Monday – Saturday
March 6th – 11th
Creative Programme
Dominic Campbell, Curator and Programmer writes:
Living Labs daily at 12.15 invite you to explore creativity as knowledge making practice while a week long exhibition reflects the vibrancy of national and international creative work.
Creative Brain Week connects across disciplines, contexts, and cultures. It values richness and abundance in the diverse ways people understand and engage with the world.
Its curatorial architecture reflects this. To the phrases “nothing about us without us”and “each one teach one” we added “no tell without a show” to remind us that words, the traditional transactional language of exchange of Universities, have to be matched by sense based learning, experiential encounter, movement and playfulness. This informs our use of these exhibition spaces.
The exhibition is free and no booking is required.
Exhibition
Through Our Eyes - Lead artist: Martin Beanz Warde
Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present Through Our Eyes – a new photography project led by artist Martin Beanz Warde. Working in collaboration with 9 participants from the Traveller Community – Winnie Ward, Patrick McDonagh, Chantelle Stokes, Emma Ward, Timmie Casey, Thomas Connors, Martin Ward, Helena Power and Emily Evans – Martin has made a series of photographs that respond to themes of identity and well-being. Martin’s images go beyond stereotypical or nostalgic representations to present a contemporary portrait that celebrates Traveller individuality and reflects their pride in their culture.
Through Our Eyes brings together Martin’s formal portraits with photographs taken by the participants. The overall project combines diverse perspectives to give a unique insight into individual Traveller identities, allowing for complexity and nuance. It highlights the role of Travellers as diverse, creative individuals and addresses wider perspectives to raise awareness of Traveller culture as a valuable, dynamic and embedded part of life in contemporary Ireland. Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to partner with Open Doors Initiative on this 6-month pilot project, providing curatorial, training and production support for Martin. Anthony Haughey has worked with Martin as the artist’s peer mentor.
Through Our Eyes is a Photo Museum Ireland project in partnership with the Open Doors Initiative. It is supported by the Traveller Wellbeing through Creativity initiative developed by the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland Programme), the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Creative Ireland Programme), the HSE, the National Social Inclusion Office and the Arts Council. The purpose of this unique programme is to support creative projects that will have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of the Traveller community.
Website:
Contributors
Martin Beanz Warde is a stand-up comedian, theatre maker, photographer, writer, poet, journalist, mental health and Traveller LGBT+ advocate. Martin has a BA in Sociology and Politics from the University of Galway and is currently finishing his MA in Journalism at the University of Limerick. He was a core founder of LGBT Pavee, (now LGBT TARA -Traveller and Roma alliance), Ireland’s only LGBT+ Traveller-led support group.
Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/MartinBeanzComedy/
https://www.instagram.com/martinbeanz/?hl=en
The Arts Council of Ireland is the Irish government agency for developing the arts. We work in partnership with artists, arts organisations, public policy makers and others to build a central place for the arts in Irish life.
Website: www.artscouncil.ie
Creative Ireland is a five-year Programme which connects people, creativity and wellbeing.
They are an all-of-government culture and wellbeing programme that inspires and transforms people, places and communities through creativity.
They are committed to the vision that every person in Ireland should have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential.
Established in 2017, Creative Ireland was born out of Ireland 2016, the hugely successful state initiative to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising. The Programme drew inspiration from the extraordinary public response to the Centenary and the thousands of largely culture-based events exploring issues of identity, community, culture, heritage and citizenship.
Through partnerships with local and national government, cultural and enterprise agencies and local enterprise, we create pathways and opportunities for people and communities to unlock their creative potential.
We believe in the power and creative potential of people, organisations and government departments working together, sharing expertise, to catalyse ideas and action. Through our focus and co-ordination, we will forge an eco-system of creativity.
The Programme is built around key themes: Creative Youth, Creative Communities, Creative Places, Creative Nation.
