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BSG Creative Ageing SIG Symposia 2024
03/07/2024
Creative Ageing SIG (1) – Creative citizenship through artistic endeavour
Wednesday 3 July 2024 13:15-14:45
There is growing recognition of the value of creative self-expression as we age. The representation of older people in the creative and cultural landscape has also begun to provide a platform for challenging negative stereotypes surrounding ageing, presenting older age as a time for artistic brilliance and new creative ventures, as well as providing a means for greater social connectedness through shared creative endeavours. This interdisciplinary symposium, brought together and chaired by the BSG Creative Ageing SIG, brings together older creatives, artists, and researchers to explore the role of creative citizenship in showcasing practices that centre the experiences of older people through theatre, multi-arts participation, and song writing.
The papers represented in this symposium include reflections on why art is essential to the understanding of ageing; the process of developing shame resilience through providing alternative perspectives on ageing; the more-than-verbal ways the arts can facilitate voice; and the role of creative performance in facilitating a life-long appreciation of the arts. Through these presentations we will explore the notion of creative citizenship and the implications for practice, research, and policy.
Creative Ageing SIG (2) – Creativity in the everyday lives of older people: embodied and sensorial experiences
Wednesday 3 July 2024 16:30-18:00
Creativity within the lives of older people is often explored and understood through interventions, the delivery of creative programmes, and the provision of cultural activities. The framing of creativity as an activity and something to be facilitated and delivered, can limit the ways in which we consider creativity in older people’s everyday lives. As literature on everyday creativity details, creativity takes many different forms and occurs beyond traditional forms of creative practice. Repositioning creativity as inherent to people’s everyday lives allows us to explore the rich and diverse ways in which older people are creative.
This interdisciplinary symposium, brought together and chaired by the BSG Creative Ageing SIG, brings together artists and researchers to explore the role of creativity in older people’s lives. The papers present rich in-depth research collected through a range of creative research methods to demonstrate the sensory and embodied ways in which older people engage with creativity in their homes, gardens, and in care settings. In doing so these papers illuminate the embodied and sensorial worlds of older people to expand understandings of creativity in people’s everyday lives.
