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The symposium will be hosted at our No17 conference venue at St Columba’s Hospice Care in Edinburgh and it will be offered as a hybrid event inviting both in-person and online participants and speakers.
This event builds on the spirit of our past symposia (see links below), all of which were fully booked attracting arts therapists, community artists, socially engaged arts practitioners as well as other professionals and scholars within and beyond alliative care internationally.
This year’s theme focuses on “Creative health, care and dying”. We seek to bring to the fore and critically explore diverse practice, research and policy drivers that shape and influence the arts in palliative and end-of-life care. Offering a vibrant and brave space for dialogue among people from different professional, disciplinary and sociocultural contexts is at the heart of this event. The symposium will feature different types of presentations and creative workshops. Topics will vary and include stories and examples, new emerging practices, critical perspectives on evidence, illness and culture, as well as co-production and wider professionalisation issues for the arts in palliative care.
To book your place, please click on this link.
In-person tickets are limited to 40 and offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
For further information about the symposium, please email arts@stcolumbashospice.org.uk
9.30 Welcome
Aileen Keel & Duncan Pentland
9.45 Creative health and the role of palliative arts
Giorgos Tsiris
10.00 The complexity of culture(s) in care
Julia Puebla Fortier
10.45 Exploring sound and performance in sensory-based work with young adults transitioning from paediatric to adult palliative care services
Nichola Scrutton & Caroline Hussey
11.15 Break
11.45 Co-production in palliative arts practice and research
Katey Warran, Julie Russell, Willy Gilder, Julia Hackett, Tracey McConnell
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Creative workshops (in-person and online)
Isla McLeod, Bruce Armstrong, Sally McRae, Michelle Elliot
14.30 Break
14.45 Re-gathering
15.00 Music therapy in children’s palliative care: Collaborative family and practitioner voices
Victoria Kammin, Julie Russell, Mariam Titus, Devang Ram Mohan, Kirsty Jane, Victoria Swan Tom Grey & Lesley Schatzberger
16.00 Staging cancer: Participatory arts-based research into narrative meaning-making by adolescents and young adults with cancer
Niels van Poecke
16.30 Close
It's our intention that the practice and knowledge shared in each symposium will feed into action for the advancement of the arts in the communities we all serve and their engagement with change, loss and grief. You can access all past Symposium Booklets by clicking on the links below.
Beautifully organised, convivial, stimulating and held in a lovely place.
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