Monday – Friday
March 2nd – 6th
Creative Programme, Associate Programme and Exhibition
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 approach to Exhibitions and its Associate Programme 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.
Exhibition: Monday 2nd - Friday 6th March - 9.30am to 5.30pm daily - Naughton Institute
Visualising relationships between the arts and health—Lancet Photo Essay Premiere
Monday, March 2 to Friday, March 6 — 9.30am to 5.30pm daily. View map
This event is free to attend, and booking is not required.
- art as research (the artist/photographer-
investigator drawing out new insights); - art as engagement (photography documenting arts activities that support engagement, increase participation or foster interdisciplinary debates); and
- art as expression (where the photograph itself is critically evaluated as a component of contemporary art discourse).
Photo Essay Curators:
Stephen Stapleton (Lead), Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab; CEO, CULTURUNNERS, London, UK; Kunle Adewale,Founder, Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship & Global South Arts in Health Initiatives, Nigeria; Yazmany Arboleda, People’s Artist for New York City; Founder, People’s Creative Institute, New York, US; Nathalie Bondil, Museum and Exhibitions Director, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris and former Director, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; Dominic Campbell, Co-Founder, Creative Aging International; Director, Creative Brain Week; Fellow Global Brain Health Institute;
David Cotterrell, Artist; Professor of Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, UK; Founder, Empathy & Risk C.I.C.; Nils Fietje, Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab; Technical Officer, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark; Solkem N’Gangbet, Head of Office of the Arts, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; Jahnavi Phalkey, Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru, India; Nisha Sajnani, Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab; Professor, New York University, US.
About The Lancet
The Lancet began as an independent, international weekly general medical journal in 1823, founded by Thomas Wakley.
Its aim from the first has been to make science widely available so that medicine can serve and transform society as well as positively impact the lives of people. For more than two centuries, The Lancet has sought to address urgent topics in our society, initiate debate, put science into context, and influence decision makers around the world. The Lancet Group has evolved as a family of journals but
retains at its core the belief that medicine must serve society, knowledge must transform society, and the best science must lead to better lives.
Link to website here.
About the Jameel Arts & Health Lab
Launched in January 2023 by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, the Steinhardt School at New York University, Community Jameel, and CULTURUNNERS, the Jameel Arts & Health Lab is a global initiative to measurably improve health and wellbeing through the arts. With a focus on overlooked and underserved communities, the Lab leverages scientific evidence, artist-led advocacy, capacity building, and a global Healing Arts outreach campaign to drive the integration of the arts into mainstream healthcare.
Link to website here.
Exhibition: Monday 2nd - Friday 6th March - 9.30am to 5.30pm daily - Naughton Institute
GBHI @10 – Celebrating 10 years of Atlantic Fellows at GBHI
Reflecting the approach to collaboration that makes Atlantic Fellowship at GBHI so beneficial, and which we strive to have as our guiding light, we celebrate some of the achievements of our fellows with you.
It might be something that has affected their practice or impacted others. It might be directly related to the work they developed with GBHI or concerned with brain health more widely.
Sometimes a paper, a strategy, an innovation, a trip, a realisation, a new idea, a new child, a new skill or an increased sense of wellbeing. Think large and small. Think one significant change.
Film: Monday 2nd - Friday 6th March - 9.30am to 5.30pm daily - Naughton Institute
Koko Suzanne by Zach Bandler and Emmanuel Epenge
Koko Suzanne is Zach Bandler’s most recent project, a collaboration with Atlantic Fellow Emmanuel Epenge alongside Congolese cast and crew.
Based on a true story, the film follows a young girl whose life is turned upside down when her grandmother’s strange behaviour sparks fears of witchcraft. As her family struggles to reconcile illness with the supernatural, she must navigate the streets of Kinshasa in order to protect the grandmother she knows and loves.
The film premiered at Encounters Film Festival as part of the Grand Prix competition, and is available on CANAL+ Afrique.
This film will be shown on rotation within the exhibition and booking is not required.
Contributors
As a director and screenwriter, Zach Bandler’s films are geared toward international stories about health equity. He served as a 2022 Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health with the Global Brain Health Institute in Dublin, Ireland, where his work continues to intersect with advocacy for those with cognitive and psychological conditions. His first collaboration to emerge from this endeavor, KOKO SUZANNE (2025), is a short film made in the Democratic Republic of Congo alongside Congolese cast and crew, and serves as the main component in an impact initiative lead by Congolese physicians in order to help individuals and families navigating dementia. The film was recently acquired by CANAL+ for distribution across Africa and Europe on television and streaming.