Website: Creativeireland.ie
Photo Museum Ireland is the leading voice for photography in Ireland. They are dedicated to fostering a dynamic culture of photographic practice across a broad range of platforms. Established as ‘The Gallery of Photography’ in 1978 by John Osman, the organisation has grown to become one of Ireland’s most loved arts organisations. Their ultimate goal is to relocate to a larger space on a par with international ‘fotomuseums’.
Their programme of free exhibitions showcases the best of contemporary Irish and international photography. They provide sustained support for artists across the span of their careers and development programmes to bring their work to audiences nationally and internationally. They encourage critical thinking and discussion on photography across their in-house, outreach and online channels – bringing arts experiences to all.
Exhibition
I brought the dream of flying… - Corina Duyn & Caroline Schofield
Inspired by a broken-winged bird puppet which accompanied Corina when she moved to full-time nursing home care last year, the exhibition features work made in response to this move and illustrates the new collaborative creative process Corina has developed with Caroline as a result of her increasing disability.
Artist, writer and puppet designer/maker Corina Duyn has been making puppets since her first rag doll, at the age of 10. She became ill with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) aged 36. The increasing limitations imposed by her illness took an increasing toll on her daily and creative lives and, having finally accepted that she could no longer live independently, Corina moved to Signacare Nursing Home in Waterford last year, aged 59. Realising that she needed to take action to somehow maintain her creative spirit – “there is always a way” – Corina issued a plea to her friends and contacts to help her to continue her art practice. Catherine Drea, Chair of Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), heard the call and a new connection was forged between WHAT artist Caroline Schofield and Corina.
During a year of working together in Corina’s room in the nursing home, the artists spent time learning, being surprised, inspired and excited by each other, their practice, their methods and their approaches. They began to shape a way of working together, a new creative process which allowed Corina to push the boundaries of her physical limitations and realise her artistic ambitions. They explored new materials, but also re-used many puppetry-related elements from Corina’s past work to re-examine her new circumstances. In the midst of this process, Corina made the brave decision to face her greatest fear and create work which confronted her move into long-term care. She explains “I fought the impulse to make art about this life-altering time, but it was too strong. I had to accept and act on it.”
The outcomes of this process can be seen in the exhibition, as Corina outlines: “I wish to present this utterly changed life’s journey into full-time care – and what led to this decision – as well as the power of the collaborative process with Caroline which sustains me. This is an important story to tell about the creative process, and it also documents my evolution as an artist. This work is ambitious. It takes more energy and physical ability than I have: the thinking, planning, execution. I am determined to succeed, but I have come to accept that I must rely on my co-artist, Caroline. She is my hands. I cannot do this without her.”
Presented by Waterford Healing Arts Trust & GOMA
Websites:
Gallery Of Modern Art Waterford
LIVE DISCUSSION with the artists will be held on Wednesday 8th March in the venue at 1pm.
This is an In Person event only but no booking is necessary.
Contributors
Dutch born Artist, Writer and Puppet Designer Corina Duyn trained as a nurse and social care worker before becoming a full-time artist after moving to Ireland in 1989. The rapid decline in her health with the onset of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) in 1998, aged 36, changed Corina’s creative ability, intensity and output. Portrayal of life around her changed to exploring the inner world of illness, in order to understand this utterly changed existence. Creative highlights in recent years include facilitating Life Outside the Box puppet project (2015), keynote speaker at Broken Puppet Symposium on Puppetry, Disability and Health (2018) and the Invisible Octopus video poem (2020), an extraordinary and succinct illustration of life with ME. The need to move into long term care in 2021 further influenced her creative output, including now accepting use of her co-artist’s hands to bring ideas into being.
Visual artist Caroline Schofield studied textiles at NCAD and completed a Master’s in Art & Process at Crawford College of Art & Design. An Azure and TimeSlips facilitator, for Waterford Healing Arts Trust, Caroline delivers Open Gallery, a dementia-inclusive art project, and Art at the Kitchen Table, supporting older people to make art in their own homes. She recently worked with the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland on Narrative Tools, exploring the culture of making and handing down tools and skills within families and community. Other work includes projects with Butler Gallery, Age & Opportunity and Open Circle. Caroline’s work is found in public and private collections and has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Website; www.carolineschofield.ie
The Arts Council of Ireland is the Irish government agency for developing the arts. We work in partnership with artists, arts organisations, public policy makers and others to build a central place for the arts in Irish life.
