Australia : How puppetry is being used to enhance wellbeing in aged care residents
"The pandemic highlighted the balancing act between clinical care and quality of life for Australians living in aged care. Drama...
IRAQ & FRANCE: The Art of Survival: A Yazidi Cultural Archive
"The Yazidi Cultural Archives project was developed over the course of 12 months through a partnership between Yazda, a community-led...
NIGERIA: Drama as a Form of Therapy
In this interview with Wazobia Max TV during the pandemic, Dr. Nasir - a professor at the Department of Theatre and Media Arts in Federal...
USA: Executive Order on Promoting the Arts, the Humanities, and Museum and Library Services
"Section 1: Policy. The arts, the humanities, and museum and library services are essential to the well-being, health, vitality, and...
Lebanon: Drama therapist helps inmates with mental illnesses while pushing for reform
"Zeina Daccache conducts drama therapy in Lebanon’s jails to help inmates and fight for reform of the unjust penal code that can...
UKRAINE: Ukraine’s underground theater
"’It’s an opening night like no other at Mykolaiv’s theater, with the audience ushered down into an underground shelter this week for the...
INDIA: Finding new mediums to explore mental health: Creative initiatives by Namma women
"Discussions surrounding mental health have always been treated as taboo subjects in Indian households. The pandemic made a large part of...
USA: Spotlight will go dark: Youth theater group to present its final show next month
"Spotlight Theatre will run one final weeklong camp Aug. 8-12 in Riverhead at Vail-Leavitt Music Hall (established in 1881)...[...]...
CANADA: Concordia professor Bonnie Harnden's short film You Arrive wins multiple international award
"After 10 years of clinical and research work at the Montreal Children's Hospital, psychoanalyst and art/drama therapist Bonnie Harnden...
INDIA: Scientific studies are unravelling the link between art and healing
"Dr Samir Parikh, director of the department of mental health and behavioural sciences, Fortis Healthcare, says that art therapy is used...