training Handbook for students has been produced. Our virtual studio was also further developed, integrating it with training to archive and present the work.

The team have begun building a CSM social prescribing network. This includes external partners interested in our work, who we share best practice thinking with. This has developed through attending social prescribing meetups with three UK councils, government agencies, universities and arts organisations, building awareness of our work in the UK social prescribing landscape.

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The Art Programme at Central Saint Martins are establishing an art-school produced social prescribing hub. Better Making helps diverse people with their wellbeing through high quality art school workshops.

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The societal value of the arts and culture - Its role in people’s well-being, mental health and inclusion

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The societal value of the arts and culture - Its role in people’s well-being, mental health and inclusion

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Health and Wellbeing through Art Making Short Course

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Health and Wellbeing through Art Making Short Course

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Meaning, purpose, and connection are proven to improve health. Participating in a creative process helps engage, communicate and express through a non-verbal language which often best reflects our emotional state. Workshops will be hands on creating art work while also self-reflecting. There will be sessions that are part seminar based with guides for further exploration.

Participating in the course will both allow you to understand your own role in managing health and wellbeing and provide you with tools to bring this knowledge into other areas of life such as work and family. The course will explore a variety of materials and techniques which have been developed to help promote and maintain mental health and wellbeing.

Those interested in exploring this within themselves will benefit from dedicated time to develop their voices. Those interested in working in the community will benefit from learning techniques and methods applicable to a variety of social settings.

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Health and Wellbeing through Art Making Short Course

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The arts, creativity and the imagination are agents of wellness: they help keep the individual resilient, aid recovery and foster a flourishing society. On this course participants will explore both the practice of creative wellbeing and art making while understanding some of the key positions around the arts & health movement in the UThe creative arts help make sense of our human condition and bring about positive physiological and psychological changes.

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We are an art studio that crosses between public art, social art, events and exhibitions.

No project of ours looks the same. A commitment to social engagement and site-specific work has led the studio to design and deliver a range of works such as outdoor performances, sound installations, audio walks, circus performances and immersive theatre.

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Developing art works both as a solo practice and collaborative practice. Focussing on installations, performance, text and walks.

Developing strategy, policy, business planning and community engagement for arts based organisations.

Coaching and professional mentoring for individuals and organisations looking for deeper work focus.

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https://artschap.com/projects/

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https://www.culturehive.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Health-Vision-Paper.pdf

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MA Global Collaborative Design Practice

focusing on co-designing public realm and built environment iniatives with teenagers in Southwark, for more social and inclusive public spaces.

@glumgrrl on instagram
s.asim2806@gmail.com

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see pages 120 onwards for health, wellbeing and inequality

shared by Wendy Wyatt

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recommended by Abbi Fletcher

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ongoing Arts Council England and Middlesex University funded research project with Angela Woodhouse.

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- freelance multi disciplinary artist, I lead the drawing shed, a social arts practice organisation hosted by two linked housing estates in east London
- working in collaboration around social justice is my passion, I'm currently developing a 3 year climate emergency response programme co-producing with local women, around re-wilding, drought and flash floods; making sound and film works, co-researching and having some fun along the way. An un-gated community garden where we grow food also supports the mental health of individuals whist bringing communities together who are already making differences for each other.
- I am involved with and am seeking to grow dynamic academic and social prescribing networks that challenge current ethos and practices around instrumentalising both diverse communities and artists within mental & creative health transformation
- The Public Haybox is a current partnership food/fuel/climate emergency response project co-led with StudioPolpo supported by RSA Catalyst Seed funding.
https://linktr.ee/haybox

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We would like our website to be a space to share your work or your organisation. You can add your story, a video, image gallery and more.

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Judy Willcocks, CSM Museum, Social Prescribing 

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Judy Willcocks, CSM Museum, Social Prescribing 

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I currently manage UAL's Post-Grad Community, founded in 2013 to help postgraduate students and alumni across UAL share work, find opportunities, and collaborate. Peer support is central to our mission!

My team includes eight Student Ambassadors working on various projects to bring people together.

https://www.instagram.com/ual_postgrad_community/
https://twitter.com/UALPGCommunity
pgcommunity@arts.ac.uk/l.benford@arts.ac.uk

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Post-Grad Community is your platform to share work, find opportunities, and connect with UAL's wider creative network.

Postgraduate Selects, a collaborative exhibition with Post-Grad Community and Arts SU, spotlights the extraordinary contribution postgraduates offer to UAL and the wider creative sector.

Beth Robertson, MA Sound Art (graduated 2023) from London College of Communication, was selected for the AER residency at NAHR: Nature, Art and Habitat Residency, Val Taleggio, and reports back to the Post-Grad Community.

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Post-Grad Community at UAL gives postgraduate students access to special events and opportunities to collaborate.

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Senior Policy Officer- London Borough of Culture 🧡 storyteller 🧡

https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/arts-and-culture/current-culture-projects/london-borough-culture

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MA Service Design

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PhD student CSM.

How Can Creative Symbolic Interaction Reveal the Perceptional Experience of Living with Dementia?

Research topic - Can an embodied creative approach challenge the presumed loss of agency in dementia?

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All Change brings artists and communities together, producing original and authentic arts experiences which make connections between people. Based in north London since 1985.

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All Change | Combined Arts Projects in Community Settings

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A community arts organisation bringing artists and communities together to tell stories from under-represented voices, making connections and changing lives.

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Passionate about social change, women’s rights and coproduction. Driven by a background in Psychology and incorporating creativity and well-being to tackle different types of personal hardship. Entrepreneurial mindset and person-centred approach with relevant experience supporting communities and adults with care and support needs to thrive. Experienced in PR events, exhibitions, mindful making workshops and self-development.

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https://life-saver.org.uk/

Contact Martin:  martin@martinpercy.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinpercy

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-Senior Lecturer in Fashion Styling and Production at London College of Fashion, UAL.
-Working across areas of fashion, dance, and art therapy.
www.manrutt.com
@manrutt

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Key Concepts - Style Lab 1 - A Conceptual Collage

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https://chloeasker.co.uk/
@chloeasker

I'm a postdoctoral researcher and consultant working for the AKO Storytelling Institute and Culture&. My expertise is in Arts and Health research, with a focus on transformative mindfulness, creative methodologies, and impact.

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I'm a researcher and consultant working in the humanities and social sciences using qualitative and creative methodologies.

I have expertise in health research (including the Medical Humanities, health geography, and Arts & Health), having completed my PhD on the therapeutic cultures of mindfulness. I also have expertise in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policy and practice within Higher Education institutions.

I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the AKO Storytelling Institute with the University of Arts London, alongside this, I am an Associate Consultant with Culture&.

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I'm a researcher and consultant working in the humanities and social sciences using qualitative and creative methodologies. I have expertise in health research (including the Medical Humanities, health geography, and Arts & Health), having completed my PhD on the therapeutic cultures of mindfulness.