Website: www.artscouncil.ie
Creative Ireland is a five-year Programme which connects people, creativity and wellbeing.
They are an all-of-government culture and wellbeing programme that inspires and transforms people, places and communities through creativity.
They are committed to the vision that every person in Ireland should have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential.
Established in 2017, Creative Ireland was born out of Ireland 2016, the hugely successful state initiative to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising. The Programme drew inspiration from the extraordinary public response to the Centenary and the thousands of largely culture-based events exploring issues of identity, community, culture, heritage and citizenship.
Through partnerships with local and national government, cultural and enterprise agencies and local enterprise, we create pathways and opportunities for people and communities to unlock their creative potential.
We believe in the power and creative potential of people, organisations and government departments working together, sharing expertise, to catalyse ideas and action. Through our focus and co-ordination, we will forge an eco-system of creativity.
The Programme is built around key themes: Creative Youth, Creative Communities, Creative Places, Creative Nation.
Website: Creativeireland.ie
WHAT’s programme of work for health service users, healthcare staff, the community and for the arts and health sector in Ireland is now delivered by a dynamic team of staff under the direction of Claire Meaney and Maeve Butler
artsandhealth.ie is managed by Claire Meaney and Emma Eager with the support of its editorial panel.
The strategic direction of the organisation and related policy-making is steered by a committed Board of Directors who report to the WHAT membership and the fundraising committee raise muchneeded funds to support the costs of our Artist in Residence programme, Healing Sounds,Iontas and so much more.
As Ireland’s longest running arts and health organisation, WHAT history reflects the vision of a handful of committed individuals in the early 1990s.
Website: http://www.waterfordhealingarts.com/
Exhibition
Coming Home: Exhibition by re-Live
We will be exhibiting and distributing the Coming Home comic as part of the exhibition.
Coming Home is a new anthology comic sharing true stories of UK military veterans’ mental health. The stories have been devised working online with a group of veterans living with complex mental health issues, such as Post-traumatic stress disorder , Moral Injury, Military Sexual Trauma and depression.
The process of adapting often traumatic stories into comics has been a therapeutic process for our veterans group over the last year. The work invited each veteran to develop their own narrative, and work with a professional cartoonist to realise it as a finished story.
Coming Home Issue 1 features artists Keith Page (Commando), Mike Donaldson (The Broons/The Dandy),Emma Vieceli (Breaks/Life Is Strange), Casey Raymond (Zine maker), and Clark Bint (Heavy Metal/Killtopia).
The Coming Home logo was created by Richard Starkings (Comicraft).
Further information available here:
http://www.re-live.org.uk/cominghomecomic
Supported by:
Contributors
Karin is the Artistic Director of Re-Live, an Arts in Health organisation co-creating Life Story arts projects with underrepresented communities, including people living with dementia, veterans with complex PTSD, older people and people at the end of life.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/karin-diamond
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/re_live_org
Exhibition
Arts In Medicine Programme, Nigeria
Contributors
Kunle Adewale is an arts in health practitioner based in Lagos nigeria. He is a graduate of Fine and Applied Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, South West Nigeria with specialization in painting and art history. Kunle later proceeded to acquire professional certificates in understanding dementia and arts from University College London (UCL), humanizing healthcare, University of Capetown, South Africa and Psychology and Mental Health, University of Liverpool. He is an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute at the University of California San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin.
Kunle is the founder of arts in medicine fellowship in Nigeria, an organization that trains and empower artists and non-artists to collaborate in transforming healthcare experience for patients, caregivers and healthcare providers. He currently leads the largest arts in health network on the continent of Africa.
