RSM and BAPAM Healthy Practice Webinar Series 2021
This exciting 12-part webinar series has been carefully curated to focus on specific areas that can affect musicians’ health during their careers. Each session brings together specialist practitioners who are experts in their field of performing arts medicine. It is...
Breathing for health and wellbeing – Community Drop In
Our Community Drop-in has been running all summer, facilitated by Dr Pippa Wheble and we’ve been delighted to have over 130 participants to date. Each participant has a copy of our Healthy Practice Diary and is encouraged to set goals and to use the sessions to...
Fit to Sing! BAPAM Vocal Health Factsheet Updated
Whatever your style of singing and whatever your repertoire, you should take a holistic approach to your practising and performing. Our Fit to Sing! factsheet covers 12 tried and tested tips for healthy singing and has been updated for 2020. We are grateful to Millie...
Warm Up Exercises for Musicians: 2020 Update
The go-to resource for musicians preparing to perform, our new and improved Don’t Cramp Your Style: Warm-Up Exercises for Musicians factsheet is now available online. These essential tips and warm up exercises for musicians are designed to prepare you for...
Healthy Touring Checklist and Rider
Artists, crew, and management teams can use a Healthy Touring Checklist as part of planning for a tour and prepare a Health Rider to help people involved with the tour support artist and crew wellbeing. Our Healthy Touring Checklist has been developed as a result of a...
Event Report: Occupational Health in the Performing Arts Industry – The Original Gig Economy
Health in the performing arts industry – whose responsibility? Every year BAPAM helps with hundreds of inquiries about health problems related to working in the performing arts. These include musculoskeletal problems caused by strain and intensive use of parts of the...
BAPAM Psychosocial Working Group
BAPAM has convened a Psychosocial Working Group to bring together clinicians including doctors, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors, charities working with performing arts professionals to support mental health, and academics conducting key...
New Clinics in Liverpool and Belfast
As part of our commitment to reach and support performers throughout the UK, we are pleased and excited to announce new regional clinics, this time in Liverpool and Belfast starting in May 2019. BAPAM are delighted to be working with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic...