Arts Debate - Is there a role for the arts in health?
How can public funding of the arts cross-stream with other public sectors? In their first round of research Arts Council England discovered that almost unanimously people agree the arts have a positive effect on health and well-being, and that this kind of social benefit represents one of the most important principles that should guide the public funding of the arts.
What are your opinions? Contribute to the debate here.
Posted on March 20th, 2007
May 1st, 2007 at 10:53 am
arts in health can make a significant contribution to increasing health awareness and raising health improvements.
Arts based activity can promote health, improve well-being and quality of life for people of all ages.
Providing arts activity in a therapeutic setting, allowing people to express themselves or explore health issues, encouraging physical activities such as dance and drama, enjoyable pursuits such as film and music, relaxing and rewarding interests such as jewellery making or woodcarving, and dynamic and expressive arts like rapping or grafitti art all these can be beneficial to peoples health…