After more than ten years of commitment to the cultural development in hospitals, the associations Musique & Santé (France), Arts for Health (United Kingdom), Waterford Healing Arts Trust (Ireland) as well as the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (United Kingdom) have developed together musical and artistic actions for hospitalized people: children, teenagers, adults, and elderly people.
This European cooperation has given patients access to culture, and in particular music. It participates in the humanization of hospitals in improving the welcoming, the support, and the well-being of patients.
This innovating project has allowed the creation of a European network on the theme of music and more generally culture in health settings. This networks wishes to promote and develop these actions with partners from Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, etc.
The European network “culture in hospitals” will allow cross border and interprofessional exchanges on the place and role of music and culture in healthcare environments.
The following means will be set up:
- development and multiplication of musical actions in health care,
- set up of artistic and creative actions and workshops for hospitalised children, adults and elderly persons,
- training of care staff and artists to the use of music in healthcare,
- organisation of reflection workshops and research commissions gathering European specialists,
- publication of the research results,
- invitation of further partner countries.
Our current projects:
• ARTISTIC RESIDENCY IN BUCHAREST (ROMANIA)
The foundation M.A.T.C.A.-2000 (Bucharest) hosted Musique & Santé's musicians and coordinators for an artistic residency from April 14 to 18, 2008.
This week was an opportunity for musicians to exchange and to sensitize local culture and health operators. Musical interventions took place in different local hospitals:
- Clinical Center for Rehabiliation for Children "Dr. Nicolaie Robanescu"
- Casa Geron (geriatrics)
- Clinical Center for Rehabiliation for Adults "Dr. Constantin Gorgos"
The coordinators worked on future projects with the Romanian Public Health Ministry and the French Embassy.
This project is supported by the programme “L’Europe en plus large !” of the Fondation de France.
• EUROPEAN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESOURCE CENTRE "CULTURE IN HOSPITAL"
The Délégation au Développement et aux Affaires Internationales (DDAI) of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication has renewed its commission to Musique & Santé to set up a European interdisciplinary resource centre and to develop a European network “Culture in Hospital”.
In the framework of this mission, contact and sensitization visits will be organized in a few partner countries involved in this field.
• TRAINING “MUSIC FOR HEALTH" AT THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC
The Royal Northern College of Music hosted 5 of Musique & Santé’s musicians and coordinators from March 3 to 7 for an exchange on ‘music in health’. Musical interventions were carried out for and with the patients of the Booth Hall hospital, the Manchester Royal Infirmary and the St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children.
This project was supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission (Grundtvig) and the Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance (GMSA).
• 1st EUROPEAN TRAINING SESSION "MUSIC IN HEALTH SETTINGS"
The 1st European training “Music in Health Settings” took place in Paris from February 11 to 15. This session was carried out in partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music; it gathered together 13 professional musicians from various countries (United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Finland, Lebanon).
Theoretical modules on the methods and approaches of musical actions in health settings were completed by practical sessions in the Parisian region hospitals
- Robert Debré (AP-HP) - neonatalogy unit (Pr Aujard's unit)
- Paul Brousse (AP-HP) - geriatric unit
- Armand Trousseau (AP-HP) - paediatric unit
- Institut Gustave Roussy) - paediatric oncology unit (Dr Hartmann's unit)
• EUROPEAN ARTISTIC RESIDENCY – DECEMBER 10-14, 2007
Musique & Santé hosts from December 10-14 musicians and cultural and healthcare professionals from the following countries: United Kingdom, Italy, Romania, Estonia, Spain, Ireland, Poland.
This week offers the opportunity to musicians and cultural operators involved in healthcare to meet and to work together in hospitals of the Parisian region.
This exchange week will allow the set up of future European projects on the theme of music in hospitals.
This project is supported by: Label Paris Europe, Conseil Régional d'Île-de-France, Fondation de France (programme "L'Europe en plus large !" ) and the Ministry of Culture and Communication (Délégation au Développement et aux Affaires Internationales) in the framework of the “Culture à l’hôpital” programme.
• LABEL PARIS EUROPE 2006
Musique & Santé was rewarded the Label Paris Europe 2006 from the City of Paris for our project: “creation of a network music in hospital".
Musique & Santé in partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) set up European meetings with different partner countries in order to gather together local operators from the cultural and health sectors.
The following partners were visited:
• Bulgarian National Radio - Sofia (Bulgaria),
• Association of Polish Hospitals – Warsaw (Poland),
• Fine Arts Department, University of Tallinn (Estonia),
• Athenaeum Musicale - Florence (Italy),
• Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra Kosice and Hospital Nemocnicasaca - Kosice (Slovakia).
