RNCM Music for Health Bulletin – January +
February 2011
RNCM Music for
Health news
Medical Notes funded by Youth Music
Music and Health
events
Healthy
Communities, Sustainable Places
Dorset, 28 February 2011
RNCM Research Forum: Dr. Felicity Laurence Manchester, 2 March 2011
The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability open lecture
London, 17th March 2011
'From the Cradle to the Grave': Reciprocity and
Exchange
in the Making of Medicine and the Modern
Arts
Exeter, 14 April 2011
Arts and Health opportunities
web links to
info/organisations of interest
Department of Health - Healthy lives, healthy people:
consultation
GP pathfinder consortia
Music for People
MOMA New York – resources and guidance on working with
people with Alzheimer
Child
Protection Awareness in Music - online course
London Arts in Health Forum
Praxis Arts and Health
Funding update
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RNCM Music for
Health news
Medical Notes funded by Youth Music
We are delighted to announce that we have been granted
funding from Youth Music to run Medical Notes, a programme of
Musician Residencies at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital throughout
2011. Please see the advert for the training residencies under ‘Arts and Health
opportunities’ below and watch this space for news on the project. If you would
like to know more about Medical Notes, please contact Lilli Brodner-Francis on lilli.brodner-francis@rncm.ac.uk
or 0161 907 5414
Music and Health
events in date order
Healthy Communities, Sustainable Places Dorset, 28 February 2011
A
one day conference to inspire, inform and engage. 10am-4pm.
How can the arts be used to deliver the objectives of the Marmot Review? Healthy Communities, Sustainable Spaces will focus in particular on:
It
will showcase an inspirational range of successful and effective arts-based approaches
to creating healthy and sustainable places and communities. Delegates will be
engaged through theatre and interactive workshops. Resources created at the
conference will be used to further engage health commissioners.
Speakers include: Adam Sutherland, Director, Grizedale Arts; Simon Morissey, Foreground; Anna Best, Road for the Future; Anna Ledgard, Eastfeast; Claire Wyatt, Kilter Theatre; Katy Hallett, Director of Sustrans.
Who should attend? People working in: Public Health; Local Authorities; Voluntary / Community Sector; Education; Strategic Regional Organisations. Healthcare professionals: including those working in primary and community care and mental health. Arts Therapists, Artists and Arts Organisations.
Healthy
Communities, Sustainable Places has been initiated by The Dorset Design and
Heritage Forum on behalf of the Dorset Strategic Partnership, in partnership
with Arts and Health South West. It was programmed and delivered by Willis
Newson and funded by Arts Council England South West as part of Wide Open Space.
The Exchange, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 1QU http://www.stur-exchange.co.uk/
£30
for individuals and organisations, £15 concessionary rate and for all
those resident in Dorset. Please complete the booking
form and email to info@ahsw.org.uk or send to
Arts & Health South West, PO Box 7515, Dorchester, DT1 9FX with your
payment by 11th February 2011. For any queries about booking please
telephone: 01305 269081 or
email info@ahsw.org.uk
RNCM Research Forum: Dr. Felicity Laurence Manchester, 2 March 2011
Royal
Northern College of Music Lecture Theatre, 4.30 pm
Dr
Felicity Laurence (Newcastle University) is a specialist in children's singing
and composing with and for children, particularly in situations of conflict and
deprivation. She'll be presenting her current work with children in the
Palestinian west bank and the talk will be of interest to everyone considering
the wider meaning and value of being a musician and 'outreach' of all kinds.
Please
contact Holly.Marland@rncm.ac.uk
if you wish to attend as places are limited.
One day course on learning to provide Circle Dance for People with
Dementia and other health issues. Music CD provided and full guidance. The
course and resources cost £100 per participant.
Phone Magda 0207874 7222 or training@dementiauk.org
The trainers' website is www.circledanceindementia.com
The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability open lecture
London, 17th March 2011
4.30-5.30pm, De Lancey Lowe Room Royal Hospital for Neuro- disability,
West Hill, London SW15 3SW
'Why Music?
Using music to improve the quality of live for people living with neurological
problems.'
Wendy Magee,
International Fellow in Music Therapy will be the speaker.
Free lecture open to all interested people,
professional and lay. Please see the attached flyer for full details and
contact Phili Denning on 020 8780 4500 x5140 or email institute@rhn.org.uk if
you plan to attend as places are limited.
'From the Cradle to the Grave': Reciprocity and
Exchange in the Making of Medicine and the Modern
Arts
Exeter, 14 April 2011
One day conference at Exeter University
Keynote speakers: Professor Brian Hurwitz (King's College London); Deborah Kirklin MD (University College London & Editor of Medical Humanities )
Conference themes:
- Representations of medicine in culture
(e.g. music, visual cultures, film, literature) and the impact of culture on
health/medicine
- Ethical implications of combining medicine and the
arts
- Formulating and conceptualising the field of ‘Medical
Humanities'
- Theoretical and empirical approaches to studying
relationships between medicine / Medical History and the arts
- The politics, processes and limitations of exchange
between medicine and the arts
- Practice-based applications of reciprocity, such as
promoting health through the arts
For further information on the conference, please contact Victoria Bates vlb204@ex.ac.uk or Sam Goodman sgg204@ex.ac.uk
www.centres.exeter.ac.uk/medhist/conferences/cradle/index.html
Arts and Health opportunities
RNCM
Music for Health is delighted to run a programme of musician residencies at the
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital throughout 2011. The project, Medical
Notes, is funded by Youth Music.
