Please note: This Conference Program is dated 31 October 2016. Changes may subsequently be made. Please refer to www.artsandhealth.org.au for updates
The Australian Centre for Arts and Health gratefully acknowledges the following Conference Partners: Art Gallery of NSW, NSW Department of Ageing and Community Services, NSW Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing, Arts NSW, NSW Health, NSW Mental Health Commission, and the Baring Foundation UK, which has supported the attendance of Evan Dawson from Live Music Now and Kate Duncan from City Arts, Nottingham UK.
Special thanks to Heather Whitely Robertson, Head of Education and Danielle Gullotta, Programs Administrator at the Art Gallery of NSW.
2016 Arts and Health Australia Awards for Excellence. This year, several awards will be presented each day, throughout the conference
The Awards trophy is a boxed, handcrafted pen, made from Australian timbers by Ian Dorney who discovered his talent for pen making while recovering from depression
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Wednesday 16 November 2016 8.30am – 4pm: Conference Registrations, Domain Theatre Foyer, Lower Ground Floor, AGNSW LOCATION The Domain Theatre will open at 8.30am - please be seated by 9.15am Photographs from Living Creativity: Arts and Health in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands
Plenary Session 9.30 am – 12.15pm Domain Theatre Welcome and Acknowledgement to Country by Margret Meagher, Executive Director, Australian Centre for Arts and Health & Lower Ground Floor th Gabriella Carroll, Chair, 8 Annual International Arts and Health Conference
The Mike White Memorial Address: “Weapons of Mass Happiness” Clive Parkinson, Director, Arts for Health, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK A reframing of the arts and health agenda in terms of social justice and inequalities is fundamental to any notion of arts, health and wellbeing. An exploration that takes in the commodification of art and artists in the service of the state and challenges the arts and health community to diversify. This presentation seeks to galvanise the evolving arts and health community around its potential to influence long-term social change.
John Feneley, Commissioner, NSW Mental Health Commission, Sydney Living Well: The NSW mental health reform agenda and why art is part of it
Fay Jackson, Deputy Commissioner, NSW Mental Health Commission and Visual Artist, Sydney Art’s role in mental health recovery: a personal perspective
Kay Wilhelm AM, Professor and Head of Discipline of Psychiatry, Notre Dame University, Darlinghurst; Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital; Research Director of 'Faces in the Street', St Vincent’s Urban Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Institute, Conjoint Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW Creativity as an Agent of Change: Clinical Practice and Research
Sam Sangster, Chief Executive, Health Infrastructure, NSW Health
Arts and Infrastructure
The Hon Jillian Skinner MP, NSW Minister for Health, Parliament House, Sydney NSW Health and the Arts Framework
Molly Carlile AM (AKA the Deathtalker ®), Chief Executive Officer, South East Palliative Care, Melbourne VIC The Art of Dying
Plus Launch of Molly’s latest book “Deathtalker”, just published by New Holland. Program Page 2
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12.15 – 1.15 pm Lunch – Function Room, Ground Floor, AGNSW
Wednesday 16 November 2016: 1.30pm – 3pm Breakout Sessions 1
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Wednesday 16 November Wednesday 16 November Wednesday 16 November Wednesday 16 November 1.30pm – 3pm 1.30pm – 3pm 1.30pm – 3pm 1.30pm – 3pm Arts and Health in Primary and Acute Care Arts and Health Programs and Research Arts and Health Arts and Medical Humanities Centenary Auditorium Function Space Gallery Workshop Gallery Workshop
Designing Arts and Health Programs for Hospitals Co Creating a Global Language for Measuring and Making Art in the Gallery artmed: a surprising synergy Oral Presentation Communicating the Impact of Participation in the Oral Presentation Tracey Callinan, professional musician and Executive Arts Frances Wild, Program Oral Presentation Coordinator, Learning and Director, Arts OutWest, Regional Arts NSW Michael Chappell, Founder and Managing Director, Access Department Christine McMillan, artist, educator and Arts and Culture Counts, Perth, WA National Gallery of Australia Health Coordinator at Arts OutWest (AOW) and Canberra ACT Bathurst Health Service, NSW Incorporating the Arts into Quantitative Health Victoria Jones, Founding Director, Arts Health Research Associates, Melbourne, VIC Oral Presentation Michael Leach, Biostatistician and Epidemiologist, Reflected Legacy: creative patient care in an acute Loddon Mallee Integrated Cancer Service, Bendigo palliative care ward Health, VIC Oral Presentation
