With technology these days you can give a voice to visual imagery by animating what was once static. This is a Bayeux Tapestry depicting a part of French history. There would be much to say on interpretation but that would ruin the fun.
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What is different about working with difference?
February 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
ARC CONFERENCE ‘What is different about working with difference?’ 27 April 2007 10am – 4pmVenue: Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London (opposite Euston Station)
The Art Therapy Race and Culture sub group of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) is holding a conference that aims to:
* Promote and foster inclusion within the art therapy profession.
* Explore different theoretical approaches for working with difference. Keynote speakers from diverse theoretical and cultural backgrounds will address how their particular theoretical approach makes a difference in working with difference.
Keynote speakers include: Camila Batmanghelidjh and Professor Di Waller Workshop leaders include: Marian Liebmann, Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq and Deirdre McConnell Through this conference we plan to
* Develop a theoretical and practical toolbox of approaches which art therapists will be able to use in their work settings.
* Influence the ways in which art therapy and equalities are addressed and taught in art therapy training institutions.
* Have a positive impact on practice and the development of the profession.
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Categories: Conferences · Europe · Training · UK
Art therapy for disease: Eurhythmy
January 23, 2007 · 1 Comment
DNA – Evolutions – Art therapy for disease: Eurhythmy – Daily News & Analysis
Art therapy for disease: Eurhythmy
UNI
Friday, January 19, 2007 15:42 IHYDERABAD: Music, dance, sculpture, painting, speech and movement can supplement medical treatment in different diseases.
This system, called eurhythmy, is being discussed at an International Post-Graduate Meeting and training session going on at the ICRISAT from January 14 to January 21.
Giving details, expert Dr Michael Clocker told media the new system, called Anthroposophical Medicine in medical parlance, seeks to find a common language in addressing issues of health and illness from different medical perspectives.
Dr Clocker said the training programme was being organised by the Indian Branch of the Anthroposophical Society, begun with the aim of promoting the system based on the teachings of Austrian Scientist Rudolf Steiner.
The system also aimed at integrating Indian Medical Branches like Homeopathy, Ayurveda and Yoga.
Anthrosophical Medicines had made significant changes in cancer therapy, children with special needs and education.
Dr Clocker said trainers from all over the world including doctors, physochologists, therapists; teachers and special educators had come together to share experiences and to train hundreds of Indian doctors.
Dr Peter Glosby of Mount Baker Waldorf Shool, said the system aimed at treating the body as well as the mind, soul and spirit. Drugs were prepared from substances taken from minerals, plants and the animal kingdom.
Dr Srinivasa Rao, well-known homeopath said the system was slowly gaining popularity.
Categories: Europe · health issues
Art Education Petition in Finland
June 13, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Adressi taideaineiden opetuksen puolesta
The education in arts in elementary school as well as primary- and
pre-school teacher training has been cut down during the past few years.
We regard arts as a fundamental part of all children’s education and do
not accept this trend.
Art education provides understanding of one’s senses, oneself and the
surrounding world. In today’s media culture this is more important than
ever. We want to believe in a school that cares for the entire
personality with uncompromised integrity.This petition will be handed over to the Ministry of Education, the
Finnish National Board of Education, and the Parliament of Finland with
in order to initiate a debate on the status of art education.
Girls record their lives through visual imagery
June 6, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Cayman Net News:
Girls record their lives through visual imagery
Girls record their lives through visual imageryMonday, June 5, 2006
From the Visual Diary of Melissa Dilbert,
Caledonian’s
National Gallery Art Outreach Programme, Frances
Bodden Girls HomeStudents at the Frances Bodden Girls Home have been working on Visual Diaries for the past three weeks. The initiative is part of the Caledonian Art Outreach programme which is run at the home by the National Gallery under the instruction of Kushana Gentles, Education and Outreach Officer from the Gallery.
“This exercise is a great way to express oneself without words,” Ms. Gentles explained.
“The girls were a bit reluctant at first with many saying ‘I am not sure what to draw’ but soon got into the exercise and were able to come up with some interesting images.”
A journal without words, the images depict things from the past, like the death of a loved one, or the way that they felt at a particular moment, and upcoming events in their lives like graduation, and future hopes and fears.
David Walker, Managing Director of Caledonian Bank and Trust Limited which sponsors the programme said the bank was pleased to be involved.
‘Caledonian is delighted to sponsor the arts in the Cayman Islands and is especially pleased to continue to support the National Gallery’s outreach initiative which tackles pressing social issues through art therapy.
Art Outreach Frances Bodden takes place at the home each Tuesday evening, throughout the school year.
Source: http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000025/002540.htm
Categories: Asia · Europe · therapeutic arts
Art therapy in Casablanca
June 6, 2006 · 1 Comment
Casablanca
French Institute hosts conference on art therapy
By Oumnia Guedda | Morocco TIMES 5/31/2006 | 5:03 pmThe Moroccan Jewish painter, André Elbaz, will preside on June 7 a conference hosted by the Casablanca French Institute on “Therapy by Art”.
One of André Elbaz’s works of art.
Ph: Archives.Art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses art-making and creativity to increase well being.
This approach helps people use art to overcome their illnesses, trauma or life challenges. It also helps some to reach personal development.
Through artistic creation and reflection on products and processes, people can increase awareness of themselves and others; cope with stress, and traumatic experiences; enhance cognitive abilities; and enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of making art.
The hypothesis of this definition is that the unconscious is not only a solicitation of blocking out but also a place of creative and generating potential.
The eminent painter, Elbaz, will give examples of this subject through his works of art.
André Elbaz, famous painter and filmmaker, was born in El Jadida in 1932. He studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961.The artist is one of the pioneers of modern painting in Morocco.
He started painting at the age of 21. Few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, invented together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, a therapeutic approach by painting and theatre which brought him international recognition.
Source: http://www.moroccotimes.com/Paper/article.asp?idr=49&id=15127
Categories: Europe · therapeutic arts
Conference Arts in Society
February 3, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Call for papers: Arts as therapy
Edinburgh, Scotland August 2006International Conference on the Arts in Society
Overall Theme 2006: ARTS OF ENGAGEMENT
‘Arts of Engagement’ emerged as this year’s conference theme as a broad way to think about how to link interdisciplinary forms of creative expression with social action and meanings. On the world stage, global systems of exchange and production are calling old structures into question, and forcing a re-evaluation of art world creations�hybridized, appropriated, traveled. As the visionaries of alternative ways of seeing and self-expression, artists and their works speak loudest to the pressing needs for social change, peace and justice, often paying a high personal and professional price for doing so. Addressing the broad themes below, we invite proposals from any one or combination of conference themes that bring the arts into contact with particular social and cultural flows.
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