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Tuesday
15th March

The Creative Encephalon on Arts, Health & Wellness

'The Creative Encephalon on Arts, Health & Wellness'.Inspirational  leaders and  extraordinary practitioners  explore where health care becomes art form.

Each session was recorded and will before long exist available – they are being edited for captioning currently.  In the meantime, please see the video below which was first broadcast on St Patricks Festival TV equally a 'taster' of the twenty-four hours.

10.00–11.00

Creating Health and Intendance

Presentations on transformative creativity at a global calibration include:

Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Lead, World Wellness Organisation

Theo Edmonds, Cultural Futurist, Assistant Dean Transdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation University Colorado

Daisy Fancourt, Found Epidemiology & Health Care,  University College London

Chaired by Dominic Campbell.

Contributors

Christopher Bailey is the Arts & Health lead at the World Health Arrangement, based in in Geneva, Switzerland. His program focuses on the research agenda, community implementation and mobilizing the global media to explore, sympathise and support the health benefits of the arts, in everyday life as well equally an musical instrument in the field. Educated at Columbia and Oxford Universities, as well at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, earlier inbound Global Health and Philanthropy, Bailey was a professional thespian and playwright. He is presently engaged heavily in using the arts in the COVID-nineteen global response.

Website:  https://www.who.int/initiatives/arts-and-health

Social Media:

https://twitter.com/WHO

https://world wide web.linkedin.com/in/christopher-bailey-21072050

Dr Daisy Fancourt is Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology at University College London. Her research focuses on the effects of social factors on health, including loneliness, social isolation, social & community avails, arts and cultural engagement, and social prescribing. Her piece of work includes behavioural studies, clinical trials of new psychosocial interventions inside the NHS, and epidemiological analyses. Daisy has received over £25 meg in inquiry funding as Master and Co-Investigator and has been recognised with awards from the British Science Association, Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust, British Academy, British Federation of Women Graduates, American Psychosomatic Guild, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Royal Society for Public Health and NHS England. From 2018-21 she was Director of the national UKRI MARCH Mental Wellness Research network on social, cultural and customs date, and she is currently Managing director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Heart on Arts and Health also as a BBC New Generation Thinker and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

Website:  https://iris.ucl.air-conditioning.uk/iris/scan/profile?upi=DFANC73

Social media:  https://twitter.com/Daisy_Fancourt

Culture Futurist. Transdisciplinary Bookish & Researcher with Focus on Humanizing the Future of Work. Industry-University Collaborations and Private-Sector Engagement Leader. Public Health Entrepreneur. Cultural Analytics Inventor. Developer of Next-generation Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives in the Artistic Economic system. Creative person & Poet.
Office of a nine-generation Appalachian mountain family, Theo is an inventor, artist, entrepreneur and civilization futurist who was named i of "l People Changing the Face of the Due south" by Southern Living Magazine. In July 2021, he assumed the role of Associate Dean for Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation at University of Colorado Denver, Higher of Arts & Media. Previously, Theo was a faculty member at the University of Louisville School of Public Heath & Data Sciences where he served as Principal Investigator on projects within a National Science Foundation-sponsored program. For his squad'southward research focused on using arts, humanities, population health science and cultural analytics to mensurate creativity and innovation, Theo's squad was awarded the 2020 University of Louisville Trailblazer Award for Research and Innovation. In 2020, he co-founded UPOP (Underestimated People of Purpose) a for-profit Public Do good Corporation founded by artists, data scientists and health professionals to humanize the futurity of piece of work through culture and creativity. Theo is also co-founder of IDEAS xLab, an arts nonprofit that champions inclusion and belonging through creativity, art, and activity. He has served equally national Vice Chair for Americans for the Arts Private Sector Quango and currently participates in leadership of several international creative industries groups operating at the intersection of arts, creativity, technology, neuroscience and economics.

