Excite to announce applications are open to our #reimagineageing doctoral programme. Themes include:

i. Prevent, reduce, limit harm of, falls and sustain independence
ii The benefits of art and cultural engagement in relation to ageing
iii care for older people with frailty.

Wow, what a year!

TCL Presents- Care in Disability Arts

An online event in collaboration with In Transit, 5:30-7pm on Thursday 7th March.

A panel discussion with artists Claire Cunningham, Seo Hye Lee and the vacuum cleaner.

Tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/care-in-disa…

[free]

Audre Lorde, Derek Jarman, Anne Boyer, Christina Crosby, Maggie Nelson, Hervé Guibert, Virginia Woolf, Todd Haynes... Excited to start my PIAT/Putting It All Together course ('PATIENT IN THE FIRST PERSON') w/ 4th-yr med students this week. Image: Nick von Woert, 2011 McGill Medicine and Health Sciences

I'm honoured to have been asked to speak at this free event in Merseyside about living with multiple myeloma, healthcare and the necessity of the arts. The event will pay tribute to the life of the brilliant Professor John Hyatt artist & free thinker. Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance #creativehealth

Wonderful trio of speakers today at Creative Manchester Creative Health Research GM research cafe - insightful discussion on historical approaches to health inequity, importance of community assets & insights into development of #creativehealth as policy Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt Luke Munford Stephanie Snow

“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”
Susan Sontag, born 16 January 1933

#susansontag #reading #writing

“But what has been will be —
First memory, then oblivion’s swallowing sea;
Like men foregone, shall we merge into those
Whose story no one knows.”
Thomas Hardy, died 11 January 1928
#thomashardy #poem #Death

“Now we are by the gas fire here on New Year’s Eve [...] All the years are too short – over before they have lost their newness, Ninety-forty-four still has a novel flavour, but it is going into the grave.”
Denton Welch, 31 December 1944

#dentonwelch #NewYearsEve

'People in recovery gravitate towards cultural activities because of the power of its expressive nature,” Mayor of Greater Manchester. 🎉

In November we invited Clive Parkinson, @Dave_moutrey & more to discuss #Recoverism , PORe’s work & the significant role of the #arts in substance use #recovery .

Medicine Unboxed: Lifting the Lid on Medical Innovation

MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies students present this pop-up exhibition, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and impact of medical innovations on society

📅 7 Dec ⏰ 10–5pm 📍Manchester Central Library

A night sharing #nhs staff voice Bertrand Porhel Dr. Andrew Bennett #Manchester OurNHstories never a dull moment with 🖍️Stephen Lee Hodgkins🔋 Srinivas Chintapatla #hospitalarts wheel of fortune #kwame Arts Council England rachel howfield aka rachel massey John McMahon Clive Parkinson York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS FT York & Scarborough Hospitals Charity Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance

A powerful performance by Extinction Rebellion Manchester in our Living Worlds gallery this morning.

Their ‘Die-In’ highlighted ecological breakdown and the loss of biodiversity.

Members lay on the floor holding tombstones that displayed endangered or extinct UK animal and plant species.

Die-in by Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 happening now Manchester Museum highlighting extinction, ecological breakdown and the State of Nature report. Moving and powerful.

What an incredible finale event last night bringing OurNHstories to a close. Such a broad range and depth of performances by all trusts involved - so proud of UCLH contribution by courtney conrad 🇯🇲 🇬🇧 representing our Find&Tweet team and midwife Josephine. Congrats everyone!

Wonderful to hear Our National Health Stories Factory International & celebrate people, place & passion and the potential of the arts in all our lives. THANK YOU.
Let's never take our #NHS workers for granted & whatever their role, pay them well & respect them.
They keep me alive!

Thank you 42nd Street for showing us around your amazing space yesterday!

42nd street are a young peoples mental health charity who use art and creative practices with the people they work with to build confidence, connections and wellbeing.

A fab afternoon sharing our collaborative research with Manchester Camerata at this Creative Manchester Research Cafe- fascinating discussions around the expertise of musicians and music therapists in co-creating meaningful moments of connection through music 🎶

Right to Roam campaigners from London & Sussex enjoying a peaceful autumnal walk on the Arundel Estate this weekend.

We dressed as sheep and cattle, respecting Thérèse Coffey's comments that 'the only things that have a right to roam are farmers, their pigs and their cattle'🐏

Join the The National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing for a live stream of the Launch of the Creative Health Review on 6 Dec.

Live Streamed from Science Gallery London King's Culture. Book now

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