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Project | Launch of the UMCG arts in health pilot

Arts in Health Netherlands is launching a year-long pilot at the largest hospital in the North of the Netherlands: the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG). With the UMCG and site specific theatre company Peergroup, the ‘UMCG Pilot’ will develop five arts in health projects based on the needs and inspirations of staff. The projects will run between February and July 2025, and conclude with a festive event at the hospital in November 2025. 

Working with hospital staff, the projects will support the hospital’s ‘cultural shift’ toward making its core value of ‘See the person' (Zie de mens) more central in the life and work of the hospital. The final project evaluations and sustainability recommendations will be presented to staff and leadership at the conclusion. 

The UMCG Arts in Health Pilot will select five artists, each of whom will work with a group of staff on a participatory, care-focused art-making project. Each project will have its own unique artistic variation of the UMCG core value, 'See the person'. 

This pilot joins the other arts in health projects already underway at the UMCG, for example, Muziek aan Bed, which visits the hospital wards to play music for patients, and Mimic Muziek. UMCG’s Kunstgenootschap Thomassen à Thuessink has an impressive visual art collection that can be enjoyed by hospital staff, patients and visitors. CliniClowns visits the wards each week. Also, students from Academy Minerva do projects such as the stairway murals (and even a project on the hospital roof!).  

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