Flutter Lyon Creativity-as-practice: A re-conceptualisation of Contemporary artist and co-founder (with Kerrie creativity for mental health services Noonan from The Groundswell Project), The Reflected Oral Presentation Legacy program at Liverpool Hospital John Rae Senior Lecturer in the School of Biomedical Sciences, ‘The building just doesn’t allow more’: User Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW experiences of the built environment in inpatient rehabilitation settings Arts for Recovery, Resilience, Teamwork and Skills Oral Presentation (ARRTS) Jacinta Colley, PHD Candidate, School of Human Ian Drayton, General Manager, Faculty of Arts and Services and Social Work and Menzies Health Design, University of Canberra, ACT; Jordan Williams, Institute Queensland, Griffith University Logan Poet and Multimedia artist and Associate Professor, Campus, Brisbane, QLD Creative Writing, University of Canberra, ACT
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Wednesday 16 November 2016: 3.15pm – 4.45pm Breakout Sessions 2
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Wednesday 16 November Wednesday 16 November Wednesday 16 November Wednesday 16 November 3.15pm – 4.45pm 3.15pm – 4.45pm 3.15pm – 4.45pm 3.15pm – 4.45pm Creative Ageing Arts and Community Health Artists in Healthcare and Agedcare Gallery Workshop
Centenary Auditorium Function Space Gallery Workshop
The Aural Environment in Age Care Homes - a Kym Rae, Director of the Gomeroi gaaynggal Arts Our Creativity and resilience – What does arts Sound Investment Health and Research Programs, University of Newcastle health practice offer practitioners? Workshop Oral Presentation NSW Gary Thorpe OAM, General Manager, 4MBS Classic Leigh Tesch and Jacqui Dawborn, arts health FM Radio Station and the new digital station MBS Alexandra Walton, Co-ordinator, Personal Helpers and practitioners and consultants and co-founders, Inscape Light and Silver Memories Mentors Service, Ngaanyatjarra Health Service, Tas, Hobart TAS
Warburton Community, via Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Silvano Giordano, Wilurarra Creative ‘Giving Voice = Creating Memory Books’: Artful Living Creativity: Arts and Health in the Methods in the Dementia Setting Ngaanyatjarra Lands Oral Presentation Miranda Lawry, photo-media artist and researcher, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, University of My Mob – Identity and healing through the Newcastle, NSW; Kath Grushka, visual arts and Indigenous artmaking process design educator and researcher, Senior Lecturer, Oral presentation Jane Austin, Academic Coordinator and Literacy, School of Education, University of Newcastle, NSW Language and Numeracy (LLN) Specialist, NAISDA Co-designing Positive Ageing, Oral Presentation Dance College, Kariong, Central Coast, NSW Lyn Milne, Social Policy and Planning Advisor, Inner Raymond D Blanco is of Kanju / Wik (Cape York) West Council, Sydney NSW; Mary Ciantar, Strategic Aboriginal heritage mixed with Magarem of Mer Island Community Projects Office, Ageing, Inner West (TSI) and works as a director and performer, nurturing Indigenou Youth through the arts, Gosford, NSW. Council, Sydney NSW
Dance like you’re 99 Whariki House – the New Zealand Performing Arts Oral Presentation Industry Wellbeing Initiative
Rachel O’Loughlin, dancer and Physiotherapist NSW Oral presentation Taimi Allan, CEO, Changing Minds NZ Health, Broulee, NSW
Body Maps: A Heart-ful Inquiry Oral Presentation Cathryn Lloyd, facilitator, creative development coach and educator, Founder/Director, Maverick Minds - Shift Your Thinking, Brisbane QLD
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Wednesday 16 November 2016: Enjoy the Gallery After Hours or catch up with friends at the pop up bar or
in the café
Thursday 17 November 2016 8.30am – 4.00pm: Conference Registrations Domain Theatre Foyer
8th Annual Art of Good Health and Wellbeing International Arts and Health Conference, AGNSW, Sydney November 2016 www.artsandhealth.org.au e: [email protected] Tel: 0416 641 482
9.30am – 11.30am: Plenary Session 3: The Arts and Community Health
Welcome and Acknowledgement to Country by Margret Meagher, Executive Director, Australian Centre for Arts and Health & th Gabriella Carroll, Chair, 8 Annual International Arts and Health Conference Domain Theatre Lower Ground Floor Evan Dawson, Executive Director, Live Music Now, UK