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Artist-Educator
https://chalkiecloonanrcagraddip.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/sarah-chalkie-cloonan-a-critical-reflective-statement-independent-studies-september-2022/

https://instagram.com/sarahchalkiecloonan?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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Umi Baden-Powell - Insider-Outsider (exclusively inclusive design)

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Umi Baden-Powell - Insider-Outsider (exclusively inclusive design)

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https://insider-outsider.io

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We are a multidisciplinary non-profit design consultancy, composed of architects, designers and social entrepreneurs on a mission to build the world we actually want to live in. For us, design and architecture is activism. We stand at the intersection of making*, spatial politics and community practice. We champion 'outsider' perspectives through research and design projects to address the environmental, social and spatial injustices felt at a societal level.
* making through art, craft, design, technology

Our design approach centres those on the fringes and people historically excluded or marginalised. By designing for the most marginalised, we create outputs that can work better for everyone in society. We exist to inspire, empower and enable magic in the everyday through creative healing and community activism to deepen our collective consciousness. We are concerned by the social function of art and design disciplines to foster new connections, caring communities and the world consciousness needed co-create the world we want to live in, for present and future ancestors.

We are unique in that we are set up as a non-profit organisation with an ultimate purpose that prioritises the needs of citizens, rather than the traditional client/designer dynamic centred around designing luxury for the 1%. It is important to us that design and architecture not only includes people who are marginalised from the discipline, but also draws on the intelligence of the communities they come from. Our approach is rooted in cultural context and lived experience, and we use people and planet-centred design methods to underpin this.

We use stories to bring together expertise and power, to build skills, knowledge, influence - ultimately create change. Our aspiration is to move beyond engagement and towards the sharing of power. This happens as we work together to solve a common problem or achieve a collective dream. Fundamental to collaboration is developing relationships to build community, trust and enable co-authorship. Design proposals come directly from communities, through building a genuine contextual understanding of the most pressing needs, desires, hopes and dreams.

insider-outsider is a new approach to collaboration and doing design differently. insider-outsider is the brainchild of Umi Lovecraft BP, a maker, activist and architecturally trained designer with more than a decade of experience specialising in community led design and city-making. Much of our vision for multi-disciplinary working and collaboration was evidenced through Okun Makoko, a two-year project led by Umi Lovecraft BP & Tolu Odusanya working in partnership with the Makoko Waterfront Community in Lagos, Nigeria 2015-17.

insider-outsider/Umi Lovecraft is a founding and lead member of decosm, a London based collective bringing together spatial practitioners to work towards decolonising city-making through education, practice, and transforming the places we live.

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insider-outsider | exclusively inclusive design

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insider-outsider (IO) is a multidisciplinary non-profit design consultancy, composed of architects, designers and social entrepreneurs on a mission to improve life. For us, design and architecture is activism. We stand at the intersection of making*, spatial politics and community practice.

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Rachel Marsden

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Do you experience undiagnosed gut issues? Have you been forced to adopt creative and experimental ways of living and coping, including finding alternative sources of information and support?

Doctors can find it challenging to treat undiagnosed gut issues. As a result, people may take a more active role in managing their own condition.

Researchers from University of Melbourne are seeking to understand the experience of people living with complex, difficult to diagnose gut issues, particularly things that you do to manage your condition. We are interested in how your symptoms have changed your behaviours and coping strategies and how you access alternative information sources and support networks, including online forums, independent research or consulting a naturopath. We would like to hear about the challenges and access issues you face in this process.

This is not a medical or therapeutic study and will not provide treatment advice.

You can participate in this study if you:

identify with having gastrointestinal symptoms that do not have a clear organic cause. This might include having normal results from blood tests and endoscopy/gastroscopy but still experiencing symptoms

are over 18

are fluent in English

are willing to participate in a 45 minute interview (with the possibility of an additional follow up interview).

You may also be asked to donate an object that is symbolic of your experience of living with undiagnosed gastrointestinal issues, which may be used in a public art exhibition; this is completely optional.

Your participation will be anonymous and you can withdraw at any time.

If you are interested in participating, please enter your details:

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Do you experience undiagnosed gut issues? Have you been forced to adopt creative and experimental ways of living and coping, including finding alternative sources of information and support? Doctors can find it challenging to treat undiagnosed gut issues. As a result, people may take a more active role in managing their own condition.

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How Art Connects Two Sisters & Gives Hope To Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer 

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How Art Connects Two Sisters & Gives Hope To Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer 

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How Art Connects Two Sisters & Gives Hope To Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

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Kalnins, A. & Leimanis, I. (2022) sisters hope [Exhibition]. Five Years, London, UK. 26 February - 6 March 2022.

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Kalnins, A. & Leimanis, I. (2022) sisters hope [Exhibition]. Five Years, London, UK. 26 February - 6 March 2022.

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sisters hope
Andra Kalnins and Ilga Leimanis
26 February - 6 March 2022
Gallery Open: Saturday - Sunday 12-3pm

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We are two Canadian sisters living in London and Chicago, separated by distance and the impermanence of life. Following a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, Andra was keen to develop a personal project for her patient advocacy work. She asked Ilga to run an idea-generation sketching workshop with her. This became the start of our weekly meetings, and now we've been collaborating online for nearly one year. Our intention was to spend precious time together and follow where our conversations took us. Paying attention, noticing moments, elevating these to fill the distance. "Love is the atmosphere that fills and colours the distance between." [1]

We chose playful and performative techniques that would allow us to work together despite our separation. "Play is something fundamentally larger than the individual player or his mental state; it is a pattern of movement that surpasses the players, and is something to which both players belong." [2] We began our collaboration with our grandmother's hand-embroidered tablecloth, making rubbings from its surface textures and patterns, inspired by Max Ernst's frottage. We used these to create compositions on paper cut to the shape of clouds - their silver linings being a significant theme.

Transfer ( decalcomania) was another technique we investigated. Prompted by Hans Bellmer's work in the 2021 Drawing Room exhibition FIGURE/S: drawing after Bellmer, Andra pressed her hands, feet and breasts onto paper. Her prints bear witness, insist on presence - I am here.

While visiting Bath (UK) last October, Ilga discovered the Roman practice of throwing notes on small thin sheets of lead into water. This preserved these messages over centuries. We also performed this ritual: writing on stones and leaves, we threw our own messages into the Thames and a tributary of the Skokie River while connected on a video call. Ilga's stones represented what she wanted to let go of, while Andra threw her stones to anchor in the riverbed, rooting their messages under the continual flow of the water.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theory of flow was something both of us brought to the process: Andra via her long-standing interest in wellness and psychology, and Ilga via her facilitation of idea generation workshops. To access the flow state, you need visible results. [3] The process of doing, generates ideas and thoughts: Redi Koobak perfectly summarises - "thought happened in the writing, I doubt I could have thought such a thought by thinking alone." [4]

In November, we attended a virtual conference on hope [5] where we discovered Casey Gwinn and Chan Hellman's science of hope - "imagination is the instrument of hope" [6] - we discovered that hope is a way of thinking, it can be taught, measured, increased, and we proposed to enact the theory behind their ideas. Ilga turned this into the basis for an Action Research project for the completion of her Postgraduate Certificate Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication (PgCert) in January 2022, bringing together the experience of working with Andra and also groups of students in idea generation workshops. [7]

In February 2022, we invited our community to Walk With Us - part of Refugia, a walking art project by Esi Eshun for Five Years. We proposed a synchronous walk: participants were invited to join from anywhere, indoors or out, alone or in groups - the invitation was to get up and step into wonder. Action to generate hope. This gesture resonated with many: over 165 people from the UK, USA, Canada, Latvia, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, Australia. (adults, children, 11 dogs and 1 horse) walked with us. Hope moves to action; it must be now.

