The Caring Effect: Perspectives on Care

A conversation giving voice to care.

When: Friday 26 August, 2pm - 4pm
Where: Main Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Cost: FREE - bookings required

Artist Vic McEwan from The Cad Factory brings together practitioners in arts and health to offer an experiential exploration of caring. With participation from the Art Health Network, NSW and ACT, Murrumbidgee local Health district, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Black Dog Institute, and individual practitioners and carers, we draw you into a creative reflection on what is it to care, be caring and be cared for.

Program:

Welcome to Country

Talk: Vic McEwan and Dr Susan Coulson (Co-Founder of the Sydney Facial Nerve Clinic) – exploring care through the exhibition Face to Face:The New Normal

Presentation: Danielle Gullotta, Art Gallery of New South Wales and a representative from Murrumbidgee Local Health District

Video presentation: Aunty Lorraine Tye talking with Corrie Furner - a video conversation on experiences of being a carer

Activity: Michelle Jersky, Vic McEwan, Gail Kenning, Elaine Paton a participatory text-based art activity exploring individual understandings of care through poetry, digital projection and images