BAPAM Factsheet – Mental Health Support in a Crisis
As Christmas approaches and many offices including our own close for a few days to end 2020, we are very much aware that the need for mental health support amongst performers won’t change. Indeed at BAPAM during the course of this year we have seen a big...
Equity Counselling Scheme: Initial Evaluation
We are proud to be delivering a counselling service for Equity, funded by Equity and by the Equity Charitable Trust. So far, 50 performance professionals have accessed the service and we have provided 300 free counselling sessions. We used the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scores,...
At the @artsmed PAMA Symposium 2021 BAPAM Practitioners & staff presented work on health promotion, a multidisciplinary pianists’ clinic, occupational risk, lessons for clinicians from the ... performing arts, & warm-up/cool-down protocols for instrumentalists https://www.bapam.org.uk/bapam-pama-symposium-2021/
Calling physiotherapists, osteopaths and chiropractors with experience of working with dancers. Paula Andrade, with @UCOLondon & @onedanceuk is recruiting participants for a qualitative study ... looking to broaden knowledge and improve healthcare for dancers
https://www.bapam.org.uk/research-manual-therapists-perspectives-of-caring-for-injured-dancers/
"No one should have to feel as though they are asking for special treatment or being awkward when requesting safety measures are enforced during a performance."
Important read for anyone booking ... artists in this period @FeaturedArtists @IVW_UK @AIP_uk @LiveMusic_UK: https://twitter.com/emzaemusic/status/1420124239353589761
New newsletter on something very personal to me - making sure clinically vulnerable artists feel as included and protected as possible in live music’s return, with a shoutout for @attitudetweets ❤️ https://emzae.substack.com/p/023-how-can-we-make-sure-live-musics
(📸: @NigelBig)