The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, Canberra 2011

• Podcasts of the 2011 Conference Presentations

Podcasts of the 2011 Conference Presentations

Podcasts of the plenary presentations (except Plenary 2, Art in Community Health, which will be added shortly) and Clive Parkinson's address at the conference opening are available below. They are approximately 140 minutes each in length (except Clives's which is 33 minutes) and are in mp3 format.

• Clive's address at the official opening : The Interior, Design and Health which poses the question Just how relevant are the arts if you've been given a diagnosis of cancer or dementia?
• Arts and Health in Primary and Acute Care
  1. Kristen Whittle : Arts and Health at the New Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
  2. Sharon Woodworth : Laguna Honda, A Long Term Care Facility in San Francisco
  3. Anthony Ogden and Chris Richardson : Integrating Art in the New Hospital - Two Case Studies, Two Approaches Mater Mothers' Hospitals in Brisbane and the Robina Hospital Expansion Project, Gold Coast
• Creative Ageing
  1. Introduction by Margret Meagher and Meg Simpson
  2. Adriane Boag : Art and Dementia
  3. Alice Thwaite : Creative Ageing
  4. Dominic Campbell : Bealtaine: What kind of old do I want to be and what kind of world do I want to grow older in?
• The Arts and Health in Education
  1. Chair: Professor Brad Haseman Assistance Dean (Research), Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology and Chair, Community Partnerships Committee, Australia Council for the Arts.
  2. Dr Gerri Frager : Ed's Story: The Dragon Chronicles
  3. Dr Gary Christenson : Five Reasons Why We Need the Arts in Medicine
  4. Dr Bernie Warren and Dr Peter Spitzer : Memories of a smile: Twenty-five years of clowns promoting good health and wellbeing across the lifespan in hospitals and residential care facilities
• Arts and Health Research and Evaluation
  1. Professor Brad Haseman : When you cannot 'Suit the action to the word, the word to the action': the case for performative evaluation
  2. Professor Robyn Richmond : Art Assisting Smoking Prisoners to Quit
  3. Lindsay Lovering : An overview of Healthway's Arts Sponsorship Program and the value of evaluation to develop strategies to effectively target 'at risk' sectors of the community through the use of sponsorship as a vehicle for health promotion