arts and health | Michael Eades

Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: Engaging Socially Isolated People with Dementia

February 28, 2017 by michaeleades2014

Between August 2013 and June 2014 I was Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded research project called ‘Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: engaging socially isolated people with dementia’. On a basic level, this project aimed to take a peripatetic version of the Bloomsbury Festival, a community focussed arts festival in the heart of London, out to local residents living alone and with dementia. The idea here was to offer a chance for people to engage not just in the reception, but […]

Categories: Arts and Health, Festivals, Projects • Tags: ageing, arts and health, bloomsbury festival, dementia, Festivals, public engagement

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Festival in a Box: Archives Exhibition – Sept 2015

September 24, 2015 by michaeleades2014

Festival in a Box: Archives My exhibition ‘Festival in a Box: Archives’ is on display from 21 September to 30 November at the Leeds College of Art. The exhibition draws together selected texts, objects and artefacts from from the archives assembled during the AHRC-funded research project ‘Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: engaging socially isolated people with dementia’. Also on display are series of original photographs inspired by the contents of the archives. Between August 2013 and June 2014 the AHRC-funded research […]

Categories: Arts and Health, Exhibitions • Tags: archives, arts and health, bloomsbury festival, curating, dementia, exhibition, festival in a box, public engagement, surrealism

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Being Human Festival

June 28, 2015 by michaeleades2014

My main project at the moment is the Being Human festival of the humanities. I work on this in my professional capacity at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Being Human started life in 2014 as the first (and only) national festival dedicated entirely to the humanities. It offers a forum for people to engage with some of the best work that is being done in the humanities and encourages researchers across disciplines to find inspiring and fun […]

Categories: Festivals, Projects • Tags: archives, arts and health, Being Human Festival, Festivals, public engagement, school of advanced study, surrealism

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Boxes of Delight: Surrealism at 90 – Oct 2014

October 23, 2014 by michaeleades2014

In October 2014 I was invited to speak and deliver a workshop at the University of Edinburgh, organised by Dr Catriona Mcara as part of the Luminate Festival of Creative Ageing. This event followed on from my Bloomsbury Festival in a Box project, linking that research to Dr Mcara’s work on the memory boxes and other ‘heirloom’ works created by surrealist artists Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), and Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), each of whom worked into their nineties. Our […]

Categories: Arts and Health, Events, Festivals, Surrealism • Tags: ageing, archives, arts and health, public engagement, surrealism

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