Monthly Arts for Brain Health Webinars 2022, in association with Sir Muir Gray, Director, Optimal Ageing Programme at The University of Oxford.
Experts in culture, health and wellbeing, dementia prevention, creative ageing and social prescribing, debate the vital role of arts and wellbeing activity in protecting against cognitive decline – from the onset of potential dementia symptoms – with actions for social change.
These free webinars take place on Tuesday mornings.
- 11 January (Music)
- 8 February (Drama)
- 8 March – International Social Prescribing Day
- 5 April (Visual Arts)
- 10 May (Heritage and Nature)
- 7 June (Poetry and Creative Writing)
- 5 July (Cultural Diversity in Arts for Brain Health)
- 6 September (Global Brain Health Institute)
- 4 October (Digital and Disability Arts)
- 8 November (Global Social Prescribing Alliance)
- 6 December (Live arts streaming for care homes)
The webinar series is produced in partnership with Sir Muir Gray of the Optimal Ageing Programme at the University of Oxford and with Arts 4 Dementia. Key actions will provide supporting material for the Health and Care Bill.
Upcoming webinars
Cultural Diversity in Arts for Brain Health, Tuesday 5 July 2022, 10 – 11.30 am GMT
Dr Sharmi Bhattacharyya, Consultant & Clinical Lead for Older People’s Mental Health at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in North Wales and Editor of The Old Age Psychiatrist at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, chairs a debate between leaders in social prescribing, culture health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on diagnostic tools and arts workshops celebrating diverse cultures. Read more
Speakers:
- Chair: Dr Sharmi Bhattacharyya, Consultant & Clinical Lead, OPMH North Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Editor, The Old Age Psychiatrist, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Dr Karan Jutla, Senior Lecturer in Health (Dementia Lead) Institute of Health, University of Wolverhampton, presents ethnically diverse diagnostic tools.
- Dr Sonu Bhaskar, Director, Global Health Neurology Lab, Sydney, Australia.
- Thanh Sinden Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance and the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester.
- Maki Sekiya, Japanese concert pianist plays and discusses Samei Satoh’s “Mirrors in the Dream” and the Japanese Green Chorus
- Arti Prashar OBE, artist and drama practitioner: ‘Visionaries: A South Asian Arts and Ageing Counter Narrative‘
- Kadria Thomas, English/Yemeni Gospel choir leader
- Bisakha Sarker MBE, Founder and Artistic Director, Chaturangan South Asian dance
- Dr Mercy Wanduara, Department of Fashion Design and Marketing, Kenyatta University, Nairobi presents Kenyan basketry by women from Central and Eastern Kenya
- Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency Aboriginal Arts Centres Keeping our Elders Strong, IIkuntji artists
- Margaret Morris, Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation, Arts for Elderly Engagement
- Rushna Miah, chair, Herts Asian Women’s Association, providing a social prescribing service.
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
Past events
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Creative Writing for Brain Health, Tuesday 7 June 2022, 12 – 1.30 pm GMT
Professor Lynne Corner, Director of VOICE and Chief Operating Officer at the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing at the University of Newcastle chairs a debate between leaders in social prescribing, culture health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on referral to Creative Writing programmes. Read more
Speakers:
- Chair: Professor Lynne Corner, Director of VOICE and COO at the UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) at the University of Newcastle.
- Professor Catherine Loveday, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Westminster
- William Sieghart CBE, founder of the National Poetry Day and Chairman of Forward Thinking
- Kadija Sesay MBE, FRSL, FRSA, literary activist of Sierra Leone descent, poet founder of SABLE Litmag
- Kate Parkin, Regional Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance champion and Creative Ageing Programme Manager, Equal Arts
- Daisy Barrett-Nash, poet. Writers at Play: Legacy Poetry and ‘The Art of Letter Writing’ for Equal Arts
- John Deutsch, Writers at Play member.
- Cheryl Moskowitz, poet, performer, novelist, creative translator
- Nabeela Ahmed, writer, poet, storyteller, teacher, artist, presents creative writing programme for South Asian people
- Justyna Sobotka, Healthy London Partnership: Social Prescribing Project Officer, Regional Learning Coordinator Support
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
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Heritage and Nature for Brain Health, Tues 10 May 2022, 10 am-11.30 am
Desi Gradinarova, Head of Wellbeing and Inclusion Strategy at Historic England and Historic Environment Lead at the National Academy for Social Prescribing, chairs a debate between leaders in social prescribing, culture health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on referral to Heritage and Nature programmes. Read more
Speakers:
- Chair: Desi Gradinarova, Senior Policy Advisor, Wellbeing and Inclusion Strategy, Historic England, and Historic Environment Lead for National Academy for Social Prescribing
- Sir Muir Gray, Director, University of Oxford’s Optimal Ageing Programme
- Dr Lucy Loveday, Associate Dean, Faculty Development Innovation and Performance, Health Education England
- Deborah Munt, Regional Champion, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance
- Katrina Gargett, Community Engagement Officer, Archaeology on Prescription, York Archaeological Trust
- Jules Hammon, Stepping into Nature, Nature Buddies empowering health providers to provide Dorset
- Caroline Gibson, Green Scripts, Bigger Hearts Dementia Alliance, Ballarat, Western Victoria, Australia.
