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MONDAY 23 MARCH 2015

CHATTHEBIG

A day of discovery, including presentations, workshops, master

classes, performances and discussions, exploring what it means

to be older in modern society. Supported by Arts Mid North Coast.

Photo Ari Seth Cohen, “Advanced Style” documentary

Billy Project, Creature Tales, Tasmania. Photo: Rick Eaves

Artist Michael Bevitt with Eliza Purton Home resident, Carnival of the Here and Now. Photo Stephanie Finn

Old Skool intergenerational graffiti project, West Lothian, Scotland. Luminate Creative Ageing Festival 2013. Photo: Eoin Carey

Artist Beth McMahon engaging Tyler Village resident, Carnival of the Here and Now, Creature Tales, Tasmania. Photo: Stephanie Finn

John Waldron, Makeway Lab, Queensland

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The Big Chat will ask the questions posed by Dominic Campbell, former director, Bealtaine Creative Ageing

Festival in Ireland:

“What kind of old do you want to be?”

“What kind of world do you want to grow old in?”

Co-ordinator, Art and Alzheimer’s program, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra – presentation and workshop

Manager Day Respite Centres, Hastings District Respite Centre with Greta Warner, Workshop Drama Facilitator, Theatre for Memories, Port Macquarie, Theatre of Memories - using theatre to excite the imagination and memory for older people with dementia, in association with North Coast TAFE

Program Manager, Come Dance with Me, Queensland and Wendy Kudell, a member of the program designed for people living with dementia, supported by Alzhiemer’s Australia QLD – presentation and master class

Director, Creature Tales, Tasmania – an innovative arts and health company which creates programs for older people in the community and aged care facilities and general intergenerational community activities using the arts in an innovative way to improve health and wellbeing and have fun

Director, Australian Centre for Arts and Health, Port Macquarie - creative ageing from an international perspective

Co-ordinator, Hastings Macleay Clinical Network and General Manager, Port Macquarie Base Hospital – arts and health within a hospital environment

Artistic Director, Hastings Choristers and Bel Canto Choir – Music and singing for health and wellbeing

Community Development Manager, North, UnitingCare Ageing, ACT and NSW and Deborah Kuhn, Manager, Business Development & Service Improvement, Department of Family and Community Services, MNC - creative ageing within the North Coast Ageing Strategy

State Member for Port Macquarie - establishing dementia friendly communities including ‘Dementia Mates’, a pilot program for the NSW Government

Manager, ABC Radio Mid North Coast - MC for The Big Chat, drawing on his strong support for arts and health and creative ageing practice.

BlueSkyView Exhibition Curator of East Coast Encounter and Manager Makeway Lab which offers new technology ideas for hospitals in relation to mental health, oncology and stroke rehabilitation

Regional Arts Development Officer (RADO), Arts Mid North Coast - creative ageing in the regions

ADRIANE BOAG

JULIE DUNN & GRETA WARNER

BEV GILES & WENDY KUDELL

CHRIS MEAD

MARGRETMEAGHER

DR ROBERT PEGRAM

ROBYN RYAN OAM

ROMAYNE PAGE & DEBORAH KUHN

LESLIE WILLIAMS MP

CAMERON MARSHALL

JOHN WALDRON

KEVIN WILLIAMS

SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP PRESENTERS INCLUDE:

BOOKINGS: $39.00 PER PERSON INCLUDING REFRESHMENTS AND LUNCH. MONDAY 23 MARCH 2015, 9.30AM - 4.30PM, THE GLASSHOUSE VISIT WWW.GLASSHOUSE.ORG.AU, TELEPHONE 02 6581 8888

OR CALL INTO THE GLASSHOUSE

Place Making Facilitator, “I’ve got uke, Babe”, creative ageing program, Seniors Week 2015, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council

JULIE PRIEST

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