Website:
https://www.theoedmonds.com/almost-theo-edmonds
https://artsandmedia.ucdenver.edu/nearly-cam/news/for-publication/cam-welcomes-theo-edmonds-every bit-acquaintance-dean-for-transdisciplinary-inquiry-innovation

11.30–12.30

Creating Health and Intendance - Ireland

Roger O'Sullivan (DIrector, Ageing Enquiry and Development, Establish of Public Health Ireland), Rose Anne Kenny (TILDA) and Brian Lawlor (Trinity College Dublin and Global Brain Health Found)

Respond to the previous session by  reflecting on its  implications in  Republic of ireland.

Contributors

Professor Brian Lawlor (Doctor, FRCPI, FRCPsych, FTCD (Hon), DABPN) is Conolly Norman Professor of Old Historic period Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, and Deputy Executive Managing director of the Global Brain Health Institute. He is a geriatric psychiatrist with an involvement in dementia, late-life low, loneliness and brain wellness. Brian has worked for over 30 years on developing services and delivering care to people with dementia. His inquiry interests range from early detection and prevention to evaluating new treatments for dementia.

Website:

www.gbhi.org

https://www.understandtogether.ie

https://people.tcd.ie/Contour?Username=lawlorba

Social Media:

https://twitter.com/ProfLawlor

RRose Anne was appointed in 2005, to Trinity College and St. James's Hospital, every bit Caput of the Academic Department of Medical Gerontology and holds the Chair of Medical Gerontology. She is the founding Chief Investigator of The Irish Longitudinal Written report on Ageing TILDA : world wide web.tilda.ie), and author of the best-selling volume Age Proof.

Website:

https://tilda.tcd.ie

Social Media:  https://twitter.com/roseannekenny1

x.30 and 11.thirty

babyGROOVE by Anna Newell

A chilled out 70'south-inspired adventure for babies under 12 months, full of gorgeous harmony singing and immersive video created by Anna Newell Theatre Adventures, i of Ireland's leading theatremakers for young audiences whose piece of work for early years has been seen on six continents.

Monday to Midweek – 2 shows at 10.30 and xi.30.  Each prove lasts 20 minutes approximately.

Places are express and booking is essential.

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babyGROOVE is office of the 2022 programme from The Network For Boggling Audiences, is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and is a co-production with The Civic, Tallaght.

Contributors

1 of Republic of ireland's leading theatre makers for young audiences, creating unique theatre adventures for babies, early years and children/immature people with complex needs.

Anna created the world'southward kickoff BabyDay, introduced theatre for children and young people with PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties) into Ireland and helped start babytheatre in South Africa.

The work for early years audiences has been seen on half-dozen continents.

The shows are informed and inspired by their audiences at every stage of their creation and have human connectedness at their very heart.

Anna is based in Bray, Republic of ireland.

Website:  www.annanewell.ie

Social Media:  https://twitter.com/annanewell

12.45–ane.15

Forget-Me-Nots Choir

Operation by this inclusive community choir for older people, family, friends and neighbours which is particularly welcoming to those affected by dementia and memory loss.

Please note that tickets to this consequence are separate to those of the seminar and yous must secure your ticket separately.  Tickets are gratis but due to restrictions numbers are limited.

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Contributors

Forget Me Nots System is a registered clemency in Ireland (No. 20144661) offer an inclusive community choir for older people, family, friends and neighbours and is particularly welcoming to those affected past dementia and memory loss. Participants are drawn from the neighbourhood, the local HSE Day Care centres, The Alzheimer Lodge Social Clubs in the region, local residential nursing homes, and from the wider Dublin NorthEast community.

Website:  http://forgetmenots.ie

Social:

https://twitter.com/fmnchoir

world wide web.facebook.com/ForgetMeNotsIE

2.00-4.00pm

Neuroscience meets Creativity In Action

Artists and neuroscientists explore examples of creative practise and its implications.  Includes drama for early years development, dance to heal trauma, singing for encephalon health and verse for climate change. Chaired by Dermot O'Callaghan.

