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Within A Forest Dark

Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: A two day research workshop, leading to an experimental performance, was held in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Sussex. It explored the experience of transition into a care home towards the end of life, and how the challenges of this new world can be expressed through music and words. Co-devised by Prof Jackie Cassell, Prof Ed Hughes and theatre maker Peter Cant. Music by Ed Hughes. Libretto by Peter Cant. Directed by Peter Cant. The workshop involved professional and amateur musicians with personal experience and knowledge of care homes, dementia and scabies at the end of life. We want to develop this work into a participatory musical experience focussing on the common yet hidden experiences of dementia, and of outbreaks of infection in care homes for the frail elderly. We hope to explore how the forms of narrative and music can be used to understand and address these existential challenges of closed communities, from multiple perspectives. Supported by The Research Opportunities Fund (University of Sussex) The Brighton and Sussex Medical School The Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts Workshop performance 25 July 2017 Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts. Video produced by the creative team. Screened on 8 November 2022 as part of ESRC Festival of Social Science organised by Dr Gem Aellah, Research Fellow with the Social Science for Stigmatising Skin Diseases Foundation.
Source: Figshare
Authors: Ed Hughes (4461730), Peter Cant (19461262), Jackie Cassell (381367)
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7062927448
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