CREATIVE AGEING FORUM: Let's Celebrate Ageing - It's Time to Start Enjoying Growing Old! The New South Wales Department of Family and Community Services is pleased to invite you to the second NSW Creative Ageing Forum. This forum will explore the relationship between ageing well and actively through the arts and identify how to effectively engage with socially isolated older people. The Forum will inform the further development of arts and other creative activity programs for isolated older people, as part of the NSW Government's whole of government Ageing Strategy. Two international Keynote Speakers, Janet Morrison and Clive Parkinson, will address the forum - details of the Keynote Speakers are provided below. The two presentations will be followed by discussion with contributions from the floor. Time: 1.00pm – 4.00pm Date: Friday 14 November 2014 Venue: Lowy Gonski Gallery, Ground Floor Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

RSVP: by Tuesday 11 November 2014 on 9248 0978 or email: [email protected] If you are unable to attend, you are welcome to arrange for someone to attend on your behalf. At the conclusion of the event, participants are invited to stay and enjoy the recently launched 'Pop to Popism' exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW.

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www.facs.nsw.gov.au KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The Creative Ageing forum will immediately follow the 6th Annual International Art of Good Health and Wellbeing Conference being held in Melbourne on 11-13 November 2014.

Two international speakers featuring at the conference will speak at the Creative Ageing Forum in Sydney as a post-conference event, sponsored by the NSW Department of Family and Community Services.

Janet Morrison is Chief Executive, Independent Age UK, Co-founder of the Campaign to End Loneliness UK, and Chair of the Baring Foundation, the leading philanthropic funding body for creative ageing in the United Kingdom.

Janet will speak on the value of the arts to engage and inspire older people, especially those who are hard to reach socially. Loneliness, Janet Morrison says, is as bad for older people's health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Clive Parkinson is Director of Arts for Health, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Co-investigator - Dementia and Imagination Research Study.

Clive will speak on creative ageing practice and research, including the importance of 'exciting imagination' as people age, and the importance of changing public perceptions of what it means to be 'old'.

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