Healing Arts Scotland 2024: Share your healing arts stories
- Area of Work: Events
- Type: News Item
- Published: 6th December 2023

Have the arts helped you to stay healthy, or cope in meaningful ways? If so, Scottish Ballet would like to hear from you.
Healing arts can be defined as participating in the arts in ways that contribute to your wellbeing, or that help you, or your community to manage challenges. This could include creating, sharing, or taking part in the arts in your everyday life. You may be part of a community group, arts organisation, or clinic that aims to support physical, mental, social, or ecological health.
From farmers choirs and Taiko drumming to dance for Parkinson’s, or pottery as a pain killer – they are interested in all art forms and health benefits.
Your story will feature in Scottish Ballet’s spring issue of Backstage magazine and will help to inspire others to take up a healing arts activity whilst positively addressing current health concerns and inequalities across Scotland and the UK.
To be involved or find out more, please contact sarah.potter@scottishballet.co.uk. Sarah can help people to write and edit their stories. People with lived experience will be given full ownership of the story, including final approval before print and publication, the choice of where their story is published, the right to remove any digital editions after publication, and a follow-up call to check how the person with lived-experience feels after publication.
All final drafts are to be received by end of December 2023.
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