At Five Years we exhibit our story, documenting our play, process and belonging. Andra and Ilga will be in the gallery together (hopefully in person, if not then virtually) over the first weekend, doing, making, and generating hope. Please join us 26-27 February and 5-6 March 12-3pm.

We are currently looking for a publisher to work with on a publication about this work and our story.

[1] Solnit, R. (2006) A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd.

[2] Vilhauer, M. (2010) Gadamer's Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the Other. Plymouth: Lexington Books.

[3] Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997) Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books.

[4] Koobak, R. (2014) 'Six Impossible Things before Breakfast: How I Came across My Research Topic and What Happened Next', in Lykke, N. (ed.) Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing. New York: Routledge, pp95-110.

[5] Activating Hope Summit (2021) Available at: https://summit.soundstrue.com/activating-hope/broadcast-day1 (Accessed: 4-7 November 2021).

[6] Gwinn, C., Hellman, C. (2018) Hope Rising: How the Science of Hope Can Change Your Life. New York: Morgan James Publishing.

[7] Leimanis, I. (2022) "Does my Thinking Through Drawing workshop have potential beyond idea generation? What potential does my workshop have to support participants' wellbeing, specifically through the lens of finding flow (Csikszentmihalyi) and hope (Gwinn & Hellman)?" Presentation for the completion of the PgCert, University of the Arts London.

We are grateful to Christian Kuras and Emily Heath for their valuable insight and help in final wording of this press release, and to our grandmother Linda Karlsons for the embroidered inspiration.

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Ilga Leimanis is a visual artist, educator and author based in London. In addition to her art practice and collaborative work, Ilga's practice-led pedagogy and creative consultancy has brought her into contact with many diverse groups of students, both in the UK and internationally. For over a decade, she has facilitated workshops in sketching and idea generation, developing a functional method for creative practice. Her first book Sketching Perspective was published by the Crowood Press in 2021. Currently pursuing a MA in Academic Practice at the University of the Arts London, she recently completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Arts, Design and Communication (PgCert). Her current topic of research is idea generation, transformational pedagogy, untethered learning, and hope.

Andra Kalnins is a mindfulness instructor, patient advocate, former nurse and family nurse practitioner graduate. She lives in Chicago, with her husband and 5-year-old son. She was diagnosed with early-stage triple negative breast cancer in 2016, with a stage IV metastatic breast cancer (MBC) recurrence in 2020. Andra recently completed mentor training with Project Life, a virtual wellness house for those living with MBC and their loved ones, and advocacy training through Living Beyond Breast Cancer's 2021 Hear My Voice Metastatic Advocacy Program. Her advocacy interests include peer support, with a focus on quality of life and psychosocial, emotional, spiritual, coping and healing. Andra strives to live as fully as possible, by empowering herself and others to keep living with joy, connection, meaning and purpose despite the grief and uncertainty of facing an incurable disease. Always seeking hope.

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This guide is designed to dispel some of the myths surrounding social prescribing in the arts and cultural sector.

More than ever we need to look after our health and wellbeing and creativity can make a really big difference. Taking part in creative activities can re-connect us with our senses, body and mind. It can build social connections, support our mental and physical health and make a profound and positive difference to individuals and communities. So if you are a culture or health professional - this guide is essential reading. An easy way into this important field, lots of myth busting alongside advice from people who have been leading the way in creative health work for years. We hope that the richness of these stories will not only inspire but help to hard wire cultural social prescribing into the provision of care, supporting all Londoners' physical and mental wellbeing in these challenging times and beyond.

Justine Simons OBE, Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries, London

Foreword by London Arts and Health Director

Anna Woolf

The Arts and Culture Social Prescribing Myth Buster has been a highly downloaded resource, which launched last year to support cultural organisations and freelance practitioners, working across the arts and health sector to understand more about cultural, social prescribing. We are really pleased to relaunch now an updated version of the Myth Buster, which we've developed to be a more accessible website resource and downloadable copy document. Working with the wonderful team at the Culture and Creative Industries Unit, GLA, we have been able to refresh the Myth Buster with updated case studies, podcasts and as much information that feels relevant and timely as possible.

We appreciate that there has been an explosion of invaluable resources over the last year, and the website is therefore designed to be digestible and segmented, so you can approach any sections that feel relevant and useful to you or your organisation. Case studies offer up Link Worker and Social Prescriber points of view, we hear from grass roots, community based, arts and health organisations involved in Thriving Communities who share ideas and findings covering all aspects of cultural social prescribing across London.

The Myth Buster is an ever evolving resource, so please get in touch if you think there is something to be shared and added with our community. London faces one of the highest levels of health inequality in the world. With life spans of residents living just streets apart varying greatly. Covid-19 has highlighted and increased the divide in the health and wellbeing experienced in the city.

In our current political and economic climate, arts in health offer a professional, value-for-money contribution to mainstream health care as part of the social prescribing movement and yet we know that many of our members and the cultural practitioners across the Capital are still struggling to get involved in the process.

We hope the Myth Buster offers you, your practice, your organisation or your clinical setting some personal insider perspective and resources into just how valuable cultural social prescribing can be.

Introduction:

What is Arts and Cultural Prescribing?

Humans have long used arts as a way to make sense of the world, build connections and define themselves whilst benefiting from the arts' therapeutic effects.

Many of us recognise that the arts and culture can make us feel better.
Social prescribing, in its simplest form, is a way to build on these ideas, through the active recommendation of arts and culture on prescription. But many people are not sure what social prescribing means, how it can benefit them, or how they might get involved in activities. Arts and culture on prescription, through NHS referral or self-referral can benefit everyone, from children to adults, older generations and families alike.

This simple guide aims to debunk some myths associated with social prescribing by providing straight-forward information for the individuals or arts cultural organisations looking to deliver social prescribing activities. We have also produced a podcast series, speaking to people involved in arts and cultural social prescribing across London.

Social prescribing and community-based support enables all local agencies to refer people to a 'link worker' to connect them into community-based support, building on what matters to the person as identified through shared decision making / personalised care and support planning, and making the most of community and informal support.
(NHS England Universal Personalised Care, p.21)

The Arts and Culture: Social Prescribing Myth Buster was created by London Arts and Health, and was commissioned by the Mayor of London and his Culture and Creative Industries team.

The guide has been researched and written by Interim Director Anna Woolf and Research Assistant Elena Charlton from London Arts and Health, with special thanks to the prior Executive Director of London Arts and Health: Jenni Regan. Further thanks go to the wider GLA Culture and Health teams, in particular Jacqueline Rose, Clare Lovett and Mike Clewley for all their help and support.

London Arts and Health would also like to recognise and give thanks to all the key stakeholders who contributed to the research, development and feedback on this guide; including London Arts and Health members, podcast interviewees Trapped in Zone One and Alba Frederick and Naomi Woddis from The Two of Us Podcast, members from St. Margaret's House in particular, Breathe Arts Heath Research, UCLH, all the wonderful Link Workers, and primary care staff who consulted on the material.