Kunle is passionate about mental and brain health and his work focuses on therapeutic art projects, with a specific emphasis on improving health and health-related outcomes. Today, he has impacted over 20,000 beneficiaries through his art programmes in Nigeria, other African countries, Asia and the United States.
Kunle’s therapeutic art projects have featured on BBC Africa,Africa54, Voice of America Washington DC, Reuters, Al Jazeera among other international and local media. He’s a recipient of many international awards, Commonwealth Youth Worker UK, World Bank Social Inclusion hero, president Barack Obama Mandela Washington fellowship, Royal African Youth Leadership award and the Kunle Adewale day in the city of Cincinnati Ohio, United States.
Website: https://kunleadewale.com
Social Media
https://www.instagram.com/artunbi/
https://www.facebook.com/folafunmi.adewale
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunle-adewale-a92b8721/
Exhibition
The Wernicke’s Area, presented by ANU Productions
A mixed media installation by ANU called The Wernicke’s Area, fusing elements of installation with sound design and a live music composition.
This extraordinary piece was first presented in the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2022.
A highly personal project for the company, the work responds to the medical condition of Debbie Boss, the wife of ANU’s co-artistic director and visual artist Owen Boss. The artwork fuses installation and sound design and features music by Emily Howard.
This project is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and IMMA and is supported by PRiSM.
https://imma.ie/whats-on/anu-the-wernickes-area/
Contributors
Owen Boss is a Dublin based visual artist and designer that utilises installation, video and collaborative strategies in his work. The outcomes of his studio research are generally located off-site and made as large-scale multi-room installations that places the audience at its very centre. In 2009 he co-founded ANU Productions and is the co-artistic director.
Recent visual art projects with ANU include: The Wernicke’s Area (IMMA, 2022), The Secret Space (Project Art Centre, 2021), Intersection (The Lab, 2019), Beyond These Rooms (Tate Liverpool and The National Museum of Ireland, 2019), The Anvil (Manchester International Festival, 2019), Scrapefoot (The Ark, 2019), Falling Out of Standing (Dingle Film Festival, 2019, Highlanes Gallery, 2017), These Rooms (London, 2018, Dublin 2016).
Recent theatre design includes Staging the Treaty (ANU, National Concert Hall, 2022), The Same (Corcadorca Theatre Company, Irish Arts Centre, 2022, Galway International Festival, 2019, Cork, 2017), Mabel’s Magnificent Flying Machine (The Gate, 2021), Hail to the Great Wave (Corcadorca Theatre Company, Triskel Art Centre, 2021), The Party to End All Parties (ANU, Dublin Theatre Festival, 2020), Lost O’Casey (ANU, Dorset Street Flats and Parnell Square, The Abbey Theatre), Sunder (ANU, Moore Street).
Other work with ANU includes World’s End Lane, Laundry, Boys of Foley Street, Vardo, Thirteen and Pals.
Website:
https://imma.ie/whats-on/anu-the-wernickes-area/
Social Media:
www.twitter.com/anuproductions
https://www.facebook.com/anuproductions/
www.instagram.com/anu_productions
Professor Mark Cunningham is the the Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Neurophysiology of Epilepsy at Trinity College Dublin. His position is funded through a large philanthropic donation, given by Ellen Mayston Bates upon her death. Professor Cunningham studied at Queen’s University, Belfast where he read Physiology as an undergraduate and obtained his PhD in Physiology from the University of Bristol. He then worked in Bristol University, University of Leeds, Heidelberg University and Newcastle University. In 2005 he was awarded a RCUK Academic Fellowship at Newcastle University. In 2007 alongside Prof. Miles Whittington he founded the first UK research platform for conducting electrophysiological recordings from live human brain tissue ex vivo in Newcastle with support from the Wolfson Foundation. In 2016 he was appointed as Professor of Neuronal Dynamics at the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University and currently holds a visiting Professorship at Newcastle University.
