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Annual conference for socially engaged practitioners, this year focussing on creativity and organising in response to Covid-19. Four afternoons of curated presentations and provocations all available to watch at your leisure. Heart of Glass, 2020

A DIY collection sharing reflections, research activities and methods that have emerged during Covid-19. Sections include: Narrating & Documenting, Creative Processes & Arts Practices, Social Engagement & Activism, Collaboration, Live to Digital, Tools & Processes, Reflections & Commentaries. Compiled by Vida Midgelow, 2020.

Part tool-kit, part think piece this publication puts the artist at the heart of imagining and activating a better future to come out of this crisis.  Originating in the US but with relevance for practitioners globally. The Center for Cultural Power, 2020.

Recording of two webinars with a panel discussing "how the outdoor & community arts sector might navigate its way out of the lockdown. What impact can we have now, in the next few months, and further ahead into the future.?" Emergency Exit Arts, 2020.

Extensive collection of broad ranging timely resources related to Arts and Health.  Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance, 2020.

A broad-ranging collection of relevant resources aimed at the collaborative theatre sector. US focussed but with lots of relevant ideas for UK practitioners.  Network of Ensemble Theaters, 2020.

Although this isn't directly an arts-toolkit, it is relevant and useful for arts practitioners interested in taking a radical approach to educational theatre/arts projects. Plenty of theory and practice, case studies and exercises. Radical Education Forum, 2012.

A detailed step by step guide book to the process used by Ann Jellicoe’s Colway Theatre Trust, and still of useful to anyone interested in staging a large scale community play. Ann Jellicoe, 1987 

This creative response offers an insight into what arts and health is, what it can be and what it means to people. For extensive writing and resources on arts and health visit the Arts For Health site.  Clive Parkinson, 2011