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New Report: “Why Making Music Matters Now”

12-03-2025

A recent report from Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute and WolfBrown proves that making music creates a number of positive outcomes, especially in early childhood.

Healing Arts Singapore

12-03-2025

From December 8–12, the first country-wide healing arts program will take place in Asia.

EDITORIAL
Young People Are Speaking To Us. Are We Close Enough to Hear Them?

Dalouge Smith, Founder and Executive Director, The Creating Abundance Collaborative; Co-founder and CEO, The Lewis Prize, 2018–2024

12-03-2025

I’d been missing the presence and perspective of young people in these gatherings dedicated to arts education, young people’s wellbeing, and community health through the arts. When young people were present, it was most often as performers, and occasionally as panelists alongside adults.

Throughout these events, I had been wondering, “How is it that we continue to position young people as objects of conversation, and not the subject?”

New International Research Study on Arts and Cultural Engagement

12-03-2025

The Social Biobehavioural Research Group at University College London was recently awarded a £3.5m Wellcome Discovery Award for a seven-year research study on the impact of arts and cultural engagement (ACEng) on health outcomes.

Suggested Listening: Power, People & Planet Podcast with Kumi Naidoo

12-03-2025

The effort required to create systemic change can be daunting, and it can help to hear from others who are doing the work.

Nominate a Changemaker for the Creativity for Social Change Award

12-03-2025

The Creativity for Social Change Award invites nominations for individuals and art collectives using creative means to respond to local and global challenges.

Submit Your Work to Perspectives on Arts in Health

12-03-2025

Perspectives on Arts in Health (PAH) invites submissions from students, academics, and practitioners involved in arts in health initiatives around the world.

Free Report from Sound Diplomacy: “Why Impact Matters”

11-05-2025

To keep a music program running these days, it’s not enough to just believe in the work. We must be able to demonstrate our impact.

Calling All U.S. Artist-Activists

11-05-2025

We’ve seen throughout history how the arts can speak louder than words, particularly in places where civil rights are under attack.

EDITORIAL
The Power of Youth Voice

Ayde Diaz, El Sistema USA 2025 Youth Ambassador; YOLA Torres Student

11-05-2025

An instructor once told me, “When we listen to our students, we remember why we’re here. Their perspective makes us better.” That was the moment I realized our learning experiences aren’t a one-way street. In programs that truly value our voices, the impact extends far beyond the classroom. It reaches families, neighborhoods, and entire communities.

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