The Centre for Heritage have organised a ‘Heritage and Wellbeing’ workshop, which will be taking place at The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge in Canterbury, on 7-8 June 2018.

Beginning with the development of art therapy in the 1940s, social prescribing of arts and culture for the enhancement of health and wellbeing has now extended to such contexts as museums and heritage sites. Where health services are pushed to their limits and much of their vital resources being used to address symptoms linked to loneliness, depression, stress and anxiety, the potential benefits to the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities from engagement with museums and heritage sites presents a new role for museums and heritage organisations to explore.

This two-day workshop, organised by the Centre for Heritage at Kent and funded by the Eastern ARC of Kent, the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia, has been designed for academics, students and heritage practitioners interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the potential for heritage sites within social prescribing. Bursaries will be available to postgraduate students.

For more information, please see the page here:
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/heritageandwellbeing/