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The evening highlights key insights and recommendations from the Healing Arts Scotland 2024 impact report and evaluation findings.

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Performing Anxiety was an ambitious new good practice resource from the Mental Health Foundation and the team behind the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, designed for anyone who wanted to make live artistic work about mental health. This ranged from autobiographical shows about anxiety and depression to participatory projects working with vulnerable people.

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Ceramic Artist Carol Sinclair believed in the power of making to bring joy into our lives and shared her thoughts on why the process and experience of making made people happy. This event was part of HAS Glasgow Day.

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Glasgow Life's Singing For Fun was a free and accessible programme delivered by professional musicians and instrumentalists to support anyone who wished to sing for wellbeing.

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This unique event blended the arts and health, offering a holistic approach to fitness and wellbeing through dance fitness, ballet, and yoga.

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Participants joined Playlist for Life for an engaging workshop that delved into the transformative power of music for individuals living with dementia and their carers. This interactive session focused on three key musical realms: heritage music, identity music, and the vibrant world of Bollywood music. This event was part of HAS Glasgow Day.

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A powerful new theatrical work-in-progress delved into the complexities of modern masculinity. The journey of a group of young men was followed as they confronted their personal battles with toxic masculinity, challenging the roles society had imposed upon them. This event was part of HAS Glasgow Day.

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Hidden Sanctuary - An exhibition of screenprints created as part of an exciting national arts relay by participants with caring roles in collaboration with Bazooka Arts and Glasgow Print Studio.

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Healing Arts Scotland is teaming up with the Festival of Politics with a series of discussions from leading experts from the worlds of politics, the arts and health on a variety of topics including dementia, mental health and resilience, trauma, ageism and inequality and how engagement in the arts can make a difference to all walks of life.

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make the Bed was a 60-minute solo show that relied on gesture, physicality, and soundscapes as Ariela took the audience along with her on an anxiety-filled downward spiral. In showing her own struggle with mental illness, particularly anxiety, Ariela aimed to create a piece in which other anxious people could see their own experiences reflected. This piece was part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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The OutPost initiative had a significant positive impact on health and wellbeing across community and healthcare settings. The team also hosted visioning and reflection sessions, inviting contributions to a 'Creative Wellbeing Manifesto' for Dumfries & Galloway and creating new art.

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An exhibition of creative responses to the lived experiences of women carers (both paid and unpaid) in the region of Renfrewshire. Artists Audrey O'Brien, Karen Herbison, Kayleigh McGuinness and tsBeall responded to the stories they gathered from the carers with artistic works which are now incorporated into a touring exhibition.

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