The Arts and Culture: Social Prescribing Myth Buster was designed by Keith Hagan.

The website design is by Louise at Scallywag Design.

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There are currently over 70 Social Prescribing Programmes and more than 450 Social Prescribing Link Workers in London. Services are managed by GP Practices, Primary Care Networks, GP Federations, and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.
The London Social Prescribing Map aims to support visibility of service models, key contacts for networking and good practice sharing across London.

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There are currently over 70 Social Prescribing Programmes and more than 450 Social Prescribing Link Workers in London. Services are managed by GP Practices, Primary Care Networks, GP Federations, and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. The London Social Prescribing Map aims to support visibility of service models, key contacts for networking and [...]

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Creative Health & Wellbeing is a plan for how we’re going to work within health and social care, and how we’ll promote collaboration between organisations and practitioners in the creative and health sectors.

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Tim started the charity with Niamh and is one of the people who helps Hospital Rooms keep going, growing and reaching more people. He raises funds for the projects and works with the different teams on how to deliver their projects. He loves working with people and dreaming up what is possible in mental health hospitals.

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The Pandemic and Beyond: The Arts and Humanities Contribution to Covid-19 Research and Recovery will be co-ordinated by a multi-talented team at Exeter

The University of Exeter has been awarded £200,000* by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), to take arts and humanities research beyond higher education to drive social change. This timely initiative will see a diverse community from universities, museums, charities and community organisations come together to demonstrate the importance of arts and humanities research through the Covid-19 pandemic

The Pandemic and Beyond: The Arts and Humanities Contribution to Covid-19 Research and Recovery will be co-ordinated by a multi-talented team at Exeter with expertise in the creative industries, visual arts and culture, medical humanities, public health, social sciences, ethics and communications.

The Principal Investigator and project lead is Professor Pascale Aebischer who will work with the huge range of outstanding academics throughout the UK on Covid-19 projects supported by the AHRC with over £16 million. The two-year programme will help connect, support and showcase over 70 AHRC projects which broadly cover three themes: the impact of Covid-19 on the cultural and creative sector; ethical, regulatory and human rights issues in responses to Covid-19; and communication and public health during the pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted almost all aspects of life. What started as a health crisis quickly became a social, economic and cultural one as well, with implications increasingly interconnected. The relevance of arts and humanities research to the national response has been critical and life-changing from supporting people in care homes to shaping health messages in diverse communities, from examining government legislation and interventions to helping the creative industries adapt to online audiences. The impact and legacy of the pandemic has gone far beyond the strain on the NHS and daily death toll to affect the very fabric of our society, our laws, our communities, our economy, and our wellbeing.

Professor Pascale Aebischer says:

"Arts and humanities interventions have been fundamental to building resilience and finding solutions to the problems in health, society and culture. The 'Pandemic and Beyond' aims to share those solutions widely and provide a platform that informs, inspires and brings about permanent change in our understanding of how to tackle future crises.

"Our aim is to create a powerful legacy for the AHRC funded research. The measure of our success will be that when the next crisis hits, arts and humanities are integrated from the start not just in terms of how to frame the problem, but also in how to identify solutions and strategies - for example, within Sage - so that we put people's economic and physical needs, their wellbeing, social cohesion and cultural resilience at the centre of the response. We want to ensure that we are fighting fit for the next crisis and demonstrate how arts and humanities research is integral to crisis management and recovery."

Professor Christopher Smith, AHRC Executive Chair, said:

"We are excited to showcase the contribution that arts and humanities research has made during the pandemic and to highlight the vital role it has to play in the post-pandemic recovery.

"From finding innovative ways to support our cultural sector to amplifying the voices of critically vulnerable members of society, AHRC has been committed to supporting rigorous multidisciplinary research to address the challenges posed by the pandemic.

"The Exeter team will help connect and co-ordinate a range of AHRC funded projects to ensure we learn lessons for future crises and build more resilient and supportive communities."

The 'Pandemic and Beyond' project is hosted by the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter and embedded in the College of Humanities, with team members from Humanities ( Prof Pascale Aebischer, Dr Benedict Morrison, Dr Rachael Nicholas), the Medical School ( Prof Victoria Tischler), the Business School ( Prof Sarah Hartley), and Social Sciences and International Studies ( Prof Des Fitzgerald). The team will build partnerships with academic communities, the wider public connected or impacted by the AHRC Covid-19 projects, Non-Governmental Organisations and policymakers to inform local, national and international crisis response and policy. The project will begin in March 2021 and conclude in February 2023.
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Impact on Urban Health - tackling health inequalities

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I am a dance artist/scholar whose work moves between moving image, live art and contemporary performance practice. I am interested in the relationship between the body, time and affect and use film to expose the resonance of simple movements, such as, moving from 'here to there', 'holding' or 'gettIng slower'. My work is regularly exhibited in both festival and gallery settings. Selected international festivals include: Regardes Hybrides, Montreal, Athens Video Dance Project, Festival Cine-Corps, Paris, Riff Festival, Norway, and Movimiento Movimiento, Mexico. Selected galleries include: Art Currents, New York, Somerset House (Utopia Series), London and Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool. I specialise in working with the public and have spent the last ten years developing innovative models for participatory and embodied research that foregrounds lived experience. My practice has generated interdisciplinary findings in the fields of health, science and law, within large-scale projects funded by AHRC, Arts Council England and Wellcome Trust. Recent examples include a fellowship, awarded by the Institute of Liberal Arts fellowship at Keele University, which focused on the relationship between movement, time and chronic pain and a large-scale participatory commission, led by Wellcome Sanger and funded by Wellcome trust, examining the ethics of consent. I have extensive experience of facilitating Masters and PhD level study within HE and bring my practice and research together within my current role as Course Leader for MA Performance: Society. I publish regularly about the body, time and loss and welcome PhD applications from candidates working in the fields of somatic practice, screen dance, temporality, arts and health, arts and law, contemporary performance and participatory practice. Contact Anna: a.macdonald@csm.arts.ac.uk https://vimeo.com/annamacdonald

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Black History Month: Meet Sharifa Edwards raising deaf awareness at LCC

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University can be a busy, exciting and stressful time – it’s important to keep on top of your health and wellbeing while studying at UAL, even if it can feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day.

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UAL Global x LDF | Ageing Societies: A Global Response | 20-22 September 2022

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Therapeutic Aesthetics - Maria Walsh (UAL - Chelsea)

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Therapeutic Aesthetics - Maria Walsh (UAL - Chelsea)

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Therapeutic Aesthetics focuses on moving image artworks as expressive of social psychopathological symptoms that arise in a climate of neoliberal cognitive capitalism, such as anxiety, depression, post- traumatic stress disorder and burnout. The book is not about engaging with art as a therapy to express personal traumas and symptoms but proposes that a selective range of contemporary moving image artworks performatively mimic the psychopathologies of cognitive capitalism in a conflictual manner.

