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What does the arts and mental health field look like in Finland? The Foundation's Director shares some highlights.

Well-City Salisbury is a brilliant social prescribing project run in partnership by cultural and heritage organisations across the city. Its Project Coordinator, Zoe Prichard, explains how it works.

Collaborate, deliver, fund and celebrate - four principles that are enabling Finland to embed creative ageing in national cultural life.

The Art Cure by Professor Daisy Fancourt is fantastic, and joins a wealth of great books, both fiction and non-fiction, to read at the intersection of mental health and the arts, says David Cutler.

It's Let's Dance National Day of Dance on Sunday: David Cutler celebrates some of the projects the Foundation has supported offering creative dance opportunities for people with mental health problems.

Reflections on older emerging artists by Arti Prashar.

A visit to the UK 25 years ago inspired Yoko Hayashi to establish Arts Alive, which specialises in creative ageing programmes, in Tokyo. Here she explains how the story continued and where it's going next.

Our Director celebrates the rich landscape of creative mental health activity in Scotland just in time for Hogmanay.

The Foundation's Communications and Research Manager visits a therapeutic art studio and a mental health arts festival in Germany.

A team at the University of Surrey and London Bubble Theatre have used story-telling and animation to explore with older LGBTI adults their stories and concerns about ageing and going into care in a heteronormative society.