For feedback from the 1st Storytelling for Health Conference 2017 see the blog page
Storytelling for Health International Conference
Friday 16th and Saturday 17th June 2017 in Swansea, South Wales
starting with
Welcome event Thursday 15th at 7pm
The conference is presented by ABMU Health Board in collaboration with The George Ewart Centre for Storytelling at the University of South Wales, The University of Wales Trinity St Davids, Swansea University, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, The National Waterfront Museum and Volcano Theatre
Thursday Night Welcome Event will be at Volcano Theatre, 27 High Street, Swansea SA1 1LG
Doors open at 6.30 for registration and poster exhibition, bar available, short performance from Relive at 7.30
Feels like I am describing a treasure hunt!
If you are arriving and haven't got a map/programme then arrive at Volcano on Thursday night at 6.30pm or Waterfront Museum on Friday and Saturday mornings at 8.30am
Sharing Thinking Sharing Stories
Two of the conference venues will host opportunities to hear the latest research and thinking from across the world - come and be part of the conversations that will be created about different people’s practice and experiences. One venue will be a space for sharing performed stories and another for workshops. There will also be art exhibitions, posters, stories with music, therapy stories, an international panel, a children’s venue on the Saturday and, if you have never told a story before, there will be an opportunity to have a go!
In the run up to the conference five story tellers and a musician will be working with local people in different parts of the health service. Daniel Morden and Oliver Wilson-Dickson will be working in cancer services, Steve Killick and Nicola Grove will be working with foster care families, Jess Wilson and Prue Thimbleby will be working with different parts of the mental health service. Each of these projects will be presented at the conference and the participants, staff and storytellers will jointly share their reflections on the impact that sharing stories together has had
Opening Speakers
We are delighted to welcome Baroness Eluned Morgan to open the conference and Phil George chair of Arts Council Wales to talk about the Arts Council of Wales’ plans for developing Arts and Health evidence based work in Wales
Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers, performers and artists include Daniel Morden, Dan Yashinsky, Prof Mike Wilson and Jac Soarsa
Doors open at 6.30 for registration and poster exhibition, bar available, short performance from Relive at 7.30
Feels like I am describing a treasure hunt!
If you are arriving and haven't got a map/programme then arrive at Volcano on Thursday night at 6.30pm or Waterfront Museum on Friday and Saturday mornings at 8.30am
Sharing Thinking Sharing Stories
Two of the conference venues will host opportunities to hear the latest research and thinking from across the world - come and be part of the conversations that will be created about different people’s practice and experiences. One venue will be a space for sharing performed stories and another for workshops. There will also be art exhibitions, posters, stories with music, therapy stories, an international panel, a children’s venue on the Saturday and, if you have never told a story before, there will be an opportunity to have a go!
In the run up to the conference five story tellers and a musician will be working with local people in different parts of the health service. Daniel Morden and Oliver Wilson-Dickson will be working in cancer services, Steve Killick and Nicola Grove will be working with foster care families, Jess Wilson and Prue Thimbleby will be working with different parts of the mental health service. Each of these projects will be presented at the conference and the participants, staff and storytellers will jointly share their reflections on the impact that sharing stories together has had
Opening Speakers
We are delighted to welcome Baroness Eluned Morgan to open the conference and Phil George chair of Arts Council Wales to talk about the Arts Council of Wales’ plans for developing Arts and Health evidence based work in Wales
Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers, performers and artists include Daniel Morden, Dan Yashinsky, Prof Mike Wilson and Jac Soarsa
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Daniel Morden is one of the UKs leading storytellers, he has been enchanting audiences with his tales since 1989. He has performed at events across the globe, has won numerous awards including the Audience Choice Award for Outstanding Storyteller- Words Festival, Helsingbor, Denmark and the UK Classical Association Award for ‘the most significant contribution to the public understanding of the classics’, and has published 12 collections of stories. Daniel’s recent work has focussed on the performance of stories when going through a major health event.
Dan Yashinsky is a Toronto-based storyteller, writer, and community animator. In l978 he founded 1001 Friday Nights of Storytelling, North America's longest-running adult storytelling series. In l979 he founded the Toronto Storytelling Festival. His books include Swimming with Chaucer - A Storyteller's Logbook, and Suddenly They Heard Footsteps - Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century. In l999 he received the first Jane Jacobs Prize for his work with storytelling in the community. He is currently the storyteller-in-residence at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, working with patients, staff, and family members. Keynote title - Storycare: imagination, memory, and storytelling in healthcare Prof Mike Wilson is Professor of Drama at Loughborough University. He is a leading authority on storytelling and performance and has written seven major books on the subject. Mike’s research on storytelling has led him to work on the interface between storytelling and digital technology and the way in which the internet has enabled the telling and sharing of ‘extraordinary’ stories of the everyday experiences of people. He is a Co-Investigator on the major RCUK projects: ‘Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery’, a collaboration led by the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, exploring the value of creative interventions as a tool for mutual recovery in the field of Mental Health. Dr Jac Saorsa is a visual artist, writer and researcher. She is based at her studio in Broadway, Cardiff. Jac works primarily within the field of medicine with a special interest in the qualitative exploration of the individual lived experience of illness. She works directly with patients and with health professionals, both in the UK and in Africa, towards the advocacy of patient autonomy, and the ‘humanisation’ of the medical relationship. Her work is in public and private collections in the UK, in Tanzania, and in the USA. In 2013 Jac founded The Broadway Drawing School in Cardiff. |