- Alistair Tuckey, Durlston Ranger, head of volunteers, education and interpretation, Durlston Country Park and National Nature Reserve, Swanage.
- Elena Tutton, Health & Activity Lifestyle Activator Place Services, Dorset Council (recording), Wellness Nordic Walking
- Julie McCarthy, Strategic Lead for Live Well & Creative Health at Greater Manchester Combined Authority & GM Health & Social Care Partnership
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
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Visual Arts for Brain Health, Tues 5 April 2022, 10 am-11.30 am
Professor Martin Orrell, Director of the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, chairs a debate between leaders in social prescribing, culture health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on referral to visual arts programmes. Read more
Speakers:
- Chair: Professor Martin Orrell, Director, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham
- Professor Semir Zeki, Professor of Neuroaesthetics, University College London
- Professor Helen Chatterjee, Professor of Biology, Genetics, Evolution and Environment Division of Biosciences, University College London
- Sue Mackay, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance regional champion, Thackray Museum
- Ruth Salthouse, Wellbeing Coordinator, Linking Leeds.
- Pam Charles, Leeds Black Elders
- Kate Mason, Director, The Big Draw
- Jessica Santer, Art by Post, Southbank Centre
- Holly Power, Community Learning Producer, The Wallace Collection
- Sian Brand, Social Prescribing Regional Learning Coordinator
- Hamaad Khan, NHS Social Prescribing Champion Scheme, Development Support Officer, Global Social Prescribing Alliance
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
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International A.R.T.S. for Brain Health, ‘From Despair to Desire’, Tues 8 March 2022, 10 am-12 pm
- Chair: Baroness Greengross, CEO, International Longevity Centre. Co-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia
- Sir Muir Gray, Director, University of Oxford’s Optimal Ageing Programme
- James Sanderson, Director of Personalised Care, NHS E/I; CEO, National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP)
- Professor Brian Lawlor, Global Brain Health Institute, Dublin and California.
- Dr Gail Kenning, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Lead, World Health Organisation
- Alexandra Coulter, Director, National Centre for Creative Health
- Francesca Rosenberg, Director of Community, Access and Schools Programmes, Lara Schweller, Social Prescribing Lead, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- Edith Woolf Perez, Chair, Arts for Health Austria
- Professor Ruth Mateus-Berr, Head of the Centre for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.
- Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Development Lead, Global Social Prescribing Alliance; Clinical champion lead, NASP
- Professor WanChen Liu, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan
- Wei-Tung (Joy) Chiang, UCL PhD candidate, advising New Taipei City Government in Taiwan on social prescribing in the cultural sector.
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
Drama for Brain Health, Tues 8 February, 10-11 am
- Chair: Dr Peter Bagshaw GP, Clinical Lead for Dementia for the South West Mental Health Clinical Network
- Dr Sheila McCormick, Senior Lecturer, BA Programme Leader in Theatre and Performance, University of Salford
- Andy Barry, Elders Company, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
- David Workman, Artistic Director, Elders Company & Encore, Southwark Playhouse, London
- Machteld De Ruyck, Older People’s Programme Manager, Heydays, Leeds Playhouse
- Jenny Marshall and Bee Burgess, Open Age, London
- Anna Woolf, London Arts in Health, Regional Champion, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance
- Liza Jarvis, Regional Social Prescribing Network NHS Learning Co-ordinator
- Sir Muir Gray, Director, University of Oxford’s Optimal Ageing Programme
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
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Music for Brain Health, Tues 11 January, 10-11 am
- Chair: Katie Derham (BBC Broadcaster)
- Sir Muir Gray (Director, University of Oxford’s Optimal Ageing Programme)
- Dr Iban Tripiana Sanchez (Clinical Neuropsychologist, Castellón de la Plana, Spain)
- Phil Hallett (CEO, Coda Music Trust)
- Grace Meadows (Director, Music for Dementia)
- Victoria Hume (Director, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance)
- Sian Brand (NHS England Social Prescribing Regional Facilitator)
- Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca (National Academy for Social Prescribing & Global Social Prescribing Alliance
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
Increase Brainability: Dance to Preserve Brain Health & Global Social Prescribing, Tuesday 7 December 2021
- Chair: Dr Charles Alessi, Senior Advisor, Public Health England
- Sir Muir Gray, Director, Optimal Ageing Programme at The University of Oxford
- Fergus Early, Artistic Director, Green Candle Dance
- Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Founder, NHS Social Prescribing Champion Scheme. Developmental Lead, Global Social Prescribing Alliance
Social Prescribing as Diagnostic Practice, Tuesday 2 November 2021
- Chair: Sir Muir Gray, Director, Optimal Ageing Programme at The University of OxfordProfessor
- Professor Alistair Burns, NHS National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health
- Professor John Gallacher, Professor of Cognitive Health at The University of Oxford; Director, Dementias Platform UK