These meetings will allow the creation of a European Network and the set up of future European exchange projects.
• MUSIC AND HEALTH - EXCHANGES AND COMPARISONS BETWEEN ARTISTIC PRACTICES
After more than ten years of commitment to the cultural development in hospitals, the
associations Arts for Health (England), Waterford Healing Arts Trust (Ireland) and Musique &
Santé (France) have wished to share and compare their experience.
To do so, three actions were carried out from October 2005 to August 2006:
• The organization of six artistic residencies in hospitals of the three countries
involving professional musicians coming from the UK, Ireland and France.
• The organisation of a European exchange seminar in Paris on July 3, 4, and 5, 2006, for cultural and
healthcare professionals from several European countries (France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy,
Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Bulgaria);
• The production of a documentary film as a testimony of the artistic practices which promote the
humanisation of hospitals.
Who benefited from the project?
• The hospital patients and their families. Thanks to musical interventions, by approaching the
cultural world, the patients and their families will feel closer to society and to the outside world.
• The professional musicians of the different partner countries. This project will allow the artists:
to enrich their statements on their own actions, at an artistic, medical and technical level;
to imagine new forms of interventions;
to have better answers to propose to the medical staff and the hospital patients;
to enlarge their musical repertoire.
• The medical staff (doctors, nurses, nursing auxiliaries and administrative staff), to understand
music as a means to develop and to humanise hospitals.
• The people working for cultural institutions (music schools headmasters, music teachers,
offices administering culture, etc.). A Hospital patient is a citizen just as anybody else. Therefore
he or she should benefit from the services and the cultural structures that are provided by a
town, a city or the State.
This project received the support of:
• Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - Délégation au Développement et aux Affaires
Internationales
• Conseil Régional d’Île-de-France - Direction du Développement social, de la Santé et de la
Démocratie régionale
• Radio France
• Comité du Coeur de la Sacem
• Arts Council of England
• Royal Northern College of Music
• Lime
• Live Music Now!
• Arts Council of Ireland
• Culture Ireland / Cultúr Éireann
• Pfizer Healthcare Ireland
It was also supported by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, …...
Patrons committee:
Kurt Masur, Musical Director of the Orchestre National de France
Pr. Marcel Rufo, Paedo-psychiatrist
Howard Buten, Psychologist, Clown
Mary Harney, Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children of Ireland
John O’Donoghue, Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism of Ireland
Mary Hanafin, Minister of Education of Ireland
Olive Braiden, Chairperson of the Irish Arts Council
This European cooperation has given patients access to culture, and in particular music. It participates in the humanization of hospitals in improving the welcoming, the support, and the well-being of patients.
This innovating project has allowed the creation of a European network on the theme of music and more generally culture in health settings. This networks wishes to promote and develop these actions with partners from Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, etc.
The European network “culture in hospitals” will allow cross border and interprofessional exchanges on the place and role of music and culture in healthcare environments.
The following means will be set up:
- development and multiplication of musical actions in health care,
- set up of artistic and creative actions and workshops for hospitalised children, adults and elderly persons,
- training of care staff and artists to the use of music in healthcare,
- organisation of reflection workshops and research commissions gathering European specialists,
- publication of the research results,
- invitation of further partner countries.
Our current projects:
• ARTISTIC RESIDENCY IN BUCHAREST (ROMANIA)
The foundation M.A.T.C.A.-2000 (Bucharest) hosted Musique & Santé's musicians and coordinators for an artistic residency from April 14 to 18, 2008.
This week was an opportunity for musicians to exchange and to sensitize local culture and health operators. Musical interventions took place in different local hospitals:
- Clinical Center for Rehabiliation for Children "Dr. Nicolaie Robanescu"
- Casa Geron (geriatrics)
- Clinical Center for Rehabiliation for Adults "Dr. Constantin Gorgos"
The coordinators worked on future projects with the Romanian Public Health Ministry and the French Embassy.
This project is supported by the programme “L’Europe en plus large !” of the Fondation de France.
• EUROPEAN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESOURCE CENTRE "CULTURE IN HOSPITAL"
The Délégation au Développement et aux Affaires Internationales (DDAI) of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication has renewed its commission to Musique & Santé to set up a European interdisciplinary resource centre and to develop a European network “Culture in Hospital”.
In the framework of this mission, contact and sensitization visits will be organized in a few partner countries involved in this field.
• TRAINING “MUSIC FOR HEALTH" AT THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC
The Royal Northern College of Music hosted 5 of Musique & Santé’s musicians and coordinators from March 3 to 7 for an exchange on ‘music in health’. Musical interventions were carried out for and with the patients of the Booth Hall hospital, the Manchester Royal Infirmary and the St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children.
