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pic: The Centenarian Portrait Project by Teenagers, super-senior
Velta Ozols is presented her portrait by teenager Tilda Bylevel
The impact of intergenerational creative arts
storytelling - a panel discussion
The World Health Organization reports that one in two people hold ageist views, particularly against older people. In this interactive panel webinar, we explore how art challenges and helps to breaks these age stereotypes. Creatives and academics will reflect on how arts-based storytelling bridges generational gaps to foster understanding, sharing their experiences, insights, and learnings from creative intergenerational projects - including the impactful Centenarian Portrait Project by Teenagers.
In this highly interactive event, panellists will reflect on project origins, key challenges, predictions for the future, and offer words of wisdom. This event is organised by the AAG Creativity, Art, and Design (CAD) SIG, focussed on how participating, performing, creating, and making helps to positively transforms the experience of ageing.
- Be inspired from these arts-informed projects
- Develop practical and impactful strategies for implementing design and arts-based approaches into your research practice
- Opportunity to ask presenters questions about their own experiences
Our panellists:
Rose Connors Dance is the Creator of The Centenarian Portrait Project by Teenagers, an age-positive intergenerational arts program which over a five year period matched 465 teenage artists with 465 centenarians around Australia. Each pair was supported to connect and teenagers were tasked with immortalising their new-found muses in a portrait. This culminated in the creation of 465 portraits and 7 exhibitions; the finale exhibition featuring 100 portraits of 100 year old’s - with a selection of artworks from every State and Territory (www.embraced.com.au/centenarian-protrait-project).
Australian filmmakers John Winter & Ros Walker lead The 100 Project, which celebrates the lives and stories of Australia’s 100-year-olds (www.the100project.com). “Born when children rode horses to school, telephones were rare and penicillin didn’t exist”, The 100 Project aims to collect and share centenarian’s unique stories, in video form.
Dr Tricia King is a Lecturer in Photography and researcher in creative arts projects for wellbeing at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Across multiple projects, Tricia has focused on connecting older people with cameras, asking them to photograph their lives and the world around them. What emerged are images of authentic and insightful reflections on life as an older person and the connections, friendship and the appreciation of the environment.
Research Fellow, Dr Xanthe Golenko initiated an intergenerational storytelling program that uses creative arts to build connections across the generations. The program brings high school students together with older adults living in the community to participate in activities, workshops and performances in dance, slam poetry, music and visual art.
Evonne Miller is Professor of Design Psychology at Queensland University of Technology and Director of the QUT Design Lab, as well as Convenor of the AAG Creativity, Art, and Design (CAD) SIG. Evonne’s research centres on design for health, and she is a passionate advocate for participatory co-design, arts-based and knowledge translation approaches to understand, communicate, improve and re-design the experience of ageing.