The Role of Performing Arts Medicine in Preventing Injuries
Start 2026 strong with the Performing Arts Health Greatest Hits. From managing your performance anxiety to visualising, here are 5 ways to take care in 2026.
Writing the r(Age): Resources and Support for Writers Experiencing Menopause
Our guest blog this month is written by Rachel Barnett-Jones www.sensiblecreative.co.uk Hello! I’m a freelance writer for stage and screen, a theatre producer and educator. I’ve been working in the performing arts for 20 years and have written over 80 commissioned...
Performing Arts Health Greatest Hits: 5 Ways to Start 2026 Strong
Start 2026 strong with the Performing Arts Health Greatest Hits. From managing your performance anxiety to visualising, here are 5 ways to take care in 2026.
ABTT and BAPAM Launch Groundbreaking Guidance on Physical Health for Backstage Theatre Workers
ABTT and BAPAM Launch Groundbreaking Guidance on Physical Health and Well-being for Backstage Theatre Workers during Panto Season The Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) and the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) have unveiled a...
From Self-Awareness to Confidence: How Your Relationship with Yourself Shapes Performance Anxiety
In this guest blog, Dr Kay Capaldi examines the links between performance anxiety, social anxiety, and the self-relationship, and explains how these insights have shaped a new Self-Relationship Training® programme. Read about the aims of the programme, and how to join...
Men’s Mental Health in the Performing Arts: Remembering Our Humanity
This Men’s Health Awareness Month, BAPAM Performance Psychologist, Dr Anna Waters, considers men’s mental heath in the performing arts. When I sat down to write this blog about men’s mental health in the performing arts, I spent far too long searching for...
How to Avoid Overbooking Yourself As A Performing Arts Professional
Learn how to avoid overbooking yourself in the performing arts industry with five actionable tips! Get advice on bookings, burnout, rest, and more from BAPAM.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Supporting Carers in the Performing Arts (Carers Week 2025)
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.
InTune: The New Digital Health and Wellbeing Tool from PRS Members’ Fund and BAPAM
Home » Featured PRS Members’ Fund, the charity that provides funding to PRS songwriters and composers during difficult times, and BAPAM, the UK experts in performing arts medicine, have partnered to launch a first of its kind digital tool to support the health and...
Standing with the LGBTQIA+ Performing Arts Community on May 17th
May 17th is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT). Learn how BAPAM supports LGBTQIA+ performing artists online now.
Research Report: Music Industry Counsellors’ Experiences of Working with Clients Affected by Sexism or Misogyny
We are grateful to performing arts specialist psychotherapeutic counsellor, Janine Ellis, for contributing this guest article which reports on her research into music industry counsellors and psychotherapists’ experiences of working with clients affected by...
Perimenopause – A Performing Artist’s Perspective by Sophie Tott
Photo by Matt Forster: thisandmatt.co.uk In our guest blog, Sophie Tott aka DJ Tallulah Goodtimes shares her experience of perimenopause while working as a DJ, producer and artist. In her companion piece to Sophie’s blog Dr June Sheren writes, “As a...