Engaging with a range of philosophers and theorists, including Bernard Stiegler, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Judith Butler, Félix Guattari, and Eva Illouz, Maria Walsh proposes that there is no cure, only provisional moments of reparation. To address this idea, she uses the concept of the pharmakon, the Greek term for drug which means both remedy and poison. Through this approach, she maintains the conflict between the curative and the harmful in relation to moving image artworks by artists such as Omer Fast, Liz Magic Laser, Leigh Ledare, Oriana Fox, Gillian Wearing and Rehana Zaman. As transitional spaces, these artworks can enable a toleration of anxiety and conflict that may offer another kind of aesthetic self-cultivation than the subjection to biopolitical governance in cognitive capitalism.

Introduction
1. Setting the scene - two supplementary vignettes
2. The imbrication of poison and cure in Harun Farocki
3. Homeopathic mimicry in Omer Fast's war trilogy
4. Melanie Gilligan's signifying semiologies and the micro-resistance of collective subjectivity
5. Pharmacological reparation in Liz Magic Laser's Primal Speech
6. Leigh Ledare's pharmacological aesthetics of group analysis
7. Aesthetic modes of performative truth-telling in The O Show and Self Made
8. The transitional pleasures of emotional labour in Lucy Beech's and Rehana Zaman's videos

Conclusion: Toxicity and self-care - two poles of pharmacological aesthetics

References
Index

Published

12 Nov 2020

Format

Hardback

Edition

1st

Extent

240

ISBN

9781350093157

Imprint

Bloomsbury Academic

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Series
Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Maria Walsh's book marks a decisive step forward in the study of art as a means of addressing trauma. Through sustained analyses of moving image works, she advances a compelling understanding of their power to relieve psychological damage without airbrushing the social and economic forces underlying it.

Marcus Verhagen, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art, UK

In a series of encounters between moving image practices and a diverse selection of ideas and theories this wide ranging book diagnoses and develops an original concept of pharmological aesthetics. Walsh is highly attuned to what is fast becoming one of the most urgent issues of today - how certain forms of psychic malaise are increasing as other new ones are emerging - and has identified within certain artistic strategies not so much a cure as a complex treatment for them. A very timely work for those interested in the intersections between therapeutics and contemporary art and indeed in contemporary practices of micro-resistance to our latest form of capitalism.

Simon O'Sullivan, Professor of Art Theory and Practice, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Applying a feminist politics and drawing on a series of metaphors from medical and therapeutic discourses, Walsh's inspired book Therapeutic Aesthetics shifts attention from traditional definitions of art as transcending the everyday to focus on art as embedded in our current regime of cognitive capitalism.

Amelia Jones, Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design, University of Southern California, USA

Maria Walsh draws on a wide range of cultural, philosophical and political references, which she skilfully weaves to put forth her newly developed concept of therapeutic aesthetics.

Art Monthly

Walsh masterfully jostles with different bodies of theory - from sociology to psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, semiology, as well as media and political theory ... Therapeutic Aesthetics opens a new pathway in aesthetic discourses.

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The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a national membership organisation representing everyone who believes that creativity and cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing. Join us here.

Practitioner Support

We know from our members that the people delivering culture and creativity for health and wellbeing need more help to do their work in a healthy and sustainable way. This new resource brings together work on practitioner support from across the culture, health and wellbeing sector.

Research & evaluation

We've updated our research and evaluation pages to help you find the latest research and support you if you are evaluating your own work.

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Starting in

September 2023

Location

Mile End

Fees

Home: £5,500
Overseas: £10,600
EU/EEA/Swiss students
The course fee is charged per annum for 2 years. Note that fees may be subject to an increase on an annual basis - see details on our tuition fees page.

What you'll study

This programme considers both the arts and science perspectives. Study the history, theory and practice of performance in relation to all aspects of mental health promotion and the prevention and treatment of mental illness.

You will be encouraged to consider how the creative arts can be used to think critically about concepts and experiences of mental health and the mental health system. You will consider ways of engaging the public with these concerns. You will undertake a critical analysis of the scientific method(s) of mental health research and practice and explore the use of arts-based research, evaluation and dissemination methods.

The course is not clinical, therefore you will not leave with a clinical accreditation in mental health practice or art therapy. Rather, the course is based on practice, research and critical thinking. You will be encouraged to develop your own specialist interest in relation to the arts and mental health, whether you come from an arts or a science background.

We aim to develop genuine best practices for better, more effective collaborations among arts practitioners, healthcare practitioners and patients, so we can best serve the interests of all within mental health and social care systems.

Additional costs

You may have to pay for entrance charges and travel for performances, exhibitions and field visits, although such costs will be kept to a minimum. Set books are usually available through the library, but you may wish to buy your own copy in some instances.

Structure

Three compulsory modules

One elective module (from a choice of three)

10,000-15,000-word dissertation

Assessment

67% Modules

33% Dissertation

Dissertation

You will write a 10,000-15,000-word final dissertation, using an art-based or science-based methodology or an original and comprehensive systematic literature review.

Where applicable, you will be required to obtain ethics applications for your research.

You will be matched with at least one dissertation supervisor from either Drama or Psychiatry, based on your topic and methods of research, who will offer you individual tutorials.

Teaching

You will learn through a mixture of specialist lectures delivered by academics, clinicians and artists, seminars and group work, practice-based workshops and field visits. Research skills are taught in dedicated seminars.

As part of your chosen elective you may undertake a work placement within an organisation that operates in a field related to creative arts and mental health. Alternatively, you can develop your own arts practice through a dedicated module.

The MSc in Creative Arts and Mental Health is really unique. It's the only programme of its kind in the country

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Rhiannon Truscott, Creative Arts and Mental Health MSc, 2019

Where you'll learn

Facilities

Specialist performance facilities at our Mile End campus, including three rehearsal rooms, the Pinter studio theatre, and the Film and Drama Studio (FADS)

The new Graduate Centre and award-winning Lock-Keepers' Cottage

Queen Mary's comprehensive libraries, including the Postgraduate Reading Room

Access to the University of London Library at Senate House

Campus

The programme's modules will be principally taught at Queen Mary's Mile End campus, where students will be exposed to east London's unique blend of emerging and established theatre companies and live art makers.

There will be opportunities to visit the Whitechapel campus, where the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health is located, for seminars and access to our administration office.

About the Institute

Wolfson Institute of Population Health - Population Health Sciences

This course is based at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, which delivers internationally recognised research and teaching in population health. The Wolfson Institute is a part of Queen Mary University of London's faculty of medicine and dentistry.

The work of our researchers and educators has had a significant impact on lives across the world. We provide integrated teaching and training opportunities delivered by leaders in the field. By sharing knowledge and pushing the boundaries of research, we will continue to advance population health and preventive medicine on a global scale.

Queen Mary is a member of the Russell Group of leading research universities in the UK and proudly holds an Athena Silver Award in recognition of our commitment to gender equality.

School of English and Drama

The School of English and Drama brings together two of Queen Mary's outstanding departments: the Department of English and the Department of Drama. We collaborate with high-profile organisations: previous works have included projects with the Barbican, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).

Career paths

Some students already hold qualifications in art or drama therapy, are practicing artists, or work elsewhere in mental health. For them, the programme offers an opportunity to expand their knowledge base, develop their practice, meet a variety of other professionals working in related fields and further their careers

Other students have used the MSc as a stepping stone to entering a career in education, mental health practice or to pursue postgraduate research/doctoral training in either art or mental health.

