Culture & The Arts Equally Social Determinants Of Health

A Happy New Year's Day to you
...First things initiatory of all - I promise that 2018 volition hold upwardly positive inwards then many ways for yous personally, too to our arts too wellness community.

Vic McEwan

Just 2 things for this New Years Day posting - one, at that topographic point are but a handful of places for the costless number at HOME on the 23rd January. This is an chance to necessitate heed from Vic McEwan most his fourth dimension inwards residence at Alder Hey Children's Hospital too the superb Harmonic Oscillator. I'll hold upwardly launching a majority most his operate too sharing some of my observations most contemporary social arts practice. So click HERE if yous desire to come upwardly along.

I am rattling excited to denote that the vivid Maxine Peake volition hold upwardly contributing to our follow-up number to the Creative Health launch which nosotros held at the Manchester School of Art inwards July. Why Maxine Peake? When I told her most our plain of research too practice, too our belief that civilisation too the arts inwards all their forms, should non hold upwardly the sole save of the bang-up too the skillful - she committed herself to beingness role of this agenda. She is a dynamic actor, alongside deep integrity too I'm thrilled that she wants to hold upwardly a role of our bigger cultural conversation. So it's an exciting too evolving agenda too you'll run into some item below, including a link to eventbrite to limited your involvement inwards attending. I've had to produce it this way, then every bit to prioritise people from our region, too ensure a various gain of people on the day. It volition hold upwardly a busy event, then register promptly.



Finally, nosotros are non interested inwards the grandiose gestures of self-styled corporation philanthropists hell-bent on the standardisation too packaging upwardly of cultural activeness into an insipid blanket prescription for all life’s ills, but showtime a to a greater extent than hard too nuanced exploration unopen to inequalities, social jurist too but how civilisation too the arts powerfulness hold upwardly a pregnant gene inwards salubrious lives good lived. So below are some brief details, alongside to a greater extent than on eventbrite.

Culture & the Arts every bit Social Determinants of Health
With especial guests Maxine Peake too Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
This is a costless North West Arts & Health Network number exploring cultural participation every bit a social determinant of private too communal health.

When: sixth Feb betwixt 11:00 - 15:00
Where: Manchester School of Art
Register involvement HERE

In 2017 Arts for Health hosted the populace launch of Creative Health - the study of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health & Wellbeing - at the Manchester School of Art. The study was researched too written yesteryear erstwhile Arts for Health Research Associate, Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt who volition hold upwardly unpicking elements of the study which focused downwards on the factors that influence our health. These are the social determinants of health.

We are thrilled that the instrumentalist Maxine Peake volition frame our number too thinking unopen to experiences of the arts inwards relation to inequalities too social justice, encouraging us to mean value to a greater extent than widely most the authorisation of civilisation too the arts to transform lives too instigate social change.

In 2019 too 2020 Manchester volition host the World Healthcare Congress (Europe) too arts too wellness volition hold upwardly a nitty-gritty strand of these 2 large-scale international events, which volition hold upwardly led yesteryear Clive Parkinson too Esme Ward. We promise that this number on sixth Feb powerfulness induce down to inform elements of these conference strands, reinforcing the house too potential of civilisation too the arts every bit a social crusade that influences wellness too social change. 

This number on the sixth Feb additionally aims: 

To inspire too prepare novel ways of thinking too working together
To interrogate the recommendations made inwards Creative Health 
To galvanise our community
You bring 3 weeks to limited your involvement inwards attention this number too places volition hold upwardly allocated on Tuesday 30th January. The agenda is discipline to alter too other contributions to the number are beingness planned. 

Priority volition hold upwardly given to people alongside lived experience and those whose operate is focused on arts too wellness activity, research too evolution inwards the North West of England.

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