Arts Symposium – St Columba’s Hospice Palliative Care, Edinburgh

2023: The colours of dying

Our 2023 programme brought to the fore the diversity of practices, contexts, research and theoretical approaches that paint the contemporary image of the arts in palliative care. Offering a vibrant and brave space for dialogue among people from different professional, disciplinary and sociocultural contexts was at the heart of this event.

The symposium featured different types of presentations and topics including personal stories and examples, new emerging practices, critical perspectives on evidence as well as leadership and wider organisational issues for the arts in palliative care.

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Symposium Programme

The 2023 symposium programme followed five thematic areas covering a diverse range of topics, presented in-person and online. 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.

Previous year event programmes can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.

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Beautifully organised, convivial, stimulating and held in a lovely place.

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2023 Symposium Attendee