Recent graduates work in:

teaching and education

art

research

mental health.

94% of Wolfson Institute postgraduate-taught graduates are in employment or further study (2019/20)

87% of Wolfson Institute postgraduate-taught graduates are in highly skilled or graduate jobs (2019/20)

Just do it! ... The lecturers are amazing. The options that you get on this course are absolutely fantastic...

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Dewi Evans, Creative Arts and Mental Health MSc, 2019

Fees and Funding

Part-time study

September 2023 | 2 years

The course fee is charged per annum for 2 years. Note that fees may be subject to an increase on an annual basis - see details on our tuition fees page.
Unconditional deposit

Home: £1000

Overseas: £2000
Information about deposits

Queen Mary alumni can get a £1000, 10% or 20% discount on their fees depending on the programme of study. Find out more about the Alumni Loyalty Award

Funding

There are a number of ways you can fund your postgraduate degree.

Our Advice and Counselling service offers specialist support on financial issues, which you can access as soon as you apply for a place at Queen Mary. Before you apply, you can access our funding guides and advice on managing your money:

Entry Requirements

UK

Degree requirements

A 2:1 or above at undergraduate level in a relevant subject.

Applicants with a good 2:2 degree will be considered on an individual basis.

Find out more about how to apply for our postgraduate taught courses.

International

*relates to: the University of West Indies, Cave Hill.

**relates to: Barbados Community College.

*relates to: Titulo de Bachiller Universitario

**relates to: Licenciado / Titulo de [subject area]

*relates to Fiji National University

**relate to the University of Fiji

***relates to the University of South Pacific, Fiji

Offer conditions will vary depending on the institution you are applying from. For some institutions/degrees we will ask for different grades to above, so this is only a guide.

For India, offers may be made on the GPA scale.

We do not consider the Bachelor of Vocation (B. Voc.) for Masters entry.

Somalia
Bachelor degrees from Somalia are not considered for direct entry to our postgraduate taught programmes. Holders of Bachelor degrees from Somali National University can be considered for our Pre-Masters programmes on a case by case basis.

English language requirements

If you got your degree in an English speaking country or if it was taught in English, and you studied within the last five years, you might not need an English language qualification - find out more.

English language entry requirements for programmes within the Wolfson Institute

You may be able to meet the English language requirement for your programme by joining a summer pre-sessional programme before starting your degree.

Visas and immigration

Find out how to apply for a student visa.

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Starting in September 2023 Location Mile End Fees Home: £5,500 Overseas: £10,600 EU/EEA/Swiss students The course fee is charged per annum for 2 years. Note that fees may be subject to an increase on an annual basis - see details on our tuition fees page. This programme considers both the arts and science perspectives.

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Philharmonia Orchestra announces Love Ssega, a London-born artist, songwriter, and producer, as the Artist in Residence for 2022/23

Love Ssega is the second Artist in Residence in the history of the Orchestra

Love Ssega will be exploring themes that link together climate change and social justice

We are happy to announce Artist, Songwriter and Producer Love Ssega as our Artist in Residence 2022/23. Love Ssega is a founding songwriter and lead vocalist of Grammy Award-winning Clean Bandit. Initially l aunched in 2020, the residency programme is a collaboration between the Philharmonia and a highly acclaimed artist from a non-classical tradition which explores and celebrates the fusion of two differing art forms.

London-born Love Ssega has built a varied career collaborating across art forms. His music blends a mix of New Wave, 80s Hip-Hop, African polyrhythms and NYC Disco into smart, modern Pop and has been played all over the world and across BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6Music.

The project will culminate at the end of the current Philharmonia season in June 2023. Love Ssega follows the inaugural Artist in Residence House of Absolute, a collective of artists, dancers and musicians working across Hip Hop, theatre, live art and film.

Love Ssega, Artist in Residence, Philharmonia Orchestra said: " All musicians dream of working with orchestras, therefore it is an incredible honour and privilege to have an entire year with Philharmonia as their Artist In Residence. Having started off as a pop musician sampling string quartets, this feels like reaching a personal goal on a long artistic journey. Music can change the world, so I am delighted that with Philharmonia I can create newer, bigger pieces of art that can engage new audiences and speak to the biggest issue of our time in the climate crisis."

The multi-arts 2021 commission "Airs of the South Circular" by Love Ssega, highlighted the impact of air on the Black community in South London, reached 100,000 of his local London Borough of Lewisham's 300,000 residents and saw him featured in the YouTube Originals series "Seat At The Table" alongside Sir David Attenborough and President Barack Obama. His subsequent Live + Breathe campaign in Southwark and Lambeth saw Love Ssega collaborate with local community groups in the two boroughs and also record a new piece "Capes For Blue Skies" with the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Teddy Prout, Director of Learning & Engagement, Philharmonia Orchestra said: "We are delighted to be working with Love Ssega for his upcoming residency. We're hugely excited to see how he will combine his pop-inspired style with our orchestral sound, working with the musicians in a novel way, and to see how the journey develops over the year."

As a diverse and varied solo artist, Love Ssega's performance pieces have been commissioned by National Gallery, Serpentine Pavilion with visual art shown at MoMA PS1 in New York with Slow Factory. The Philharmonia which has a reputation for innovation, from virtual reality and digital installations to artist collaborations, will work with Love Ssega on his residency and artistically explore themes that link together climate change and social justice.

Thorben Dittes, Chief Executive, Philharmonia Orchestra said: "I very much look forward to seeing the results of Love Ssega's residency with the orchestra - his unique sound world and areas of artistic interest are bound to spark an inspired response from Philharmonia musicians."

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Philharmonia Orchestra announces Love Ssega, a London-born artist, songwriter, and producer, as the Artist in Residence for 2022/23 Love Ssega is the second Artist in Residence in the history of the Orchestra Love Ssega will be exploring themes that link together climate change and social justice We are happy to announce Artist, Songwriter and Producer Love Ssega as our Artist in Residence 2022/23.

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Disability Arts Online - Sharing Disability Arts & Culture

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Sharing Disability Arts & Culture with the World.

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Entry requirements

Normally a minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor's degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in psychology, medicine/biomedicine, nursing and other allied health professions, sciences, arts, liberal arts, humanities and social sciences. Professional experience in the fields of arts, culture and health, or social prescribing, is desirable. An applicant whose qualifications vary from UCL standards may be admitted if evidence of an adequate academic background and work experience in an appropriate field can be shown. Intercalating MBBS/BMBS applicants are welcomed provided applicants have an undergraduate degree (2:1 minimum or equivalent) in a relevant subject.

It may be possible to apply based on having completed three or four years of a medical degree programme; candidates wishing to be considered for admission in such circumstances will be considered on a case by case basis.

English language requirements

If your education has not been conducted in the English language, you will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency.

The English language level for this programme is: Level 4

UCL Pre-Master's and Pre-sessional English courses are for international students who are aiming to study for a postgraduate degree at UCL. The courses will develop your academic English and academic skills required to succeed at postgraduate level. International Preparation Courses

Further information can be found on our English language requirements page.

