Co-creating Arts for Brain Health—A Global Perspective

To mark world Alzheimer’s Month, GBHI is hosting a webinar on September 6th 2022 in collaboration with Arts 4 Dementia entitled “Co-creating Arts for Brain Health—A Global Perspective”. 

In this webinar, we will showcase the diverse creative activities of Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health at GBHI that have been co-produced with and for people living with dementia that generate powerful messages of hope, engagement, inclusion and connection. There is so much to be learned from the innovation emanating from different countries and geographies, and this webinar will illustrate the richness and diversity of a number of these global creative interdisciplinary activities. 

The webinar will feature five 10-minute presentations from Atlantic Fellows, followed by a panel discussion of experts in arts and brain health, social prescribing, and transdisciplinary approaches for people living with dementia. 

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Who Should Attend?

If your work involves arts for health or creative aging, social prescribing, dementia prevention, arts for people affected by dementia or you wish to extend your programmes for early-stage dementia to people at the very onset – keen to preserve their cultural interests – or are already running such programmes for individuals and family partners and wish to know more about the social prescribing referral route to literary opportunities, this webinar shares insights, progress and learning from international experts.

Agenda

Introduction

• Veronica Franklin Gould, President, Arts 4 Dementia
• Brian Lawlor, GBHI Deputy Executive Director—Event Chair

Atlantic Fellow Presentations

• Kunle Adewale, Artist—Arts For Brain Health: Creativity and Digital Equity for Nigerian Seniors 
• Nicky Taylor, Theatre and Dementia Specialist—Co-creating stories of hope with people living with dementia (Leeds, United Kingdom)
• Ieva Petkute, Arts Researcher and Manager—Arts and cultural interventions for people with dementia in Lithuania
• Carlos Chechetti, Researcher, Social Entrepreneur, and Teacher—Reviving memories program in Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Maritza Pintado, Neurologist—Experience of ageing and dementia in rural Peru

Panel Discussion

• Ian Robertson, Co-Director GBHI
• Lenny Shallcross, Executive Director, World Dementia Council
• Glenna Baston, Instructor of Dance, Duke University, North Carolina
• Maud Hendricks, Artistic Director, Outlandish Theatre
• Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Development Lead, Global Social Prescribing Alliance