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.

On Wednesday 1st November we are excited to be hosting an event to showcase Arts for Health and Wellbeing, as part of Canterbury Festival. This will include a showcase from Prof. Angela Pickard and an exhibition from Charlotte Grainger. All are welcome! Book your tickets here: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/event-booking/book.aspx?event=306005

We'd like to thank everyone who came along to our Showcase Event on the 12th July! The event included a welcome from our Director Prof. Angela Pickard, who gave an overview of the Centre and past achievements. Our Staff and Associates gave presentations on past and current projects, as well as giving an insight into some projects in development. The event was rounded off with a chance for everyone to network and enjoy some nibbles! We really hope everyone found the event insightful and valuable. If you have a research project or evaluation you have in mind that we may be able to help with, please get in touch with us: [email protected]

The Sidney De Haan Research Centre is excited to invite you to our Showcase Event on Wednesday 12th July. Please do come along to hear all about our previous and current research. To register scan the QR code or click here https://forms.office.com/e/m8Ykina6a6 we hope to see you there!

The Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health is pleased to welcome Stephen Clift Professor Emeritus. Stephen will speak about his research focused on singing for health, the changing landscape of arts and health and health inequalities on Monday 20th March at 12-2pm (with a break) via Teams (link below)- all are welcome and we look forward to seeing you there!

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The Sidney De Haan Research Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Angela Pickard as Director of the Centre. Angela is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and academic. She has worked across Faculties and Schools teaching and researching during her time at Canterbury Christ Church University, and in 2021, Angela was the first person in the UK to be appointed to Professor of Dance Education. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge in arts research, and a passion for exploring the relationship between the arts and physical, social and mental wellbeing. The Centre also welcomes Ellie Brown, who has a background in counselling, as the Centre administrator. We’d like to wish both Angela and Ellie the best of luck in their new roles!

Do join us tomorrow for our research webinar, the last in our 2021-2022 series:

"Future Stories: co-designing virtual reality (VR) experiences with young people with a serious illness in hospital”.
8th June at 10am BST (GMT+1).

https://bit.ly/3DZonVr

Looking forward to welcoming Professor Michael Balfour and Emerita Professor Robyn Ewing to our next research webinar: "Future Stories: co-designing virtual reality (VR) experiences with young people with a serious illness in hospital”.
This takes place on Wednesday 8th June at 10:00 BST (GMT +1).
Do join us via this link: https://bit.ly/3DZonVr
(no need to register in advance)

Congratulations to Dr. Ann Skingley, Emeritus Prof. Stephen Clift and Sonia Price on the publication of a suite of three papers on Singing and COPD! Available online in the Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing:

https://musichealthandwellbeing.co.uk/ijmhwpublications

"Singing and COPD: a pilot randomized controlled trial of wellbeing and respiratory outcomes"
"Singing and COPD: exploring the experiences of people attending a group activity"
"Singing and COPD: Development, implementation and evaluation of a resource to support home practice and disease self-management"

PUBLICATIONS

Fascinating keynote speech by Prof. Persephone Sextou at the Digital Performing Arts Conference this morning!
DPA conference programme
https://arts.bg.ac.rs/en/dpa-conference/

CONFERENCES « University of Arts in Belgrade Zoom (Panel discussion – open access) 12:00 – 1:00 PM Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99867795294?pwd=QjBaQ1FBenJHVHcwb25jR2JjbkhHZz09 Meeting ID: 998 6779 5294 Passcode: 842134

Here is a link to the recording of yesterday's fascinating research webinar: "Applied puppetry in healthcare and disability"

https://youtu.be/3F10GEJbakY

Thanks again to Dr. Emma Owen-Fisher, Cariad Astles and Dr. Susan Linn for making yesterday's research webinar such a success!
The recording will be available on our website shortly.

We are already looking forward to our next event on 8th June: "Future Stories: co-designing virtual reality (VR) experiences with young people with a serious illness in hospital”, which will be led by Professor Michael Balfour and Emerita Professor Robyn Ewing.

https://research.canterbury.ac.uk/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health/webinars/

Do join us for tomorrow's exciting research webinar: "Applied puppetry in healthcare and disability".
Tuesday 22nd March at 13:00. Open to all.
To attend event: https://bit.ly/3F7JmXx
More info: http://canterbury.ac.uk/sdhrc/webinars

Not long now until our next exciting research webinar event "Applied puppetry in healthcare and disability". Tuesday 22nd March at 13:00 (GMT). Open to all.
To attend event: https://bit.ly/3F7JmXx
More info: http://canterbury.ac.uk/sdhrc/webinars

Really looking forward to our next research webinar event "Applied puppetry in healthcare and disability". Tues 22nd March at 13:00.
http://canterbury.ac.uk/sdhrc/webinars

You can see recording of our event from 22.02.22, "The Galaxy Choir" here:
https://youtu.be/6aPSiEx3UV8

Webinar 22.02.2022: The Galaxy Choir This is a recording of the webinar organised by the Sidney De Haan Research Centre on February 22nd 2022. In the webinar, the Assistant Director of the Centr...