DESIGNING A MUSEUM OR CINEMA EXPERIENCE
FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH MEMORY LOSS, CARE PARTNERS, COMMUNITIES:
A LIVED EXPERIENCE BRINGING THE GENERATIONS TOGETHER
This workshop teaches a dynamic model of creative arts engagement through
design of a museum or interactive film experience, successfully applied in communities and shown to boost health, wellbeing and solidarity.
LAYING THE FOUNDATION: A THREE PART TRAINING
SESSION ONE: Changing The Narrative: Exploring a New Humanism
SESSION TWO: Memory Loss & The Arts, Arts For Health Research
SESSION THREE: Program Model, Key Components, Starting A Program
design of a museum or interactive film experience, successfully applied in communities and shown to boost health, wellbeing and solidarity.
LAYING THE FOUNDATION: A THREE PART TRAINING
SESSION ONE: Changing The Narrative: Exploring a New Humanism
- How persons with memory loss can be seen holistically -opening pathways of communication, individuality and wellbeing via meaningful arts engagement
- Understanding preconceptions of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and power of creative engagement to de-stigmatize and change perception
- Awakening new ideas: Images and words of individuals living with dementia participating in lively, animated cultural experiences
- Screening I Remember Better When I Paint, the first international documentary by French Connection films and the Hilgos Foundation that looks at efficacy of the creative arts to enhance quality of life for those living with memory loss.
- Post film screening discussion Q & A session. Review of film core concepts and methods of engagement that leave participants with creative applications.
SESSION TWO: Memory Loss & The Arts, Arts For Health Research
- Creative conceptions of memory: Imagination & Preserved memory abilities
- Building failure free, meaningful engagement to unlock expression & possibility
- Guiding principles at the foundation of museum or cinema program
- Core themes: Participation, individuality, Identity, belonging and human dignity
- Research studies: Investigating Links between arts, health and wellbeing
SESSION THREE: Program Model, Key Components, Starting A Program
- Program model: Four stages of program development
- How to start a program, choose artworks or film clips for engagement
- How to design engaging, failure-free conversations that stimulate imaginative, intuitive, observational capabilities that improve cognitive and emotional health
- How to design artistic expression applications from artworks or conversations
- Qualitative research tools to evaluate impacts on quality of life
- PARTICIPANTS: For professionals, educators, artists, museums, cinemas, community organizations, care programs, memory cafes, family, caregivers, community members, college students in mind/body disciplines, sociology, psychology, nursing, community activism, art and social justice, theatre arts, visual arts, art therapy, occupational therapy, social work, neuropsychology human development and more...