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Get this Journal Started!
Our guest blog is by Nicky Torode, a coach, journaling facilitator and writer, who works with BAPAM on healthy practice training. Heard all the buzz about journaling? Perhaps, you’ve started and stopped? How do you journal and really feel the benefits? Want to know...
“The Show Must Go On” Mentality & How It Affects Creatives
Have you ever heard anyone utter, “The show must go on?” If you’ve worked in a creative field, you’re probably nodding your head. Whether there’s been a costume malfunction or the set has collapsed, performers and artists are always ready to give their all. However,...
Ed Sheeran Opens Up About Mental Health Struggles
When you see a famous singer performing and smiling with the press, many quickly dismiss the possibility of hidden mental health struggles. However, Ed Sheeran has recently spoken out about his struggles with depression and how he turned to drugs as a coping...
BAPAM, MU, Tonic Rider and YCAT launch mental health month for early career musicians
Reprising Last Year’s Mental Health Campaign: for the second year running, a group of leading charities launch a mental health campaign for early career musicians. The Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) are partnering with the Musicians’ Union (MU), British...
Long Covid Q&A
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Mike Shipley (1948-2022)
Dr Michael Edward Shipley, Consultant Rheumatologist, UCHL, BAPAM Mike Shipley, who died on 15 July 2022, had a lifelong interest in music and the performing arts, and as Consultant Rheumatologist at University College Hospital, London, it was natural for him...
PAM Rounds: CPD From UCL Performing Arts Medicine
PAM Rounds is a new series of face to face events bringing together health professionals and students to discuss performing arts medicine clinical cases. Organised by the UCL MSc Performing Arts Medicine department led by Dr Hara Trouli, PAM Rounds will be held...
Face to Face Performing Arts Medicine Clinics: Open for Booking Around the UK
BAPAM's free face to face clinics around the UK are back up and running. Work or study in the performing arts and have a health problem impacting your practice? We can help. BAPAM provides free, expert clinical advice to musicians, actors, dancers, creative...
Peter Leathem, PPL CEO and Chair of the BAPAM Board of Trustees awarded OBE
In his Majesty the King’s New Year Honours List, Peter Leathem has been awarded the honour of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (“OBE”) for services to the music industry. Leathem has been a director of PPL since 2006 and was appointed to the role of CEO in...
Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual
Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual is to be published by Omnibus Press on 23 March 2023 in paperback and eBook. The paperback edition is available to pre-order now at https://touringmanual.com, Omnibus Press have kindly offered discounts to readers...
Research: Acrobat Participants Wanted
Bethany Shum is a Physiotherapist, conducting research that explores sources of pain, pain perception and pain self-efficacy among acrobats as part of MSc in Performing Arts Medicine at UCL. Acrobats can contribute by completing an online questionnaire (10-15...
Research: Emotional Experiences of Training in Musical Theatre at Drama school.
Bethany Dickinson, at Queen Mary University of London, is seeking participants for her research project on the emotional experiences of Musical Theatre graduates during their time at drama school. Bethany is interviewing participants aged 18 and over, who are not...
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