Part of the seminar series, 'The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies'
The seminar will focus on the emerging leadership of the Arts in Medicine Fellowship in Nigeria and its impact across the world. The Fellowship facilitates interdisciplinary and collaborative learning opportunities for students and professionals in Africa, Asia, Latin America, South America, the United Kingdom and Europe. The Arts in Medicine Fellowship has over 800 members across 43 countries across the globe. Beneficiaries include Medical Doctors, health workers, Patients, Carers, Researchers, Educators, Artists, Entrepreneurs and Policymakers, among many others.
Kunle Adewale
Founder/Executive Director, Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship
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8/7/2023
Part of the seminar series, 'The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies'
Feminism is a praxis, a theory, methodology and pedagogy that engages with anti-oppressive struggles as interlinked and connected by the common denominator of experiencing the oppressions of white supremacist capitalist patriarchal power anddomination. Feminism has challenged the structures of globalization, capitalism, andneoliberalism and how they have impacted women and other oppressed populations, their labor practices, and mainstream conceptions of the self and the therapeutic. This presentation engages with the concept of “feminisms” and how each presenter came to define feminism as a personal and political identity and methodology. It is followed by two case studies to examine the application of feminist pedagogy and to trouble practices of care that attend to false conditions of safety and protection in the face of systemic oppression and violence.
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7/24/2023
Part of the seminar series, The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increased interest in exploring the role of online arts activities as a form of mental health support. As young people and individuals with existing mental health conditions have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the aim of the Dance/Connect study was to explore if and how eight weeks of group online dance classes may support young people (aged 16-24) living with anxiety. The study was mixed-methods (qualitative, quantitative, participatory, arts-based) and was delivered in partnership with a youth advisory of young people aged 16-24. In this presentation, we explore our coproduction processes of collaborating with young people to deliver this research, as well as reflect on and share the arts-based methods we used to explore experiences of
dance and coproduction.
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2/16/2023
Part of the seminar series, The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies
The focus of this seminar is to look at the intersection of arts and community health while deepening our understanding of the role that the factors of social location and language/languaging play in accessibility to health outcomes and resources.
In this seminar, we expand our lens beyond the therapy paradigm to orient to the goals of promoting health (mental, physical and social) with art as the context and methodology. We assert that the reproduction of existing social hierarchies and power dynamics are contrary to the goal of promoting health. Anchored in the decolonizing and anti-oppression paradigm, we spotlight the issues of social location (possession of power) and language/languageing of care (practice of power) as two central factors of consideration. We then grapple together about how these dynamics implicit in the work can be mediated/negotiated.
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12/20/2022
An international series of fourteen seminars starting November 2022: Australia, Chile, Finland, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, UAE, UK, USA
Following a successful Grand Challenges bid by Professor Phil Jones from the IOE, Professor Ama De-Graft Aikins, Institute of Advanced Studies and Dr Deborah Padfield, Slade School of Fine Art, and a collaboration with Arts + Health @ New York University led by Associate Professor Nisha Sajnani, a new seminar series starts in November 2022 and runs until October 2023.
What are ‘agency’ and ‘voice’?
What is equity?
What constitutes care?
How do these relate to those participating in the arts in health or wellbeing contexts and in therapy?
What are different discoveries and practices in different countries?
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11/9/2022