Swindon Festival Of Literature: Daisy Fancourt

Art Cure – what the arts can do for our health

– with DAISY FANCOURT

Might the arts – from reading to writing, song to salsa, poetry to pop, galleries to graffiti, dance to disco – be one of the most powerful tools for unlocking health and happiness? Can the arts help us live longer, be stronger, and even save lives?

Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology at University College London, multi-award-winning science communicator, and BBC New Gen Thinker, Daisy Fancourt, has some encouraging answers in her new book Art Cure. With scientific evidence, Daisy demonstrates the life-changing power of the arts, how engaging in the arts improves the functioning of every major organ system in the body and helps us not only survive, but to flourish and thrive.