Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health

The Sidney De Haan Research Centre is delighted to invite you to a series of webinars exploring interdisciplinarity, disability and theatre practice. All are welcome! Please sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/T058G3sCQ3

The Sidney De Haan Research Centre is pleased to invite you to our Research Insights and Impact session.

When: Tuesday 9th July, 2pm-5pm
Where: Verena Holmes Building, 3rd floor space, Canterbury Campus, North Holmes Road

This session will share insights from ongoing research and evaluation projects particularly focussing on reach, potential impact and next steps. The session will include presentations on:

Physical and Mental Health in Babies, Children and Young people

Arts in Public, Clinical and Performance Spaces

'DISCONNECTED' Exhibition and Refreshments

To book your place, please fill out the booking form here: https://forms.office.com/e/Y3U6XbF7Yc?origin=lprLink

For any queries please email [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Today is Social Prescribing Day! Today celebrates everyone who helps make social prescribing possible and raises awareness of it can change lives. Art forms such as dance, singing, painting and theatre can benefit individuals physical and mental health greatly. We are proud our research contributes to the body of evidence supporting how valuable social prescribing can be.

Are you employed in theatre and a parent/carer of a disabled child or adult, or do you know someone who is? If so, our PRF Nina Worthington would love to hear from you. Nina is working with director Caroline Wilkes to explore theatrical narratives of parenting and disability on and off stage through a new professional network and in-person event in partnership with . For more info. please reply here or email: [email protected]

Latest research by , conducted by Prof. Angela Pickard, director of the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts & Health, & funded by , has been featured in an article by : https://rb.gy/bu5aiy.

The deadline to sign up to our exciting Dance Educator's symposium is Friday 2nd February! We'd love for you to join us on 1st March to explore intersectionality, intertextualities, identities and inequalities as part of our AHRC funded Critical Dance Pedagogy Network. For more information and to register your attendance, please click here:

Dance Educator’s Network: Exploring Intersectionality, Intertextualities, Identities & Inequalities Symposium Join the Dance Educator’s Network's symposium event of a series from the AHRC funded Dance Educator’s Network, dedicated to Critical Dance Pedagogy at CCCU.

We are hosting a very exciting symposium event on Friday 1st March, exploring intersectionality, intertextualities, identities and inequalities as part of our AHRC funded Critical Dance Pedagogy Network. For more information and to register your attendance, please click here: https://research.canterbury.ac.uk/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health/ahrc-funded-dance-educators-network-critical-dance-pedagogy-through-discourse-and-practice/

Congratulations to L. H. Maagero, C. Grainger (SDHRC) & P. Sextou on having their article on reducing children’s peri-operative anxiety using arts-based interventions published by the Journal of Applied Theatre Research:

Can arts-based interventions reduce children’s peri-operative anxiety in paediatrics? A discussion of representative studies | Request PDF Request PDF | Can arts-based interventions reduce children’s peri-operative anxiety in paediatrics? A discussion of representative studies | This narrative literature review aims to provide a broad scope and objective analysis by identifying and summarizing published works surrounding... | Find, r...

We would like the thank everyone who came along to our event last week as part of Canterbury Festival, to celebrate Arts for health and wellbeing! After an introduction from our Director, Professor Angela Pickard, the event showcased dance choreography, a screening of Elegy by Ash Mukherjee, CCCU’s gospel choir and a presentation on how the Centre’s research can help train future Arts facilitators. The showcase was followed by ‘DISCONNECTED’ an exhibition by Charlotte Grainger. The exhibition explored the lived experienced of depersonalisation and derealisation disorder through photography, film and spoken word, and is evaluating how the use of the Arts can help to spread awareness and understanding of this condition. We hope it was an interesting, thought provoking and insightful afternoon for all.