This is a serial of conversations between the post-obit:

Anna Newell and Cliona O'Doherty on theatre  for early on years development and children with complex disability

Catherine Jordan and Karen Meenan on choirs for people living with alzheimers and music for the encephalon

Magda Kacmzarska and Anusha Mohan on dancing neuroscience enquiry

Ailish Claffey and Glenna Batson on dance, science and somatic studies

Amelia McConville and Francesca Farina on verse, climatic change and interdisciplinarity

Contributors

One of Republic of ireland'due south leading theatre makers for immature audiences, creating unique theatre adventures for babies, early years and children/young people with complex needs.

Anna created the earth'due south first BabyDay, introduced theatre for children and young people with PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties) into Ireland and helped commencement babytheatre in S Africa.

The work for early years audiences has been seen on six continents.

The shows are informed and inspired by their audiences at every phase of their creation and take human connection at their very heart.

Anna is based in Bray, Republic of ireland.

Website:  www.annanewell.ie

Social Media:  https://twitter.com/annanewell

Clíona is a PhD student in the Cusack Lab working at the intersection of adult neuroimaging, artificial intelligence and babe developmental neuroscience. Her piece of work concerns the mechanisms by which we learn to understand the earth effectually us and she believes that an interdisciplinary arroyo will uncover the secrets of intelligent learning. With an alternating training in interim and theatre, Clíona is naturally fascinated by the synergies and parallels of creative creative pursuits and scientific discovery.

Website:

http://world wide web.cusacklab.org

www.clionaodoherty.com

Social:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliona-o-doherty/

https://twitter.com/clionaodoherty

Catherine is a cognitive neuroscientist investigating the relationship betwixt musical expertise and the evolution of dementia, and music as therapy. She holds teaching and enquiry responsibilities at the School of Psychology at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Catherine completed her undergraduate degree, a BA in psychology, at the National University of Galway, where she was awarded the undergraduate scholar honour for her academic achievements. She studied for her MSc degree in Human Cerebral Neuropsychology at the University of Edinburgh. In 2017, she completed her PhD in psychology (Human Cognitive Neuroscience) under the supervision of Professor Robert Logie, Dr. Katie Overy, and Dr. Thomas Bak. She joined the Atlantic Fellows program in 2017. Upon graduation of the fellowship, she joined the School of Psychology at University College Dublin, where she holds pedagogy and research responsibilities.

Website:  https://sites.google.com/tcd.ie/timbregroup/most

Social Media: https://twitter.com/TIMBREgroup

Karen Meenan is a self-employed entrepreneur with over thirty years' feel as a retailer, marketing consultant, trainer, coach, dementia-inclusive theatre director, radio presenter and more recently Research Assistant in TCIN/School of Psychology, located at Trinity College Dublin. She has been selected as Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health in Global Brain Wellness Institute (GBHI) working with scientists, academics, and artists to better encephalon wellness on a global scale.

She is Director and Co-Founder of Lewy Torso Ireland, and has recently been appointed Patient and Public Involvement and Communications/Dissemination Coordinator of HRB Dementia Clinical Trials Network Republic of ireland 'Dementia Trials Ireland' (DTI). The ultimate goal of DTI is to enable every person at adventure of, or living with dementia in Ireland, the opportunity to access clinical trials. A cornerstone of the work will be the inclusion of people with lived experience and their caregivers in the twenty-four hours-to-day development of DTI also as raising public and professional person sensation of dementia and dementia trials throughout Republic of ireland.

In Sep 2017 she founded 'Making Hay Reminiscence Theatre' which is an inter-generational dementia-inclusive workshop-based theatre company. www.makinghaytheatre.ie is the offset and but member of European Reminiscence Network (ERN) which has fellow member countries in Japan, Singapore, Australia, N America, Europe and the U.k..

She is a volunteer researcher, presenter and producer of 3 radio series on Near FM Community Radio 'Reminiscence on the Radio', 'Voyage Around My Brain' 'Talkin' Virtually Neurodegeneration' and more than recently 'Atlantic, Pacific and Beyond' She is the winner of the Gold Social Benefit Award in the 2020 CRAOL Community Radio Ireland awards, judges commented that they hadn't heard the voices of those living with dementia on radio earlier. These programmes feature the voices of over a hundred guests in studio and online since January 2020 and are broadcast weekly 7-8pm on NearFM 90.3.

