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
Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday 30th April 2025, 4-5pm BST.
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We are delighted to be joined by Dr Olivia Turner to explore evaluation in arts and dementia.
​In this session, Olivia asks: how can we optimise evaluation processes to better understand the meaning of arts' experiences? And what relationship do these meaningful experiences have to wellbeing? We will explore evaluation in the context of the arts, the benefits and challenges of current evaluation processes in relation to ‘capturing’ and articulating meaning-making, and ways to enable more authenticity, depth, richness, meaning and nuance in evaluation. In particular, we will think through evaluation in the context of participatory arts and dementia work.
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Olivia is an artist and researcher. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, based in the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia. Olivia is currently working as part the IMAGINED project, which stands for Investigating Meaning-making and the cocreation of Guidelines for Evaluation IN participatory Arts for Dementia. It is a 2-year project seeking to explore meaning-making processes in participatory arts for dementia activities, and how to evaluate these meaningful experiences.
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This chat is led in partnership with the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia.
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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.
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 the joining details the day before the session (Tuesday). If you are new to the list, we will 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