Scott Thurston and other members of the Arts for the Blues research team are presenting the project this week at the Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (FEPTO)’s annual meeting at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin 3-6 October. The theme of the gathering is Unveiling the Connections: Research in Psychodrama and Arts-based Approaches. The […]
The three founders of Arts for the Blues: Joanna Omylinska-Thurston, Scott Thurston (both University of Salford) and Vicky Karkou (Edge Hill) were recently interviewed by The Psychologist about the project. You can read the interview online in full here.
Arts for the Blues is involved in a new mental health project for children and young people which has won £2.5million from UKRI. The Arts4Us project will bring together the best practice in arts and arts therapies in one digital platform, making it easier for young people and their families to find crucial help. It […]
Scott Thurston will be delivering his inaugural professorial lecture entitled ‘Kinepoetics: an embodied journey through dance, poetry and therapy’ on Tuesday 19 March at 5:30pm at the University of Salford’s MediaCityUK campus in the Digital Performance Lab. The lecture is described as follows: With the worldwide challenge of mental health at an all-time high, we […]
Scott Thurston will be launching his selected poems Turning (Shearsman) at the New Adelphi Studio on Tuesday 27th February at 6pm. Here’s the book’s cover endorsement by Robert Sheppard: Thurston’s poems always danced, as the early writings here demonstrate, in line and spacing, long before dance as a practice became his poetic focus and his […]
Arts for the Blues has had some great press coverage in recent weeks, including an appearance of Prof Scott Thurston on That’s TV: Please see the links below for further coverage in print media:
Arts for the Blues, an evidenced-based creative psychological therapy developed by Prof Scott Thurston as a collaborative partnership between the University of Salford and Edge Hill University, has been awarded £50,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop a CPD (Continuing Professional Development) package. The two-day course, supported by a website and […]
Prof Scott Thurston and colleagues Dr Joanna Omylinska-Thurston (Salford, Health and Society) and Prof Vicky Karkou (Edge Hill) of the Arts for the Blues team recently presented at the American Psychological Association’s (APA) annual convention held in Washington DC on 2-6 August. Arts for the Blues was featured twice, amongst the 2000+ presentations in this […]
On Saturday 15 July, Scott Thurston held an event at The Tin Arts and Music venue in Coventry to celebrate the publication of Leanne Bridgewater’s (1989-2019) adDictionary – an experimental dictionary featuring 12,000 new words, each with their own definitions. This book started life as Leanne’s Masters thesis at Salford from where she graduated in […]
Scott Thurston and the team behind Arts for the Blues have premiered a new performance which will tour England’s North-west this Summer in collaboration with Liverpool Lighthouse. Together Un/Tethered is an immersive performance interweaving movement, spoken word, innovative soundscape, projection and live cellist exploring themes of separation, connection, new possibilities and understanding. Inspired by the […]