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We’re hiring! Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts seeks Assistant Administrator + Art Installer
Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts is currently seeking to recruit an Assistant Administrator and an Art Installer to join its team. Both roles come under the Community Employment Scheme and are based at the Réalta Centre for Arts + Health at University Hospital Waterford...
Réalta welcomes the First Strategic Action Plan for Arts and Health in Ireland
“People living in Ireland have access to creative and cultural activity as part of a holistic health journey throughout the life course, supporting better health and wellbeing outcomes and enriching the creative and artistic landscape.” Vision statement,...
Réalta expresses gratitude to Maureen Kennelly, outgoing Arts Council Director
We at Réalta, the national resource organisation for arts + health in Ireland, wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to Maureen Kennelly as she steps down from her role as Director of the Arts Council. Maureen’s decades of experience working at all levels in the...
Réalta to facilitate Arts + Health Thread at Creative Brain Week 2025
A rich seam of mature practice exists in Ireland connected to an expanding international movement promoting art as a health-positive activity. Ireland has leadership status in this area, but can it sustain it? What patterns emerge over time? What can this teach a...
Update: Arts + Health Check Up Check In 2025 full programme published!
Réalta is pleased and excited to publish the full, packed programme for this year’s Arts + Health: Check Up Check In. Click this link: Arts and Health Check Up Check In 2025 Programme and we look forward to welcoming you to Tullamore on Wednesday 30 April....
Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2025 programme announced; Keynote Speaker Dr Tony Bates
Réalta has published details for Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2025 and is thrilled to reveal that Dr Tony Bates will be this year’s Keynote Speaker. Dr Bates is a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at University College Dublin. He is well...
REMINDER: Vote for Réalta – PTSB Ireland Community Partners 2025! Deadline Fri 14 Mar, 6pm
Réalta has been shortlisted for the PTSB Ireland Community Partners 2025! The PTSB Community Fund supports local communities by providing funding to community organisations that are working hard to make a difference. The Community Fund operates in each of our regions...
Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2025 – Booking Open!
Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2025 will take place on Wednesday 30 April in Esker Arts, Tullamore. UPDATE: Booking is now open! Click here for full details and to book your place The ‘go to’ event for the arts and health (A+H) sector, Check Up Check In is organised...
Recommendations for Arts in Renal Care – Launch of PAINT Policy Brief at Queens University
Réalta was thrilled to be in Belfast recently for the launch of the PAINT Policy Brief – Recommendations for Arts in Renal Care. For two years, Réalta has been a partner on the PAINT Project, a research project which involved the global mapping of arts...