Arts Play Health
Community
We are a volunteer-led community of people interested in exploring the interconnections between arts and play for health and wellbeing. We take broad conceptions of both ‘arts’ and ‘play’ and we welcome anyone interested in these topics to take part in our activities.
Chat Series
We run regular online 'chats' to bring people together in dialogue and shared experience. We meet monthly on the last Wednesday of the month (4-5pm BST/GMT) and invite guest facilitators to lead discussions on 'hot' topics. We have no aim but to have an interesting chat!
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All are welcome. Join us as an academic, practitioner, artist, arts/play manager or administrator, policymaker and/or interested community member. Each week we will have a few overarching questions to start the conversation and create space for dialogue and ideas for action. Bring a nice big cuppa as we come together in community.
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Next meeting
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Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday 24th September, 4-5pm BST. We will be joined by a special guest for an interactive session exploring the role music can play in living well and the challenges in using music as part of living with health conditions.
About our guest:
Pam Ribbeck is Communities Officer with music and dementia charity Playlist for Life. She worked as a publicist in the music industry for a number of years before discovering the power of music as therapy, in particular for people living with dementia. Pam worked in a care home as an activities coordinator before joining Playlist for Life in 2017.
In her role as a Communities Officer she supports community organisations and groups across the UK to incorporate Playlist for Life resources and the principles of personally meaningful music into services and activities.
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In October we will be celebrating Black History Month with special guests including Kunle Adewale at a new time and day of the week - Monday 13th October from 5.30 to 7.00pm BST.
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Join our mailing list below to sign up and join us!
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How to join
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Sign up to attend via entering your email here.
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We are an international community and welcome people from all over the world to join us. Please note that if you have joined one of our chats before or sign up ahead of the day, we will send you a reminder of the joining details before the session. If you are new to the list, we will aim email you the details before the start time of the session (circa. 3.30pm).
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We look forward to seeing you soon!
Team
/ Dr Laura Wright
Co-Director and Founder, University of Edinburgh
/ Dr Katey Warran
Co-Director and Founder, University of Edinburgh
/ Geraldine Montgomerie
Co-Director, University of Leeds
/ Pat Scrutton
Co-Director, Intergenerational National Network