Zach’s feature film screenplay LAND OF THE YOUNG was chosen by Francis Ford Coppola as the winner of the 2023 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition and was a Semifinalist for the 2024 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. With a grant from the Alzheimer’s Association, Zach co- facilitated a workshop with Irish poet Eithne Hand in Sligo, Ireland, supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers in the creation of material is being adapted into poetry featured onscreen in LAND OF THE YOUNG. His feature screenplay ALTERED was a Finalist in the 2023 ScreenCraft Feature Competition, and is currently in early pre-production to film in the fall of 2026.
His film THE LIGHTKEEPER (2018) was named the 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, Spike Lee, Ron Howard and others. His medical comedy short TORN (2019) premiered online with Directors Notes, and his mid-length drama film THE STAIRS (2016) won the Audience Award at the Ashland Independent Film Festival.
Zach is currently the inaugural Miller Artist in Residence at the University of California, San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center, where he is researching the neurocinematics of empathy and their application in more impactful narrative filmmaking.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/zach-bandler
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachbandler/
https://www.instagram.com/zachbandler/
Emmanuel is researching cognitive and biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease in a sample of elderly Congolese over 50 years in Democratic Republic of Congo. He also organizes medical consultations for patients with cognitive disorders.
Website:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/emmanuel-epenge
Social Media:
Associate Programme: Monday 2nd - Friday 6th March - times vary - at Unit18, Trinity East Campus, Macken Street, Dublin 2
Meon
MEON (an Irish word meaning mind, spirit, attitude, or disposition) is an exhibition that brings together mixed media artworks and performance-based pieces created by young people attending the Linn Dara schools on the Cherry Orchard Hospital Campus, Dublin.
The Linn Dara Schools support students who are admitted to either a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) approved centre or are patients within CAMHS community services.
About Two Cent Collective
This project was facilitated by Two Cent Collective, comprising four members of the 2025-2026 cohort of Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health, baed at the Global Brain Health Institute. Coming from diverse professional and creative backgrounds, the collective shares a commitment to equity, access, and the role of creativity in supporting brain health.
Collective members include anGie seah, a multi-disciplinary artist from Singapore; Will Dean, a youth advocate and activist from Wales; Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, a psychiatrist from India with an interest in creativity and the arts; and Colin Regan, a journalist/writer, former high performance athlete, and health promotion manager from Ireland.
2 March – 6 March from 12.30 – 7.00pm except 3 March and 5 March from 3.00pm- 7.00pm
Exhibition opening reception on March 2nd, at 12.30pm. An opening performance will be presented by the youth participants.
Trinity Talk Series on 4 March from 4.30pm-5.30pm “How Designing for Brain Health can help to tackle the loneliness epidemic” with Brian Lawlor, Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, Colin Regan and Will Dean. Please note that this is an in person only event in Unit 18, and booking is not required.
Artwork created by Tommy and Eabha, 2026
Contributors
anGie is a multi-disciplinary artist from Singapore with over two decades of socially engaged practice, integrating visual arts, sound, and performance to explore well-being, ageing, and emotional labour through transformative encounters shaped by lived experiences.
Two Cent Collective is made up of Atlantic Fellows anGie seah, Will Dean, Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, and Colin Regan.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/angie-seah
Social Media:
https://instagram.com/angie_seah
https://instagram.com/2cent_collective
Connecting youth advocates and changemakers, Will works to improve the way our world perceives and responds to dementia—specialising in digital marketing, storytelling and entrepreneurship.
Two Cent Collective is made up of Atlantic Fellows anGie seah, Will Dean, Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, and Colin Regan.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/will-dean
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fulltimedreamchaser/
Rohith is a psychiatrist at Schizophrenia Research Foundation (India), focusing on geriatric mental health in urban and rural areas. In rural areas, we deliver community-based dementia care utilising trained health workers to ensure early diagnosis and care.
Two Cent Collective is made up of Atlantic Fellows anGie seah, Will Dean, Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, and Colin Regan.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/rohith-khanna-deivasigamani
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohith-khanna-deivasigamani-638609157/
Social Media:
Previously a journalist/editor, Colin works as Community & Health manager with the Gaelic Athletic Association (Ireland’s largest sporting and community organization) where his role encompasses all aspects of health promotion and community development.
Two Cent Collective is made up of Atlantic Fellows anGie seah, Will Dean, Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, and Colin Regan.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/colin-regan
Social Media: