Nurturing creative participation: CAWRI lunchtime webinar series
The Creativity and Wellbeing Research Initiative webinar series features speakers from Polyglot Theatre, Flinders University, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Faculty of Fine Arts and Music addressing creative participation for children, those with complex disabilities, First Nations communities, performers, and the overall health and functioning of our society. 12-1pm Fridays, November-December.
Registrations: www.cawri.com.au/events
8 November: Polyglot Theatre and “When the World Turns”
Cat Sewell & Sue Giles
Polyglot Theatre’s Cat Sewell and ASSITEJ International President Sue Giles AM in conversation: how does the impact of the arts play out when children are involved? These play and participation experts use the sensory world of the immersive performance When the World Turns (a fantastical experience for young people with complex disability and their families or educators) to spark a discussion on art and its intrinsic value as well as social, health and educational impact, the explosion of discovery when working in collaboration with children and some classic failures that became turning points.
22 November: “What does an arts and health organisation do?” – GAHA report
Tully Barnett & Alexander Cothren
In this session, we will discuss findings from our recently launched report, What does an arts and health organisation do? For this report, we interviewed 30 members of arts and health organisations across 13 countries. We asked them about the different roles arts and health organisations play: how they got started, what they saw as the key ingredients to their success, and the challenges they faced while undertaking the work. Some of our key findings are particularly pertinent to Australia, including the importance of having a national arts and health hub, and the challenges around ensuring diversity in the arts and health workforce.
29 November: Optimising musicians’ performance through virtual reality
Solange Glasser & Margaret Osborne
Our project explores the use of a simulated performance environment in virtual reality (VR) to increase student engagement and wellbeing, enhance learning outcomes, and provide equitable learning opportunities. During this presentation we will discuss a performance intervention that was delivered in 2023 via VR for students across two music performance subjects to down-regulate performance anxiety and improve focus and resilience, representing a fundamental innovation in curriculum delivery beyond the traditional dichotomy of face-to-face and online learning. While we have chosen to deeply understand the experiences of music performance students, our research has the potential to inform wellbeing interventions in broader performance contexts.
6 December: Health promotion for First Nations communities through applied theatre
Kamarra Bell-Wykes & Sarah Woodland
The Score is a participatory model for sexual health education and promotion aimed at young people in First Nations communities in Australia. The model brings Indigenous knowledges and cultural practices into conversation with applied and educational theatre to facilitate a creative, culturally safe, stigma free space for exploring sexual health and healthy relationships. An update to the CAWRI lunchtime webinar in 2022, Kamarra and Sarah will share the outcomes from The Score, which was produced by ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and delivered in communities over 2022-2023.
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