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When Words Fail: Journeying alongside dementia through art and metaphor

  • The Substation 45 Armenian Street Singapore 179936 (map)
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26 November 2020 (Thu)
7pm–9pm
Online workshop on Zoom 
Pay as you wish (Register via Eventbrite)

In the wake of the pandemic, many of us are struggling with “not being able to go back” to the normal we once knew. For Persons Living with Dementia (PLD), this is part of a reality that they face every day. How do we move forward in time and space when our personal and collective memories have become fragile and fragmented?

Join art therapists-artists Lee Sze-Chin, Ng Jue Ann and Karen Koh as they introduce the art of life journals (using an origami book format) to capture PLD’s journey of living with dementia. Learn about how this documentation method helps to preserve memories, document the present, and express hopes and wishes for the future. Workshop participants will also get the opportunity to be part of a virtual exhibition in January 2021.

This programme is part of "we are not going back, we are coming around", The Substation's programme for Proposals for Novel Ways of Being.

Earlier Event: 26 November
Hereafter
Later Event: 28 November
Hereafter: Artist in Zoom Conversation