Mapping of Initiatives on Culture, Health and Well-being

A multidisciplinary center dedicated to art-based therapy and to a specialized medical approach of artists health.
- Arts Medicine consultations
- Arts Medicine treatments, preventive programs and health promotion
- Concerts for patients and healthcare professionals

In Parkinson's, motor activity, sociality and the possibility of taking care of one's emotions play a fundamental role in improving the course of the disease. Dance therapy fits perfectly into an integrated rehabilitation approach, as it offers delicate stimulation on both a motor and emotional level in a pathology characterized precisely by disorders that involve these two spheres. It involves functional, cognitive and psychological aspects to bring them towards mutual support, contributing to greater psychophysical well-being.
The courses are dedicated to those who experience the disease firsthand, but also to family members and operators: not companions, but actual recipients of the intervention, with a view to sharing health as intended by the World Health Organization: state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not simply the absence of disease.

For many years, the Royal Lazienki Museum has been co-organizing the Royal Gift campaign together with two royal residences - the Museum of King Jan III's Palace in Wilanów and the Royal Castle in Warsaw, as well as with the Club of Honorary Blood Donors Dar Serca, the National Blood Center, and the Regional Center for Blood Donation and Blood Treatment.
So far, the Królewski Gift campaign has managed to collect over 360 liters of blood from 800 blood donors and register 760 potential stem cell donors.

Accessible Theater is a pioneering and unique project dedicated to integrating accessibility measures in theater in Spain. Accessible Theater is a project focused on accessibility in the performing arts to reach as soon as possible to fulfill the dream that “all theaters are accessible to all people".
It was born in 2011 to ensure that all theaters in Spain provide accessible content to people with sensory disabilities and the elderly. The values on which the project is based are the democratization of access to culture, universal accessibility and design for all, and equal rights for people with disabilities.
The Project is made up of a multidisciplinary team of subtitlers, audio describers, philologists, accessibility technicians, audiovisual producers, sign language interpreters, engineers and cultural managers. Its work focuses mainly on the adaptation of plays incorporating subtitling, audio description and sign language, equipping cultural centers with FM hearing aid systems and creating inclusive experiences such as tactile visits and discussions accessible to people with visual disabilities. It also offers adaptation of hand-held programs in easy reading and audio-descriptions for people with intellectual disabilities and people with visual disabilities.
In the 12 seasons that this project has accumulated, it has allowed more tan 18,000 people (6,500 people with disabilities) have been able to enjoy the culture of a standardized and inclusive way. In addition, the project has provided employment to people with disability and mental disorder.
The Accessible Theater project has contributed to the progress of accessibility in the arts performing arts, making nearly 181 theaters in 73 different cities accessible (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Murcia, Logroño, Granada, among others). 795 works have been adapted and 2,300 accessible performances have been made.
Accessible Theater particularly benefits the group of older people, people deaf and hard of hearing, blind and visually impaired people and people with intellectual disabilities.
In 2019 this project extends to Latin America. Thus, in the 2019-2020 period it was put The “More Accessible Theater” project is underway with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sport, aimed at the internationalization of this model of cultural inclusion. The country selected to develop the activities of this project was Ecuador thanks to the collaboration with the Cultural Corporation Teatro Patio de Comedias of Quito, who in 2020 It turned 40 years old, being a reference theater in the cultural history of its capital Quito.

The first and main goal of the project is to support companies operating in the South Savo region in coping with the post-pandemic period of the Corona pandemic by promoting the well-being and resilience of company management and personnel in changing situations by utilizing creative methods. The second goal of the project is to create functional digital methods that can be used as creative methods to promote mental well-being even outside of guided events, and which companies and participants can continue to use after the project. The third goal is to promote public awareness of the possibilities of creative methods and awareness of the importance of mental well-being for well-being at work and coping at work.
The aim is also to pilot a new operating model in which occupational health care can guide and / or inform an employee or entrepreneur about the possibility of participating in creative art-based workshops organized in the project. Mental well-being is thus promoted through the possibility of a low threshold to participate.
The main target group of the project is the management representatives of 20 companies in South Savonia and their personnel. the industry or size of the companies is not limited. Municipalities and public organizations are also included.
Workshops, pilots, and events supporting well-being at work will be organized as measures of the project. The social and mental functioning of people in working life is maintained and improved by combining different creative methods. Creative methods include, for example, remote computer or telephone participation in platforms where images, drawings, music and self-employment can be taken out of the workday, as well as creative workshops for individuals and groups working under the guidance of experts using different methods. Workshops will also be held for present implementation. A significant share of purchase financing has been set aside for the implementation of the measures, with which know-how is acquired from companies in the creative industries. This directly supports the business of companies in the creative industries, which has been in great difficulty during the corona.

They do a choir-concert, staging a choir of people with dementia or other mental challenges, all aged 65+. They are showing that it is possible to enable people with various challenges to form and perform, addressing an audience of people with and without special needs, thus offering a concert experience to those, otherwise excluded.

The organisation proposes 3 phases:
1. Sketch the current state of the field, mapping of initiatives: Identify and document arts, culture and health initiatives throughout Quebec. Identify the successes, obstacles and issues that emerge from joint practices in arts, culture and health in Quebec.
2. Promote the sharing of knowledge, best practices and tools based on arts and culture that have shown positive impacts on collective health and well-being (including resilience, social cohesion, reduction of loneliness and isolation).
3. Promote existing initiatives and promising interventions by focusing on arts and culture for the well-being of populations, including post-pandemic recovery.

Opera Wow is a project dedicated exclusively to adolescents and their emotional complexities, in which creativity can be set in motion as a resource of resilience, transformation and growth.
It wants to be an innovative action whose primary purpose is not only to convey to the young people in the city the knowledge of one of the five greatest composers in the world and of his works, but also to use him as a proper tool in a complicated period such as adolescence.
A path to accompany students and their educators, starting from the Opera and passing through electronic music, thanks to the power of melodrama and the universal and profound stories that tell of young people, loves, challenges, initiations, victories and of defeats.
The organisation expects teenagers will enjoy music and will have a relevant experience thanks to an opera of 200 years. They also aim to break down the wall that separates music genres and especially opera from the other music, helping teenagers to know themselves better and to create new relationships.
In their perspective, the audience comprises not only people who are buying a ticket and the city theatres have the duty to enroll and engage citizens at different levels and contribute to their well-being.

The organisation works for the recognition of music therapy as part of the German healthcare system in clinical practice, research and political initiatives.

In September 2022, Wandsworth Council called out for local arts and cultural organisations to apply for a new funding opportunity, designed to support creative activity focused on health and wellbeing in the borough. Wandsworth Council are currently supporting nine organisations to deliver creative health & wellbeing programmes across the borough, between January 2023 and June 2024.

Wandsworth’s Arts for Health & Wellbeing programme adds a new cultural offer to the award-winning Social Prescribing programme already operating in the borough, and is delivered in partnership with Enable and South West London Integrated Care System.

In order to support the development of the Creative Health sector in the borough, Wandsworth Council is working to develop a Community of Creative Health Practice through regular training, sharing and networking opportunities.