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

This session draws on two research studies: First, a systematic review that has been funded by the Wellcome Trust and gathered relevant evidence on different uses of the arts as a way of supporting the wellbeing of helping professionals. Second, the results from an exploration of the uses of the arts in hospitals in the UK, in which a multi-tiered approach has been adopted to support the wellbeing of clinical staff. Ways in which the arts have been used to impact on multiple levels will be presented and discussed including an organisational, teams and individual level. Professor Vicky Karkou Director of the Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, Edge Hill University UK. Supritha Aithal (PhD) Lecturer and researcher, Edge Hill University Shaun Liverpool (PhD) Lecturer, Edge Hill University. Emma Perris PhD student and research assistant, Edge Hill University. Part of the seminar series, The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies

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6/13/2023

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