How can the arts contribute to our emotional health?
As you may be aware, this week Northern Stage begins a residency with international artist Wang Qingsong. Qingsong is visiting us from China, to create a new photographic work exploring the notion of pain and healing, and theatre as a cathartic experience. The work involves 300 local participants being made up to look ill and bloodied, like a scene on a hospital ward, and will be exhibited at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art from 21st October to 24th November.
Qingsong arrives this evening, and as part of this residency and exciting new project, Northern Stage is holding an in-depth discussion tomorrow on Friday 12th September at 18:30, here in Stage 2, ‘How can the arts contribute to our emotional health?’ In the developed world where self-help is big business, mental illness affects someone in almost every family and happiness is hard to define, let alone sustain, what role do the Arts have in promoting and improving our emotional health? Wang Qingsong, during his residency at Northern Stage, has suggested that the theatre is or can be a place of emotional healing, with something important in common with a hospital. Our panel discussion will ask if this is a view of theatre we recognise, whether poetry, fine art, dance, film, music or architecture can make us "emotionally well". This is also an opportunity for you to share your views and gain an insight into this extraordinary residency.
Professor Paul Younger, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Engagement) at Newcastle University will be chairing the debate. The panel is made up of Erica Whyman, a theatre director and Chief Executive of Northern Stage, Dr Dominic Slowie GP and Artistic Director of Operating Theatre, a company which applies theatre practice to medical and public health learning, and Mike White, Director of Arts in Health at CAHHM, who has been awarded a fellowship of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts to research community-based arts in health and build national/international links in this field. We also hope to welcome Wang Qingsong to our discussion to give his views on why he chose this topic for his new photographic work, kindly translated by his wife and working partner Zhang Fang.
We very much hope that the discussion will be of interest to you, and that you can come along and join us for this free event.
Places can be booked/reserved through our box office on 0191 230 5151.
We hope to see you there.
Qingsong arrives this evening, and as part of this residency and exciting new project, Northern Stage is holding an in-depth discussion tomorrow on Friday 12th September at 18:30, here in Stage 2, ‘How can the arts contribute to our emotional health?’ In the developed world where self-help is big business, mental illness affects someone in almost every family and happiness is hard to define, let alone sustain, what role do the Arts have in promoting and improving our emotional health? Wang Qingsong, during his residency at Northern Stage, has suggested that the theatre is or can be a place of emotional healing, with something important in common with a hospital. Our panel discussion will ask if this is a view of theatre we recognise, whether poetry, fine art, dance, film, music or architecture can make us "emotionally well". This is also an opportunity for you to share your views and gain an insight into this extraordinary residency.
Professor Paul Younger, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Engagement) at Newcastle University will be chairing the debate. The panel is made up of Erica Whyman, a theatre director and Chief Executive of Northern Stage, Dr Dominic Slowie GP and Artistic Director of Operating Theatre, a company which applies theatre practice to medical and public health learning, and Mike White, Director of Arts in Health at CAHHM, who has been awarded a fellowship of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts to research community-based arts in health and build national/international links in this field. We also hope to welcome Wang Qingsong to our discussion to give his views on why he chose this topic for his new photographic work, kindly translated by his wife and working partner Zhang Fang.
We very much hope that the discussion will be of interest to you, and that you can come along and join us for this free event.
Places can be booked/reserved through our box office on 0191 230 5151.
We hope to see you there.
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