Tag Archives: arts in health

Notes from Galveston 2014: Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Jac Saorsa

Back in Galveston! Invited again by the wonderful folk at the University of Texas Centre for Medical Humanities to spend another month working here on the Drawing Women’s Cancer project (drawingcancer.wordpress.com). I am delighted to be back on the island … Continue reading →

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Drawing Women’s Cancer in Cardiff

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Jac Saorsa

Posted in Announcements, Art Exhibition, Arts in Health, Research Collaborations | Tagged arts, arts in health, exhibtion, illness, imagination and creativity, medical humanities, practice and the practitioner | Leave a comment

Musings From The Day Room – Mike White Reflects On Chemotherapy, Lanterns, Austerity & Mortality

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Mike White‘s diary entry reads: 9th.January. I am up the Northern Centre for Cancer Care this morning for my chemo breakfast, the Special K in my treatment plan. The day room is furnished like the lobby of a budget hotel … Continue reading →

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Space and Place in the Health Humanities, plus a Masterclass on the Geography of a Dance Intervention – Prof Sarah Atkinson (Seminar, Edinburgh, 23 Jan 2014)

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The sixth Scottish Health Humanities Seminar and Masterclass will be on Thursday 23 January 2014. Prof Sarah Atkinson, Deptartment of Geography, Durham University. Co-Director of Belief, Understanding and Wellbeing, Wolfson Research Institute, and Associate Director, Centre for Medical Humanities Public Seminar: Space and … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts in Health, Seminar | Tagged arts in health, belief understanding wellbeing, bodies, dance, movement, place, policy politics and the collective, practice and the practitioner, space, Wolfson Research Institute | Leave a comment

Doctoral Studentship: ‘Representing Communities: Developing the Creative Power of People to Improve Health and Well-being’ at University of Leeds

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Centre for Medical Humanities

A funding opportunity at the University of Leeds for someone wanting to do PhD research on how questions of community health and wellbeing interact with twentieth-century literary fictions. The doctoral researcher will conduct an in-depth study of health and wellbeing … Continue reading →

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Before and Since (the Wound) – Visualising the Experience of Pain

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Jac Saorsa

In painting the image of a child dying of hunger, my aim is not to make a re-presentation of a child dying of hunger, or to elicit or express what it feels like to watch a child dying of hunger. … Continue reading →

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Out of Darkness Comes Light – mysteriously beautiful photographs from a bedbound sufferer

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Out of Darkness Comes Light – mysteriously beautiful photographs from a bedbound sufferer By Penny Clare “I was mostly confined to bed in a dark room – for years, and years, and years. At some point, in this isolated sea, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas, Reblog | Tagged arts, arts in health, exhaustion, first person account, illness narrative, ME, photography, visual cultures | 1 Comment

Hitching Arts in Health on the Road to Nowhere

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Mike White writes: The country road in Australia is mostly A to B straight on and can seem to traverse interplanetary distance. Crossing the aboriginal lands of ‘first nation’ people, however, it is a road to nowhere as highlighted in … Continue reading →

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“There’s no lights on the Xmas tree momma, they’re burnin’ an artist tonight!”

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Mike White writes: There was a hatchet job in Sunday’s Independent on arts in hospitals based on perfunctory information extracted on NHS expenditure on art works (accessible here). Those of us who are driving the development of the National Alliance … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts in Health, Ideas | Tagged art, arts in health, NHS, policy politics and the collective | 2 Comments

Notes from Glaveston (Final Post): Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Jac Saorsa

Week 9. This will be my final post in this series as my time in Galveston is coming to an end. My work in the anatomy department over the last couple of weeks reminded me however how much my visual … Continue reading →