Hear about ways the creative arts are influencing health and medicine, and have your say. The event comprises a talk by visiting speaker, Nicolas Salazar Sutil, refreshments, plus a series of short provocations from University of Sheffield researchers followed by discussion.
Programme:
4pm-5pm Medical Humanities Research Seminar: "What is inside movement: understanding motion soft and hard" (HRI Seminar Room)
Digital dance and theatre practitioner and scholar, Nicolas Salazar Sutil, discusses how somatic and imaginational aspects of movement can be understood within a creative practice context. Nicolas Salazar Sutil (Academic Fellow, University of Leeds) is a movement researcher, trained in the Laban-Malgrem system of movement psychology (a movement based system for actors, therapists and educationists). As a creative researcher, he works with artistic associates often under the name of Con8, an artistic collaborative working with movement as creative medium. He is the author of the books Motion and Representation (MIT Press 2015) and Digital Movement (co-edited, Palgrave 2015)
5pm-5.15pm refreshments
5.15pm-6.15pm HRI Catalyse Provocations: "What can the creative arts do for health and medicine?" (HRI Conference Room)
Interested in the impact the Arts can have on health and medicine? Come and join Dr Nicolas Salazar Sutil (Digital Dance and Theatre), Dr Victoria Williamson (Music), Prof Brendan Stone (English), and Vicky Grant (University Library), chaired by Dr Annamaria Carusi (Medical Humanities/Philosophy), for provocations, debate and discussion over a glass of wine.
Free event run by the Humanities Research Institute - Sheffield's Centre for Collaborative Research in the Arts and Humanities - in collaboration with the Medical Humanities Research Centre.
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