Equivalent qualifications

Country-specific information, including details of when UCL representatives are visiting your part of the world, can be obtained from the International Students website.

International applicants can find out the equivalent qualification for their country by selecting from the list below. Please note that the equivalency will correspond to the broad UK degree classification stated on this page (e.g. upper second-class). Where a specific overall percentage is required in the UK qualification, the international equivalency will be higher than that stated below. Please contact Graduate Admissions should you require further advice.

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Normally a minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor's degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in psychology, medicine/biomedicine, nursing and other allied health professions, sciences, arts, liberal arts, humanities and social sciences. Professional experience in the fields of arts, culture and health, or social prescribing, is desirable.

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We're a London based not-for-profit organisation supporting artists & cultural producers in the arts and health sector to be the best they can be.

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SOCIAL PRESCRIBING

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MA Biodesign guides you towards a design enquiry. You will develop a personal biodesign agenda which can facilitate our transition to a sustainable way of life. As such, you will be expected to engage with relevant theoretical, scientific and cultural references. Throughout the course, there is a strong emphasis on ethical issues related to sustainability and biodesign practice. The units are designed to allow you to become more and more independent in the development of your practice.

Unit 1: Seed

This unit establishes the foundations of biodesign. You will explore a range of bio-informed design strategies. This will be done via a series of laboratory and studio workshops, inductions, lectures and design projects. The course begins with a significant level of teaching and will require both individual and group work. You will be expected to be proactive, responsive and collaborative in your learning.

Some projects in this unit may incorporate external scientific or industrial partners. Others will be focused on your own learning and development. You will also undertake a series of knowledge-gathering and mapping workshops. These will help you to integrate and discuss relevant theoretical and contextual references. They will also guide you towards the development of an annotated bibliography. Unit 1 concludes with the submission of a biodesign portfolio which will evidence your learning. You will also submit an oral and visual presentation which will test how you articulate and communicate your work.

Unit 2: Grow

Unit 2 allows you to build on the foundations in Unit 1. You will develop your personal biodesign agenda. This will culminate in the submission of your MA Biodesign project proposal. You will submit this along with relevant ethics and risk assessment forms and a research and development portfolio. We will encourage you to be proactive and to seek relevant external expertise or collaborations. This will allow you to test your ideas and enrich your learning against external stakeholders.

In this unit, there will be a range of design and research methodologies workshops. These are designed to support and challenge the development and delivery of your project proposal. While self-directed study will be prominent in this unit, peer-learning activities will also encourage you to articulate and discuss your personal agenda.

Unit 3: Harvest

Unit 3 is dedicated to the creative production and communication of your final MA Biodesign project. The MA Biodesign project proposal submitted in Unit 2 will provide the framework for the development of your project. You will discuss and report on your progress in regular tutorials and group critiques.

In this unit, there is a strong emphasis on communication. You will be expected to submit a short film or animation which will articulate the sustainable issues you are addressing. This will also showcase your research, development and final design outputs. You will also present your final project in an oral and visual presentation format. This will be followed by a Q&A session, in which you will be expected to clearly situate and debate related sustainability issues.

Mode of study

MA Biodesign is offered in extended full-time mode which runs for 60 weeks over two academic years. You will be expected to commit 30 hours per week to study, which includes teaching time and independent study.

The course has been designed in this way to enable you to pursue studies, while also undertaking part-time employment, internships or care responsibilities.

Credit and award requirements

The course is credit-rated at 180 credits.

On successfully completing the course, you will gain a Master of Arts (MA degree).

Under the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications, an MA is Level 7. All units must be passed in order to achieve the MA but the classification of the award is derived from the mark for the final unit only.

If you are unable to continue on the course, a Postgraduate Certificate (PG Cert) will normally be offered following the successful completion of 60 credits, or a Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip) following the successful completion of 120 credits.

What happens next

Initial application check

We check your application to see if you meet the standard entry requirements for the course. If you do, you will be invited to submit a portfolio through your UAL Portal.

Digital portfolio

Your portfolio should be up to 25 pages and demonstrate that:

You have the necessary skill and fluency in your own design thinking and processes to benefit from the course

You have a strong personal commitment to sustainable change and an ability to articulate and reflect on issues relating to biodesign practices.

For more portfolio advice please visit our portfolio advice page.
Interview

Following the review of the portfolio we select a small number of applicants to move on to the next stage of the process. These applicants will be invited to an online interview of 15 to 20 minutes. In addition to the skills demonstrated in the portfolio and in the written statement, the applicant's potential ability will be assessed using the following criteria during the interview:

Demonstrate that your personal and professional aspirations are compatible with the aims and objectives of MA Biodesign (Personal Statement/Interview)

You can demonstrate the necessary skill and fluency in your own design thinking and making processes to benefit from the course (Portfolio review/Personal Statement/Interview)

You can demonstrate a strong personal commitment to interdisciplinary design research (science and design) and an ability to articulate and reflect on issues relating to climate crisis and sustainable innovation (Portfolio review/Personal Statement/Interview).

How we notify you of the outcome of your application

You will receive the outcome of your application through the UAL Portal.

Feedback

This course receives a high number of applications, and unfortunately we cannot provide feedback to everyone who is unsuccessful. We can only provide feedback after you have had an interview.

If you would like to request feedback, please contact us via your portal.

Each and every application is carefully considered by a member(s) of our academic team. With so many strong applicants to choose from, it is often a very difficult decision to make. If you are unsuccessful, you are welcome to apply to us again in the future.

Deferring your place

This course accepts requests from offer holders to defer their place for one academic year. Deferral requests are granted on a first-come, first served basis until all deferral places are filled, or a deadline has been reached, whichever is sooner.

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New head of MA Screen
Childbirth film - seeking collaboration / funding

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Our mission is to increase the average number of healthy years lived in the UK, while narrowing health inequalities.

The challenge

Over the past decade, the increase in UK life expectancy has slowed dramatically and health inequalities have widened. One of the starkest truths we face is that the poorest in society die around nine years before their more affluent peers, and experience ill health almost two decades earlier.

This gap is socially determined: the the food environments in which people live and the opportunities available to them shape the extent to which they can be healthy. Related negative outcomes such as loneliness and high blood pressure contribute to the greatest loss of healthy life.

Excess weight, which affects 35 million adults in the UK, and loneliness, which affects nine million people, account for a disproportionate risk to healthy life across the UK.

Our goal

We want to halve the prevalence of obesity by 2030. This would increase healthy life expectancy by an average of nearly two years for around ten million people in the UK, while narrowing health inequalities between the richest and poorest in society.

Where we're focusing our efforts

Many efforts to date have put too much onus on individuals without fully recognising the influence of supermarkets, restaurants and food producers on the choices we make. To effectively reduce obesity, we must make healthy eating easier, regardless of how little money or time people have, where they live or how health-conscious they are. Manufacturers must reformulate their products, retailers must actively promote healthier choices and government must ensure people have controlled portion sizes and access to healthier food. The public needs improved transparency about what they are eating and what alternatives are available.

