Global Social Prescribing, The A4D Arts for Brain Health Debates
Global Social Prescribing: The A4D Arts for Brain Health Debates
Hosted by A4D President, Veronica Franklin Gould
in association with Professor Sir Muir Gray, Director, Optimal Ageing Programme, University of Oxford
Experts in culture, health and wellbeing, dementia prevention, innovative creative ageing and social prescribing, debate the range and role of arts and wellbeing activity in protecting against cognitive decline – from the onset of potential dementia symptoms – with actions for social change.
Guidance from 141 speakers from around the world at Veronica’s monthly Arts for Brain Health webinars has been gathered together in a single online resource launched for Creative Brain Week / Social Prescribing Week, 6-12 March 2023..
Read how social prescribing is delivered in each country, the pathway from GP surgery to arts programme., via social prescribing link worker, or direct to the cultural organisation – be it visual art, drama, music, dance, story-telling through textile weaving in Peru and basketry in Kenya, forest exploration in Australia, singing in Singapore, update on the pioneering Museum of Modern Art programme in New York, VR to Nigerian Elders and more. Disability arts, cultural diversity are each explored. Throughout policymakers and strategists share their wisdom and the Arts Council and NHS Charities Together and the National Academy for Social Prescribing debate cross-sector arts on prescription funding.
1. The Science, Evidence and Importance of Arts for Brain Health
2. Increase Your Brainability and Dance to Preserve Brain Health
3. Music for Brain Health
4. Drama for Brain Health
5. International Social Prescribing Day: Arts for Brain Health (partner: International Longevity Centre)
6. Visual Arts for Brain Health
7. Heritage and Nature for Brain Health
8. Poetry and Creative Writing for Brain Health
9. Cultural Diversity in Arts for Brain Health
10. Co-Creating Arts for Brain Health: A global perspective (partner: Global Brain Health Institute)
11. Disability Arts for Brain Health
12. VR and Live-Arts Streaming for Brain Health
Global Social Prescribing: Arts for Brain Health Conference (partner: Global Social Prescribing Alliance)
VR & Live Streaming Arts for Brain Health, Tuesday 8 November, 12-2 pm GMT
The uplifting power of engaging with arts activity, participating, using virtual reality to enjoy superb performances or explore museums and heritage venues nurtures a sense of awe, resilience and wellbeing.
Weekly access to the arts has a vital impact on people’s brain health and wellbeing. In care homes, access to the arts through digital media, live streaming, whether painting, singing, acting, dancing or watching the most exquisite quality operas or masterpieces of fine and decorative arts in opera houses and other magnificent venues they can no longer visit, live streamed performances, interactive arts workshops, virtual reality bring it to them, inspires them to unlock their creative instincts, helps them to stay lucid and to communicate with their loved ones. Entering a magnificent heritage venue, introduced by the owner must be magical from a care home.
Sir Muir Gray, Director of the Optimal Ageing Programme at The University of Oxford, chairs this innovative, international debate in Virtual Reality and live arts streaming for care homes.
If you work in the arts for health sector, digital technology enabling arts for health, the arts sector, research in the field or for anyone interested in digital access to live arts for brain health, join us for this free webinar on Tuesday 8 November 2022 at 12-2 pm.
A G E N D A
Veronica Franklin Gould, President, Arts 4 Dementia introduction.
Martin Robertson, living with Post Cortical Atrophy, shares his VR experiences.
CHAIR: Sir Muir Gray CBE FRCPSGlas FCLIP (Director, University of Oxford’s Optimal Ageing Programme)
PRESENTATIONS I , followed by SPEAKER DEBATE, chaired by Sir Muir Gray
- Charles King, Chief Operating Oficer, Rovr Systems, ‘Reclaiming Health and Wellbeing’
- Professor Khalid Aziz, Lead Communication Skills Coach, Aziz Corporate.
- Michael Blakstad, Digital media access for care homes.
- Claire Sandercock, Head of Insight, The Eden Project, GOALD partnership with Centre for Health Technology at the University of Plymouth
- Kunle Adewale, artist: Arts for Brain Health Nigeria: Creativity and Digital Equity for Nigerian Seniors ‘Virtual Reality Arts’.
PRESENTATIONS II, followed by SPEAKER DEBATE, chaired by Sir Muir Gray
- Rosa Corbishley, Development Director of Bristol Beacon, LSO Live Streaming orchestral partnerships with care homes.
- Suzannah Bedford, Director, and Joe Pick, Communications and Audience Development Manager, City Arts Nottingham, Armchair Gallery
- Douglas Noble, Director, Live Music Now and Sophie Dunn, Director of LMN South West, Live Music Now ‘Live-streamed Concerts’
- Lisa Sinclair, Senior Dance Health Manager, Scottish Ballet, ‘Time to Dance’, ‘SB Duet’ and more.
