Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 12 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Good art can provoke, explore, or simply entrance. But can it also be good for your health? Can healthy (or healing) art be good art? Does it matter?
Art can be a powerful prescription for people of all ages, from troubled youth to the ailing elderly. We’ll look at whether art can be healthy by stealth, where the best bang for the buck lies, and how we make art for health alluring, rather than earnest.
Host Jerril Rechter, CEO of VicHealth will appear with Janet Morrison, CEO of Independent Age, Polyglot Theatre’s Sue Giles, and clown doctor Clare Bartholomew.
Featuring
Clare Bartholomew
Clare Bartholomew has been performing, writing and producing new work in Australia and overseas for 17 years. She teaches clown master classes, has been a clown doctor working in children’s wards for 15 years. She assists in training and development of clown doctors nationally, and in 2014 completed a three week intensive with 20 other international clown doctors in Barcelona.
Clare is also co-producer of the highly successful cabaret/comedy act Die Roten Punkte, a Berlin indie pop punk duo that has toured Australia and had 18 international tours since 2006. Her work has received seven Green Room Award nominations and winner of Best Cabaret.
Clare’s latest venture with bouffon group We3 resulted in The Long Pigs, which is being presented by the Sydney Festival in January 2015.
Sue Giles
Sue Giles has been artistic director of children’s contemporary arts company Polyglot Theatre since 2000. With the company she has created participatory works ranging from large-scale play spaces to theatre created with children at the centre of the art and art making. Polyglot’s work is recognised internationally as a leader in experimental, interactive and installation theatre for children
Janet Morrison
Janet Morrison is Chief Executive of Independent Age - a national advice, befriending and advocacy organisation in the UK for older people in need - which campaigns on issues affecting independence in old age, including health and social care, isolation and loneliness. Janet is also Chairman of the Baring Foundation, the principal philanthropic funding body for creative ageing initiatives in the UK.
Mike White
Mike White is an international authority on community arts and health practice and research. He is Director of Strategic Development at the Australian Centre for Arts and Health, the national not for profit peak body for the arts and health sector.
Based in the UK, Mike is the author of Arts Development in Community Health: a social tonic and the educational resource Guidelines for Artists working in a Healthcare Context.
Jerril Rechter
Jerril Rechter is the CEO of VicHealth. Her expertise lies in health promotion, leadership, and the potential of innovation to improve health and wellbeing for everyone.
She is a World Health Organization Advisor, a board member of the International Network of Health Promotion Foundations and has served on a range of national boards and committees for the arts and health.