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Arts + Health & Wellbeing
A toolkit with arts & culture activities for your health and wellbeing
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Do the cultural 5... No expertise needed!
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Do the Cultural 5
with Christopher Bailey, Arts & Health Lead at the World Health Organization
The evidence
A Scientific Review by the World Health Organization
How the arts can improve health and wellbeing
Let star vocalists teach you breathwork...
An initiative led by soprano Renée Fleming
Healing Breath
Breathing exercises for better breath
...then slow down your body tempo
Video
Watch Stille
A film about silence to slow down your body tempo
Story
The Story Behind Stille
How filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer captured moments of silence
Breathe with nature
In Rhythm with Nature
A digital wellbeing experience
Interact
Now let's talk about mental health
Watch
For the Imperfect People
Four students from SocialWorks write a spoken word piece about mental health
Learn
The Healing Power of Poetry
Learn the science with Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab
Perspectives: Mental Health
Dr. Adam Perlman from the Mayo Clinic and boxer Ryan Garcia talk about creativity and health
Watch
and find out which artwork represents your mood
Explore the visualization created with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley
Launch Experiment
Add some tunes to help you relax...
Video
The Healing Power of Music
Learn how with Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab
Video
A Stroll in the Park With Seurat and Bach
Video
A Musical Tour Around The Kiss
Video
The Kirifuri Waterfall at Mt. Kurokami
Video
Celebrating Art and Nature with Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony - First Part
Video
Yue Minjun x Beethoven
Video
Popcorn Shells by Chris Ofili
Video
American Gothic x Chopin
Video
Stati d'animo - Quelli che restano by Umberto Boccioni
Video
A Musical Tour Around The Bookworm (Man with Nose in Book) by Norman Rockwell
...or get moving
Video
The Healing Power of Dance
Learn how with Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab
Learn
Just Dance
How dance can improve your mental health
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words."
- Ruth St. Denis, American dance performer
Connect with your environment, indoors or outdoors...
The Healing Power of Design
Learn how with Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab
Feeling Frazzled Working from Home?
These design tweaks can help your brain
Discover Nature's Secret to Improve Our Wellbeing
Why nature is essential to your mental health
Dive Around a Shipwreck in 360°
Have a virtual swim in this Tortugas dive spot
Explore Bryce Canyon By Horseback
Discover why it's called the Peekaboo Loop
An Immersive Diving Experience in 360°
Swim around a Tortugas dive spot without getting wet
An Interactive Kayaking Journey in 360°
An adventure through Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska
Explore Inside a Dark Cave in 360°
Go on an adventure through the Carlson lower cave
Explore Inside a Glacier in 360˚
Virtually lower yourself into this icy crevasse
...and discover the most calming places on earth
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The Pyramids
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Machu Picchu
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Kamigamo Shrine
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Stonehenge
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Taj Mahal
Improve your digital wellbeing
Explore tips and tools that support your digital wellbeing goals
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Your one-a-day wellness guide
Monday
Learn breathwork with soprano Renée Fleming
Tuesday
Mimic a Masterpiece using instant coffee
Wednesday
Reduce stress with an arty colouring book
Thursday
Watch a film that slows your body tempo
Friday
Dive in to an island of serenity
Saturday
Play a game with friends or family
Sunday
Get moving with AI
Now let your inner artist out!
Learn to Make a Potato Sculpture
Do a vegetable version of Barbara Hepworth's 'Spring'
Recreate Rembrandt's Artwork With Coffee
A new way to start your day
Recreate a Masterpiece
Make an artwork in the style of Monet
Recreate a Van Gogh With Pasta
Make your own masterpiece in your kitchen
Paint a Masterpiece like Pollock
Learn how to make this abstract expressionist artwork at home
Learn more about arts and health
Healing
PTSD and the Arts
A path to healing our healers
Music
Music and Trauma
How listening to music may ease traumatic stress
Manage stress
Steps for Grounding Yourself
A guide to learn how to ground yourself
Art by Post
The Southbank Centre shared art with people when they needed it the most. Enjoy a two part documentary introducing the project.
Part I
Art in a time of need
Enjoy a short documentary on how art can improve the quality of life
Part II
Art by Post
Continue watching a short documentary on the Art by Post project
"A wonderful moment to celebrate making, creativity...and how artists inspire us"
Persilia Caton, 'Art by Post' curator
Art in an Envelope
Find out how the Southbank Centre brought art to people in lockdown
What is Social Prescribing?
Hear from experts at the National Academy for Social Prescribing
Prescribing art
Social prescribing connects people to practical and emotional community support.
Experience the Exhibition
Take a video tour of the exhibition
Curator in Conversation
5 Minutes with Art by Post curator, Persilia Caton
The People Behind Art by Post
Art by Post united artists from across the United Kingdom
Beyond the Canvas
Meet the artists behind the project
Why Art, Why Now?
Art by Post highlights the need for art in crisis
How does art make you feel?
Explore some of the Art by Post artworks inspired by the Southbank Centres activity booklets.
From 'Growing Together'
From 'Tree, Leaf, Joy'
From 'You Exist'
From 'The Show Must Go On'
From 'Kick off Time, Perfect Rhyme'
From 'The Show Must Go On'
From 'Kick off Time, Perfect Rhyme'
From 'Home of Where the Art Is'
The power of poetry
Take a break and enjoy some poetry from Art by Post
My Pledge
Poem about Tennis
Apple Tart
Ode to my Armchair
The Fun Run
My Lockdown
A Football Haiku
"You have brought out a part of me that has laid hidden for virtually all my life, so for that alone, I thank you.’
Alan, 'Art by Post' artist
Keep exploring
See how people used arts to cope with COVID-19 crisis
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The Way I See It
See the experiences and artworks of children and young people during lockdown
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Healthcare Heroes
Artists create #PortraitsForNHSHeroes in this new project by Tom Croft
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Culture of Comfort with Yo-Yo Ma
Inspired by Yo-Yo Ma's Songs of Comfort, discover how the artist and other creatives find comfort in culture
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Room With a View
When schools around the world closed, students found ways to express themselves from their homes
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