- Bisakha Sarker, Artistic Director, Chaturangan: Live Dance Streaming for care homes, in association with NAPA Arts in Care Homes
Social Welfare Institute at Yangpu District, Shanghai, China, ‘You’re never too old to be a pin up Girl‘
Transcript
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Disability Arts for Brain Health, Tuesday 4 October
Kamran Malik, Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK chairs a debate between leaders in social prescribing, artists, activists and innovative providers of disability arts who present a wide range of practice and opportunities open to people living with a disability and experiencing early symptoms of a dementia.
If you are involved or interested in innovative ways of using arts for the disabled and brain health, or are responsible for culture, health and wellbeing, or are a social prescriber or for anyone interested in culture and creativity to preserve for brain health, join us for this free webinar on Tuesday 4 October 2022 at 2-4 pm BST.
There will be a BSL Interpreter.
Speakers:
- CHAIR: Kamran Malik, CEO, Disability Rights UK
- Dr Michelle Howarth, Lead: National Social Prescribing Network Special Interest Group: Nursing
- Dr Lucy Burke, Principal Lecturer, Centre for Culture & Disabiliity Studies at Liverpool Hope University.
- Dr Rashmi Becker MBE, Founder, Step-Change Studios, London.
- Fleur Derbyshire-Fox, Director of Engagement, English National Ballet ‘Dance for Parkinson’s’ (invited)
- William Ogden, Trustee Director of Decibels, Music for the deaf
- Nabil Shaban, Actor, activist, co-founder, Graeae Theatre for the deaf and visually Impaired
- Rebecca McGinnis, Senior Managing Editor for Accessibility, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (invited)
- Furrah Syed FRSA, Artist, Educator, Colour Energy Specialist, Visual arts for the blind and visually impaired
- Dr. Beverley Duguid, founder of InsightMind poetry for the visually impaired
- Ruth Fabby MBE, Director, Disability Arts Cymru.
- Jan-Bert van den Berg, Director, Artlink Edinburgh (recording)
- Jessica Ryan-Ndegwa, living with cerebral palsy, Design for Disability.
- Veronica Franklin Gould FRSA (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
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Global Brain Health Institute: Co-creating arts for brain health – a global perspective, Tuesday 6 September
To mark World Alzheimer’s Month, in this webinar, chaired by Brian Lawlor, Deputy Executive Director of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI – University of California, San Francisco | Trinity College Dublin), we will showcase the diverse creative activities of Atlantic Fellows for Equity Health at GBHI that have been co-produced with and for people living with dementia that generate powerful messages of hope, engagement, inclusion and connection. There is so much to be learned from the innovation emanating from different countries and geographies, and this webinar will illustrate the richness and diversity of a number of these global creative interdisciplinary activities.
The webinar will feature five 10-minute presentations from Atlantic Fellows, followed by a panel discussion of experts in arts & brain health, social prescribing and transdisciplinary approaches for people living with dementia.
Speakers:
- 10 am Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia) introduces
- CHAIR: Professor Brian Lawlor, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry and GBHI Deputy Executive Director.
- ATLANTIC FELLOW PRESENTATIONS:
- 10.05 Kunle Adewale, artist: Arts interventions for dementia in Africa
- 10.15 Nicky Taylor, theatre and dementia specialist: Creative engagement for dementia (Leeds, United Kingdom)
- 10.25 Ieva Petkute, arts researcher and manager: Arts and cultural interventions for people with dementia in Lithuania
- 10.35 Carlos Chechetti, researcher, social entrepreneur and teacher: Reviving memories program in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 10.45 Maritza Pintad, neurologist: Experience from of ageing and dementia in rural Peru
- 11 am PANEL DISCUSSION, in conversation with
- Professor Ian Robertson, Co-Director GBHI
- Lenny Shallcross, Executive Director, World Dementia Council
- Glenna Baston SC.D., Instructor of Dance, Duke University, North Carolina.
- Maud Hendricks, Artistic Director, Outlandish Theatre
- Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Development Lead, Global Social Prescribing Alliance.
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Cultural Diversity in Arts for Brain Health, Tuesday 5 July 2022, 10 – 11.30 am GMT
Dr Sharmi Bhattacharyya, Consultant & Clinical Lead for Older People’s Mental Health at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in North Wales and Editor of The Old Age Psychiatrist at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, chairs a debate between leaders in social prescribing, culture health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on diagnostic tools and arts workshops celebrating diverse cultures. Read more
Speakers:
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
- CHAIR: Dr Sharmi Bhattacharyya, Consultant & Clinical Lead, OPMH North Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Editor, The Old Age Psychiatrist, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Dr Karan Jutla, Senior Lecturer in Health (Dementia Lead) Institute of Health, University of Wolverhampton, presents ethnically diverse diagnostic tools.
- Dr Sonu Bhaskar, Director, Global Health Neurology Lab, Sydney, Australia.