Website:
https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=mcunnin1
https://imma.ie/whats-on/anu-the-wernickes-area/
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-cunningham-91942a6/
https://twitter.com/markcnewry
Exhibition
Stained Glasses: Photographic Exhibition by Maria Sjöö, Photographer, Sara Rahmani, Researcher
This exhibition examines the photographer’s lived experience of perinatal depression.
In collaboration with mental health researchers, Stained Glasses leads you through Maria Sjöö’s experience of peri-natal depression and her struggle with medication.
Maria delves deep into the emotional and physical changes she went through, her loss of interest, her disrupted sleep, her withdrawal from friends and family, and her hope for support.
The cards include prompting questions about how we understand mental health in research. It has been launched three times before in Sweden, in which the last one (Summer 2022) included scientific concepts of depression. Here we collaborated with local partners in Uppsala, Sweden and experts in Bristol and Lyon.
More information is available here:
Contributors
Sara Rahmani is a psychology student interested in psychotherapy, computational psychiatry, trauma and stress-related disorders, and the prevention of domestic and sexual violence.
Before commencing her undergraduate degree in psychology at Trinity College Dublin with the Gillan Lab, Sara completed modules in psychiatry at Uppsala University and in neuroscience at Luleå University of Technology.
Her research interests include predictive psychiatry and the prevention of domestic and sexual violence.
She is a Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research scholar, in which capacity she will be researching what demographic and clinical factors may be useful for individualising the treatment of psychiatric illnesses.
Websites:
https://gillanlab.com/sara-rahmani/
https://laidlawscholars.network/users/sara-rahmani
Maria Sjöö is a photographer with her work focusing on portraits and artistic photography. She has completed vocational training in photography and undertaken a course in photographic crafting, with an interest on analogue photography. She has taught photography and exhibited her work on peri-natal depression – ‘Stained Glasses’ – at several locations.
Social Media:
Exhibition
Creative Climate Action Programme
The growing Brain Health policy movement seeks to encompass the social, political and economic determinants of health. Neuroscientists recognise, for instance, that displacement, air quality and uncertainty all negatively contribute to brain health.
The ‘Creative Climate Action II: Agents of Change’ programme is a joint initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications to support imaginative creative projects that build awareness around climate change and empower citizens to make meaningful behavioural changes. Teams involved include experts from the climate science, community engagement as well as the arts and culture sectors.
The images here, taken from the far west and east of Ireland, visualise the issues of rising sea levels: “Rising” (www.risingdublin.ie) from Dublin Docklands and “Línte na Farraige” ( translates as “Line of the Sea”) from Galway are collaborative projects highlighting the issues of rising sea levels and like Creative Brain Week highlight the critical need for collaboration.
With 40% of Ireland’s population living within five kilometres of the coast, these installations will communicate the drastic impacts of climate change and demonstrate how the future is still in our hands.
Rising” Dublin, team includes,
Trinity College Dublin and Brokentalkers Theatre company, Residents from Pearse Street, Dublin’s Docklands and Ringsend
“Línte na Farraige” Galway, includes:
Línte na Farraige is the work of artists Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta, together with scientists Zoë Roseby (from Trinity College), Maeve Upton (Maynooth University), Gerard McCarthy (Maynooth University), and Jamie Mathews (Imperial College London), as well as the Dublin Climate Action Regional Office.
Contributors
Creative Ireland is a five-year Programme which connects people, creativity and wellbeing.
They are an all-of-government culture and wellbeing programme that inspires and transforms people, places and communities through creativity.
They are committed to the vision that every person in Ireland should have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential.
Established in 2017, Creative Ireland was born out of Ireland 2016, the hugely successful state initiative to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising. The Programme drew inspiration from the extraordinary public response to the Centenary and the thousands of largely culture-based events exploring issues of identity, community, culture, heritage and citizenship.
Through partnerships with local and national government, cultural and enterprise agencies and local enterprise, we create pathways and opportunities for people and communities to unlock their creative potential.
We believe in the power and creative potential of people, organisations and government departments working together, sharing expertise, to catalyse ideas and action. Through our focus and co-ordination, we will forge an eco-system of creativity.
