engage East Area Group Meeting
Monday 21 March 2016, 1.00-4.00pm
Cambridge University Botanic Garden  

Drawing On Experiences: Art programmes for people living with dementia or living in care homes engage East Area Reps invite members and regional colleagues to an Area Group meeting at the University Botanic Garden in Cambridge on Monday 21 March from 1-4pm. The focus of the meeting will be arts programmes for older people and people living with dementia.

The Fitzwilliam Museum Learning Team will give a presentation on the Museum’s Portals to the World programme. This is an art appreciation course which is run in partnership with dementiaCOMPASS and has been created for people living with dementia and their care partners.

Jevan Watkins Jones and Georgina Salmon will discuss Jevan’s artist residency in Dunmow. Georgina runs the Dunmow Gardening Club for people living with dementia on behalf of the local Alzheimer's Society. She is a trained social worker and runs training courses for Care Workers on working with people living with dementia. Jevan has been working with Georgina and the group as a part his Arts Council England and Essex County Council funded programme in Great Dunmow, Essex. The project is enabling Jevan to adapt and develop his dialogistic drawing practice. It is an approach he first developed when working with injured soldiers at the Chavasse VC House, Personal Recovery Centre, Colchester Barracks when he was Associate Artist at Firstsite. The programme in Great Dunmow has been organised by Catherine Mummery and High Stile Projects.

Felicity Plent, Head of Education at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, will outline the programmes they run with a local care home.

Following presentations the meeting will open up for discussions. Jevan will also lead an arts activity in the gardens. The afternoon will conclude with tea and further reflections on the day.

The event should be of interest to colleagues who are thinking of developing work with older people or people living with dementia and will be an opportunity for us to gather and share information about good practice. We are keen to find and share examples of other programmes for people living with dementia or in care homes that are taking place in galleries in the East.  

To book your place and for further information contact engage  East Rep Catherine Mummery on catherinemummery@btinternet.com.

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