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Helpline Seasonal Opening Hours
The BAPAM helpline will be running reduced hours over the festive season. If you're working and performing at this time of year, check out our health tips and resources, and keep an eye out for our free events in January. The helpline (including the phone line and...
ABTT and BAPAM Launch Groundbreaking Guidance on Physical Health for Backstage Theatre Workers
ABTT and BAPAM Launch Groundbreaking Guidance on Physical Health and Well-being for Backstage Theatre Workers during Panto Season The Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) and the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) have unveiled a...
From Self-Awareness to Confidence: How Your Relationship with Yourself Shapes Performance Anxiety
In this guest blog, Dr Kay Capaldi examines the links between performance anxiety, social anxiety, and the self-relationship, and explains how these insights have shaped a new Self-Relationship Training® programme. Read about the aims of the programme, and how to join...
Men’s Mental Health in the Performing Arts: Remembering Our Humanity
This Men's Health Awareness Month, BAPAM Performance Psychologist, Dr Anna Waters, considers men's mental heath in the performing arts. When I sat down to write this blog about men’s mental health in the performing arts, I spent far too long searching for a clever...
How to Avoid Overbooking Yourself As A Performing Arts Professional
Learn how to avoid overbooking yourself in the performing arts industry with five actionable tips! Get advice on bookings, burnout, rest, and more from BAPAM.
How to Stay Mindful Towards the End of the Year
The end of the year brings unique challenges for performing arts professionals. Discover how you can get through to 2026 without extra stress online now.
How to Perform at Your Best in Your Next Audition
In her blog for BAPAM this month, Performance Psychologist, Dr Anna Waters, shares her tips and techniques to help you make the most of auditions. “I’ve always approached things with hunger and just enough fear. Plenty of confidence, you know, but just enough fear...
Medical Support for the Creative Sector
BAPAM are delighted to have developed a new partnership with Music Support, the charity that helps people who work in the music industry who are experiencing substance use, addiction and/or mental health challenges. You can read Georgina Levers Angell's words in Music...
Tips for Performing Arts Professionals Who Work Nights
Recognise the signs you may need support as a performer and learn how BAPAM’s free health service helps you stay healthy and perform at your best online here.
BAPAM’s Free Health Service Is an Essential Performing Arts Support
Recognise the signs you may need support as a performer and learn how BAPAM’s free health service helps you stay healthy and perform at your best online here.
Pianist, Megan Rushbrook Cycles 255 Miles in 1 day for BAPAM
Megan Rushbrook has cycled 255 miles in one day, from Cardiff to the Suffolk Coast, raising over £1000 for the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM). An amazing achievement, and fantastic support for BAPAM's work building a healthier and more...
Supporting Carers in the Performing Arts (Carers Week 2025)
To celebrate Carers Week (9th to 15th June), BAPAM is spotlighting the challenges carers in the performing arts face and how to improve equality for them.
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Thank You to Dr Carol Chapman – A Legacy Gift to Support BAPAM’s Health Services for the Performing Arts
We are very grateful to Dr Carol Chapman who sadly passed away in 2023 and has kindly given to BAPAM through her will. Carol worked with BAPAM for many years as a Counselling Psychologist and as a member of our Medical Committee. Carol helped hundreds of performers...
Research: Performing Artists and Disability
Calling Disabled Performing Artists: Take Part in UCL’s Study on Injury & Healthcare Access Are you a physically disabled professional, student or amateur performing artist? Researchers at University College London (UCL) are recruiting participants for a...
Harnessing the Power of Mental Imagery: Performing Artists’ Most Powerful Mental Tool
In her blog last month, Performance Psychologist, Dr Anna Waters, highlighted how useful mental imagery can be in managing performance anxiety. Here, she expands on how this powerful technique can help you achieve your creative goals. “Before stepping on stage, I...
A Quick Guide To Surviving Festival Season
To celebrate Carers Week (9th to 15th June), BAPAM is spotlighting the challenges carers in the performing arts face and how to improve equality for them.
Reporting from the PAMA Symposium 2025
We have just returned from the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) Annual Symposium, hosted by Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, where we were amongst over 300 performing arts clinicians, educators and researcher delegates, with representatives from...
Performance Anxiety: How Performance Psychology Can Help
Performance anxiety will be experienced by everyone at some point, and we all respond in different ways. Performance Psychologist, Dr Anna Waters, shares insights, techniques and some simple exercises to help performers manage this common challenge. Everyone suffers...
Research: Substance Use Amongst Working Musicians
Call for Participants A new study led by researcher Jeordie Shenton at the University of Portsmouth is investigating the prevalence and contributory factors of substance use amongst working musicians. As part of the study, people who earn money from playing, creating...
Imposter Syndrome: A Double-Edged Sword For Performing Artists
Performance Psychologist, Dr Anna Waters' BAPAM blog this month looks at Imposter Syndrome - what is it, and what can you do about it? After nailing your audition and landing a fantastic role, do you ever get that sinking feeling? That now you have to deliver? Do...
How to Keep Your Skin Healthy as a Performing Artist
Skin health is not about chasing an aesthetic ideal! Discover how performing arts professionals should keep their skin healthy online today with BAPAM.
Making a Positive Change Through Clinical Guidance
At BAPAM, we’re always striving to make a positive impact on individual performance and to help creative sector organisations. Learn how and why online here.
Performing Through Change – Performance Psychology and Menopause
Thank you to Dr Anna Waters for dedicating her BAPAM Performance Psychology guest blog to discussing how performers can navigate challenges of perimenopause and menopause from a performance psychology perspective. You can read Sophie Tott’s blog here and Dr June...
Thriving Through Change – Dr June Sheren
Thanks to Dr June Sheren, for contributing this companion piece to Sophie Tott's blog sharing her experience of perimenopause as a DJ, Producer and Artist. You can read Sophie's blog here. Dr Anna Waters has also written a companion piece about performance psychology...
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