Songs of Resilience: the Promise and Possibilities of Arts, Digital Media and Well-being 2

Assoc Prof Barbara Adkins presents the 2nd of 3 presentations at a QUT Creative Industries Seminar series 12th July 2011.

Artistic practice plays a significant role in salutogenic and therapeutic heath strategies in public agencies, and non-profit organisations. Practitioners in this field range from artists employed as care workers to community workers contracted as artists to volunteers who donate their skills and resources.
The creative works they coproduce with clients are often highly effective but difficult to evaluate, and training in the field is itself a 'Choir of Hard Knocks'. A new edited collection of research titled Songs of Resilience marks a Brisbane based attempt to document innovative strategies in this field that relate
indicators of wellbeing to scientific constructs of resilience. This seminar will launch the book as part of a concerted attempt to compare the cultural nuances and common denominators of arts practice internationally. It will discuss what professional development (Post graduate) training and research is needed to support, enable and extend the value of arts-led approaches to well-being and examine the promise and possibilities of digital media for community development.

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Education

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• arts media social
• savetodisc
• well-being
• Health
• Music
• Songs of Resilience
• Barbara Adkins