Rosie Dow | Y Lab

Y Lab was a partnership with Nesta until October 2021.

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Recent Activity

29 October

Invitation to Tender: Communications Support

We are looking for a communications specialist to support the HARP team and partners to share learning from the programme between now and the end of the programm

Painted Image shows the silhouette of a family walking on a mountain against a red and orange sunsetcreated as part of 'Rengarific' in the HARP Sprint, summer 2020

10 September 2021

New report highlights innovative work in arts and health in Wales

Rosie Dow outlines why we’re delighted to see the Baring Foundation highlight some of the brilliant work happening in Wales’ innovative arts and health sector.

ID: Black and white photo of an elder woman smiles at a camera while dancing with partner

15 March 2021

Announcing the HARP Nourish projects

Together with Arts Council of Wales, we are excited to announce 10 projects that will work on scaling and sustaining arts and health activity across the country.

Image shows a woman in green trousers and a blue top lying on a bed surrounded by clocks on the wall telling different times. It is by Maxine a Rengarific participant.

29 September 2020

Innovating in arts and health during a pandemic

Programme manager, Rosie Dow, talks about the challenges and joys of arts and health innovation during COVID-19.

HARP Sprint: Conversations/Future Selves

Commissioning six D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists to create works reflecting on their experiences of the pandemic and hopes for the future.

Image shows a large yellow chain attached to a wall

HARP Sprint: Rengarific

Supporting two groups of adults experiencing mental health problems and a third group of brain injury

Image shows three women seated in chairs with wooden arms wearing yellow feather boas. One woman is raising her hand to the ceiling joyfully.

HARP Sprint: Family Arts Roundabout

Supporting families where one family member is shielding, through an intergenerational arts project where the family works together online to create a joint pi

Image is an aerial photo of a blank sketchpad surrounded on a table by different coloured pencils.

HARP Sprint: 15 a Day

Adults experiencing loneliness undertook 7 days of creative activities (drawing and writing), 15 minutes a day, inspired by virtual reality videos that they wa

27 April 2020

HARP COVID-19 Sprint Challenge

How can the arts support people living through lockdown? How can access to arts interventions be improved? Our sprint challenge aimed to build our knowledge to support more people in Wales.

Photo shows a plane flying across a blue sky with a large white cloud and trailing the message 'stay at home'

27 March 2020

Arts and health in creative isolation: What now?

HARP programme manager, Rosie Dow, explores what we know so far about arts and health in the context of a coronavirus pandemi