Through the doing of creative arts, people with learning disabilities can transcend the exclusionary landscape (albeit temporarily) and begin to reimagine and transform understandings of learning disability and difference in society.
From 2006-2009, an initiative was developed in Vancouver and
North Vancouver to provide vulnerable and marginalized seniors with community-engaged arts programming and to demonstrate the role that professionally led arts programs can play in the health and well-being of seniors.
This is an important report that describes and evaluates the Be Creative Be Well project and the key role it has played within the integrated, community-led Well London programme.
This research provides a literature-review-based overview of community events and festivals. This report also considers the event categories, their importance and the associated impacts on rural communities. The report reviews examples from Canada and other jurisdictions.
The objective of the present study is to examine the effectiveness of after-school arts programs in increasing the participation of visible minority and Aboriginal youth in life-enriching programs and to identify the processes by which these programs have a positive impact on their psychosocial functioning.
A recent systematic review (Clift, Hancox, Staricoff & Whitmore 2008) identified 35 research reports addressing connections between singing, wellbeing and health in non-clinical samples and contexts, published since the early 1960s. The literature is highly diverse theoretically and methodologically, and low levels of cross-citation indicate an academic field in an early stage of development. Nevertheless, a number of important findings have emerged from the more substantial studies undertaken to date.
This Handbook reflects the complex and changing needs of our growing field. It serves as a guide through the Society for the Arts in Healthcare’s full-day workshop.
This article reports on a multi-method evaluation of the Tampa Arts and Youth Demonstration Project (TAYDP) conducted over two years in three sites in Hillsborough County in Tampa, Florida.
The Dana consortium findings define/evaluate causal relationships between arts training and the brain’s ability to learn in other cognitive domains.
This framework outlines Arts Council England’s first formal national strategy for arts and health, complementing the wide range of our current polices and
strategies.