Arts and Health Australia is convening an international arts and health conference, The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, at the Glasshouse Arts Conference and Entertainment Centre, in Port Macquarie, NSW, from 10 to 13 November 2009, with specialized pre-conference workshops from 7 – 10 November.
Arts Access Australia is a conference partner. The Conference will explore best practice policy, programs and research across primary care, community health, healthcare promotion and medical humanities.
Confirmed speakers include:
Clive Parkinson Director, Arts for Health, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Susan Perlstein Founder and Director of Education, National Center for Creative Aging, Washington DC and founder Elders Share the Arts, New York
Paula Terry BS, Director, Office for AccessAbility, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC
Mike White M.Phil, MA Senior Research and Development Fellow in Arts in Health, Centre for Medical Humanities and St Chad’s College, University of Durham, UK and author of the newly published book ‘Arts Development in Community Health: a social tonic’:
http://www.artsandhealth.org/public/pdf/DMWHITE09.pdf
Naj Wikoff Fulbright Senior Specialist and President Emeritus of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, Washington DC