The Programme is built around key themes: Creative Youth, Creative Communities, Creative Places, Creative Nation.
Website: Creativeireland.ie
Living Lab: Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th Times TBC
The Newport Women’s Shed
Supported by Creative Ireland and the Irish Hospice Foundation.
Contributors
Creative Ireland is a five-year Programme which connects people, creativity and wellbeing.
They are an all-of-government culture and wellbeing programme that inspires and transforms people, places and communities through creativity.
They are committed to the vision that every person in Ireland should have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential.
Established in 2017, Creative Ireland was born out of Ireland 2016, the hugely successful state initiative to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising. The Programme drew inspiration from the extraordinary public response to the Centenary and the thousands of largely culture-based events exploring issues of identity, community, culture, heritage and citizenship.
Through partnerships with local and national government, cultural and enterprise agencies and local enterprise, we create pathways and opportunities for people and communities to unlock their creative potential.
We believe in the power and creative potential of people, organisations and government departments working together, sharing expertise, to catalyse ideas and action. Through our focus and co-ordination, we will forge an eco-system of creativity.
The Programme is built around key themes: Creative Youth, Creative Communities, Creative Places, Creative Nation.
Website: Creativeireland.ie
Living Lab: Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th March, 12.15-1.00pm
Living Labs: Dance and Movement Sessions
Does the Brain Lead the Body, or the Body lead the Brain? I dunno” asked 80’s UK Pop group The Smiths. What is known is fluid exchange in both directions makes knowledge. Now joining choreographic studies and practice is research into embodied learning, gut-brain systems, vegal system and hypothesis like the Blind Man’s Stick. Together redrawing traditional boundaries separating brains, bodies and things. Join Ailish Claffey, a dance artist specialising in collaborative practice with diverse bodies and the complexity of human experience, for short daily sessions reflecting on CBW that draw on your bodies knowledge in movement. You might be surprised by what you know.
These sessions reflect the engaged nature of the event and will be added to on the day at the venue.
The sessions are In Person only and are open to seminar attendees. No booking required.
Contributors
Over the last two decades, Ailish has worked with diverse groups within the community developing her co-creative and Dance for Health practice. Specialising in choreological studies, her work draws from exploring the complexity of human relationship and examining the lived experience of those she works with.
As Dance Artist in Residence at The National Centre for Arts and Health (2015 – 2019) Tallaght University Hospital (TUH), Ailish’s dance film documentary The Dance Back Home received a Certificate of Excellence from the HSE Excellence Awards (2018). Ailish has designed and delivered many large-scale projects nationally and her work has been kindly supported by Dance Ireland, The Arts Council, Ireland, Culture Ireland, Kildare Co. Council, South Dublin Co. Council, The Meath Foundation, The National Centre for Arts and Health among others. Ailish is the recipient of the inaugural Artist in Residence programme at The ACRE Project, Celbridge, a partnership with Kildare County Council Arts Service.
Website:
https://ailishclaffeydance.wordpress.com
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/ailishclaffey
Living Lab: Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th March, 12.15-1.00pm
Living Labs: Visual Workshops
East African Public Health Specialist Wambui Karanja approached visual design expert Eliza Squibb with a question. How might we communicate better understanding of Dementia and Brain Health to rural care-givers when literacy and access to education is challenging?. Across the week you are invited you to expand on this question with Eliza and Wambui. Can we exploring the themes of Creative Brain Week in visual terms.
These sessions reflect the engaged nature of the event and will be added to on the day at the venue.
The sessions are In Person only and are open to seminar attendees. No booking required.
Contributors
Wambui is a psychologist and independent consultant. She grew up in Murang’a, Kenya and is now based in Nairobi, working in research, advocacy and caregiving of dementia in various African settings. Her main interests are in Healthy Ageing, Dementia and MentalHealth. She coordinates the Africa Brain Health Network, an organisation that aims to promote awareness of brain health across the lifespan in Africa and beyond. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Kenyatta University and previously was a graduate attaché atthe British Institute in Eastern Africa where she researched perceptions of cognitive decline and dementia among informal caregivers. She is an analumnus of Young African Leadership Initiative, (YALI) East Africa, and a proud global Atlantic fellow for Equity in Brain Health.
