Links about comedy, edutainment, music, story, the written word and art generally
Art links
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Comedy
* Association For Applied And Therapeutic Humour: www.aath.org/
* BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Aloud' programme on using comedy for social purposes. In this case anti-racism. It begins halfway through the broadcast. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00r7l7g
* Comedy good for health article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4616902.stm
* Complaints Choirs: www.complaintschoir.org/ but also see www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w84qzHdEms&feature=related and www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2007_52_thu.shtml
www.empaf.com/projects
* It's a Funny Business for training in stand up: www.itsafunnybusiness.com/standup.htm
* Key Stage Comedy resources for education: www.keystagecomedy.co.uk/index.html
* Laughology is a UK based health and comedy organisation: www.laughology.co.uk/services-health.html
* Leicester Comedy Festival: www.makemehappy-online.co.uk/
* Liverpool Comedy Festival: www.liverpoolcomedyfestival.co.uk/comedytrust/AboutUs.htm
* Victoria Maxwell's one-women show about mental illness: www.victoriamaxwell.com/
* Bob Monkhouse cancer video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6743261.stm
* Ben Morrison,professional comedian and Crohn's patient: www.everydayhealth.com/crohns-disease/webcasts/crohns-sex-and-intimacy-comedian-ben-morrisons-guide-for-men-and-the-people-who-love-them.aspx
* Mark Steel's lectures on famous people and their theories for the Open University demonstrates the practical use of comedy. The OU side doesn't have the lectures but does have information on them at www.open2.net/marksteel/previouslectures.html
Fashion
* Million Model Catwalk fashion charity around breast cancer: http://blog.millionmodelcatwalk.com/
General arts and edutainment
* Arts and Health Southwest: www.artsandhealthsouthwest.org.uk
* Bingo and health promotion article: http://www.health-promotion.cdd.nhs.uk/index.cfm?articleid=3953
* Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine: www.dur.ac.uk/cahhm
* London Arts in Health Forum: www.lahf.org.uk/welcome
* Mail Out magazine for people interested in the arts as a community development tool: www.e-mailout.co.uk/about.htm
* National Association of Local Authority Arts Officers (in the UK): www.nalgao.org/news.php
* UK TV ratings: www.barb.co.uk/index1.cfm?flag=home
* Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edutainment
Music
Advertising
* For a theoretical overview of the use of music in advertising go to http://humdrum.org/Huron/Publications/huron.advertising.text.html
* Jingle Brokers: www.jinglebrokers.com
Community radio etc
* Internet radio - start your own station:
www.radioandtelly.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1114784136
* Radio 1 Radio ballads on social themes including HIV: Go to www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ and type 'radio ballads 2006' into the BBC search engine
* Special licences for community radio: www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/rsls/
Festivals (UK)
* The Big Green Gathering in Hertfordshire, which has an environmental theme: www.big-green-gathering.com
* Buddhafield festivals in Devon, include talks on personal and social change from a Buddhist perspective: www.buddhafield.com/index.php?festival=about
* Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham - Christianity with a social conscience: www.greenbelt.org.uk
* Leamington Peace Festival - Event promoting peace, equality and environmental issues: www.peacefestival.org.uk
* Liverpool Working Class Music Festival - Socialist songs about social conditions and social change: www.workingclassmusic.org.uk
* Raise Your Banners - Socialist songs about social conditions and social change performed in Bradford: www.raiseyourbanners.org
Health issues CD websites
* The Colour's Coming Back CD about people with cancer: www.thecolourscomingback.ca/en/index2.asp
* Maria Logis' songs about her experience of cancer: http://marialogis.com/landing
* Skinny Songs CD about losing weight: www.skinnysongs.com/listen.html
* Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, who play music on vegetables: www.gemueseorchester.org
Musicals for adults
* Hot Flashes - The Musical: www.hotflashesthemusical.com/
* Menopause-The Musical: www.menopausethemusical.com/
Musicians and performing rights
* The Arts Council has local branches and may be able to help: www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/index.php
* Equity: http://www.equity.org.uk/ and
* The Musicians' Union: www.musiciansunion.org.uk/ can both advise on rates of pay
* Generator can help with information about a range of issues around professional music try www.generator.org.uk/
* Rights issues around paying to play other people's music live or in a recorded form is covered at www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/
* Soundsense is an organisation for professional community musicians: www.soundsense.org/
Older people
* Alternative lyrics for My Favourite Things to spark discussion: www.hbingham.com/humor/jandrews.htm
* Hospices: www.hospice.co.uk/fundraising/new.asp
* Young at Heart older people's rock choir: www.youngatheartchorus.com
* The Zimmers pop band of older people: www.thezimmersonline.com//
Schools and young people
* Creative Partnerships. Using music and arts as tools to help young people develop their ability to think for themselves: www.creative-partnerships.com/
* Downloadable chart tracks etc from last few decades for schools: www.broadchart.com/
* Health education songs and musicals for children:
www.songsforteaching.com/
www.cherylmelody.com/
www.outoftheark.com/
http://pbskids.org/rogers/songlist/
http://starshine.co.uk/
www.singup.org/
* Kennedy Center (Lessons plans based around music etc):
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/les.cfm
* Link: Connecting the Music Education Community magazine: www.linkmagazine.co.uk/
* Musicians United for Songs In the Classroom, Inc: www.learningfromlyrics.org/
* Rock Hall of Fame (Lessons plans based around music):
http://rockhall.com/education/resources/lesson-plans/
* Youth Music organisation and their Feedback magazine: www.youthmusic.org.uk/
Social issues
* 46664 (Nelson Mandela's HIV charity that uses music and sport to raise awareness and funds): www.46664.com/2
* BBC radio programme in part on how music was used in the nineteenth century to educate about alcohol abuse: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/pip/b31in/
* Complaints Choirs: www.complaintschoir.org/ but also see www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w84qzHdEms&feature=related and www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2007_52_thu.shtml
* Centre for Political Song: www.gcal.ac.uk/politicalsong/links/index.html
* Inspiration Jukebox - Collection of music and lyrics on social and psychological issues: www.inspirationjukebox.com
* Liverpool Working Class Music Festival - Songs about social conditions and social change: www.workingclassmusic.org.uk
* Music for Change, using music to promote social change and cultural diversity: www.musicforchange.org
* Raise Your Banners - Songs about social conditions and social change performed in Bradford: www.raiseyourbanners.org
* Rock the Vote (Irish campaign to get young people involved in politics): www.rockthevote.ie/
* WHY (World Hunger Year), a forerunner to BandAid: www.worldhungeryear.org/
Song books and sheet music etc
* Alternative lyrics for My Favourite Things to spark discussion: www.hbingham.com/humor/jandrews.htm
* The Green Book of Songs: www.greenbookofsongs.com/ (The songs database is now also available online for a small fee.)
