Phoenix—Metaphor for New Life and Contrasting Emotions by Hannah McKimm

FRONTIERS—SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14th, CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

8:30 – 9:30 am Registration (Refreshments)               

9:30 – 10:15am Welcomes, Introduction and History of All Ireland Collaboration

Welcome from Conference Curators Angie O’Brien, Siobhan Bereen, Pamela Whitaker, Eileen McCourt, Anne Marie Walker and Laura Smith.

Recorded welcome to Frontiers Conference and Convocation Participants from Professor Mary McAleese.

Welcome from Dr. Niamh Ann Kelly, Head of Art and Visual Culture, School of Art and Design TU Dublin.

Welcome from Eileen McCourt, Border Crossings, A history of collaboration and co-creation between the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists, the British Association of Art Therapy and the Northern Ireland Group for Art as Therapy

Liam Plant (Art Therapist) and Katie Woollet (Dramatherapist), Founding Members of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists. Beginnings: Early Creative Arts Therapists Meetings at St. Brendan’s Hospital.

10:15 – 11:15 am Keynote Speaker, Dr. Nisha Sajnani, Associate Professor and Director, Drama Therapy Programme, New York University

11:30 – 12:30 am Presentations (Participants to Choose One Presentation)

Nicola Kealy, Mining for Clarity: An Arts Based Narrative Inquiry into Women in Ireland’s Experience of Perimenopause

Claire Flahavan, Time Lived Without its Flow: Working Therapeutically with Pregnancy Loss

Michelle Dunne, When Words are not Possible: How Art Becomes Another Language in a Medical Setting

Hannah McKimm, Metaphor as a Bridge: Uniting Art Therapy and Brainspotting in Relational Trauma Work

Marianne Adams, Revisioning the Triangle: Therapeutic Presence and Attunement

Katie Fitzpatrick, Setting up a Music Therapy Service for Pain Management in the University of Limerick Hospitals Group

Rebecca O’Connor, Shane Cassidy, Louise Quinn, Dee Gray, Utilising a Quality Improvement framework and extensive research studies to develop an integrated Creative Arts Therapy Service within a specialist rehabilitation interdisciplinary programme at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dublin.

Gerry Lee, Neuroscience Made Simple: Art Therapy and a Trauma Informed Care Framework for Schools

12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Afternoon Workshops  (Choice of Two Workshop Slots OR One All Afternoon Workshop with Rachael Johnson)

1:30 – 4:50 pm Afternoon Workshop (Full Afternoon Workshop)

Rachael Johnston, Neurosequential Bottom-Up Approach to Trauma Repair

1:30 – 3:00 pm Afternoon Workshops (Participants to Choose One Workshop in this Time Period )

Jenny Slater and Anne Marie Walker, Working in the Dark: Cyanotypes, Anthrotypes, Photograms

Bernadette Divilly and Anna Fiona Keogh, Breathing Bodies

Maggie O’Neill and Rowena Keaveny, Exploring Your Publishing Potential with Polyphony

Adrienne Cassidy, Rebalancing Workshop: Embodiment and Self Care

3:20 – 4:50 pm Afternoon Workshops (Participants to Choose One Workshop in this Time Period)

Border Crossings with Eileen McCourt, Caryl Sibbett, Liam Plant, Janet O’Hagan, Dave Stewart, Suzie Cahn, Deirdre Ni Argain, Maeve Dunne

Joanne Boal, Art Journaling: Life Stories on Paper

Bobby Lloyd and Miriam Usiskin, Art Refuge, MTU and UU Art Therapy Trainees, The Community Table

Áilbhe hEidhin/Hines, Potential Spaces in Virtual Places

5:05 – 5:50 pm Plenary and Interactive Closing

POST CONFERENCE DINNER

6:30 pm Post Conference Dinner at Blas Cafe located at The Chocolate Factory (cost to be paid by participants). Please contact p.whitaker@ulster.ac.uk if you would like to make a booking.

Since 2014, Blas has proudly served Dublin with a delightful array of specialty coffees, teas, breakfasts, lunches, and brunches. We prioritise using locally produced and seasonal goods. Blas is on the ground floor of Dublin’s first-ever concrete building and provides a comfortable and inspirational environment.

The Blas Cafe is located in the Chocolate Factory which houses a collection of creative residents with specialities in a variety of disciplines, including urban art, up-cycling, fashion photography, product design, fine art illustration, horticulture, fine jewellery, felt crafts, events, music, martial arts and more.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 15th, TOUR AND STUDIO VISIT TO THE IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

12:00 PM Meeting at IMMA Reception Desk.

We are delighted that 20 participants of the all-Ireland Creative Arts Therapies/Arts Therapies conference will have a chance to receive a tour of Howardena Pindell’s exhibition and an opportunity to create in one of the IMMA studios.

Please contact Pamela Whitaker, p.whitaker@ulster.ac.uk if you are interested in attending. There is no cost for this event.

Photo Credit: IMMA, Photo of Howardena Pindell.