Mapping of Initiatives on Culture, Health and Well-being

The "Experimental Laboratory of Knowledge and Valorisation of Cultural Heritage in the Giaveno area" is being developed as part of the Drawing and History of Art lessons at the IIS Pascal of Giaveno in the 2021/2022 school year and is being implemented in the meeting and collaboration with the City of Giaveno. The initiative, designed and developed by Professor Emanuela Gasca, in fact, was realised with the students of the High School of Applied Sciences. The project was specifically born as an initiative in response to the health emergency and in particular the resulting fragilities inherent in the difficulties of creating physical relations and moments of aggregation in the area.
The Inspiring Values: Culture, Well-being and Community
The initiative embraces the values of the European Year of Young People 2022 by proposing an approach that not only places young people at the centre of the policies, but also makes them protagonists in the design of projects developed on their territory. Furthermore, looking at the cultural dimensions of the European Year of Heritage and the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the project revolves around the keywords of "innovation" and "well-being": in this respect, cultural heritage becomes the flywheel of possible sustainable development processes towards actions for the preservation, protection and dissemination of tangible and intangible heritage, a fundamental contributor to the creation of inclusive, welcoming, resilient cities and territories. In response to these dimensions, the Laboratory was also reported among the projects developed in the European Year of Youth on the official platform of this European initiative.
Objectives and final output: The Web Portal and the Cultural Heritage Files
The Laboratory aims to create, on the one hand, a system of knowledge and values that develop the students' sense of belonging to the territory in which their school is located and, on the other hand, relationships, moments of aggregation and development of a cultural community around cultural heritage, as an element of well-being and quality of life in response to the pandemic moment.
The end result of the Laboratory was in fact the creation of a web portal where the students shared the tourist itineraries they had created. Within this framework, the site also offers a narrative of the heritage linked to these routes through dedicated sheets, shared through historical characteristics, elements of curiosity and specifics of fruition, which have been interpreted and communicated through students unprecedented outlook.

Libraries on Prescription programme will engage with more than 30 Libraries and 200 Library and PSS professionals in Greece over a period of 24 months to change the way they work and increase their organisations’ impact, resilience and sustainability.
The organisers aim to connect the health and creative sector through a collaborative approach, in order to design a system that is more collaborative, open, innovative and people-centred and remove stigma around mental health particularly in rural communities. In this respect, they aim to define a social prescribing program for people who have long-term health problems, complex social needs, and mental health challenges.

Objectives:
• Reach and support the whole community regardless of age, gender, socio-economic status or educational attainment.
• Create a Culture of Caring
• Provide space where groups can come together and enjoy activities that are co-designed with local people, to meet their needs.
• Offer local health support services available through ‘community hubs’, bringing together different partners’ offerings in a seamless way.
• Create safe, welcoming and accessible physical and virtual environments freely open to all, which encourage participation, creativity and mutual learning and support.
• Help local government and its partners deliver their strategic objectives, whether linked to community cohesion, health and wellbeing, economic growth, promoting independent living or increasing life chances.

Athens Comics Library will be working in partnership with E.P.A.P.S.Y. aiming to offer an alternative model of psychosocial care to the community based on the principles of Social Psychiatry and Psychosocial Rehabilitation.

For Libraries on Prescription the organisers have selected 4 Libraries across Greece:

1) Patras University Library - target group: young people, students

2) Psychiko Municipality, Athens, Public Library of Organisation for Solidarity, Culture and Sports - target group: people with learning difficulties

3) Rapsani Municipality, Larissa, Public Library - target group: elderly women in rural Greece

4) Ayia, Crete, Prison Library - target group: prisoners

Athens Comics Library will first pilot the Programme working together with Refugee Week Greece, designing and delivering a Programme of "Stand Up Comedy" and storytelling for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers facing mental health challenges.

Through the Programme organisers will ignite the creation of a Libraries of Sanctuary network - a network of librarians, library staff, community groups and book lovers. We will monitor together with E.P.A.P.S.Y. closely the well-being and mental health of all participants including the staff team.

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.