RSM and BAPAM Healthy Practice Webinar Series 2021

This exciting 12-part webinar series has been carefully curated to focus on specific areas that can affect musicians’ health during their careers. Each session brings together specialist practitioners who are experts in their field of performing arts medicine. It is hoped that these health education workshops will allow an opportunity for musicians to understand the health problems that may arise, how they can be prevented or the support available if they were to need it.

The sessions are free but spaces are limited and there will be 2 sessions per month till June this year. This series of workshops follows in the footsteps of a health workshop which took place in September last year. So why did the Royal Society of Musicians want to expand and present this series? We spoke to Chief Executive Charlotte Penton-Smith:

“At RSM, we are acutely aware of the devastating impact the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the profession and we have been doing all we can to support those whose lives have been affected. As such, in September 2020 we launched a Fit to Play, Mental Health and Return to Work webinar. Run in partnership with BAPAM, this webinar was set up to support musicians heading back to work after a long period of lockdown and provided guidance on assessing whether work offered to musicians is safe in light of threats posed by COVID-19. RSM received a great deal of positive feedback and as such, we decided to expand this programme and launch a series of 12, more specialist webinars, again in partnership with BAPAM. Funded by RSM, this series addresses subjects that can affect all those in the profession, such as hearing health, performance anxiety and pain management, as well as looking at more specific areas including physical health for string and woodwind players and vocal health for singers. 

We have been delighted to be able to offer this series of free webinars to the profession. With BAPAM’s medical expertise, this series provides an extremely effective way of offering specialist advice and guidance to musicians throughout the UK, during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. In addition, it is also increasing awareness of the work of both RSM and BAPAM, enabling us to continue to provide vital assistance to the profession, at times when it is needed the most.”