Rosie Dow

Profile

I work on Y Lab's Arts and Health programme, where we are working with Arts Council Wales and the NHS to explore how arts interventions can play a more prominent role in the health and wellbeing of people in Wales. I manage the programme and also work with Nesta's People Powered Results team to provide coaching to the teams in each Health Board to facilitate innovation and change via the chosen method for this programme, the 100 Day Challenge.

Background

Before Y Lab, I worked in a range of charities and non-profits leading arts and health projects, including the Tenovus Cancer Care 'Sing with Us' choirs, the Military Wives Choirs and most recently Breathe Arts Health Research, an innovative social enterprise bringing music, magic, dance and other performing arts into various hospital and community settings. I love research and interspersed my time in these roles with a year out in 2017-18 to complete an MA in Anthropology and Community Arts at Goldsmiths University.

Projects

Arts and Health

Outside of Work

I enjoy singing, going to gigs and festivals, spending foodie time with my family & friends and going on international adventures whenever I can. I also love dogs but don't yet own one, so I like to spend time borrowing other peoples (with their permission of course) or going for walks and meeting new dogs.

Recent Activity

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15 March

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

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.

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HARP Sprint: Rengarific

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

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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

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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

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.

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27 March

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

Who we Are

Programme Manager (Arts and Health)