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Featured Projects
The Institute works with partners, artists, participants, health organisations, and the community to create and test arts and health projects and concepts.
We create new work, building stronger artists and creative leaders and nurturing partnerships with health organisations.
With participants, artists, therapists and administrators we create beautiful music, we dance, we celebrate community resilience, whilst collecting and using evidence to support people to be healthier and happier.
We ensure that all of our pilot programs result in tangible and meaningful artistic and health outcomes and models of practice that can be shared to progress the Arts and Health sector.
Our latest projects include:
- Out of The Shadows – songwriting with people who have experienced family violence and/or sexual assault
- An ongoing research and program development partnership with Chris O’Brien Lifehouse – Music in Cancer Care project.
Past Projects
- Hand Hygiene - ‘Dance it in’
- Lithgow Music and Health Pilot Project in partnership with Westfund Health – ‘Health Rocks’ and ‘Dying Well’.
- ‘Refugees Women’s Arts Project’, and a Young Mums and Dads project (MAD) and can be seen here.
Health Arts Action Leadership Project
HAALP is a sector development capacity building program, which means we are dedicating some time and resources to work on the sector, to make it stronger, rather than in it. The project will focus on building the leadership capacity of the...
Out of the Shadows
The Institute for Creative Health (ICH) in partnership with the Centre Against Violence (CAV) in North East Victoria delivered Out of the Shadows. Focusing on the use of original songwriting and visual arts in family violence services, the...
Music in Cancer Care Pilot Program & Ongoing Project
Pilot: February 2016 - February 2017
The Music in Cancer Care pilot project assessed an inclusive music-in-health model of care at a cancer specific hospital. It will included bedside music therapy and group music and art therapy...