* Listen to whole or partial tracks at www.amazon.com/ or http://www.youtube.com/ (Individual countries also have their own sites linked to these.)
* Rise Up Singing! Songbook: www.singout.org/rus.html
* Sheet music: www.sheetmusichound.com/
* Sing Up:
www.singup.org/songbank/songs/index/su-song-bank-search//tags/173-172/sort/#song-bank-listing
Special groups
* MiXiT world's first inclusive pop group: www.mixitmusic.co.uk:80/index.php
* North East Cultural Diversity Arts Forum (in England): www.necdaf.org.uk/
* Prisoner produced music: http://www.musicinprisons.org.uk/
* Workplace teambuilding: http://www.catalystglobal.com/
Therapy etc
* Association of Professional Music Therapists: www.apmt.org/
* Co-counselling is a network of peers who use simple but powerful therapeutic tools with each other after 40 hours of training. They often use music and dance at their workshops: www.co-counselling.co.uk/
* Five Rhythms Dance: www.gabrielleroth.com/
* International Association for Dance Movement Therapy: www.iavmt.org/
* Royal Northern College of Music's Music for Health programme: www.rncm.ac.uk/content/view/100/116
* Sidney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health: www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research
Story
* American Film Institute's 100 most inspiring films of all time: www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/cheers.aspx
* BBC radio programme on the importance of story in social change i.e. politics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/analysis/7251302.stm
* Digital storytelling is a company that gives ordinary people a voice by helping them make videos or slide shows for the web: www.digistories.co.uk
* Good Film links film makers and good causes: http://goodfilm.org/
* In Treatment, the HBO TV drama about therapy: www.hbo.com/in-treatment/index.html
* The Rocket Science Group produce 'Leicester Kicks' a serial about teenage sexual health for NHS Leicester City. Find it on YouTube. Go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZKqwPc3JU8
* Participant Productions, maker of films such as Fast Food Nation and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth: www.participantmedia.com/
* Positive Psychology at the Movies: www.positivepsychologymovies.com
* Voxur have a package for laptops that make it easier to get people's stories down from interview straight into a format you can use on the internet. See www.voxur.com
Written word
Books
* Books on prescription: www.ebase.bcu.ac.uk/events/healthy-option-programme.html
* Romantic Novelists Association: www.rna-uk.org/
Comics
* Bromley by Bow Centre ESOL Health and Humour project: www.bbbc.org.uk/pages/health-and-humour.html
* Cartoons for sale off the shelf: www.cartoonstock.com/
* Clare in the Community strip: www.guardian.co.uk/society/cartoon/2008/jan/02/clareinthecommunity.harryvenning
* Comic Company: www.comiccompany.co.uk/
* Disrepute, a site by a doctor and graphic artist: http://www.disrepute.info/
* Graphic Medicine: http://graphicmedicine.org/
* Lifeline: www.lifeline.org.uk/
* Rates for freelance artists: www.londonfreelance.org/feesguide/illust.html
* The Red Knob comic/magazine about sex for young men: www.theredknob.co.uk/index.php/our-resources/
Crosswords and puzzles
* Anagram software: www.anagramgenius.com/
* Crossword compiling software: www.crossword-compiler.com/
* Fee rates for crossword compiling specialists: www.londonfreelance.org/feesguide/xwords.html
General
* British Dyslexia Association guidelines on written materials: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-dyslexia/further-information/dyslexia-style-guide.html
* Health Promotion-Resource Network: www.mailtalk.ac.uk/ and then try to subscribe to the network
* Pif: www.pifonline.org.uk/
* Medical waiting room quiz compiler software for PowerPoint: www.emedica.co.uk/quiz.htm
* Office for Disability guidelines on written materials: www.odi.gov.uk/iod/channels/index.php
* Readability tests: http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php
* Royal National Institute for the Blind guidelines on written materials: www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_printdesign.hcsp
Magazines
* The Communication Cooperative: then go to www.thecommunicationscooperative.co.uk/home.html and click on 'Our Portfolio' and then on Mint at the bottom of the page, which is a magazine for girls in Newcastle about contraception
* Dr Foster: http://www.drfosterintelligence.co.uk/newsPublications/publications/magazines/prime.asp * The Red Knob magazine/comic about sex for young men: www.theredknob.co.uk/index.php/our-resources/
* Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust's Talk magazine: www.mopil.sunderland.nhs.uk/admin/mopil/pdf/20060518135905.pdf
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