Advancing Arts and Mental Health:
What is a Gallery for?
Monday, 11th May 2009
at Tate Britain
- What exactly does it mean when we say the arts
help our wellbeing?
- Can we really claim this applies where serious mental health conditions are involved?
In a time of rising mental ill health, financial uncertainty and unemployment these questions become a national concern. This landmark event seeks to take on these issues in terms of exploring what role a gallery can play as a public resource. We aim to look seriously at the psychological barriers involved and at what processes safely and effectively unlock the potential of the arts for mental health and wellbeing.
Covering new practice, research and social inclusion resulting from the innovative partnerships between Tate Britain and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. These Podcasts are examples of this work:
Podcasts are wmv (Windows Media Audio/Video) files. Click on the image to open and play the podcast. Alternatively, right click on the image and Save or Download the file to play from your computer.
Programme:
This event is suitable for policy makers, mental health workers, those in the arts, educationalists, researchers and all who value galleries.
The programme includes:
Gallery as NHS
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Understanding Human Experience as the common task of NHS Trusts and Galleries (Oxleas Chief executive Stephen Firn and Felicity Allen, Head Learning Department Tate Britain)
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Gallery as Mind
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Art therapist-Curator co-work using podcasts to work through complex psychological barriers to the arts for wellbeing
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Gallery as Community
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Personality Plus, a highly successful service user led arts organisation based around the diagnosis of personality disorder, use of galleries including the Tate Modern as resource.
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Gallery as Laboratory
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Arts and Health research from the faculty of Psychology at Christ Church Canterbury University.
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Gallery as Experience
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A range of workshops, tours and presentations in the afternoon
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Housed in the prestigious Clore extension of Tate Britain, the day will run from 10am to 4pm and will be a mixture of conference style presentations, workshops and specialised tours in the Tate gallery.
This will be an exciting and moving experience which outlines the potential of the arts and its evidence base, offers networking connections and presents practice models which are ready to be used.
Sponsors:
We are grateful to our sponsors:
Taylor & Francis publish two journals crucial to the field:
BAAT is working in partnership with the London Arts in Health Forum. For more information see www.lahf.org.uk.
This event is organised by:
The British Association of Art Therapists
24-27 White Lion Street, London N1 9PD
Tel: 020 7686 4216 Fax: 020 7837 7945
email: info@baat.org
If you would like to know more about Art Therapy please visit the BAAT web site www.baat.org
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Opening address by the Rt Hon Lord Howarth of Newport who was initiator of the 