It is possible to shift the market dynamics that mould people's food environments. While the Soft Drinks Industry Levy made certain drinks more expensive for consumers, its power was not in the direct effect it had on consumer behaviour but in the way it incentivised producers to reformulate their drinks to avoid the levy, ultimately reducing sugar consumption from sugary drinks by 35% on average. Better labelling, advertising bans and further levies could exploit a similar logic - incentivising producers to reformulate their products, and supermarkets and restaurants to promote healthier foods.

We will work with others to catalyse and accelerate these changes. We can form coalitions around a five-year target of reducing daily calorie intake. Together, we can identify the barriers to achieving this target and use our innovation methods to help overcome them.

For example, we can use novel data science approaches to understand which foods and food categories would drive the highest return in terms of calories saved from reformulation. We can work directly with the public to understand perceptions of acceptability around government intervention - and what it would take to increase acceptance. We can help retailers and manufacturers experiment with portion sizes. We can collaborate with wholesalers to redesign their ordering platforms in a way that puts healthier food in shops, without compromising commercial performance.

While loneliness has gained greater traction as a public health issue - and is understood to be as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day - we do not yet understand the extent to which reducing loneliness would lower the associated health burden. Our initial work aims to help grow the evidence base on how loneliness drives ill health, in order to design new solutions that most effectively nurture the relationships that sustain people.

A healthy life project list

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Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to health in the UK. It causes low birth weight and increases asthma attacks, strokes, lung cancer and heart disease.

The South Circular is one of London's most polluted roads. It runs directly through dense residential areas. Right now, our communities can't escape its life threatening effects - but we want things to change.

Research shows that BIPOC communities are disproportionately exposed to higher levels of air pollution. In 2020, an inquest recorded that air pollution killed 9 year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debra. She'd grown up just 25 metres from the South Circular and suffered persistent asthma attacks, resulting in her death.

On the 6th May, Londoners will vote to elect a Mayor and 25 London Assembly members ( see candidates here).

This is our opportunity to demand action from those in power.

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Interactive Film

Real Talk About Suicide is an interactive film which helps guide the viewer, as they make choices to support someone with suicidal thoughts and behaviours.

The film presents an unfolding conversation between two flatmates, Chris and Jason. The viewer is prompted to answer multiple-choice questions about the next steps Jason might take to help his friend.

Guidance is offered, and key principles explained, with the aim of increasing the skills and confidence of the viewer in responding to people at risk of suicide, and to provide links to further sources of support.

You may find aspects of the video challenging to watch and potentially upsetting, particularly if you have been personally affected by suicide. We are letting you know so you can make an informed decision about whether to watch the film at this time. It may also be helpful to watch the video with someone you can talk to about the issues raised.

People experience suicidal thoughts for their own individual reasons, and the context of these situations will vary greatly. The Chris and Jason video presents one possible scenario. Our hope is that it shows a useful, basic approach for helping someone have an open conversation about suicide and connecting them with further support.

Real Talk About Suicide

Suicide Prevention

15 - 30 minutes

Our free interactive film explores how Jason helps his flatmate Chris, who is experiencing suicidal thoughts. Influence the conversation and safely understand the effect your choices might have.
Watch the Real Talk Interactive Film

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What is social prescribing?

Social prescribing is a key component of Universal Personalised Care. It is an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing.

In social prescribing, local agencies such as local charities, social care and health services refer people to a social prescribing link worker. Social prescribing link workers give people time, focusing on 'what matters to me?' to coproduce a simple personalised care and support plan, and support people to take control of their health and wellbeing.

Social prescribing link workers also support existing community groups to be accessible and sustainable, and help people to start new groups, working collaboratively with all local partners.

Social prescribing is an all-age, whole population approach that works particularly well for people who:

have one or more long term conditions

who need support with low level mental health issues

who are lonely or isolated

who have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.

You can find out more about social prescribing and the social prescribing link worker role in our frequently asked questions. Details about social prescribing link workers and how we are supporting with resources and through training and development can be found on our website.

A standard model of social prescribing has been developed by NHS England in partnership with stakeholders, which shows the elements that need to be in place for effective social prescribing to happen.

Social prescribing complements other approaches in a local area such as active signposting, where existing staff in local agencies provide information to signpost people to services, using local knowledge and resource directories.

The NHS and social prescribing

In the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to building the infrastructure for social prescribing in primary care and embed social prescribing and community-based approaches across the NHS.

This includes introducing social prescribing link workers into primary care networks (PCNs) so that every person in England can access a social prescribing service through their GP practice, starting with 1,000 new social prescribing link workers in place by 2020/21, and a goal that at least 900,000 people will be referred to social prescribing by 2023/24. This is part of the drive to universal personalised care that will see at least 2.5 million people benefiting from personalised care by 2023/24.

This is the biggest investment in social prescribing by any national health system and legitimises non-medical community-based activities and holistic support alongside medical treatment as part of a personalised care approach.

In 2022/23, an additional requirement for primary care networks to provide a proactive social prescribing service was introduced as part of the contract. This means that primary care networks must work with a population experiencing health inequalities to proactively offer social prescribing interventions.

Primary care networks can find more information about embedding social prescribing and social prescribing link workers in our PCN reference guide for social prescribing link workers.

NHS England delivers a support offer for social prescribing link workers and wider workforce. You can find more details of our support offer, including our Workforce development framework, how to access our online networks and community of practice, and other helpful resources.

Working with our partners

The NHS England social prescribing team works closely with national partners including the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP).

NASP is an organisation dedicated to advancing social prescribing through championing social prescribing and the work of local communities in connecting people for wellbeing, and work to create partnerships cross-sector at a local and national level to achieve this.

NHS England works closely with NASP, including supporting programmes such as the Thriving Communities programme, a national support programme for voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise groups, supporting communities to ensure the vital work of social prescribing succeeds on a local level. The Accelerating Innovation in Social Prescribing programme, a partnership with NASP and Royal Voluntary Service, came to an end in March 2023. However, NASP will continue some of the work of the programme, including Skillshare and the webinar programme, and continue to work on social prescribing innovation with members of the community of practice.

The team also works closely with partners to deliver the cross-government Green social prescribing programme.

Resources

Contact details for further information

Email the NHS England social prescribing programme: england.socialprescribing@nhs.net

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Social prescribing is a key component of Universal Personalised Care. It is an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing. In social prescribing, local agencies such as local charities, social care and health services refer people to a social prescribing link worker.

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London Arts and Health supports artists and health professionals across the whole of London and beyond, promoting excellence and engagement in the field of arts and wellbeing, and extending the reach of the arts to communities and individuals. Many people are excluded from mainstream arts opportunities, yet it is often these people whose health and wellbeing could be most enhanced through such engagement.

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London Arts in Health Forum - Developing the role of culture in wellbeing

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London Arts and Health supports artists and health professionals across the whole of London and beyond, promoting excellence and engagement in the field of arts and wellbeing, and extending the reach of the arts to communities and individuals.

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective

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The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective

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The Bodies, Emotions and Material Collective - originally established as the Embodied Emotions research group in 2015-explores the interplay between bodies, emotions, objects and materials in past and present societies.

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Home - The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective

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The Bodies, Emotions and Material Collective - originally established as the Embodied Emotions research group in 2015-explores the interplay between bodies, emotions, objects and materials in past and present societies.