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Thank You to Dr Carol Chapman – A Legacy Gift to Support BAPAM’s Health Services for the Performing Arts
We are very grateful to Dr Carol Chapman who sadly passed away in 2023 and has kindly given to BAPAM through her will. Carol worked with BAPAM for many years as a Counselling Psychologist and as a member of our Medical Committee. Carol helped hundreds of performers...
How to Stay Mindful Towards the End of the Year
The end of the year brings unique challenges for performing arts professionals. Discover how you can get through to 2026 without extra stress online now.
How to Perform at Your Best in Your Next Audition
In her blog for BAPAM this month, Performance Psychologist, Dr Anna Waters, shares her tips and techniques to help you make the most of auditions. “I’ve always approached things with hunger and just enough fear. Plenty of confidence, you know, but just enough fear...
Medical Support for the Creative Sector
BAPAM are delighted to have developed a new partnership with Music Support, the charity that helps people who work in the music industry who are experiencing substance use, addiction and/or mental health challenges. You can read Georgina Levers Angell's words in Music...
Tips for Performing Arts Professionals Who Work Nights
Recognise the signs you may need support as a performer and learn how BAPAM’s free health service helps you stay healthy and perform at your best online here.
Research: Performing Artists and Disability
Are you a physically disabled professional, student or amateur performing artist? Researchers at University College London (UCL) are recruiting participants for a Performing Arts Medicine project investigating the experience of injury in disabled performing artists...
Harnessing the Power of Mental Imagery: Performing Artists’ Most Powerful Mental Tool
In her blog last month, Performance Psychologist, Dr Anna Waters, highlighted how useful mental imagery can be in managing performance anxiety. Here, she expands on how this powerful technique can help you achieve your creative goals. “Before stepping on stage, I...
BAPAM’s Free Health Service Is an Essential Performing Arts Support
Recognise the signs you may need support as a performer and learn how BAPAM’s free health service helps you stay healthy and perform at your best online here.
A Quick Guide To Surviving Festival Season
To celebrate Carers Week (9th to 15th June), BAPAM is spotlighting the challenges carers in the performing arts face and how to improve equality for them.
Pianist, Megan Rushbrook Cycles 255 Miles in 1 day for BAPAM
Megan Rushbrook has cycled 255 miles in one day, from Cardiff to the Suffolk Coast, raising over £1000 for the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM). An amazing achievement, and fantastic support for BAPAM's work building a healthier and more...
Reporting from the PAMA Symposium 2025
We have just returned from the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) Annual Symposium, hosted by Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, where we were amongst over 300 performing arts clinicians, educators and researcher delegates, with representatives from...
Performance Anxiety: How Performance Psychology Can Help
Performance anxiety will be experienced by everyone at some point, and we all respond in different ways. Performance Psychologist, Dr Anna Waters, shares insights, techniques and some simple exercises to help performers manage this common challenge. Everyone suffers...
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