Website:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/wambui-karanja
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wambūi-k-6a071a23b/
Eliza uses textile design to bridge the worlds of art and science. Collaborating with healthcare providers, artists, and artisans, Eliza creates textile patterns that communicate health information for populations with low literacy or language barriers that prevent equitable healthcare access. Eliza’s textile patterns have been funded by grants like the Grand Challenge Exploration grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and her designs have been used in health campaigns in West Africa to promote maternal and infant health. Eliza is an Atlantic Fellow for US + Global Health Equity (AFHE, 2019), and she loves collaborating with other fellows around the world. Eliza co-teaches biomimicry design at the Rhode Island School of Design and human-centered design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a course that connects innovative global start-ups and nonprofits with teams of student engineers. Originally from Maine, Eliza lives in Providence, Rhode Island where she loves to try to hike, but there are no hills in Rhode Island, so she ends up canoeing in the marshes.
Websites:
https://d-lab.mit.edu/about/people/eliza-squibb
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliza-squibb/
Living Lab: Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th March, 12.15-1.00pm
Living Labs: Facilitated theatre lab
These sessions reflect the engaged nature of the event and will be added to on the day at the venue.
The sessions are In Person only and are open to seminar attendees. No booking required.
Contributors
For the last 40 years, youth theatres in Ireland have been consciously and purposefully cultivating creativity at an important stage in the life cycle of the human being. How does youth theatre nurture creativity in young people? How does an experience that has fun at its centre promote wellbeing and provide an experience frequently described by participants as ‘transformational’? These sessions will showcase what happens in the youth theatre space. Those who join us will have the opportunity to witness exercises and approaches effective in unleashing our intrinsic ability and drive to imagine, to play, to make, to create.
Website:
Social Media:
Tuesday 7th March at 7pm in Naughton Institute
Keys Bags Names Words: World Premiere
Keys Bags Names Words is a quirky and inspiring lens portraying stories of both the personal and global impacts of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, while following a cohort of young scientists and artists from around the world as they harness every aspect of creativity, humor and compassion to lead the way towards hope and resilience.
This documentary was made in collaboration with Voice of Witness and the Global Brain Health Institute.
This is the world premiere of “Keys Bags Names Words” and there will be a post-show discussion, hosted by Zach Bandler and Karen Meenan with Caroline Prioleau and Cynthia Stone.
We encourage in person interaction with the discussions – book now and be part of it.
Please note that this session has separate tickets to the day’s speaking programme and it is an in-person event only.
Tickets are free but for the in person event we have limited capacity so book early to avoid disappointment.
BOOK HERE FOR IN PERSON ATTENDANCE
Contributors
As a director, Zach’s work has won awards and played film festivals across the globe. His short film The Lightkeeper (2018) was named final recipient of the CINE Golden Eagle Award for Narrative Short Film, an award recognizing rising filmmakers since 1962 which has honored the early careers of Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Spike Lee, Taylor Hackford and others. It was also “Best of the Month” on Omeleto, YouTube’s largest short film channel with 3.5 million subscribers. His dark comedy film Torn (2019) premiered online with Directors Notes, and his mid-length short film The Stairs (2016) is a multi-award winner at festivals.
As a screenwriter, his first teleplay Hollywood and Vine (2012) was given an industry presentation at the American Film Institute, starring Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) and directed by Independent Spirit Award winner Mark Polish. His screenplays have been Finalists in the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards and Cinequest Screenwriting Competition and shortlisted for the ScreenCraft Film Fund.
Zach is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, working to develop empathetic narratives at the intersection of film & television with dementia rights & destigmatization. His first film to emerge from this endeavor, Koko Suzanne, is a collaboration with Global Atlantic Fellow Emmanuel Epenge, and will shoot in the Democratic Republic of Congo in June 2024. His screenplay Altered, based on true events from the life of Global Brain Health Institute co-founder Dr. Bruce Miller, is a 2023 Finalist in the ScreenCraft Feature Competition and is currently being developed for production next year.
