INNOVATION & RESILIENCE
IN CANADA’S CULTURAL SECTOR

This Canadian literature review highlights creative arts therapies in modern medical treatment, the arts and culture’s impacts on the Public Health Agency of Canada’s “Key Determinants of Health”, as well as the relationship o… View this resource

This British report provides a summary of 385 references from the medical literature regarding the effects of the arts and humanities in: achieving clinical outcomes for the benefit of patients; raising staff morale and job satisfaction; widening the… View this resource

This report highlights 19 case studies of dance organizations, events and activities in the U.K. that aim to provide physical, mental, personal, social and educational benefits. The report indicates that dance “has particular appeal to a number… View this resource

This report, based on a presentation by Susan Pointe, art advisor for the Friends of University Hospitals, summarizes the arts program at University of Alberta Hospitals (Edmonton). Through the artists-on-the-wards program, artists help adult acute-c… View this resource

Based on a survey of 990 businesses in the fall of 2005, supplemented by two focus group sessions and 22 interviews, this report provides information about the types of organizations supported by employee volunteering, business benefits and challenge… View this resource