Are there ethical considerations that artists and arts practitioners keep in mind when working with communities where care is a central goal? Are there considerations we should keep in mind concerning the care of artists? This presentation will feature theco-leads of a WHO commissioned resource on arts practice and the ethics of care which is being co-created by 19 artists, arts practitioners, and arts therapists from around the world. Nisha Sajnani (PhD, RDT-BCT) Director of the Program in Drama Therapy and Theatre & Health Lab; and founding Co-Director of the Arts + Health at NYU. Mauricio Salgado Assistant Arts Professor of Applied Theatre in Undergraduate Drama at NYU.

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10/16/2023

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 We invite the international community of professionals to build mutual understanding of the definitions and concepts in the field of Creativity, Arts, Culture, and Wellbeing. We propose that advancing the shared understanding of professional competencies and high quality practices requires developed conceptualizations of what is meant by cultural well-being.

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4/26/2023

Part of the seminar series, The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies Co-production rests in the belief that each participant in the realms of clinical treatment and research should have the equal right to express themselves and take part in the process of ameliorating personal experiences of participation in arts therapies, arts in health and their effectiveness. Although many artists in health have genuinely co-produced projects with their clients, co-production is sometimes perfunctorily done. Indeed, objections need be understood and taken on board: many arts therapists will worry about impact on boundaries, roles, and dynamics within the therapeutic relationship. Co-production can also be challenging and time-consuming and this creates barriers for artists in health within small organizations having to meet cost-effective project deadlines.

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3/17/2023

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

The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies Museums, as neutral, non-judgmental spaces, play an important role in enhancing mental, social and physical aspects of a community. This talk explores how museums build and grow in collaboration with their community partners. To drive creativity and agency, participants can benefit from such social spaces for experiential and experimental opportunities that provide access to artsbased wellness & art therapy content and programming. This is achieved through engagement and empowerment by offering multimodal therapeutic opportunities from moments of calm, reflection and self-expression in connection with the museum’s collection and the architecture. Maral Jul Bedoyan MA in Museums and Gallery practice from UCL Qatar. Leading the Department of Education and the Wellbeing initiative at Louvre Abu Dhabi Richa Mehta Art Therapy, Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. MA in Education with focus on So

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2/6/2023

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