Mapping of Initiatives on Culture, Health and Well-being

Love Music is the monthly music sessions running on the third Tuesday of the month from 2pm-3:15pm thanks to funding from Arts Council England, Bromsgrove District Council, Bromsgrove Lions and Baron Davenport Charity. It’s suitable for older people including people living with dementia. It runs from Bromsgrove Methodist Church and is £5 per couple. Carers are welcome also. Organizers have a variety of musicians that deliver the hour sessions from jazz, folk, drumming, classical and rock n’ roll. They are all professional musicians and perform regularly. The music is mostly familiar to participants but sometimes it is also nice to hear a new piece of music.

Artist residency program at the Radiotherapy Oncology Service of the Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital. This program takes as its frame of reference the contemporary art programs that have been carried out in French hospitals since 2000, under the name Art et hôpital, carried out based on an agreement between the Ministries of Health and Culture of the French State.
The objective of this type of residency is for the artist to act as a mediator between the different agents that make up the hospital community and develop an artistic project that acts as a communication channel inside and outside the hospital, based on the needs of the members of this community.
The Radiació+++ project arose from the request that the Radiotherapy Oncology Service of the Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital made to the Center d'Art la Panera to develop a program of artistic interventions in its space. The way to make the project sustainable was through the search for external funding, which materialized when the Radiació+++ project won the "Compose knowledge to understand contemporary challenges 2017" call, from the Franco-Spanish foundation Daniel and Nina Carasso, which has made its development possible during the years 2017-2020. This call for projects «Compose knowledge to understand contemporary challenges 2017» has the objective of collaborating to create transdisciplinary learning communities open to citizens, which allow new articulations between two of his great stories, the scientific and the artistic.
The pioneering aspect of Radiació+++ lies in the fact that artistic interventions are based on participatory processes, in which all members of the hospital community (patients, relatives, doctors, technicians, medical students) are given a voice and knowledge is transferred between the cultural world and the health world.
The project wants to promote artistic practices in the health context in the Spanish State, with the support and involvement of doctors, nurses, technicians, patients and family members. Through collaborative projects led by artists, processes are created that allow research and the possibility of jointly rethinking the forms of relationship, protocols and actions, with the ultimate goal of contributing to humanizing health services and empowering patients during treatment. their periods of treatment in hospital settings.

Music is healthy and yet playing music professionally over many years can also have disruptive effects on health and quality of life. However, physical and mental well-being are important prerequisites for the artistic potential to develop and for musicians to be able to successfully cope with their everyday work - for a lifetime. With a wide range of teaching and advisory services, the Hochschule für Musik Detmold supports body-friendly training that is based on current music-physiological findings. The development of a preventive awareness and the promotion of personal strengths and resources are of particular importance. In this way, students learn to effectively reduce music-specific health problems and to more easily cope with the artistic, technical and psychological demands of everyday musical work. Tailored to the special needs of instrumentalists and singers, science-based procedures in music medicine, sports medicine and physiotherapy are incorporated. These are supplemented by holistically oriented body techniques and movement processes as well as recognized relaxation techniques and methods of performance training.

ALETHEIA, Arts, Art Therapy, trauma and emotional memory (2016-2019) has begun the study of the improvement of people who have gone through traumatic events through the arts and art therapy. During this research, good practices on Arts &Trauma have been collected and a set of valid indicators for assessing trauma-based art therapy treatment has been designed and implemented. During 2016/2019, the organizers have implemented the following pilot workshops, developing art therapy methodologies:
- two art workshops for migrants and asylums-seekers (40 hours) in 2017 and 2018
- two art workshops for women in vulnerable situations, with dependent children. The first workshop took place from October to December, with two weekly sessions (40 hours). The second workshop took place from February to May (40 hours)
- one art workshop with women victims of sexual trafficking. From February to May 2019 (26 hours)
- one art workshop with women victims of gender violence. From January to May 2019 (34 hours)
- an art workshop for children in vulnerable situations, with a weekly session, from February to May 2018 (25 hours)
- an art workshop for children with learning difficulties resulting from difficult situations 2017/2018 (30 hours)
- one art workshop for adults deprived of liberty 2018 (30 hours)
- one art workshop for children in situations of serious illness 2017 (30 hours)
All results have been disseminated in International Conferences such as British Association of Art Therapist (BAAT), London, July 2019, and European Consortium of Art Therapy Education XVth Conferences, September 2019, among others.

