This systematic review aimed to address the primary question: What are the subjective wellbeing outcomes of engaging with (taking part in, performing, viewing) visual arts for ‘working-age’ adults (15-64 years) with diagnosed mental health conditions?; and a related secondary question: What are the processes by which the subjective wellbeing outcomes are achieved?
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NIH/Kennedy Center Workshop on Music and the Brain: Finding Harmony
The National Institutes of Health and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts convened a panel of experts to discuss the current state of research on music and the brain. The panel generated research recommendations to accelerate the study of music’s effects on the brain and the implications for human health.
Farther, Faster, Together: How Arts and Culture Can Accelerate Environmental Progress
The goal of this field scan is to understand and frame how place-based arts and cultural interventions, or “creative placemaking,” can advance sustainability outcomes in the context of community development.
Ballet Moves for Adult Creative Health
Queensland Ballet (QB) initiated Ballet Moves for Adult Creative Health, a multi-stage project to investigate, develop, and disseminate evidence-based practice findings related to the delivery of ballet to active older adults. Stage One involved a research project in partnership with Queensland University of Technology and supported by the Queensland Government’s Advance Queensland initiative, which critically investigated older adults’ motivations to participate in ballet, the health and well-being outcomes for active older adults, and the examination of the teaching practices involved in this delivery. This report outlines a summary of the findings pertaining to motivations to participate and well-being outcomes as perceived by active older adult class participants.
Art for Everyone: Approaches to Inclusive Practice
This publication is an outcome of the Connecting the Dots Project, delivered by Arts Access Victoria with the support of Creative Victoria and the Department of Health and Human Services. The project aims to address barriers to cultural participation by people with disability and mental health issues and who are Deaf.
Subjective well-being and engagement in arts, culture and sport
This paper explores the relationship between engagement in arts, culture
and sport, and subjective well-being, contributing to our understanding of the leisure experience, and cultural value, of these activities.
