This Healthy Aging Seminar is co-sponsored by Green College UBC.
Title: Fostering Aesthetic Engagement through Filmed Research-based Theatre: An Arts-based Approach to Culture Change in Dementia Care
Summary: Longstanding concerns about stigmatizing attitudes and dementia care practices have prompted urgent calls for culture change. Education and public awareness, particularly with arts-based approaches, have been identified as key strategies to achieve this. Yet, rarely are the arts utilized in educational initiatives. With an interest in redressing this, our team developed and evaluated a filmed research-based drama – Cracked: new light on dementia – a one-hour production that casts a critical light on society’s one-dimensional view of dementia as an unmitigated tragedy. Cracked is intended to inspire alternative ways of seeing persons living with dementia and to foster a culture of care that supports people to live well with dementia. This session will feature a screening of Cracked, followed by a Q&A.
Speaker Biography: Pia Kontos is a Senior Scientist at the KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – University Health Network and Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Pia is also a Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC. With colleagues, Pia has helped develop and advance a relational caring philosophy and arts-informed educational initiatives to support the adoption of relational caring in practice. Her research draws on critical and relational theories and uses qualitative and arts-based methodologies as a means of promoting personal transformation and social change in dementia and long-term care. She has presented and published across multiple disciplines, primarily on embodiment, relationality, ethics, and creativity.
Participants may attend the seminar in-person at the Rudy North Lecture Theatre in the Centre for Brain Health at UBC, or virtually via Zoom. Zoom details for virtual attendance can be found below. A light lunch will be provided for all those attending in-person.
Please register here for the seminar.
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Zoom Meeting ID: 91067 972164 | Passcode: 972164
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