“Learning to draw/paint together is fun to do,” said Bodegraven native Harmen Kooistra, and it showed. In AFEdemy’s Culture on Recipe project, 7 participants learned to paint under the guidance of Harmen Kooistra from the 9th of May at Cultuurhuis Garenspinnerij in Gouda. The last session will be on the 20th of June. This project […]
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“Humor and well-being is the main goal of the day. They love to dance, play and propose new situations.”, this is how each session of the pilot course “Theater Therapy” implemented in Bucharest as part of the Culture on Prescription project begins. The “Theater Therapy” course for seniors is implemented by Cuibul Artistilor (https://www.facebook.com/cuibulartistilor), an
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In March of this year, Christiane Schlang, Matthias Roos, Nora Hauschild and Katharina Popp from the Health Department in Frankfurt am Main, together with ISIS Institut für Soziale Infrastruktur (Institute for Social Infrastructure), offered culture on prescription for people who feel lonely – either for a theatre course or a painting course. While the theatre
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The Portuguese pilot course of Culture on Prescription project started on April 24th, in Coimbra. Culture on Prescription is an Erasmus+ project, where SHINE is a partner, and that aims to prevent and combat social isolation and loneliness through art and culture prescribing. Once a week, a group of eight participants and two facilitators will
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The desk research performed by the Romanian partner, GEAC (Education and Action for Active Citizenship), within COPE project indicates that, although the concept of cultural prescription is less known in Romania, and even less operationalized in the practice of providing social services, we really need not only to implement the social/cultural prescription at national level,
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The European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA), the Belgian partner organisation of the Culture on Prescription project, has conducted extensive desk research in the fields of culture, psychology, medicine, and adult education to address the approach of Culture on Prescription. The research was carried out in three different regions: The Flemish (Dutch speaking),
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As German partner organisations, ISIS Institut für Soziale Infrastruktur and the Health Department Frankfurt am Main are working together on the Culture on Prescription project. Based on various interviews with experts from the fields of psychology, medicine, politics, adult education and pedagogy and a desk research, exciting insights into the potential of the Culture on
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Dublin City University (DCU) is a relatively young university. It was established in 1989 to meet industry needs and promote enterprise. We currently have over 19,000 students and circa 2,000 staff. From the outset, DCU was a pioneering university; we established an access programme to encourage students from socially disadvantaged communities and introduced a mandatory
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SHINE 2Europe, as a partner of the Culture on Prescription project, was responsible for the development of the Portuguese National Report that will be made available soon. The aim of this Report is to understand what exists in Portugal related to this form of intervention. In addition to desk research, specialists working in relevant areas
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As Dutch partner, we explored the current situation on Culture on Prescription in The Netherlands. Doing so, we met wonderful people who are very much concerned with providing wellbeing facilities and arts to people who feel lonely or struggle with mental health issues. At national level we met specialists of arts and wellbeing on prescription
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