He is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/zach-bandler
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachbandler/
https://www.instagram.com/zachbandler/
Karen Meenan is a self-employed entrepreneur with over 30 years’ experience as a retailer, marketing consultant, trainer, coach, dementia-inclusive theatre director, radio presenter and research assistant. She is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health in Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) Trinity College working with scientists, academics, and artists to improve brain health on a worldwide scale. In Sep 2017 she founded ‘Making Hay Reminiscence Theatre’ an inter-generational dementia-inclusive workshop-based theatre company. www.makinghaytheatre.ie is the first and only member of European Reminiscence Network (ERN) which has member countries in Japan, Singapore, Australia, North America, Europe and the UK.
She is a volunteer researcher, presenter and producer of four radio series on Near FM Community Radio ‘Reminiscence on the Radio’, ‘Voyage Around My Brain’ ‘Talkin’ About Neurodegeneration’ and more recently ‘Atlantic, Pacific and Beyond’ She is the winner of the Gold Social Benefit Award in CRAOL Community Radio Ireland awards. These programmes feature the voices of over a hundred guests in studio and online since January 2020 and are broadcast every Monday 6-7pm on NearFM 90.3.
Website:
https://www.makinghaytheatre.ie
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/makinghaykaren
Caroline helps communicate the mission and work of GBHI and the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health program through stories and images. She is also part of the hear/say project that collects and shares personal narratives about aging, dementia, and life.
Website:
https://www.gbhi.org/projects/hearsay
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/ceprioleau
Cynthia Stone has been creating social justice documentary-style pieces for nearly three decades. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her work has appeared regionally on KQED, and nationally on PBS, The BBC/PRI, and The Discovery Channel, among others. She has won multiple regional Emmy, Society of Professional Journalists, and Press Club awards. Having covered education, the environment, health, poverty, and equity issues, she’s inspired to highlight people and programs finding solutions to seemingly intractable problems. The wisdom and humor of those in this film helped her better connect with, and care for, her own mother throughout her aging process from her vital active years through her memory loss. Teaming up here with award winning Oakland-based, feature-film editor and co-producer, Linda Peckham.
Website: https://cynthiastonemedia.com
Living Lab: Thursday 9th March, 12.15-1.00pm
Creative Lab Sessions: Mike Hanrahan and Ailine Haas Work in Progress Performance
Work in progress Mike Hanrahan is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from County Clare spent fifteen years with Stockton’s Wing and ten with Ronnie Drew. Ailine Haas an Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil researching dance as therapy to promote quality of life for adults with neurological disorders. Together they are exploring the curative potential of live performance.
These sessions reflect the engaged nature of the event and will be added to on the day at the venue.
The sessions are In Person only and are open to seminar attendees. No booking required.
Contributors
It was 1977, Ennis and Doolin were alive with new music. He was in a room on the top floor of a house in Abbey Street creating a new sound with Maura O Connell. They were Tumbleweed. Stocktons Wing were creating a movement down the road on O Connell Street. It was exciting. Maura went to Nashville, he jumped on The Wing Wave ……. It has been a rollercoaster.
As an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College he has been learning about Dementia and ways he can contribute as an artist to promote equity and care for brain health.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/mike-hanrahan
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hanrahan-66780946/
Instagram: @mikehanrahanmusic/
Aline is an Associate Professor in Dance at the School of Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Dance at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is currently an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, at the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is interested in studying and researching the potential use of dance as a complementary therapy to promote quality of life and wellbeing for older adults with or without neurological disorders. In the last six years, she has been leading the community and research project “Dança e Parkinson” at the School of Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Dance of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/personalpagealinehaas/?pli=1
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/DrAlineHaas
https://www.instagram.com/alinehaas/
https://www.facebook.com/aline.haas.58
