Welcome the first newsletter of 2020, a little more belated than expected! But happy Valentines from us.

A quick update from us:

Recently we were really pleased to be able to present on a few issues of wellness and museums as guests to the Johns Hopkins University Museum Studies Speaker Series. We looked specifically at Recovery, Mindfulness, PTSD & Veterans in Archaeology, as case studies to demonstrate the breadth of Wellness work that can be done in/with museums.

You can watch it here.

A big Thanks!

We’d like to thank the Glenside Hospital Museum for spending an afternoon skill sharing with us, and discussing their object handling programme and their conceptual question “how is this kind” as a discussion prompt for considering the history of objects related to Psychiatric care.

If you're ever in the area we highly recommend checking out the museum.

* A new Arts Health Network has been launched in New South Wales.

*An important US white paper on: "Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America initiative."

* Arts Council Wales, adds minimum pay requirements for staff in order to apply for their funding.

We were saddened by the news of the passing of Ram Dass (NY Times Obit), and influential teacher of Eastern Spirituality and Meditation. 

Photo: Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images

Diary

The UK’s National Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance conference will be held on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 March 2020 at Derby Museum. The theme this year will be Care. 

Goodbye for now... and thanks for supporting us.