Liss Gabb, artist, creative producer, curator and educator; co-ordinator, cohealth Arts Generator, Footscray VIC The Art of Radical Listening
Stuart Kandel, Founder, Stagebridge Theatre USA, and Director, Artful Aging Associates Pioneering Creative Ageing in Theatre
Wenche Torrissen, Associate Professor of Drama, Volda University College, Norway Theatre in Mental Health: A Norwegian Perspective
Vic McEwan, Artistic Director, The Cad Factory, Riverina, NSW
Concluding remarks: Margret Meagher, Executive Director, Arts and Health Australia
2016 Arts and Health Australia Awards for Excellence. This year, several awards will be presented each day, throughout the conference
The Awards trophy is a boxed, handcrafted pen, made from Australian timbers by Ian Dorney who discovered his talent for pen
making while recovering from depression
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Live Music Now is celebrating the Centenary of the birth of its founder Yehudi Menuhin throughout 2016. Part of his legacy to the world was his vision that music can “comfort, heal and bring delight” and reach people "through every barrier, disability, language and circumstance”. Please join us to take this message further, and bring the unique benefits of music to those unable to access it, all around the UK and beyond. Evan Dawson, Executive Director
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Thursday 17 November 2016: 11.45am – 1.00pm Breakout Sessions 3 Thursday, 17 November Thursday, 17 November Thursday, 17 November Thursday, 17 November 11.45 am – 1pm 11.45 am – 1pm 11.45 am – 1pm 11.45 am – 1pm
Arts and Health in Children’s Hospitals Arts Health Education Arts and Mental Health Creative Ageing Gallery Centenary Auditorium Function Room Gallery workshop Workshop
Well coloured: A flourishing hospital arts program The Story of Us: Building Mental Health Nurse David Brown Susan Perlstein and for adolescents identity and Skills through the Visual Arts Actor, writer, director, producer; Educator, Regional Stuart Kandell will guide Oral Presentation Oral presentation Institute of Performing Arts, Hunter TAFE participants through a series Elise Franke Heather Gaunt, Curator of Academic Programs The Pronoun Project: Short verbatim performance with of practical ways to make Arts Coordinator, Youth Arts Program, The Children’s (Research), Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of RIPA acting students and the ‘As You Are’ group of young creative connections. Hospital at Westmead, Department of Adolescent Melbourne, VIC; Bronwyn Tarrant, Co-ordinator, LGBTI people from Headspace, Newcastle Medicine, Sydney NSW; Michelle Mathyi, Youth Arts Teaching and Learning, Department of Nursing, Co-ordinator, Department of Adolescent Medicine, University of Melbourne, VIC Chris Mead, Artistic Director, Creature Tales, TAS Childrens’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW Improvisation in the Here and Now and Spontaneous Depth of Field: Exploring Ageing – Do Play, Circus and Movement Positive Disruption – How Starlight’s Arts in photographs, older adults narratives and dialogue Health Program is impacting on the wellbeing of foster reflection in medical students? pediatric and adolescent patients and the broader Oral Presentation hospital community Gabrielle Brand Oral Presentation Lecturer in Health Professions Education, University of Bridget Waters, Arts in Health Consultant, Starlight WA, Perth, WA Children’s Foundation, Como, WA Circles of Compassion (an artist’s guide to the Music Education in the hospital learning space (A clinic’) collaboration between the Australian Chamber Oral Presentation Orchestra (ACO) and The Royal Children’s Hospital Catharine Salmon (RCH) Education Institute in Melbourne) Principal Academic Staff Member (PASM), Nelson Vicki Norton, Education Manager ACO, Sydney Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, NSW Aotearoa New Zealand
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8th Annual Art of Good Health and Wellbeing International Arts and Health Conference, AGNSW, Sydney November 2016 www.artsandhealth.org.au e: [email protected] Tel: 0416 641 482
Thursday 17 November 2016: LOCATION 1pm – 1.45pm: Lunch, Function Space (Ground Floor), AGNSW Function Room, Ground Floor
Thursday 17 November 2016: 2pm – 3pm Breakout Sessions 4
8th Annual Art of Good Health and Wellbeing International Arts and Health Conference, AGNSW, Sydney November 2016 www.artsandhealth.org.au e: [email protected] Tel: 0416 641 482
