Kyoto University

27 & 28 May 2026

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Nordic Art Therapy Conference

21.-24.5.2026 Tampere, Finland

Conference organized by Art Therapy Advisory Board Taideterapia-alan neuvottelukunta Taiten ry.

“The Transforming Potential of Art and Imagination”, focuses on the importance of imagination in facilitating art therapeutic change.  The human ability to imagine creates bridges between the past and the future enabling us to understand development and transformation across time. Imagination is also central to mentalization and our ability to deeply understand the experiences of other people and living beings.

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How do museums demonstrate care – for volunteers, staff, visitors and the communities they engage with? Join museum and health professionals, creative health practitioners and those working at the intersection between health and creativity.

Be inspired, connect with other people working to develop creative health projects in museums, pick up practical ideas (big and small), and hear how others have considered or attended to people’s needs through ‘care-ful’ practice.

Thurs Apr 30, 10 am–4:00 pm

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We know that creativity and culture are essential parts of a healthy society. But what now? What needs to happen at a personal, organisational, and political level to bring creativity and health together and cultivate change?

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09/11 – 12/11/2023

10.00 – 19.00

Can art be an ally of the medical sciences? How can museums and other cultural actors contribute to health and well-being? How can creativity contribute to innovation in health?

Using a transdisciplinary approach, this international conference aims to share and reflect analytically and critically on the practices that are at the intersection between art and medicine. Through dialogue between professionals and researchers from different countries and disciplinary fields – from medicine, nursing, and neuroscience to imaging in medicine and microbiology, as well as art, design, and architecture – the aim is to open a debate on the present, but also to look towards the future, seeking to understand how art and science, two areas of knowledge often considered as distinct, can be combined and contribute to change and to a better quality of life.

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EFAT CONFERENCE 2023

Thursday 15th –  Saturday 17th June 2023​
Art Academy of Latvia / Rīga Stradiņš University

https://whova.com/web/NsB7g6sgYlNtynEYwzIOUc3J2NZ%40id%40wou7T8cMkUWc%3D/

(Edited by Helen Jury and Ali Coles, Jessica Kingsley Publishers)

Online book launch

Thursday 13th October 2022

7.30 – 8.30pm GMT+1 via Zoom

Please join us to hear about innovative and exciting art psychotherapy work from around the globe, meet the contributors, ask questions, and celebrate with us. Speakers include Dr Girija Kaimal (President, American Art Therapy Association), Helen Jury and Ali Coles (book co-editors), and chapter authors.

To register for this free event, please click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlceCtpjsjEtCwqfVtwnMJwyjT4Efn1Zxr You will then be sent joining instructions nearer the time

Museums and the futures we want: https://museumguide2020.ru/en#concept

“Museums as Therapeutic Resources” chaired by Nana Zhvitiashvili: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ZIcPaGqQg

UC Davis Health, Crocker Art Museum seek participants for new online study

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