Oxford Forum event
A Creative Transformation: a discussion event exploring creativity, the brain, mental health and making sense of lived experience.
When: 4.30pm 18 June 2024
Where: Garden Room, Stanford University Centre in Oxford, 65 High St, Oxford
No registration needed, all welcome
The session will include:
Film scenes that explore the creative process and hallucinatory world of Dr. Lorna Collins, an artist, researcher and expert by experience, who lives with the medical condition organic hallucinosis (caused by a traumatic brain injury).
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion about how art and creativity can express and make something tangible and illuminative from 'madness'.
Open floor conversation about art, mental health, sensory disturbances or non-consensus realities, and the effects of brain injury, with attendees.
The workshop is aimed at researchers, educators, academics, students and those interested in the brain, trauma, madness and creativity. The panelists are:
- Dr. Lorna Collins, artist, filmmaker, independent scholar
- Professor Paul Lodge, Mansfield College, University of Oxford
- Dr. Roxana Baiasu, University of Birmingham University of Oxford and Stanford University in Oxford
- Georgina Aasgaard, Music and Health Practitioner, University of Liverpool
For more information please visit acreativetransformation.org or email the Oxford Forum: theforumatoxford@gmail.com