Conference 2024
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This June, join PsychArt and Madhearts for a collaborative conference exploring the theme of Outsider/Insider. Together we will reflect on the shifts in status and roles that characterise mental health care.
Hospitals represent places of boundaries over which people are turned into rigid roles, nurses and doctors on the one side, and patients on the other. They can be experienced as cold, inflexible or containing and nurturing - and all of those things.
We invite you to a space to explore the possibilities of care. Where boundaries are softened and understanding is fostered through presentations, discussions and creative workshops.
Come to consider, re-frame and discuss - whatever this opposition might mean, and wherever we choose to place ourselves: outsiders, insiders, both & in between.
Note: you do not have to be an academic, clinician or student to join us! (but you can be). Anyone with an interest in arts and mental health is welcome to come along. Please let us know about any access requirements.
Programme
All Events at Arts One, QMUL Mile End Campus
6th June : 6-9pm
PsychArt x Madhearts - Play Screening
‘The Possibility Of Colour’ by Pete Carruthers
The Possibility of Colour | tree fish productions
The Possibility of Colour is an exciting new play written by Pete Carruthers, with input at every stage from mental health professionals, academics, student practitioners, and people with lived experience of the themes explored in the piece.
The play explores themes around mental health, voice hearing, synaesthesia, neurodiversity,
forced treatment, the use of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and much much more.
7th June: 9am-5pm
PsychArt x Madhearts - The Conference
A day of workshops, talks and panel discussions
Keynote speaker is tbc
Workshops will run before and after lunch with each attendee participating in one of 4 workshops or attending a talk running in parallel in the morning and afternoon
At the end of the day we will have a panel discussion exploring our theme of how crossing the boundary of the hospital impacts us to adopt various roles as Insiders & Outsiders to ourselves and others
Confirmed speakers/ presenters/ workshop facilitators:
Tam Martin Fowles
Cara Verkirk
John Howard Centre Forensic Arts therapy team
Frank Rohricht