The Making Effect II

Artists talk about how art transforms, with Abdul Abdullah and the Arts Health Network NSW/ACT and CREATE

Date and time

Thu, 3 Nov 2022 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM AEDT

Location

Event Space 416, Level 4, Susan Wakil Health Building D18

The University of Sydney Western Avenue Camperdown, NSW 2050 Australia

About this event

Join our creative workshop which highlights how arts practice brings about personal, social, political and systemic transformation and what this means for health and wellbeing. Make, listen, and talk with contemporary artist Abdul Abdullah, star of Space 22.

In October 2021 the Arts Health Network NSW/ACT, launched their online exhibition exploring the role the Arts play in the process of recovery, The Making Effect. A year later, you're invited to our guided artmaking workshop, The Making Effect II bringing together Abdul Abdullah and three leading arts in health practitioners. This in-person event will provide insights into arts and health by broadening the conversation about how contemporary art practices matter.

Through the act of making together, we will build our understanding of art making as a process for thinking about, and “doing” transformation.

This workshop is co-presented by Sydney Health Ethics (SHE), Arts Health Network NSW/ACT (AHNNA) and CREATE Centre (Creativity Research, Engaging the Arts and Transforming Education, Health and Wellbeing).

Dr Barbara Doran is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator with a specific interest in good health, wellbeing and the value of the arts in helping to work with complex systems. For over 20 years, Barbara has worked as an artist, creative director in film and installation and educated in public health and well-being. She has exhibited artwork internationally and has twice been awarded the UN Bioethics and Art prize for photography. Barbara is the uber curator for the artist in residence program of the SPHERE Knowledge Translation and Consumer Community Involvement Platform. Here her research is directed towards mobilising arts based approaches to link ways of knowing, diverse communities and bridging the research to action gap. Barbara works at the UTS TD School where she teaches into transdisciplinary programs. Her recently published book ‘"Creative Reboot. Catalysing Creative Intelligence" is a tool kit for inspiring creative practices.

Elaine Paton is a writer, performer, director and educator. Since the early 1970’s Elaine has devised gritty, political, socially engaged theatre and has given voice to the marginalised ever since. Autoethnography is the basis for her work, drawing on her life long diaries, revealing the inner narrative of her lived experiences of mental illness and, more recently, homelessness, to challenge social perceptions of critical social crises. Her theatre productions are brutally honest, peppered with a frank sense of humour. In 2015 returning to her homeland, Wales, she created and performed in a site specific production, "Moment(o)s of Leaving", in an abandoned Mental Hospital, where both her parents had been patients. Her Cabaret show, "Moment(o)s" toured mental health festivals and conferences in the UK, to critical acclaim.

Dr Linden Wilkinson is a scholar, teacher and arts practitioner. Trained as an actor at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Linden has performed extensively within Australia and New Zealand and has written for stage and television. Her published plays include “Nice Girls” and “The Night of the Missing Bridegroom.” She was one of the early adopters of verbatim theatre as a mode of delivering research. Her verbatim play "Today We’re Alive" focused on the Myall Creek Aboriginal massacre of 1838, with testimonies from descendants of massacre survivors and massacre perpetrators, seeking to locate a reconciliation narrative. Her most recent work, “My Mind’s I” uses verbatim theatre techniques, this time to explore the experience of Stroke. The play evolved as an interdisciplinary collaboration between health practitioners from Newcastle’s HMRI, the HNE LHD Community Stroke Team, Newcastle University and volunteers from the Stroke Register.

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Please note, that this event is an in-person workshop and there will not be an event recording.

Organised by

Sydney Health Ethics

The University of Sydney Sydney Health Ethics conducts research and teaching in bioethics and health-related social science using multidisciplinary methods. Our mission is to achieve a positive social impact by engaging in academic and public conversations about the ethics of health and wellbeing.'

We produce rigorous, critical and engaged ethics and social research, teach bioethics and qualitative research methods and work with communities locally, nationally and internationally to understand and address real-world issues.

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