Programme
Please be aware that some workshops involve settings or materials that include anatomical and pathological specimens.
Day 1: Monday 16 March, St Bartholomew Hospital (Barts), West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE
Throughout the Festival:
Lungs Off by Thomas D. Wright in the Henry VII Room, North Wing
The Painted Patient by Thomas D Wright and Pulse and Anarchy in the Organism by Rob Godman in the Patterson Ross LT
09.30 Registration (West Wing)
10.00 Welcome and musing conversations. West Wing Barts (William Palin and Giampaolo Martinelli)
10.30 Short presentations:
Art and Medicine (Joel Katz)
Sustaining Clinicians/Sustaining Care (Megan Tjasink)
Flourishing Spaces (Louise Younie)
11.20 Panel discussion
11.40 Break
12.00 Workshops I (parallel sessions)
1. Create, Destroy, Transform (Megan Tjaskink and Christine Bentley): Robin Brook Centre, Bainbridge Room
Experience using arts-based methods to support emotional processing, reduce emotional exhaustion, and strengthen relational and reflective capacities.
2. Artopsy (Kate Jarman, Giampaolo Martinelli, Vincenza Ferrara): Barts Health Archive
Draw inspiration from some of the intriguing images from the Barts Health Archive as a stimulus for imagining health histories.
3. Curious Bodies: From Specimen to Story (Joel Katz and Tori Rhodes): Barts Pathology Museum
Explore how careful observation can transform medical specimens into meaningful human narratives.
4. From Composition to Formulation: Poetry as Thinking Out Loud (Michael Stanley): Robin Brook Centre, Room 6
Work with words and ambiguity to use creative enquiry as a platform for flourishing in the clinical encounter.
13.30 Lunch (£10 voucher for 21West cafe, 21 West Smithfield, London EC1A 9HY)
14.15 Guest lecture, Prof. Charles Knight OBE (Chief Executive, St Bartholomew's Hospital): Robin Brook Centre, the Patterson Ross LT room
14.45 Workshops II (parallel sessions)
1. Create, Destroy, Transform (Megan Tjaskink and Christine Bentley): Robin Brook Centre, Bainbridge Room
Experience using arts-based methods to support emotional processing, reduce emotional exhaustion, and strengthen relational and reflective capacities.
2. Artopsy (Kate Jarman, Giampaolo Martinelli, Vincenza Ferrara): Barts Health Archive
Draw inspiration from some of the intriguing images from the Barts Health Archive as a stimulus for imagining health histories.
3. Curious Bodies: From Specimen to Story (Joel Katz and Tori Rhodes): Barts Pathology Museum
Explore how careful observation can transform medical specimens into meaningful human narratives.
4. From Composition to Formulation: Poetry as Thinking Out Loud (Louise Younie): Robin Brook Centre, Room 6
Work with words and ambiguity to use creative enquiry as a platform for flourishing in the clinical encounter.
16.30 Break (Poetry Pharmacy available till 18.30, North Wing)
17.00 Rotating workshops, 45 minutes (North Wing):
Augmented Reality: Hidden Diagnoses (Elmira Bagherzadeh), Henry VIII Room
Visual Thinking Strategies discussion with Hogarth (Joel Katz & Brooke Di Giovanni), North Wing Staircase
Humuments (Giskin Day), Treasurer’s Room
Where Hope Lives (Christine Bentley & Tori Rhodes), Treasurer’s Room
Sounding Bodies (Joanne Harries, singer & Sophie Gledhill, Violoncello), St Bartholemew the Less chapel
18.00 Rotating workshops, 45 minutes (North Wing):
Augmented Reality: Hidden Diagnoses (Elmira Bagherzadeh), Henry VIII Room
Visual Thinking Strategies discussion with Hogarth (Joel Katz & Brooke Di Giovanni), North Wing Stairs
Humuments (Giskin Day), Treasurer’s Room
Where Hope Lives (Christine Bentley & Tori Rhodes), Treasurer’s Room
Sounding Bodies (Joanne Harries, singer & Sophie Gledhill, Violoncello), St Bartholemew the Less chapel
19.00 Dinner in the Great Hall (piano, Oliver Martinelli)
Day 2: Tuesday 17 March, Guildhall Art Gallery in the morning (Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AE), Barts in the afternoon/evening (West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE)
09.30 Meet outside the Guildhall Art Gallery
10.00 Workshops III (parallel)
Enhancing Observation, Communication and Teamwork through the Visual Arts (Joel Katz and Brooke DiGiovanni Evans)
Touch&Making: Experiential sensory "studio" (Catherine Lamont-Robinson), Study Room
Shared Lines/Shifting Views (Christine Bentley, Tori Rhodes)
Seeing in Motion: Perception and the Thaumatrope (Elmira Bagherzadeh)
The Visual Response: Gallery-based reflective practice (Megan Tjasink , Giampaolo Martinelli)
11.15 Workshops IV (parallel)
Enhancing Observation, Communication and Teamwork through the Visual Arts (Joel Katz and Brooke DiGiovanni Evans)
Touch&Making: Experiential sensory "studio" (Catherine Lamont-Robinson), Study Room
Shared Lines/Shifting Views (Christine Bentley, Tori Rhodes)
Seeing in Motion: Perception and the Thaumatrope (Elmira Bagherzadeh)
The Visual Response: Gallery-based reflective practice (Megan Tjasink , Giampaolo Martinelli)
12.30 Lunch (Transition to Barts Hospital and lunch at West Wing)
It is a 15 minute walk from Guildhall to Barts Hospital, or Bus 100 will take you to within 5 minutes walk from both venues
14.15 Developing Innovations in the Medical Humanities: ArtMedDx (AMDx) & Bagatelle (Christine Bentley with AMDx Team & Bernard de Bono)
15.10 Roots and Shoots of the Human Dimension: A Collective Reflection (Louise Younie and Megan Tjasink)
16.30 Final musings (Giampaolo Martinelli)
17.00 Event close
19.00 Concert in the Great Hall: Key Changes: Medicine, Music, and Transformation. Performers include Mark Lee, Rob Godman, Elaine Chew and actor Seb Harcombe