‘This is the only way to bring out the isolated lost souls to join others, to remember how and what they have contributed to the world.’ Music in Mind/Music café participant living with dementia
Join us for a Music Café, run by world-class chamber orchestra, Manchester Camerata. Come and experience what the Manchester Camerata musical director, Gábor Takács-Nagy, calls “the spiritual medicine of music”.
Manchester Camerata’s team of specially trained professional musicians and music therapists have been delivering its pioneering music therapy-based work Music in Mind to people with dementia in care homes since 2012. Its methodology of improvisatory ‘in the moment’ music-making has been developed and researched in partnership with Professor John Keady and Dr Robyn Dowlen at The University of Manchester. This relationship has spanned over a decade.
Camerata’s Music in Mind sessions (for care home residents) and Music Cafés (run on Music in Mind principles, aimed at people and their families in the community) create new music on every session, using musical improvisation techniques to help people connect with others in similar situations to them and helping to reduce loneliness and isolation that can often be brought about by someone needing constant dementia care, or for their families.
Manchester Camerata is now training community groups and professional carers to use music to help care for those with dementia via their new Music Champions scheme, which has been developed thanks to a major government grant, UK Research and Innovation Designed for Ageing.
Guardian reporter Helen Pidd commented that the Music Café ‘…was the most moving thing I’ve had the privilege of reporting on in quite a few years. Bravo to Manchester Camerata’. Read the full article here
Through attending this event you will:
experience a Manchester Camerata-led Music café, first hand
connect with like-minded people interested in Creativity, Health and Wellbeing
learn about ongoing University of Manchester research in Arts and Health
This event is hosted in collaboration with the Creative Manchester and Health Inequalities research platforms based at The University of Manchester, and Manchester Camerata.
Register:
This event is free and open to anyone working in, or interested in Arts and Health; creative practitioners, experts in public health, arts and health commissioners, GPs, nurses, health researchers, those working in libraries, art galleries, grassroots neighbourhood- based community organisations, theatres, galleries and universities. No music-making skills are necessary!
Places are limited, and therefore we ask you to ensure you can come before registering. If your plans change and you are no longer able to attend, we ask that you update your registration status.
Getting here:
Ellen Wilkinson building is based on Oxford Road, at the heart of The University of Manchester’s campus, and is building 77 on the Interactive map.
To get to the event space you can enter the building via the main double doors, and the room is situated on the first floor (accessible either by lift or stairs).
Find out more:
Manchester Camerata is a world-class chamber orchestra and registered charity based in The Monastery, Gorton, and has been playing in concert halls and venues both nationally and internationally for the last 50 years. Whether it’s providing vital music therapy for people living with dementia, training professional carers and running dementia Music Cafes as part of our Music In Mind programme, or empowering young people through creative music-making work in schools, bringing together communities through music is at the heart of what Manchester Camerata does.
Watch: a short, award-winning film ‘Untold: Keith’
Watch: short films including a BBC 1 documentary about the benefits of Camerata's Music in Mind work (until end November) https://manchestercamerata.co.uk/bbc-one-dementia-music-and-us/
Creative Manchester is an interdisciplinary research platform based at The University of Manchester. The platform champions research in creativity and creative practice, bringing together research communities with external stakeholders to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities. Please visit the website for more information about Creative Manchester.
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-cafe-music-in-mind-tickets-739267257267
