Dance & Health Links

Event Aims

• To introduce health and wellbeing sector partners to the unique capacity of dance to achieve health and wellbeing outcomes in a more creative and cost effective way.
• To give health and wellbeing sector partners an opportunity to build partnerships with the dance sector and find out more about each others work.

Programme

• Presentation on the benefits of dance to health and wellbeing; summarising the evidence base across the lifecourse.
• Sharing models of good practice of dance programmes, which meet multiple health outcomes and offer improved return on investment.
• Live and digital dance performances by local community groups.
• Networking sessions for health sector partners to share their priorities and work areas with the dance sector and explore how dance can help contribute to health priorities in the North East.

The event is aimed at local authority strategic leads, commissioners and officers in public health, social care, arts and education; councillors; dance managers and practitioners; and wider health partners including Clinical Commissioning Groups and voluntary sector organisations.

This event is part of the Cultural Commissioning Programme, an Arts Council England funded programme which works strategically to: support the arts and cultural sector to engage with public service commissioning; enable commissioners to develop awareness and understanding of how they can work with the arts and cultural sector to deliver public service outcomes: www.ncvo.org/CCProg.It is delivered by a partnership of NCVO, NPCand NEF.

For more details email: gabriel.bristow@neweconomics.org