Home Our Health Share Share Share Copy Link Copy Link Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Email Arts and culture Scroll down Body VicHealth supports arts and cultural initiatives that promote mental wellbeing and health equity, encourage physical activity and healthy eating, and prevent harm from alcohol and tobacco. Body Participating in arts and cultural activities has multiple benefits for health and wellbeing: strengthening community connection, providing platforms for less prominent voices, and opportunities for bringing people together to develop creative solutions to health promotion challenges. Body Through our long-standing commitment to the arts, we aim to improve population health and reduce health inequities by: increasing participation and diversity in the arts through the development of strong partnerships between the creative sector and the broader community supporting creative initiatives that promote healthy lifestyles, encourage dialogue around health-related issues, and increase health literacy ensuring that arts and cultural settings are healthy and welcoming environments for all Victorians. Everyday Creativity ProgramFostering new approaches that ensure more arts and cultural experiences are available to more people more often.See current projects Art of Good Health ProgramSupporting partnerships to develop creative solutions that address health challenges and enhance health promotion strategies.See current projects Indigenous Arts ProgramVicHealth has a long and proud history of supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander initiatives in the arts and creative industries. Connection to culture is crucially important to health and wellbeing, especially involving the voices of next generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in conversations around solution and decision that will impact their future. See current projects Future Makers for ChangeArtists and creatives across the state are joining forces with community organisations to help tackle some of the state’s biggest challenges with support from VicHealth, Creative Victoria and others in the new Future Makers for Change program. $2.6 million will support nine game changing projects that will showcase the powerful role creativity can play in driving social change. An initiative of the Creative State strategy, Future Makers for Change is part of a new Social Impact program, a cross-government initiative to support creative projects that complement government efforts in areas including mental wellbeing, social cohesion, gender equality and family violence. Learn more about this program here. Water in Arts: Live music venues VicHealth is working to increase the supply, access and promotion of water as a drink of choice in live music venues. Find out more Research and Publications Body See all research and publications The arts and creative industries in health promotion Read more VicHealth Arts Strategy 2019-2023 Read more
