We know that creativity and culture are essential parts of a healthy society. But what now? What needs to happen at a personal, organisational, and political level to bring creativity and health together and cultivate change?

Tickets are now on sale.

09/11 – 12/11/2023

10.00 – 19.00

Can art be an ally of the medical sciences? How can museums and other cultural actors contribute to health and well-being? How can creativity contribute to innovation in health?

Using a transdisciplinary approach, this international conference aims to share and reflect analytically and critically on the practices that are at the intersection between art and medicine. Through dialogue between professionals and researchers from different countries and disciplinary fields – from medicine, nursing, and neuroscience to imaging in medicine and microbiology, as well as art, design, and architecture – the aim is to open a debate on the present, but also to look towards the future, seeking to understand how art and science, two areas of knowledge often considered as distinct, can be combined and contribute to change and to a better quality of life.

For more information visit: https://www.maat.pt/en/event/conference-art-health

EFAT CONFERENCE 2023

Thursday 15th –  Saturday 17th June 2023​
Art Academy of Latvia / Rīga Stradiņš University

https://whova.com/web/NsB7g6sgYlNtynEYwzIOUc3J2NZ%40id%40wou7T8cMkUWc%3D/

(Edited by Helen Jury and Ali Coles, Jessica Kingsley Publishers)

Online book launch

Thursday 13th October 2022

7.30 – 8.30pm GMT+1 via Zoom

Please join us to hear about innovative and exciting art psychotherapy work from around the globe, meet the contributors, ask questions, and celebrate with us. Speakers include Dr Girija Kaimal (President, American Art Therapy Association), Helen Jury and Ali Coles (book co-editors), and chapter authors.

To register for this free event, please click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlceCtpjsjEtCwqfVtwnMJwyjT4Efn1Zxr You will then be sent joining instructions nearer the time

Museums and the futures we want: https://museumguide2020.ru/en#concept

“Museums as Therapeutic Resources” chaired by Nana Zhvitiashvili: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ZIcPaGqQg

UC Davis Health, Crocker Art Museum seek participants for new online study

For more information click here

Research is taking place into best practices regarding arts and museum interventions with a focus on pain management, loneliness and social isolation. The research is being conducted by Ian Koebner of the University of California’s Davis School of Medicine and Helen Chatterjee of University College London, in collaboration with the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance and the RSPH SIG Arts and Health.

http://www.lahf.org.uk/call-contribute-research-arts-and-museum-interventions

Pathways to Wellbeing: exploring the role of museums in supporting mental health

University of Leicester

Examining the unique aspects of the museum experience to understand how museums can support mental wellbeing and mental health. Focusing on the specific affective, social, spatial and material characteristics of museums.

https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/find-a-project/

Materiality and the use of objects in art psychotherapy and museums

Thursday, 3rd October 2019, 12 – 5 pm
Talk by art psychotherapist Helen Jury
Talk and tour to the Wallace Collection and creative art making session