AGO SEMINARS – “Art Is Patient” February 2023January 9, 2023
Art is Patient seminar series People are complicated. Art is difficult. They’re both challenging: often opaque and multi-layered and labels really tell us? As clinicians or as viewers, how do we approach and understand these layered hard to read. […]
Staging Medicine in collaboration with Tarragon Theatre Presents: Readers Theatre and Writing SeminarDecember 19, 2022
Explore the role of ‘The Healer’ through a series of classic and contemporary plays such as: King Lear (Shakespeare), Truth (Rosa Laborde), Indian Act: Residential School Plays (Donna-Michelle St. Bernard), 4.48 Psychosis (Sarah Kane), […]
Art is Patient seminar seriesNovember 28, 2022
People are complicated. Art is difficult. They’re both challenging: often opaque and multi-layered and hard to read. People and artworks can show up with their labels front-and-centre, but what do labels really tell us? As clinicians or as viewers, […]
ARTS AS RESEARCH ZOOM SEMINARS 🗓September 14, 2022
Arts as Research is a series of 2 sessions (1 Fall, 1 Winter) exploring arts-based research methodologies and their value in healthcare. […]
Health Narratives Research Process (HeNReP)August 31, 2022
The Heath Narratives Research Process (HeNReP) is a free, non-credit, open-discipline, non-hierarchical process that has been offered in association with the Health, Arts and Humanities Program of the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Toronto since 2015 as the Health Narratives Research Group (HeNReG) from the first week in October to the last week in April. […]
Fall Term 2022: ART IS PATIENT at the AGO 🗓August 26, 2022
People are complicated. Art is difficult. They’re both challenging: often opaque and multi-layered and hard to read. People and artworks might show up with their labels front-and-centre, but what do labels really tell us? […]
April 6, 2022 – Mentoring and Editing in Poetry 🗓March 7, 2022
Mentoring and Editing in Poetry: An Hour of Reading and Conversation between Tolu Oloruntoba and Jim Johnstone […]
Comics for science translation lecture Tuesday Feb 22nd 🗓February 21, 2022
Interested in how to expand the impact of your scientific findings to a larger audience? Wondering how to communicate your research to policymakers, patients, and beyond? […]
Health Humanities event: the poetry of psychosis 🗓October 25, 2021
The Poetics of Psychosis: Join us with poet Khashayar Mohammadi, drawing on his experiences with psychosis, and poet-physician Bahar Orang, drawing on her psychiatry training, for an integrated discussion on poetry and medicine as they relate to medical cultures and discourses of psychosis. […]
ARTS AS RESEARCH-LEARNING ARTS-BASED METHODS 🗓October 15, 2021
Arts-based research (ABR) is the use of artistic practice, such as theatre or photography, as a means to collect, analyze, and communicate research (Leavy, 2015). […]