- Thanh Sinden Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance and the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester.
- Maki Sekiya, Japanese concert pianist plays and discusses Somei Satoh’s “Mirrors in the Dream” and the Japanese Green Chorus
- Arti Prashar OBE, artist and drama practitioner: ‘Visionaries: A South Asian Arts and Ageing Counter Narrative‘
- Kadria Thomas, English/Yemeni Gospel choir leader
- Bisakha Sarker MBE, Founder and Artistic Director, Chaturangan South Asian dance
- Dr Mercy Wanduara, Department of Fashion Design and Marketing, Kenyatta University, Nairobi presents Kenyan basketry by women from Central and Eastern Kenya
- Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency Aboriginal Arts Centres Keeping our Elders Strong, IIkuntji artists
- Margaret Morris, Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation, Arts for Elderly Engagement
- Rushna Miah, chair, Herts Asian Women’s Association, providing a social prescribing service.
- SPEAKER DEBATE chaired by Dr Sharmi Bhattacharyya.
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Creative Writing for Brain Health, Tuesday 7 June 2022, 12 – 1.15 pm GMT
Professor Lynne Corner, Director of VOICE and COO at the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing at the University of Newcastle chairs a debate between leaders in social prescribing, culture health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on referral to Creative Writing programmes. Read more
Speakers:
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, Arts 4 Dementia)
- CHAIR: Professor Lynne Corner, Director of VOICE and COO at the UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) at the University of Newcastle.
- Professor Catherine Loveday, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Westminster
- William Sieghart CBE, founder of the National Poetry Day and Chairman of Forward Thinking
- Kadija Sesay MBE, FRSL, FRSA, literary activist of Sierra Leone descent, poet founder of SABLE Litmag
- Kate Parkin, Regional Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance champion and Creative Ageing Programme Manager, Equal Arts
- Daisy Barrett-Nash, poet. Writers at Play: Legacy Poetry and ‘The Art of Letter Writing’ for Equal Arts
- John Deutsch, Writers at Play member.
- Cheryl Moskowitz, poet, performer, novelist, creative translator
- Nabeela Ahmed, writer, poet, storyteller, teacher, artist, presents creative writing programme for South Asian people
- Justyna Sobotka, Healthy London Partnership: Social Prescribing Project Officer, Regional Learning Coordinator Support
- SPEAKER DEBATE chaired by Professor Lynne Corner
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Heritage and Nature for Brain Health, Tues 10 May 2022, 10 am-11.30 am
Desi Gradinarova, Head of Wellbeing and Inclusion Strategy at Historic England and Historic Environment Lead at the National Academy for Social Prescribing, chairs a debate between leaders in social prescribing, culture health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on referral to Heritage and Nature programmes. Read more
Speakers:
- Veronica Franklin Gould (VeronicArts and A4D)
- CHAIR: Desi Gradinarova, Senior Policy Advisor, Wellbeing and Inclusion Strategy, Historic England, and Historic Environment Lead for National Academy for Social Prescribing
- Sir Muir Gray, Director, University of Oxford’s Optimal Ageing Programme
- Dr Lucy Loveday, Associate Dean, Faculty Development Innovation and Performance, Health Education England
- Deborah Munt, Regional Champion, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance
- Katrina Gargett, Community Engagement Officer, Archaeology on Prescription, York Archaeological Trust
- Jules Hammon, Stepping into Nature, Nature Buddies empowering health providers to provide Dorset
- Caroline Gibson, Green Scripts, Bigger Hearts Dementia Alliance, Ballarat, Western Victoria, Australia.
- Alistair Tuckey, Durlston Ranger, head of volunteers, education and interpretation, Durlston Country Park and National Nature Reserve, Swanage.
- Elena Tutton, Health & Activity Lifestyle Activator Place Services, Dorset Council (recording), Wellness Nordic Walking
- Julie McCarthy, Strategic Lead for Live Well & Creative Health at Greater Manchester Combined Authority & GM Health & Social Care Partnership
- SPEAKER DEBATE chaired by Desi Gradinarova
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Visual Arts for Brain Health, Tues 5 April, 10-11 am
Professor Martin Orrell, Director of the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, chairs a debate between leaders in social prescribing, culture health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on referral to visual arts programmes. Read more
Speakers:
- Veronica Franklin Gould (VeronicArts and A4D)
- Chair: Professor Martin Orrell, Director, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham
- Professor Semir Zeki, Professor of Neuroaesthetics, University College London
- Professor Helen Chatterjee, Professor of Biology, Genetics, Evolution and Environment Division of Biosciences, University College London
- Sue Mackay, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance regional champion, Thackray Museum
- Ruth Salthouse, Wellbeing Coordinator, Linking Leeds.
