Posted Apr 24, 2025
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. Tickets for the full day, including a Hearty, Not Arty lunch, cost €30. Book your place here Arts + Health: Check Up Check In is funded by the Arts Council and the HSE, and in 2025 is supported by Offaly County Council and Esker Arts....
Posted Apr 8, 2025
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 known throughout Ireland for his warm and engaging writing and interviews on psychology-related topics. For Check Up Check In, his Keynote title will be ‘The Art of Making our Lives Work’. Arts + Health: Check Up Check In will take place on Wednesday 30 April in Esker Arts, Tullamore. Organised by Réalta, this ‘go to’ event for the arts and health sector features presentations by some of the most exciting and inspiring practitioners working in this field today. The fee for the full day, including lunch, is €30. Click here to book your place Arts + Health: Check Up Check In is open to arts practitioners, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in learning more about this exciting area. Check Up Check In provides an opportunity for participants to come together to share their experiences, exchange ideas, and support and inspire each other in their practice through a range of themed presentations and workshops. Keynote Speaker Dr Tony Bates was Head of the Dept of Psychology for 30 years at St James’ Hospital Dublin. Following psychotherapy training at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford, he established the MSc in Cognitive Psychotherapy at Trinity College Dublin. In 2006, he created Jigsaw, The National Centre for Youth Mental Health. He trained as a mindfulness teacher at the University of Wales, Bangor, in 2001...
Posted Aug 1, 2024
Save the Date: Experience 2024, An Introduction to Arts, Health & the Older Person takes place on Thursday 5 December at Limerick City Gallery of Art. Designed for arts practitioners interested in this area, over the course of the day, Experience 2024 will outline the essential elements involved in working with older people in an arts and health context, and will feature presentations by some of the most experienced and inspiring practitioners working in this specialised field of practice. Experience 2024 is presented by Age & Opportunity, the national organisation working to enable the best quality of life for us all as we age, and Réalta, the national resource organisation dedicated to developing arts + health in Ireland. Expressions of interest may be registered by email to arts@ageandopportunity.ie The full programme and booking information will be published at the end of September on www.ageandopportunity.ie and www.realta.ie Experience 2024: An Introduction to Arts, Health and the Older Person is funded by the Arts Council and the HSE, and supported by Limerick City and County Council. Image Credit: Participant Kitty McGarry and artist Eilis O’Toole at a Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts Art at the Kitchen Table Studio in Dungarvan, County Waterford, during the Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2024. Photo by DGM Photographic....