Website:

https://www.makinghaytheatre.ie

Social Media:

https://twitter.com/makinghaykaren

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-meenan-8651a8a8/

https://world wide web.instagram.com/meenankaren/

Magda Kaczmarska is a dancer, researcher and artistic aging teaching artist based in New York Metropolis. Magda received her MFA in Dance Performance & Choreography and her BS in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics from the Academy of Arizona. Magda has dedicated her career to utilizing the vehicle of trip the light fantastic toe and movement to dilate and support artistic community. Her multidisciplinary work leverages a dual background in neuropharmacology and dance to build bridges and empower individuals and communities to be active agents in their creativity and encephalon health. Through all her piece of work, she seeks to foster safety, creative and inclusive spaces for discovery, agency and meaning. She believes all of the states possess the power to harness our creative expression to support edifice meaningful and healthy communities around us.

Magda leads and develops programs which foster creative community for intergenerational groups of all abilities. Her program, Every Torso Moves, supports brain health for older adults through physical activity, social connectedness and creative expression. She developed Stories in the Moment, which combines dance, creative move and storytelling, to amplify the creative voices of people living with dementia beyond the globe. Along with Dr. Anusha Mohan, from Trinity Higher Dublin, she leads brainFM, a co-artistic educational tool that unites trip the light fantastic toe and storytelling to larn about the brain.

Devoted to building evidence base of operations, while expanding public and professional education in best practices in artistic aging practice globally, Magda balances her work in intergenerational community-based teaching with appointment in advocacy in several sectors. She mentors future leaders in the creative and health sector through a regular partnership at the Fordham Ailey Schoolhouse of Dance in New York City and the Arts in Medicine Fellowship in Lagos, Nigeria.

She serves every bit a representative to the Un with Generations United and is on the executive committee of the United nations NGO Committee on Ageing. She serves on the Dance and Disability Taskforce at the National Dance Teaching Organization, to support access, equity and inclusion in the dance pedagogy community, for which she received the Executive Managing director Accolade in 2021. As an Atlantic Young man for Equity in Brain Wellness at the Global Brain Wellness Institute, Magda builds collaborations effectually the earth to design and expand access to creative aging programs that support encephalon health beyond the lifespan.

Website: www.magdakaczmarska.com

Social Media:  https://twitter.com/MagdaKaczmarsk4

Dr. Anusha Mohan is a Postdoctoral Inquiry Fellow at the Trinity College Plant of Neuroscience and School of Psychology at Trinity Higher Dublin. She is likewise a trained classical Bharathanatyam and Bollywood dancer. In addition to studying phantom auditory perception using experimental psychology, neuromodulation and neuroimaging, Anusha is immensely passionate most the performing arts which enables her to resonate and collaborate with both artists and scientists. Her diverse and multicultural experience through her national and international travels equally both a performing artiste and researcher shapes her persona and inspires her ongoing work of marrying the 2 seemingly different worlds. She is one of the lead organisers of the International Tinnitus Enquiry Initiative Foundation's dissertation and communication wing, which strives to take tinnitus enquiry and clinical practices to the public. She is also the co-developer of BrainFM – an pedagogy and sensation tool aimed at making circuitous concepts about the brain accessible through dance while also building customs. These tie together with her vision to leverage the arts equally a medium to both comprehend and communicate the working of the brain.

Twitter: @AnushaMohan19

Instagram: nushmo90

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=GxPjtv4AAAAJ&hl=en

Facebook: Anusha.mohan.39

As a choreographer, director, dramaturg, performer and facilitator, Ailish chooses to specialise in choreological studies.  Her works describe from physical theatre, choreological studies, experimental theatre and set up dancing. She is interested in the portrayal of the human being condition at its very essence and is committed to making visually stunning piece of work in collaboration with artists from various disciplines and communities. She is interested in creating work that securely connects and communicates with audiences.