- Pam Charles, Leeds Black Elders
- Kate Mason, Director, The Big Draw
- Jessica Santer, Art by Post, Southbank Centre
- Holly Power, Community Learning Producer, The Wallace Collection
- Sian Brand, Social Prescribing Regional Learning Coordinator
- Hamaad Khan, NHS Social Prescribing Champion Scheme, Development Support Officer, Global Social Prescribing Alliance
- SPEAKER DEBATE chaired by Professor Martin Orrell
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International A.R.T.S. for Brain Health, ‘From Despair to Desire’, Tues 8 March 2022, 10 am – 12 pm
In association with the International Longevity Centre
For International Social Prescribing Week, Baroness Greengross, CEO of the International Longevity Centre and Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia chairs a debate between leaders in international social prescribing, culture health and wellbeing, and A.R.T.S. (wide ranging cultural and creative Activities to Revitalise The Soul). Speakers discuss social prescribing developments, innovative presentation of early dementia coping strategy, A.R.T.S. suited to people experiencing early symptoms, educational and partnership practice for sustainable A.R.T.S prescribing programes Read more
Speakers:
- Veronica Franklin Gould (President, A4D)
- Sir Muir Gray, Director, University of Oxford’s Optimal Ageing Programme
- CHAIR: Baroness Greengross, CEO, International Longevity Centre. Co-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia
- James Sanderson, Director of Personalised Care, NHS E/I; CEO, National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP)
- Pierre Lemarquis, neuroscientist University of Toulon (invited)
- Dr Gail Kenning, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Professor Brian Lawlor, Global Brain Health Institute, Dublin and California.
- Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Lead, World Health Organisation
- Alexandra Coulter, Director, National Centre for Creative Health
- Francesca Rosenberg, Director of Community, Access and Schools Programmes, Lara Schweller, Social Prescribing Lead, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- Edith Woolf Perez, Chair, Arts for Health Austria
- Professor Ruth Mateus-Berr, Head of the Centre for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.
- Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Development Lead, Global Social Prescribing Alliance; Clinical champion lead, NASP.
- SPEAKER DEBATE, Chaired by Baroness Greengross
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Drama for Brain Health, Tues 8 February, 10-11 am
- Veronica Franklin Gould (VeronicArts and A4D)
- CHAIR Dr Peter Bagshaw GP, Clinical Lead for Dementia for the South West Mental Health Clinical Network
- Dr Sheila McCormick, Senior Lecturer, BA Programme Leader in Theatre and Performance, University of Salford
- Andy Barry, Elders Company, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
- David Workman, Artistic Director, Elders Company & Encore, Southwark Playhouse, London
- Machteld De Ruyck, Older People’s Programme Manager, Heydays, Leeds Playhouse
- Jenny Marshall and Bee Burgess, Open Age, London
- Anna Woolf, London Arts in Health, Regional Champion, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance
- Liza Jarvis, Regional Social Prescribing Network NHS Learning Co-ordinator
- Sir Muir Gray, Director, University of Oxford’s Optimal Ageing Programme
- SPEAKER DEBATE, chaired by Dr Peter Bagshaw
Music for Brain Health, Tues 11 January, 10-11 am
- Veronica Franklin Gould (VeronicArts and A4D)
- Chair: Katie Derham (BBC Broadcaster)
- Sir Muir Gray (Director, University of Oxford’s Optimal Ageing Programme)
- Dr Iban Tripiana Sanchez (Clinical Neuropsychologist, Castellón de la Plana, Spain)
- Phil Hallett (CEO, Coda Music Trust)
- Grace Meadows (Director, Music for Dementia)
- Victoria Hume (Director, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance)
- Sian Brand (NHS England Social Prescribing Regional Facilitator)
- Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca (National Academy for Social Prescribing & Global Social Prescribing Alliance
- SPEAKER DEBATE chaired by Katie Derham
[Recording] [Transcript]
Increase Brainability: Dance to Preserve Brain Health & Global Social Prescribing, Tuesday 7 December 2021
- Veronica Franklin Gould (VeronicArts and A4D)
- CHAIR: Dr Charles Alessi, Senior Advisor, Public Health England
- Sir Muir Gray, Director, Optimal Ageing Programme at The University of Oxford
- Fergus Early, Artistic Director, Green Candle Dance
- Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca, Founder, NHS Social Prescribing Champion Scheme. Developmental Lead, Global Social Prescribing Alliance
- SPEAKER DEBATE chaired by Dr Charles Alessi
Social Prescribing as Diagnostic Practice, Tuesday 2 November 2021
- Veronica Franklin Gould (VeronicArts and A4D)
- CHAIR: Sir Muir Gray, Director, Optimal Ageing Programme at The University of OxfordProfessor
- Professor Alistair Burns, NHS National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health
- Professor John Gallacher, Professor of Cognitive Health at The University of Oxford; Director, Dementias Platform UK
