Healthcare Context
Healthcare Context
Case Studies
In June 2022 composer Justin Grounds was invited by the Irish Doctors Orchestra to join them in a week of gathering and music making on Heir Island, Cork. A new recording and film of Justin's piece for
string orchestra ‘Brightly Burning Flame’ resulted from this collaboration.
Case Studies
Since 2018, a free weekly drop-in choir has been hosted by musician Liz Clark on the Skibbereen Hospital Campus over lunch hour which is open to all staff.
Case Studies
Joe Brennan was Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s Artist in Residence for 2021 at University Hospital Waterford. The residency focused on staff engagement due to Covid restrictions, offering storytelling online and outdoors. Changing circumstances during the residency also enabled Joe to tell stories at the bedside on the Paediatric Ward.
Case Studies
Viriditas is a song cycle by Irish singer and artist Ceara Conway for The Deepest Shade of Green, an Arts and Health programme for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture. Commissioned by Saolta Arts and Galway 2020, it was created for the staff and patients of the seven hospitals of Saolta University Health Care Group.
Case Studies
Butterfly Haven is a commissioned artwork by artist Lucy Turner dedicated to remembering our deceased colleagues in Tallaght University Hospital.
Case Studies
In 2018, artist Toma McCullim worked with the residents, staff and visitors of Skibbereen Hospital Campus on a collaborative art project to create a bronze public sculpture for the Hospital Grounds.
Case Studies
TODAY was a photography project located in St Finbarr’s Hospital Campus in Cork city from 2013 to 2016. The project was led by artist Colette Lewis working in participation with healthcare staff to create new photographic work in response to the hospital campus.
Research & Evaluation
In 2022, the Arts for Health Partnership developed and delivered Creative Carers, a participatory arts programme strand for and with carers in West Cork. This report explores the research and development phase, programme strands and delivery, and quantitative and qualitative outcomes.
Research & Evaluation
This evaluation report sheds light on the impact of staff workshops facilitated as part of the Musicians-On-Call programme in 2022. The report focuses on the ‘Introduction to Music in Healthcare for Healthcare Staff’, exploring the possibilities of supporting staff to learn creative approaches used by professionally trained healthcare musicians to help residents in engaging purposefully with music in their daily care roles.
Research & Evaluation
The first study of workplace choirs in Ireland and one of very few studies internationally to explore the health and wellbeing benefits of choirs for Health Service Staff.
Research & Evaluation
Over 59 million workers are employed in the healthcare sector globally, with a daily risk of being exposed to a complex variety of health and safety hazards.
Event
Sharing Stories is a collaborative exhibition born from a series of lunchtime wellbeing workshops for Children's Health Ireland's staff, facilitated by Visual Artist Peggie Mc Keon.
Event
Medicine will meet music at the Irish Doctors Orchestra’s special fundraising concert on 29 September at the SETU Arena.
Opportunity
Make Or Break is a pilot Creative Health and Wellbeing Programme which aims to promote employee wellbeing through creative workshops offered in the workplace.
Event
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is hosting a series of three evening workshops during Bealtaine Festival for HSE Cork Kerry Community Healthcare staff working with older people.
Event
The all-Ireland Irish Doctors Orchestra are performing at Ulster Hall, Belfast on Sunday 3 March 2024 to raise funds for Children in Northern Ireland, a charity with a focus on learning, collaboration, and influencing to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.
News
The RENEW partnership between the HSE, the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland), Creative Ireland, and the Arts Council was established in 2020 to explore options for collaborative work to further develop arts and health in the HSE.
News
The Musicians-On-Call programme, initiated by Music & Health Ireland and led by Limerick Arts Office in collaboration with Age Friendly Limerick and Healthy Limerick, is designed to bring the power of music into the lives of older adults in healthcare settings.
News
The artsandhealth.ie emerging artist bursary affords time and space for an early career artist to reflect on their arts and health practice.
Opportunity
HSE Health and Wellbeing invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced consultants/ organisations to undertake an evaluation of the Irish Hospice Foundation and HSE Healthy Ireland Pause pilot initiative.
Event
The all-Ireland Irish Doctors Orchestra will play UCD’s Astra Hall on Sunday 13 November to raise funds for Safetynet Primary Care.
News
In June 2022, after two years of working through the pandemic, members of the Irish Doctors Orchestra met together on Heir Island off the coast of West Cork for a week of music making.
News
Have you ever wanted to press pause on your busy life.
News
Healthcare staff wellbeing is at the forefront of new creative work commissioned by the Irish Hospice Foundation and supported by the Creative Ireland Programme.
News
Unmasked, a wall art installation by street artist Asbestos, was recently unveiled at St James’s Hospital in Dublin.
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