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British Association for Performing Arts Medicine. We are clinical experts delivering health and wellbeing services for those working in the performing arts. Registered UK charity. www.bapam.org.uk info@bapam.org.uk
Did you know that 75% of musicians will face a health issue that impacts their career? Don’t let a preventable injury or burnout stop your creative flow.
Created with @ukbapam.bsky.social, InTune gives you a tailored roadmap to stay healthy and productive.
👉Get InTune www.intune.prsmembersfund.com
When a singer finishes a concert, they may find themselves in a room with a lot of background noise, having to raise their voice to be heard. In our next webinar with @ukbapam.bsky.social Lucie Rayner and Besfort Williams will help singers look after their voices to prevent injury. Link in bio.
29.01.2026 10:20 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you're a clinician or educator and want to find out more about helping performing arts professionals manage focal dystonia, our January CPD session is led by two of the leading experts in the field www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1968637966...
20.01.2026 09:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UK arts groups offer therapeutic support to performers as they refute myth of tortured artist
05.01.2026 06:02 — 👍 34 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
'We’ve come to accept that being an artist means being a full-time producer, administrator and manager too' - Writer, performer and Choreographer Yolanda Mercy talks about the invisible labour carried out by artists forced to wear multiple creative hats.
www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/invi...
🚨 WEBINAR ALERT 🚨
Singers! Are you protecting your vocal health? Are you pacing your voice when teaching or performing?
Learn everything you don't know about your voice from vocal expert Jenevora Williams on Wed 26 Nov
Secure your place now ⬇️
www.ism.org/event/vocal-...
We're thrilled with the feedback for our free digital tool, InTune! 🤩
Created with @ukbapam.bsky.social, InTune helps music creators focus on their physical, psychological, and financial wellbeing.
Try it today! intune.prsmembersfund.com
#InTune #MusicWellbeing #supportbeyondthemusic
We're delighted to be partnering with Actors' Trust on this series of workshops to support mental health in the performing arts sector
22.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A performing artist and bandmate onstage, captioned 'It's For Them!'
It's For Them
Your bandmate, your castmate, the people on and behind the stage - you have a laugh in rehearsals; make sure the sound is right; you might even help each other when performance anxiety hits
Can you help support BAPAM's unique health service?
donate.justgiving.com/charity/bapa...
Did you know? @prsformusic.bsky.social members get free access to InTune, a digital tool designed with @ukbapam.bsky.social to boost your physical and mental wellbeing. 💪🏽🧠
Find resources to manage health challenges, build resilience, and stay creative.
Try today!
www.intune.prsmembersfund.com
Last minute booking is open until 7pm GMT today. Join our expert-led CPD session for creative sector health, education and support professionals. Discussing disability, race and social inequalities, learning from lived experience, practical skills for culturally responsive informed communication.
24.09.2025 08:28 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our online CPD returns this week, 24 Sept with Creative Consultant / Attitude is Everything Founder, Suzanne Bull MBE and Clinical Psychologist, Dr Fabienne Palmer. Ideal for practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding of health equity and accessibility
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bapam-cpd-...
CPD for healthcare professionals returns!
This month - health equity, diversity and communication.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bapam-cpd-...
CPD for healthcare professionals returns!
This month - health equity, diversity and communication.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bapam-cpd-...
Self-care is how you take your power back!💪🏾
InTune is a digital platform that provides personalised insights into physical and mental wellbeing with a special emphasis on the specific health challenges that music creators can face.
Get it today! www.intune.prsmembersfund.com
@ukbapam.bsky.social
Close-up of a black dancer with short cropped hair wearing a dark tank top, set against a softly lit studio background with colourful layered outlines behind them. White text overlaid reads 'Best Foot Forward. Grants to invigorate your dance career'. The DPF logo is in the top left corner.
📢Today we're launching the second round of Best Foot Forward: grants to invigorate your dance career.
Read the full guidelines & enquire through our online contact form by Thurs 11 Sept: bit.ly/40JWT4l
Like + Share this post to help get the message out!
The Big Freelancer Survey 2025 - Report, 'Who's taking the hit?' is out now.
The data provided by thousands of respondents since 2020 presents a clear - and deeply concerning - picture of the situation in which UK arts freelancers find themselves.
freelancersmaketheatrework.com/bigfreelance...
Remember to prioritise your mental and physical health, even in the creative hustle. 🧠🫀
Try our digital wellbeing tool InTune:
✍🏽Complete a short self-assessment
🫵🏽Receive personalised feedback
💪🏽Access specialist resources
🫂Stay connected to support
intune.prsmembersfund.com
@ukbapam.bsky.social
We're delighted to announce the next year of Healthy Practice webinars for musicians, in partnership with @ukbapam.bsky.social. The next 12 months will focus on vocal health and mental health. Take a look what's coming up and book for free at www.rsmgb.org/events
#music #musician #health #wellbeing
Megan Rushbrook is cycling 255 miles, from Cardiff to the Suffolk Coast, for BAPAM!
“I was involved in a crash which left me requiring surgery on my arm. As a professional pianist, my career was severely threatened. BAPAM... have been nothing but brilliant."
www.justgiving.com/page/megan-r...
This week's online CPD will help all practitioners offer some help to skin patients and know how to refer on for further management
Skin conditions cause a lot of distress, sometimes under-appreciated by others
Performing artists encounter specific problems due to their environment and lifestyle
InTune is live! Our FREE digital tool that gives you personalised tips on how to improve your wellbeing.
Watch Athena (PRS Fund) and Claire (@ukbapam.bsky.social) explain what InTune is, together with Justin who has used the tool first hand.
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl0QyPVbcwM
This week's online CPD will help all practitioners offer some help to skin patients and know how to refer on for further management
Skin conditions cause a lot of distress, sometimes under-appreciated by others
Performing artists encounter specific problems due to their environment and lifestyle
With the right support, dyslexic actors can thrive and the whole industry benefits says Deborah Groves 👇
17.06.2025 08:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on June 25th at 7pm for this session!
All ticket holders will receive a recording of the event so if you can't make it but you are interested, get yourself a ticket!
This month's CPD for healthcare practitioners is on Skin Health in Performing Arts Professionals.
Often neglected or not thought of, there are many specific clinical challenges when it comes to performers and their skin - make up, allergic reactions, costumes etc
www.bapam.org.uk/eventbrite-e...
InTune is live!
Give this first of it's kind digital health and wellbeing tool for music creators a try!
Made in collaboration with PRS Members' Fund.
www.intune.prsmembersfund.com
You can also get support from:
💛 @helpmusicians.bsky.social
💛 Royal Society of Musicians
💛 PRS Members' Fund
💛 @ukbapam.bsky.social
Using the InTune resource on a mobile phone
BAPAM and PRS Members' Fund have been working hard on InTune - a first of it's kind digital health platform for music creators.
If you're coming to the @prsformusic.bsky.social AGM on June 3, we'll be speaking at 4pm about the tool and how both organisations can support PRS members.
Research highlights the importance of trauma-informed care in the performing arts
The next expert-led BAPAM CPD session focuses on psychological trauma and how we can support people with a range of approaches and modalities
Wed 28 May 1900 - 2100 BST
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bapam-cpd-...