Website: https://ailishclaffeydance.wordpress.com

Social Media: https://twitter.com/ailishclaffey

For the last v decades, Glenna Batson has worked at the intersection of dance, human movement scientific discipline and somatic (mind-body) education. Glenna has honed a trans-disciplinary approach to movement teaching. She draws from multiple sources as catalysts for instruction, enquiry, advancement, and creative and personal growth. Glenna engages routinely with multiple sectors both within the academy and other cultural hubs – organisations which place embodiment within arts for health as a cardinal value to their initiatives. She is an internationally recognized instructor of the Alexander Technique (qualified 1989) and was pivotal in the establishment of the International Association of Trip the light fantastic Medicine and Science in the 1980'south (IADMS.org). A erstwhile Fulbright Senior Specialist in dance education (2008-2019), Glenna received the start honorary fellowship accolade for her contributions to dance scientific discipline from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London, UK). Between 2009 and 2015, she pioneered research on improvisational trip the light fantastic toe and Parkinson'south disease, and remains an active consultant to arts-for-health initiatives, locally and internationally. Glenna holds a master'southward degree (MA) in trip the light fantastic education (1978), and a master's and doctorate in physical therapy (1983/2006). Professor emeritus of concrete therapy (Winston-Salem State University, The states, 2012), she remains an agile course leader, mentor, and external examiner within higher education. She is author of Body and Heed in Movement: Dance and Neuroscience in Conversation, and co-editor/contributor to Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narratives, University of Chicago printing, 2014). During the last decade, she co-created the Fold equally Somatic/Artistic Exercise with multimedia artist and dancer Susan Sentler. Together, they successfully transferred to online pedagogy, reaching a global multidisciplinary audience, and securing a book contract with Intellect Books. Glenna's community service lies in grassroots advancement around criminal justice reform aimed at abolishing life without parole.  At 73, she remains 'a adult female who dances,' and fully intends for her last flower to be the brightest.

Website:

http://www.humanorigami.com

http://www.glennabatson.internet

Social media:

https://www.facebook.com/glenna.batson

https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenna-batson-3b1a5a82/

Amelia McConville is a PhD student researching experimental verse and visual poetics from both a literary and Neurohumanities perspective. Her enquiry project engages with challenging poetic works that showroom both verbal and visual elements, and considers how exploring verse studies and experimental psychology simultaneously has the potential to do good both disciplines. She is especially interested in the ideological and methodological quandaries that ascend when conducting interdisciplinary enquiry, and is excited past the burgeoning interest in Neurohumanities evident in Trinity's electric current research culture.

Amelia received her B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy from Trinity in 2017, and subsequently worked for Trinity's Development and Alumni Role for a year before commencing PhD research in 2018.

Website:  https://world wide web.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/2020/fine art-and-science-reading-group.php

Social media:  https://twitter.com/ameliamcconv

Francesca is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on identifying and addressing risk factors

for dementia. She holds a BA in Psychology and PhD in Neuroscience from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She currently works as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Global Brain Wellness Institute, Trinity College Dublin. Francesca also has a stiff interest in developing creative engagement initiatives to promote brain wellness and life-long well-existence. In 2018, she co-authored a pop scientific discipline volume, Why Science Needs Art (Routledge, UK).

Website:  https://world wide web.gbhi.org/profiles/francesca-farina

Social Media:

https://twitter.com/FrancescaRoFa

https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescarfarina/

As CEO of Sing Ireland Dermot O'Callaghan is responsible for delivering on Sing Republic of ireland's vision, strategy, and remit. He builds relationships with stakeholders, funders, and partners.

Dermot's career to date has also seen him work with Opera Theatre Company and Bedroom Choir Ireland. He has worked as a choral and orchestral conductor, vocal and instrumental teacher, and as a facilitator and holds a B.A., B.Mus. and M.A. in Arts Management. Dermot is besides the President of the European Choral Association.

Website:  www.singireland.ie

Social Media:  https://twitter.com/Sing_Ireland

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