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Research on Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases Among Musicians
Researcher Lisa Wetzlmair is studying Cardiovascular and pulmonary disease risk, health beliefs and knowledge among performing musicians and music students. She is hoping this demographic can help support the study by taking part in an online survey which has ethics...
Behzinga: How I overcame drinking and depression
On YouTube, he appears as a really fun and outgoing guy - but inside, he felt miserable.
Singers, Musicians and Hearing loss
Singers, instrumentalists, actors and performance professionals throughout the arts are understandably worried when they experience hearing problems, and often contact BAPAM with concerns about their ability to perform and work. If you read this article and take one...
Online Group Therapy for Performers during Lockdown
Over this lockdown period, as an additional support for creative practitioners with mental health concerns, BAPAM piloted offering a short online group therapy programme. Following these sessions, we spoke with Dr Tamara Karni Cohen, a GP and BAPAM Assessing...
BAPAM Healthy Practice Training Programme – what did the attendees say?
We have been offering three monthly sessions on “Keeping mentally well”, “ Preventing Injury” and “Vocal Health” since March. These have been very well attended online and we plan to continue to provide these for free in to 2021. BAPAM sent an evaluation form to the...
COVID-19 in Performing Arts – Impact, Challenges, Mitigations & Return To Normal Webinar
The webinar on the afternoon of 14 October 2020 was chaired by Dr Rickard Moen, the International Chair of the Society of Occupational Medicine, in conjunction with BAPAM. He started off the event by saying that culture is a hugely important part of our society, which...
Creativity and Motivation!
Participants at our Community Drop-in have spoken about the difficulty of finding the motivation to create new work during the COVID-19 outbreak and our facilitator Dr Pippa Wheble programmed a session on creative practice as a...
Booking Open for BAPAM Online CPD Training Series
BAPAM training events are a key resource for healthcare and education professionals. We explore key topics in current performing arts medicine practice and share unique insights into performance health and wellbeing. The approach...
Gail Porter: ‘Everyone saw me naked, inside I was breaking.’
For Gail Porter, the late 90s were both the best and worst of times.
Creative Minds and Mental Health
Creative Minds and Mental Health or Keeping Mentally Well was the title of my discussion as a Panelist for BAPAM's Healthy Practice Series in August 2020. Who am I to be asked to be a Panelist discussing such a topic? A fellow...
Mental Health, the Creative Industries & Me: How to Cope in 2020 – Mandy Panel Session with BAPAM and ABTT
This Thursday, 17th September, BAPAM GP, Dr Tamara Karni Cohen, joins Mig Burgess of the Association of British Theatre Technicians for a Facebook Live panel session with the Mandy Network centred on mental health in the creative industries. Tamara and Mig will...
UPDATED FAQ: Returning to Performing Arts Work post-COVID 19 Lockdown
This list of frequently asked questions covers some of the key issues around returning to performance work after Covid-19 lockdown, but if you have other queries, please email them to info@bapam.org.uk with the subject Risk Assessment and we will put them to our team...
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