Danzare Oltre is a first step towards the creation of a system of interventions aimed at supporting knowledge of techniques and practices of the body intergenerational exchanges, new forms of audience development highlighting the links between dance and the socio-cultural sphere.

The project financed by the PON Metro programme promoted social inclusion through access to culture in order to combat different forms of social marginality and educational poverty and through innovative tools to enhance the city's civic museums. The interventions that were implemented aimed to provide support for young unemployed people and provided training of skills in the field of cultural mediation, as well as the development of facilitation strategies for museum accessibility towards new social groups and vulnerable categories. With this project, in which museums become actors of social inclusion, the Municipality of Bologna entrusted the Istituzione Bologna Musei with a financial endowment of 1713000 Euro, within the European funding PON Metro (National Operational Programme Metropolitan Cities 2014 - 2020).

The project "The magic boxes" by Alfabeti d'arte was realized in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 at the Pinacoteca di Brera, a museum with international reputation: a dialogue between the guests of the nursing homes and the children of the primary school, in a positive intergenerational exchange .

Social Platform for Holistic Impact Heritage Assessment aims to promote collective reflection within the cultural and political sector in Europe on the impact assessment and quality of interventions in European historical environment and cultural heritage at urban level. The way cultural heritage is preserved and enhanced is a major factor defining Europe´s identity and its place in the world. In this sense, high quality interventions in cultural heritage contribute to local communities´ well-being and to the development of sustainable cultural tourism. SoPHIA´s work is aimed at creating a Social Platform, a vast and diverse community of stakeholders from different fields and disciplines interested in interventions in historical environment and cultural heritage in Europe, that work together towards the definition of an effective impact assessment model, quality standards and guidelines for future policies and programmes.

The present project aims to bring science, and particularly archeology, to people with psychological disorders or physical disabilities, older adults, newcomers, social groups traditionally marginalized and people at risk of social exclusion. These groups of citizens are usually excluded from the outreach programs organized in museums and science parks. This project is devoted to them. Within the project are developed a set of participatory activities with which to learn – in a simple and playful way – about the people who inhabited the Italian and Iberian Peninsula several thousand years ago, during Prehistory and Classic History. The success of the project is assured by two interconnected reasons: the consolidated experience in this field, and the fact of involving a multidisciplinary team of researchers, educators, psychologists, communicators and social agents, all linked to prestigious institutions – such as the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), various associations for people with disabilities, the Down Syndrome Association in Catalonia, the Roman association Carabutsí and InterAcció in Barcelona, Caritas Roma-Italy, etc.

The Frederiksberg Museums runs a lot of different programmes in the frame of art and health. They always work in partnerships with their local target group connoisseurs; healthcare centers, organizations etc. This project aims to combat loneliness and strengthen the social networks of the elderly. The Frederiksberg Museums have been doing this programme the last 10 years with an average of two 12-week courses per year. For each course it's the same eight participants. The course is based on stories and objects from the Frederiksberg Museums' collections, and can include music, old popular songs, photos, diary transcripts, letters and much more. In addition to the museum objects, they encourage participants to bring their own pictures and objects that complement the themes they work with. Each meeting has a theme that revolves around a phase of life. It can be childhood, marriage, working life, travel etc. The museum facilitator starts showing historical objects or telling stories connected to the theme and the participant is sharing their thoughts or personal memories. Sometimes it includes singing old popular songs together. The participants are recruited through a partnership with the local health center. Through their preventive home visits, they assess whether the individual may be socially isolated or lonely, after which they inform about the museums' social program and, if they are interested, enroll them. This collaboration secure them, that the target group is right. The typical participant is 75+ years, living alone, have lost their spouse, or has recently moved to the area. They have been working in this field from more than ten years, and have integrated art and health in their dissemination strategy.