We
are looking to appoint three vocalists or instrumentalists of graduate or
comparable musical level and with previous experience of making music with
people in health care settings to train alongside our lead musicians. The
training will comprise observation of lead musicians, workshop sessions,
one-to-one mentoring and supervision, artistic exchange with guest artists and
running three mentored 10-week residencies at the Royal Manchester Children’s
Hospital.
This
is a unique opportunity for musicians with initial Music for Health experience
to further develop their skills and to develop an expertise of working with
hospitalised children and young people.
A
training fee of £1825 is available for each trainee.
To
apply, please submit your CV and expression of interest by Thursday 17 February
12 o’clock noon.
Interviews
and auditions for shortlisted candidates will be held on Tuesday 8 March at
RNCM.
Please
refer to details in the attached trainee brief.
Please
do not hesitate to contact me in case you have any questions regarding the
training or submission of your application: lilli.brodner-francis@rncm.ac.uk
‘From the Cradle to the Grave' will focus on the
impact of health and medicine in the ‘making and unmaking' of all modern arts,
from the nineteenth century onwards.
Rather than simply examining finished texts, films, artworks or pieces
of theatre/film, the central goal of this conference is to examine the
processes by which medicine and the arts have influenced each other across time
and place and explore the ways in which both fields continue to intersect.
The event will include an art and screen exhibition on
the relationship between hospital art and health using artistic pieces from
Devon and Cornwall, organised in conjunction with Arts & Health South West
and Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. The conference will also incorporate a
plenary discussion on the nature of ‘Medical Humanities' and publishing within
the field, as part of Deborah Kirklin's keynote address.
Papers are encouraged examining contemporary and historical relationships
between medicine and the arts. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
- Representations of medicine in culture (e.g. music, visual cultures, film,
literature) and the impact of culture on health/medicine
- Ethical implications of combining medicine and the arts
- Formulating and conceptualising the field of ‘Medical Humanities'
- Theoretical and empirical approaches to studying relationships between
medicine / Medical History and the arts
- The politics, processes and limitations of exchange
between medicine and the arts
- Practice-based applications of reciprocity, such as promoting health through
the arts
The event will take place on 14 April 2011, at the University of Exeter. For
further information on the conference, please contact Victoria Bates vlb204@ex.ac.uk or Sam Goodman sgg204@ex.ac.uk . w: www.centres.exeter.ac.uk/medhist/conferences/cradle/index.html
web links to info/organisations of interest
This
consultation explores the proposed funding and commissioning routes for public
health, including the ring-fenced budget provided to local authorities. The
consultation closes on 31 March, after which a summary of responses received
will be published.
This consultation explores the proposed public health outcomes framework.
The consultation closes on 31 March, after which a summary of consultation
responses received will be published.
GP pathfinder consortia
The 52 groups of GP practices as pathfinders for GP consortia, by
Strategic Health Authority region have been announced and further announcements
of a second wave are expected in January.
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/Features/DH_122384
The Department of Health has published its plans for adult social care
in England. The Vision sets out how the Government wishes to see services
delivered and a new agenda for adult social care “based on a power shift from
the state to the citizen”. Specific commitments to extend the rollout of
personal budgets, increase preventative action in local communities,
maintaining independence and encouraging partnerships in care and support
provision are outlined to further this.
A range of best practice papers and details of the new Partnership Agreement
Think Local Act Personal can also be found here.
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_121508
Alongside the Social Care Vision (see above), the
Department of Health has launched Transparency in Outcomes: a framework for
adult social care - a consultation on a new strategic approach to quality and
outcomes in adult social care.
The consultation envisages an enabling framework which places outcomes at the
heart of social care, improves quality in services, and empowers citizens to
hold their councils to account for the services they provide. The next stage
will be co-produced with partners, based on responses to this consultation.
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_121509
Nalgao are currently researching arts based health
interventions and initiatives to share good practice with its membership and
with other organisations such as the DCMS.
To find out more email: nalgao@aol.com
Music for People
London-based organisation running projects in the charity sector doing
two basic things: First they play concerts; second they improve the performance
skills of our users so they play great concerts.
On their website, you can also find a list of links to articles and
papers on the value of music in recovery and convalescence
MOMA New York – resources and guidance on working with
people with Alzheimer
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, has unusually good
resources and guidance about working with people with memory loss, more
specifically people with Alzheimer - www.moma.org/meetme/
Child
Protection Awareness in Music - online course
MusicLeader recommends anyone working in music with
children and young people to complete this basic introduction to child
protection. The course provides fantastic value for money at only £15 plus VAT
and will only take two to three hours to complete from the comfort of your own
home or work place. All learners receive a certificate of achievement upon completion
of the course - a great way to evidence to your employer or customers that you
have essential knowledge and understanding in this area.Try before you
buy! Sample film clips from the course can be found on You
Tube. To access the course now visit http://platinum.educare.co.uk/music
London Arts in Health Forum
London Arts in Health Forum is a membership
organisation which aims to develop the role of culture in wellbeing and to
promote and support arts in health activity across London and nationally. The
organisation is free to join and offers monthly events, a monthly newsletter,
training sessions and advice and support for artists, architects, clinical
staff and service users - basically anyone with an interest in arts in health.
LAHF currently has over 1,800 members from London and further afield.
Their monthly bulletin is very informative and I
highly recommend you subscribe to it.
Funding update