Arts + Health Mixer - Networking Social

Réalta is the national resource organisation dedicated to developing arts + health in Ireland. Through its national programme, Réalta delivers training; provides information, mentoring and advice; supports networking; engages policy makers to increase understanding and support for arts + health; and provides the encyclopaedic national resource website artsandhealth.ie.  At local level, Réalta delivers its extensive Waterford Healing Arts programme, which brings arts experiences - music, visual art, creative writing, storytelling - to the bedside of patients at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) and other healthcare settings to promotes creativity, connection and discovery, and reduce isolation, anxiety and stress for patients, family members and staff. Core funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.

Réalta/ Waterford Healing Arts

A networking event for people working in arts + health

Réalta Centre for Arts + Health

Many people working in arts + health work alone, which can feel isolating and disheartening. This Arts + Health Mixer invites artists, healthcare professionals and arts + health managers working across this field of practice to come together to share experiences, explore collaborations and build connections through conversations, short presentations and creative activities.This event is part of the Well Festival of Arts &amp; Wellbeing. The festival celebrates the health benefits of participation in the arts by all. Presented by Réalta (Waterford Healing ArtsI in partnership with Garter Lane Arts Centre and Waterford City and County Libraries, the Well Festival champions the links between arts and wellbeing and increases public engagement through a wide-ranging programme of innovative free events for all ages across many art forms, including music, art, dance, film, poetry, theatre and literature.Réalta Centre for Arts + Health, University Hospital Waterfordwww.wellwaterford.comThis event will be followed by Thank you for hearing me Special Preview with Q&amp;A at 5.15pm in the same venue.This powerful short film explores how our voices shape the way we live, connect, and are heard – or unheard – in the world, and how age, accent, class, gender, health and history form our unique vocal identities. A collaboration between Embrace Music and Darn Skippy Productions, funded through the Arts Council’s Arts Participation Project Award 2025, with support from Riverbank Arts Centre.

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