Starting next Wednesday, we'll have a free-to-attend class starting at Swan Gardens in Swansea. This one also caters to those who speak Chinese. It's exciting to be working with communities that are often overlooked in arts and health provision. #CreativeHealth #DancetoHealth

Published yesterday, Music & Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness edited by Renee Fleming. We're particularly interested in chapters 'Musical Enjoyment and the Reward Circuits of the Brain' and 'Music and Memory' penguinrandomhouse.com/books/719824/m… #CreativeHealth #ArtsAndHealth

Fantastic new Music in Hospitals project. Sharing a song, Liv James & Paula Ewer are just two of the musicians sharing music with patients, staff & visitors at Warwick Hospital. Thanks to funding Warwick District Council #creativehealth #artinhospitals Aesop Arts & Society #artsimpact Garfield Weston Foundation

'Artists Remake Medicine' - Doctor and Artist Laura Tafe (Laura J. Tafe, MD) is leading by example in an incredible display of arts in health, and arguably narrative medicine. Pictured are her collages 'Personhood' and 'Compassion'. #CreativeHealth #ArtsInHealth

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Huge thanks to the incredible students from University of Warwick working with us to research & explore the impact of community arts on health.A great piece of advocacy work. Arts Council England Aesop Arts & Society Ayub Khan MBE Public Health Warwickshire
John McMahon Garfield Weston Foundation WCC Communities and Partnerships Service Stratford Town Trust

5 years, 171 participants, improvements across the board. Interesting pre-print of a study of participatory arts programme and psychosocial/mental health in adolescents and YAs.

Scarce details of programme online though...

#CreativeHealth #MentalHealth

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In the year since Prescribe Arts launched, we've been bowled over by the hard work of social prescribers, and by the arts organisations they interact with through our site. Today, on #SocialPrescribingDay , we're honoured to get to say thank you. #creativehealth #prescribearts

A bit of Heaney to start us off for the week.

#CreativeHealth #poetry #arts #artlife

Don't forget applications are currently open for Royal Society for Public Health Health & Wellbeing Awards! There are 6 public health categories to choose & the award recognises organisations whose work has furthered the contribution of creative arts to health & wellbeing.
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Interesting interview on #CreativeHealth in London, showing interaction between ICS and arts orgs. Cultural social prescribing 'key to the reduction of health inequalities.'

Nice to see Breathe Arts Health Research , Raw Material Music & Media and Entelechy Arts featured.

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We're chuffed to bits about the launch of a new #DancetoHealth group in Solihull. It's a wonderful community that we're thrilled to be a part of. Proudly supported by Heart of England Community Foundation in colab with Age UK Solihull #dance #creativehealth

So important to support this campaign Singing for Health Network Abi Mann-Daraz BSc (Hons). MA. Centre for Cultural Value The National Centre for Creative Health Aesop Arts & Society Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance

The family of cyclist Tim Joss, killed in a road traffic collision near Brize Norton last week, have paid tribute to his life. After a career as artistic director of the Bath Festivals, he founded Aesop Arts & Society, a charity addressing social problems through the arts.

We are saddened to hear of the untimely loss of Aesop Arts & Society Founder and CEO Tim Joss

I am so sorry to hear this. Tim was brilliant when I was at @ncvo (and he at Rayne Fdn). He really worked to bring the arts and 'mainstream vol sector' together. I liked/admired his approach to evidence and the value of the arts.

Warmest wishes to family and all at Aesop Arts & Society

Vivienne Parry Aesop Arts & Society steven hackett So sorry to learn of Tim's sudden death. I worked with him at Bath Festivals and was pleased to meet up with him again years later at Cheltenham Science Festival when you were appearing there. Thinking of you and Tim's daughter and other relatives.