These seminars shared learning outcomes from engage Cymru and gallery partnership arts and health projects with older people, and explored the wider context and impact of creativity on health and wellbeing.

Delegates said:

“Easily the most useful course I have attended this year and one of the most enjoyable” (Cardiff delegate)

“Lovely day!! Thanks all involved…inspiring projects...” (Ruthin delegate)

“The work you are doing is wonderful and I hope that we can work together in the future. If I can do anything to support you and in particular, enable more networking with like-minded people, please get in touch.” (Clive Parkinson, Director Arts for Health, Manchester Met University)

Speakers:

• Project artists Jan Gardner and Felicity Owens
• Clive Parkinson, Director of Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University, the UK's longest established arts and health organisation
• Andrew Newman and Anna Goulding from Newcastle University's Arts and Humanities Research department, on rethinking policy and practice and older people's identity construction.

Presentations (English only):

Felicity Owens
Art from the Heart: Flintshire Older People’s Arts and Galleries Project

Andrew Newman and Anna Goulding, Newcastle University
The impact of engagement with contemporary visual art on the wellbeing of older adults

Clive Parkinson, Director of Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University
From Invest to Save, to a Manifesto for Arts and Health

Jan Gardner
 

Clive Parkinson