Thursday 18 November 2010
- Morning Plenary Session 3 Mental Health, Creative Ageing and the Arts
- Breakout Sessions
- Plenary Session 4 Mental Health and the Arts
- Afternoon Breakout Sessions
- Refreshments
- Alan Hopgood AM, playwright and actor, presents My Dog Has StripesA Health Play about Depression, sponsored by beyondblue
9 am - 10.30 am
Plenary Session 3 : Mental Health and Creative Ageing
Professor David Ames, Director, National Ageing Research Centre and Professor of Ageing and Health, University of Melbourne
Alzheimer's and the Depressed Elderly : The Role for the Arts
Carrie McGee, Educator, Community and Access Programs, Department of Education, Museum of Modern Art New York : including the Meet me at MoMA Alzheimer's Program
Having Fun and Feeling Human : Museum Programs for Marginalised Populations
Clive Parkinson, Director, Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University
A Brightly Coloured Bell - Jar Campaign for the Liberated Mind - the relationship between the arts, mental health and our aspiration to wellbeing
Q&A and Priority Recommendation 11am - 12.45pm 1pm - 2 pm 2 pm - 3.45pm Professor Denise Grocke, Head of Music Therapy and Director of the National Music Therapy Research Unit (NaMTRU), University of Melbourne : The effect of music therapy on the lives of people with severe and enduring mental illness. Dr Eugen Koh, Director of the Dax Centre, Chief Curator of the Cunningham Dax Collection, Consultant Psychiatrist and Head of Psychotherapy Training at S Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in Private Practice, and Artist : Promoting mental health and wellbeing through art. David Crosbie, CEO, Mental Health Council of Australia : What do you value? How we feel about ourselves is critical to our health and wellbeing. This paper will explore our current attitudes to mental health and wellbeing within the context of our values, our beliefs and what is needed to change the way Australia responds to mental illness. 4pm - 5.30 pm 5.30 - 6.30 pm 6.30 - 7.15 pm
Breakout Sessions
Lunch
Plenary Session 4 : Mental Health and the Arts
Breakout Sessions
Refreshments
Alan Hopgood playwright and actor presents My Dog Has Stripes - a Health Play about Depression, sponsored by beyondblue
