The Chair and Directors of Creative Dementia Arts Network (CDAN) would love you to join them for our special friends and supporters event at St Hugh's College Oxford on Tuesday 10 March 2020.
We shall be showcasing 10 years of CDAN’s achievements through workshops, performances, discussions, presentations and an unmissable literary lunch
The event, led by our Chief Executive, national experts and our FLOURISH alumni will focus on arts and dementia training for arts practitioners. Growing interest in arts for health as evidenced by the NHS investment in social prescribing means more demand for arts practitioners who have the requisite knowledge and skills to involve people living with dementia in the arts.
So do join us and learn more about FLOURISH: CDAN’s flagship training and professional development programme for arts practitioners and other professionals and care staff who use creative arts to engage with people with dementia.
Through FLOURISH CDAN has trained arts practitioners to work in care homes, day centres, extra care housing, museums and art galleries and we are now developing an arts and health FLOURISH as part of our new North Oxfordshire Arts Home from Hospital programme. Arts practitioners will be learning to engage patients with dementia on hospital wards and then connecting them to arts and activities following their discharge back into the community or into care homes.
Programme
9.45 Welcome to CDAN and FLOURISH
Workshops Delegates will be able to choose one morning and one afternoon workshop led by expert practitioners and FLOURISH alumni
• Dance with Rhonda Sparrey and Angela Conlan of Dance Creative, Dr Richard Coaten and Diane Amans
• Poetry with John Killick, Antosh Wojcik and Jane and John Spiro
• Music with Kate Wilkinson, CDAN Music Lead, Ben Heaney, National Health Music and 2 FLOURISH alumni TBC
• Visual Arts with Dr Lizzie Burns, Clare Carswell and FLOURISH alumni

A high point of the event is our Literary Lunch. Our speakers include our patron, Nicci Gerrard, journalist, campaigner and author of What Dementia Teaches Us About Love and Marianne Talbot, Director of Studies in Philosophy at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and author of Keeping Mum: Caring for someone with dementia. Here is a rare opportunity for engaging with our two wonderful speakers who will be reflecting their experience of care for a relative with dementia and the books they subsequently wrote.
There will be opportunities to network and to browse the JKP and Penguin book stands and exhibition stands offering information about arts and dementia. As always there will be ample space for you to bring and share information about your work.
Creative Dementia Arts Network positively welcome people living with dementia and their carers to the event; parking, support and a quiet room are available to enable you to enjoy the event. Please get in touch with CDAN info@creativedementia.org or 07801509993 to discuss your requirements
So whether you are professionally or personally interested in the transformational impact of the creative arts on the lives of people living with dementia, this inspirational and informative day, is a "must" for you. Do book now at our Early Bird rate to be sure of a place.