King's College London contributes expertise to the innovative arts and mental health project:

Tamasha has been given more than £45,000 over 30 months to create a new Creative Wellbeing Lab. The lab will engage theatre practitioners from the global majority and provide them the opportunity to pilot an arts and wellbeing project in their community.

Expert tutors from King's Centre for Education's Medical Humanities department will assist in training the practitioners, advising them on how to implement participatory-based health-related projects. The program will also allow medical students to learn about and participate in the field of art and health, enabling them to advocate for arts-based interventions for their patients in the future. The knowledge gained during the study will be used to renew the Medical Humanities curriculum.

The Baring Foundation has financed the Creative Wellbeing Lab, which will see King's, Tamasha, and Creative Health Camden collaborate to help the global majority of creatives and performers use their own practices to address mental health crises.

Once selected, participants will participate in practical workshops, training, and discussions with industry specialists, as well as the opportunity to pilot a project in the community.

Within arts and health, there are few possibilities for global majority artists to develop and perfect their talents as theatre makers and community facilitators. Given the pattern of mental health diagnoses, it is critical that people facilitating in these areas represent the involvement groups.

Dr. Alex Mermikides, D'Oyly Carte Senior Lecturer in Arts and Health.

This is a ground-breaking opportunity to work with Tamasha and CHC to create safe and nurturing learning environments in order to address the underrepresentation of global majority artists in Arts and Health settings, as well as to introduce medical students to the benefits of arts-based interventions in mental health care and social prescribing."

Dr. Katharine Low, Senior Lecturer of Performance and Medical Humanities Education

Tamasha is determined to respond to the world around us. As theatremakers, we've seen the mental health crisis unfold in and out of our rehearsal rooms and organisations, as well as how it's affecting individuals across the UK and right here in Camden. As social changemakers, we were compelled to respond to this in the way we knew best: via theatre and connection.

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