Thanks to photographer, Sebastien Dehesdin for these shots from Sanchita Farruque’s ‘Life Drawings’ album launch party. Sanchita combines her singing career with being BAPAM’s Heath Promotion Officer, holding talks and workshops at colleges, venues, festivals and health-care training providers.
We’ve set up a mailing list for performing artists based in Ireland who’d like to receive quarterly emails with health tips and performing arts medicine information.
To sign up, please download this registration form and either print it out and return it by post or email it to Nóra Geraghty, whose contact details are on the form.
If you are an Ireland based performing artist with a work-related health problem, Dr Juliet Bressan, BAPAM’s doctor in Dublin, can advise you. Assessments are free for full and part time professional performers as well as students. To book an appointment please call us on 0044 (0)20 7404 8444. Click here for more information about BAPAM’s free assessment appointments.
Full and part time professional and student performing artists who have been referred to a Speech and Language therapist can now see Mei Lei at BAPAM in London. Mei specialises in voice disorders and has worked in Voice Clinics for the last 7 years with ENT Consultants, John Rubin and Tom Harris. We are able to arrange appointments for the reduced cost of £45 and we are grateful to Mei for discounting her usual fee so generously.
If you’d like more information or to book an appointment please call us on 020 7404 8444.
Sanchita, BAPAM’s Health Promotion in Music officer, is lauching her debut solo album, Life Drawings, with a launch party at Cargo in London on 21st July. As well as working with us here, Sanchita is a professional singer, who has performed with Nitin Sawhney, Trilok Gurtu and BadMarsh&Shri. Sanchita will play with a full band featuring Swati Natekar. Support comes from Acer Maple, Jonathan Whiskerd and Selvin Thomas, plus DJ Jutla (Shaanti) and Animat DJs.
Wednesday 21st July 2010
Cargo
83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3AY
£6 in advance and £8 on the door.
Check the Cargo website for more info and to purchase tickets – or follow this link:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=388544&referral_id=tw_uk_buyat
You can also view the event on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129514337065309&ref=mf
More info on Sanchita can be viewed on her website: www.sanchita.com
Do you experience tinnitus? Complete this British Tinnitus Association survey by 16 July and you could win £100
The British Tinnitus Association is the primary source of support and information for people with tinnitus in the UK. They have a really useful web site which you can find here: British Tinnitus Association
With financial help from PPL (the company that licenses use of sound recordings and videos), BAPAM is currently working with University College London (UCL) to set up a Diploma/MSc in Performing Arts Medicine. The academic programme, examinations and administration will be provided by UCL. The course is designed for doctors, physiotherapists and allied medical professionals.
The Diploma course will consist of 120 credits in research methods, ethics, performance physiology, anatomy and psychology and modules in medicine related to instrumental musicians, dancers, singers and actors. The MSc will involve a further 60 credits and a research project in one of the subspecialties of music, dance and voice – BAPAM and UCL are currently establishing relationships with collaborating institutions (such as the Royal College of Music) to help deliver the programme.
The course will be available full-time (one year for the diploma) or part-time (two years). It will be competitively priced and we are actively working on an affordable costing. The anticipated start date is September 2011.
This is an exciting development in a growing field, both in the UK and internationally. It will be the only such medical course available in the UK and we hope it will enable us to consolidate and spread experience throughout the country commensurate to the current high (but ad hoc) standing of Performing Arts Medicine in Britain.
Further information and updates will be posted on this website as they become available. If you wish to be advised as to progress, please register your possible interest by emailing admin@bapam.org.uk, entitling your email ‘PAM Expression of Interest’.
Sanchita Farruque, who runs BAPAM’s health education service for students, professional performers and teachers, will be in Dublin at the 2nd annual Larkin Hedge School event, on Saturday June 12th 2010. She’ll be running through pre-performance warm-up sessions, and talking about healthy practise and performance. Sanchita will be available during the day to answer questions about all health issues affecting performers from RSI to stage fright.
The Larkin Hedge School is a celebration of music, song and poetry run by the Clé Club, a traditional music and singing club based in the Cois Life Bar, Liberty Hall, Dublin.
Larkin Hedge School programme 2010
Click here for the BAPAM Edinburgh Training Day programme
The Show Must Go On
Doctors and Therapists get ready for the Edinburgh Festival 2010
The British Association of Performing Arts Medicine Invites ENT and Musculoskeletal Doctors and Therapists to a training event with a difference.
BAPAM provides performing artists with information on health and well-being. It offers information on those who help these performers, and helps performers find local appropriately trained clinicians. Whether a GP or ENT surgeon, osteopath or physiotherapist, singing or pilates teacher, this training event is for you. You can expect the speakers and performers to open your eyes to multidisciplinary team management with a difference. With the current fit note prompting us all to assess work related health problems with more finesse, this really is the CPD event to attend. ENT problems, pain, breathing difficulties…it is the bread and butter of general practice. Stop worrying about the obesity epidemic and help the Fat Lady sing!
Speakers include Dr Faith Gardner, BAPAM doctor at our Glasgow clinic, Kirsten Lord of the Edinburgh Physiotherapy Centre, Sara Watkin, GP and Osteopath, and Tom Harris, ENT Surgeon and Consultant to RADA.
The cost of the day is £65 for practitioners, £35 for students.
Click here for the booking form. Please complete and return to us by post with your payment.
If you have any queries please email clare@bapam.org.uk
Many thanks to Dr. Sara Watkin for putting together the programme and organising the day locally.
To mark the 170th birthday of the great Russian composer, the LGSO presents a concert dedicated entirely to the work of Tchaikovsky.
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been invited to give a short presentation about BAPAM, and the orchestra will be collecting donations on our behalf.
The concert takes place at St. John’s Church, Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8TY.
Details/booking information here: http://www.lgso.org.uk/concerts.aspx
