International Conference:
America’s Society for the Arts in Healthcare is hosting its annual conference in Buffalo, NY in April. Featuring an international line up of over 100 presentations and performances, 'Approaching Health Creatively' will bring together practitioners from across the world to examine contemporary practice in arts in health.
For more information please contact: www.thesah.org
National Conference
For further information: www.hefma.org.uk
National Conference
National Conference
The focus of the conference will be on the interactive relationships of Applied Arts and Health. It will bring together those with interests in Applied Arts and Health to share research and experiences, explore the potential of partnerships and establish ongoing collaborations.
There is a current call for abstracts with a deadline of: April 30, 2009
For more information visit: www.northampton.ac.uk/artsandhealth
Critical Connections Summit: Through the Looking Glass: Investigating perspectives on arts and health
The Critical Connections Summit: Through the Looking Glass: Investigating perspectives on arts and health took place on the 30th November 2007. Please see below the transcriptions and papers from the event.
Music and Medicine; A Matter of Interpretation
Professor Paul Robertson, Director of the Music, Mind and Spirit Trust, and Visiting Professor of Music and Medicine at the Peninsula Medical School in Devon.
The link below takes you to the Royal Society of Arts website where you can access the same lecture given by Professor Robertson at the Through the Looking Glass Summit as a PDF file of an audio file.
http://www.rsa.org.uk/acrobat/robertson_161106.pdf
Linking creativity and health: An occupational science perspective
Dr. Gaynor Sadlo, Head of the Division of Occupational Therapy at the University of Brighton.
Community-based Creative Dance for Adolescents, and their Social Wellbeing: work in progress - click here for paper (pdf)
Sue Oliver, M.Phil., M.Ed., B.A., P.G.C.E., Cert. Dance in Ed. PhD Student Queen Margaret University Edinburgh.
Health Improvement and the Role of Art in "Getting the Message Across" - click here for paper (pdf)
Phillip Lofas, Sen. Dramatherapist, Arts and Health, Health Improvement Team, Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust
Hospital Practices, Art School Research - click here for paper (pdf)
Chris Dorsett, Reader in Arts School Practices, Northumbria University
Brenda Longstaff, Development Lead-Charities, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Dancer as creative thinker: Imagination in visualising movement - click here for paper (pdf)
Jill Bunce, SDMth, UKCP. Community Leader for Dance, MA, Subject Leader for Dance and Movement Studies and Programme Leader for Dance Movement Therapy MA, University of Derby.
Sick?: Artists approaches to health and illness - click here for paper (pdf)
Dr. Emma Brodzinski, Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London.
The healthy museum: How and why should museums place health and wellbeing at the heart of policy - click here for paper (pdf)
May Redfern, Freelance Arts and Heritage Consultant
Arts Council England Yorkshire, 21 Bond Street, Dewsbury
Approaching Health Creatively: Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 20th Annual Conference
April 22 – 25, 2009 Buffalo, NYAmerica’s Society for the Arts in Healthcare is hosting its annual conference in Buffalo, NY in April. Featuring an international line up of over 100 presentations and performances, 'Approaching Health Creatively' will bring together practitioners from across the world to examine contemporary practice in arts in health.
For more information please contact: www.thesah.org
National Conference
The future of healthcare delivery: an international EFM perspective
The Health Estates & Facilities Management Association’s Annual Conference which will be taking place at the Park Inn
Heathrow in May under the headline theme 'The future of healthcare delivery: an international EFM perspective'. The
conference will focus on the design and management of healthcare facilities and will also showcase the impact art can have
in improving the healing environment.For further information: www.hefma.org.uk
National Conference
Association for Medical Humanities Conference 2009: Taking the Body Seriously
6th - 8th July 2008 Durham University
The conference’s aim is to bring humanities resources, both single-discipline and inter-disciplinary, to bear upon our
understanding of how our bodies constitute both the possibilities of, and the constraints upon, leading flourishing
lives.
