Arts and Health Witness Seminar

Notes and documentation relating to the Art for Health Witness Seminar which took place at Wellcome Trust on 14 June 2016. Contains details of the participants list, participants' statements, programme, invitation, AV recording and transcript.

The Witness Seminar sought to bring together people who had made key contributions to arts in health policy, practice and research since the 1970s and to provide a space for discussion and debate. All participants were invited to contribute a short text for inclusion in the library's collection summarising their perspectives on the role of arts and health practice. The event was chaired by The Rt Hon. the Lord Howarth of Newport and was structured around presentations from ten key witnesses: Professor Gary Ansdell; Dr Langley Brown; Alison Clough; Rev Lara Dose; Gina Levete; Professor Jane Macnaughton; Professor John Wyn Owen; Clive Parkinson; Professor Fiona Sampson and Peter Senior.

14 June 2016

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The Arts and Health Witness Seminar and the Mike White Memorial Lecture took place at the Wellcome Trust and the Wellcome collection respectively on 14 June 2016. The two events were jointly organised by the Wellcome Library and the National Alliance for Arts, Health & Wellbeing to celebrate UK arts in health practice and research and to mark the Wellcome Library's commitment to documenting the social and cultural contexts of health.

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