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BSG Conference 2017: Thoughts on the arts, care and dementia

September 11, 2017

A good conference can help you re-assess your own work. Perhaps not in an extreme way. Perhaps more as if …

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Everyman Theatre’s ‘Do Not Go Gentle’

July 16, 2017

At Chapter Arts Centre on 17 May 2017 Louise Osborn facilitated an intense and rewarding three hour session addressing dementia.

This blog reflects on excerpts of the Do Not Go Gentle play performed by Everyman Theatre and which was combined with workshops and discussions with a group of attendees.

This blog explores three ideas: (1) the power of the arts to explore complicated social issues such as dementia; (2) understanding that generation groups experience society differently and (3) that we need to engage more deeply with the politics of care.

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Imagining the Neighbourhood Event – Monday 27 March

April 21, 2017

This blog article is an account of an event sponsored by a BSG Small Grant and with support also from CADR. We enjoyed a late morning psychogeographical exploration of neighbourhoods on the western edge of Cardiff’s city centre and an afternoon discussing the practice of researching communities. One main message for the study of gerontology came through all elements of the day – whether it was a guided tour of Riverside from socially-engaged artist Rabab Ghazoul [pictured below left], the drawings of Marega Palser or the afternoon presentations from Sherman 5’s Guy O’Donnell, Kate Spiller from Swansea RIAH and Charles Musselwhite from Swansea CIA – namely that neighbourhood is fluid and that we can only build up a picture of what it means to age [and to have aged] in a given place by making efforts to tap into groups, spaces and shared narratives.

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Mobility, Mood and Place – Conference Reflections

October 21, 2016

This blog article outlines my reflections on the conference held in Edinburgh (12 – 14 October) and how the proceedings …

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Lucien Freud Dies, Age 88

July 22, 2011

Lucien Freud has died, aged 88.  An artist who embraced, loved and exposed our ageing bodies and all that they …

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