Key themes include:
Email: p.r.l.multon@durham.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0) 191 334 8245
Key themes include:
- the role of the body in framing experience, knowledge, values and the imagination
- the place of the body in relation to creativity and the arts, both as generator and as object
- how science’s methods and agenda reflect the fact and form of our embodiment
- the place of medical conceptions of the body, health and well-being within prevalent contemporary understandings of human flourishing
Email: p.r.l.multon@durham.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0) 191 334 8245
National Conference
Inspiring Transformations Conference: Applied Arts and Health
September 8 – 10, 2009 - The University of Northampton, UK (Avenue Campus)The focus of the conference will be on the interactive relationships of Applied Arts and Health. It will bring together those with interests in Applied Arts and Health to share research and experiences, explore the potential of partnerships and establish ongoing collaborations.
There is a current call for abstracts with a deadline of: April 30, 2009
For more information visit: www.northampton.ac.uk/artsandhealth
CPD:
Growing Creatively:
2008 Mind Odyssey Conference, 10th October, Leeds - click to find out moreEvaluate:
Through the looking glass:
Critical Connections Summit: Through the Looking Glass: Investigating perspectives on arts and health
The Critical Connections Summit: Through the Looking Glass: Investigating perspectives on arts and health took place on the 30th November 2007. Please see below the transcriptions and papers from the event.
Music and Medicine; A Matter of Interpretation
Professor Paul Robertson, Director of the Music, Mind and Spirit Trust, and Visiting Professor of Music and Medicine at the Peninsula Medical School in Devon.
The link below takes you to the Royal Society of Arts website where you can access the same lecture given by Professor Robertson at the Through the Looking Glass Summit as a PDF file of an audio file.
http://www.rsa.org.uk/acrobat/robertson_161106.pdf
Linking creativity and health: An occupational science perspective
Dr. Gaynor Sadlo, Head of the Division of Occupational Therapy at the University of Brighton.
Community-based Creative Dance for Adolescents, and their Social Wellbeing: work in progress - click here for paper (pdf)
Sue Oliver, M.Phil., M.Ed., B.A., P.G.C.E., Cert. Dance in Ed. PhD Student Queen Margaret University Edinburgh.
Health Improvement and the Role of Art in "Getting the Message Across" - click here for paper (pdf)
Phillip Lofas, Sen. Dramatherapist, Arts and Health, Health Improvement Team, Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust
Hospital Practices, Art School Research - click here for paper (pdf)
Chris Dorsett, Reader in Arts School Practices, Northumbria University
Brenda Longstaff, Development Lead-Charities, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Dancer as creative thinker: Imagination in visualising movement - click here for paper (pdf)
Jill Bunce, SDMth, UKCP. Community Leader for Dance, MA, Subject Leader for Dance and Movement Studies and Programme Leader for Dance Movement Therapy MA, University of Derby.
Sick?: Artists approaches to health and illness - click here for paper (pdf)
Dr. Emma Brodzinski, Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London.
The healthy museum: How and why should museums place health and wellbeing at the heart of policy - click here for paper (pdf)
May Redfern, Freelance Arts and Heritage Consultant
Creativity Matters:
Health and creativity in children and young people, 12th January 2007Arts Council England Yorkshire, 21 Bond Street, Dewsbury
Speakers at this event included:
Roy Porritt, of Speakers and Learners, Government Office for Yorkshire and Humber
Mary Robson, Creative Director, Roots and Wings, an emotional literacy initiative
Elaine Burke, Arts and Health Manager for Hull PCT, East Riding of Yorkshire PCT and Humber Mental Health Teaching Trust.
We regret that transcripts of their presentations are not available.
Delegate groups discussed:
Roy Porritt, of Speakers and Learners, Government Office for Yorkshire and Humber
Mary Robson, Creative Director, Roots and Wings, an emotional literacy initiative
Elaine Burke, Arts and Health Manager for Hull PCT, East Riding of Yorkshire PCT and Humber Mental Health Teaching Trust.
We regret that transcripts of their presentations are not available.
Delegate groups discussed:
- How can the arts help children and young people to be healthy?
- What can we learn from successful models in the region?
- How can we achieve high quality, sustained provision?
- What are the best ways to commission creative approaches?
- Ultimately, how do we use our imaginations to create innovation in provision for children and young people?