This project was supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission (Grundtvig) and the Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance (GMSA).
• 1st EUROPEAN TRAINING SESSION "MUSIC IN HEALTH SETTINGS"
The 1st European training “Music in Health Settings” took place in Paris from February 11 to 15. This session was carried out in partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music; it gathered together 13 professional musicians from various countries (United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Finland, Lebanon).
Theoretical modules on the methods and approaches of musical actions in health settings were completed by practical sessions in the Parisian region hospitals
- Robert Debré (AP-HP) - neonatalogy unit (Pr Aujard's unit)
- Paul Brousse (AP-HP) - geriatric unit
- Armand Trousseau (AP-HP) - paediatric unit
- Institut Gustave Roussy) - paediatric oncology unit (Dr Hartmann's unit)
• EUROPEAN ARTISTIC RESIDENCY – DECEMBER 10-14, 2007
Musique & Santé hosts from December 10-14 musicians and cultural and healthcare professionals from the following countries: United Kingdom, Italy, Romania, Estonia, Spain, Ireland, Poland.
This week offers the opportunity to musicians and cultural operators involved in healthcare to meet and to work together in hospitals of the Parisian region.
This exchange week will allow the set up of future European projects on the theme of music in hospitals.
This project is supported by: Label Paris Europe, Conseil Régional d'Île-de-France, Fondation de France (programme "L'Europe en plus large !" ) and the Ministry of Culture and Communication (Délégation au Développement et aux Affaires Internationales) in the framework of the “Culture à l’hôpital” programme.
• LABEL PARIS EUROPE 2006
Musique & Santé was rewarded the Label Paris Europe 2006 from the City of Paris for our project: “creation of a network music in hospital".
Musique & Santé in partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) set up European meetings with different partner countries in order to gather together local operators from the cultural and health sectors.
The following partners were visited:
• Bulgarian National Radio - Sofia (Bulgaria),
• Association of Polish Hospitals – Warsaw (Poland),
• Fine Arts Department, University of Tallinn (Estonia),
• Athenaeum Musicale - Florence (Italy),
• Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra Kosice and Hospital Nemocnicasaca - Kosice (Slovakia).
These meetings will allow the creation of a European Network and the set up of future European exchange projects.
• MUSIC AND HEALTH - EXCHANGES AND COMPARISONS BETWEEN ARTISTIC PRACTICES
After more than ten years of commitment to the cultural development in hospitals, the
associations Arts for Health (England), Waterford Healing Arts Trust (Ireland) and Musique &
Santé (France) have wished to share and compare their experience.
To do so, three actions were carried out from October 2005 to August 2006:
• The organization of six artistic residencies in hospitals of the three countries
involving professional musicians coming from the UK, Ireland and France.
• The organisation of a European exchange seminar in Paris on July 3, 4, and 5, 2006, for cultural and
healthcare professionals from several European countries (France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy,
Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Bulgaria);
• The production of a documentary film as a testimony of the artistic practices which promote the
humanisation of hospitals.
Who benefited from the project?
• The hospital patients and their families. Thanks to musical interventions, by approaching the
cultural world, the patients and their families will feel closer to society and to the outside world.
• The professional musicians of the different partner countries. This project will allow the artists:
to enrich their statements on their own actions, at an artistic, medical and technical level;
to imagine new forms of interventions;
to have better answers to propose to the medical staff and the hospital patients;
to enlarge their musical repertoire.
• The medical staff (doctors, nurses, nursing auxiliaries and administrative staff), to understand
music as a means to develop and to humanise hospitals.
• The people working for cultural institutions (music schools headmasters, music teachers,
offices administering culture, etc.). A Hospital patient is a citizen just as anybody else. Therefore
he or she should benefit from the services and the cultural structures that are provided by a
town, a city or the State.
This project received the support of:
• Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - Délégation au Développement et aux Affaires
Internationales
• Conseil Régional d’Île-de-France - Direction du Développement social, de la Santé et de la
Démocratie régionale
• Radio France
• Comité du Coeur de la Sacem
• Arts Council of England
• Royal Northern College of Music
• Lime
• Live Music Now!
• Arts Council of Ireland
• Culture Ireland / Cultúr Éireann
• Pfizer Healthcare Ireland
It was also supported by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, …...
Patrons committee:
Kurt Masur, Musical Director of the Orchestre National de France
Pr. Marcel Rufo, Paedo-psychiatrist
Howard Buten, Psychologist, Clown
Mary Harney, Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children of Ireland
John O’Donoghue, Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism of Ireland
Mary Hanafin, Minister of Education of Ireland
Olive Braiden, Chairperson of the Irish Arts Council