Thursday 17 November Thursday 17 November Session 17 Thursday 17 November Session 18 Thursday 17 November 2pm – 3pm 2pm – 3pm 2pm – 3pm 2pm – 3pm
Creative Ageing Arts and Community Health Arts and Mental Health Arts and Health Programs in Centenary Auditorium Function Room Gallery Workshop Hospitals Gallery Workshop Music and reminiscence as a therapy for wellbeing Our Town, Our View: a collaborative art project Dreamer as Poet and Poetry – Using creative in aged care Oral Presentation process to explore a dream Oral Presentation Siobhan Hannigan, Child Psychologist, Northcote, Learn how to create innovative, Lauren Istvandity, Research Fellow, Griffith Centre VIC Jane Austin, Academic Coordinator and Literacy, effective arts and health programs for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Language and Numeracy (LLN) Specialist, in hospitals QLD The Giant Knitted Bowel Project: Engaging rural NAISDA Dance College, Kariong, Central Coast, and regional communities in bowel cancer NSW Presented by Tracey Callinan, The impact of an arts program in an acute hospital prevention professional musician and Executive unit for older people (Royal Hobart Hospital) Oral Presentation Director, Arts OutWest, Regional Arts Oral Presentation Elvira Hewson and Margie Morrice, Bowel Cancer Leigh Tesch and Jacqui Dawborn, arts health Awareness Project Worker, Community Health, South NSW practitioners and consultants and co-founders, West Healthcare, Warrnambool, VIC Christine McMillan, artist, educator Inscape Tas, Hobart TAS and Arts and Health Coordinator at The Pink Sari Project Arts OutWest (AOW). Christine is Therapeutic Harp. A new approach in Oral Presentation based at the Bathurst Health Service compassionate care. Kevin Bathman, Coalition of Mischief, Redfern NSW; in NSW where she manages the Oral Presentation Michael Camit, Social Marketing and award winning AOW Arts and Health Alison Ware, Therapeutic Harpist, Canberra Communications Manager, NSW Multicultural Health Program. Hospital, ACT Communication Service, Gladesville, Sydney NSW Victoria Jones, Founding Director, Arts Health Associates Linking Aged Care residents to the Arts to improve Wellbeing and Quality of Life Oral Presentation Norah Goldney, Registered Nurse, Southern Cross Care SA & NT
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Thursday 17 November 2016: 3.30pm – 4.45pm Breakout Sessions 5
8th Annual Art of Good Health and Wellbeing International Arts and Health Conference, AGNSW, Sydney November 2016 www.artsandhealth.org.au e: [email protected] Tel: 0416 641 482
Thursday 17 November Thursday 17 November Thursday 17 November Thursday 17 November 3pm – 4.45pm 3.30pm – 4.45pm 3.30pm – 4.45pm 3.30pm – 4.45pm
Music and Theatre in Arts and Health Arts and Community Health Arts and Health Gallery Workshop
Domain Theatre Centenary Auditorium Function Space
Musica Viva bringing Music St John of God The Impact of Art Making on People who use Regional Making Sense of a Disrupted Biography Drawing with ipads Healthcare Disability Services Oral Presentation Adriane Boag, National Gallery of Oral Presentation Oral Presentation Donna McDonald, author of the memoir “The Art of Australia, Canberra ACT Anne Cahill, Director of Development, Musica Emma Gentle, PhD Candidate, Sydney University Medical Being Deaf”, MAIC Qld Senior Research Fellow, Viva, Sydney, NSW School, Centre of Disability Studies, NSW Menzies Health Institute, member of the RECOVER Injury Research Centre, Griffith University, QLD Blue Roo inclusive theatre and Opera Mindful Doll Making: A Creative Women’s Health Queensland – An ongoing collaboration Initiative to Restore Self Worth Examining how art therapists contribute to Oral presentation Oral Presentation mental health services through a critical inquiry Mark Taylor, Manager – Open Stage, Opera Barbara Davis, Founder, Art and Soul Connections, South Oral Presentation Queensland, QLD Yarra, VIC Theresa Van Lith, Assistant Professor and Clinical Coordinator, Art Therapy Program, Florida State Past, present, future – Creating our best A Strategy for Resilience: Developing a Narrative for the University, USA selves and the experience of now Future Oral presentation Oral Presentation Art’s Place in Healing through the ‘Revisitation’ Mark Wolfe, Owner Director, Zeichen Music, Debra Phillips, PhD Candidate, Australian Catholic of Trauma Sydney, NSW University, North Sydney, NSW Oral Presentation Scott Harrower, Multi-disciplinary artist and writer, HOP: Creating Music for and with Children The Art of the Hero’s Journey: Distinguishing between North Coast, NSW in Hospital – a profile of the West Extreme State of Consciousness and Me