Thursday, June 5, 2014

Fwd: Rye Music for Wellbeing Day Saturday 19 July

 

 

 

The Music Well in association with the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University presents:

 

Music for Wellbeing and Health

 

Rye Studio School, Rye, East Sussex

Saturday 19 July, 11am-3pm

£10 contribution including lunch and refreshments

 

Come along and hear about the work of The Music Well,

Rye’s very own music for wellbeing and music therapy service.

Learn about the value of music across the whole of our lives

in supporting wellbeing and health.

 

10.30     Coffee

11.00     Welcome by the Music Well Singing for Wellbeing Group

11.10     Wellcome from Niki Stuart, Music Well Director

11.15     Giorgos Tsiris provides a critical introduction to music therapy drawing from his work in

end-of-life care and his research in the field

12.00     Jon Fever, Music Well music therapist on music therapy with children and young people,

joined by Chantelle to talk about her own experience of music therapy

12.30     Lunch, with music from the Rye Ukulele Band

1.30        Dr. Trish Vella-Burrows and Professor Stephen Clift show films on the value of singing

to support people with respiratory illness and Parkinson’s

2.15        Dr. Maria Varvarigou talks about her research on the value of community music for the third and four ages

3.00        Close with tea

 

Special guest speakers

 

Giorgos Tsiris, Nordoff-Robbins and St. Christopher’s Hospice

Dr. Maria Varvarigou

Canterbury Christ Church University

 

To book a place please contact Liz Butt, lizbuttrye@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

Stephen Clift FRSPH

Professor of Health Education

Department of Health, Wellbeing and the Family

Faculty of Health and Social Care

Canterbury Christ Church University

North Holmes Road

Canterbury

Kent CT1 1QU

UK

+44 (0)1227 767700

 

Director

Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health

The Block

69 Tontine Street

Folkestone

Kent CT20 1JR

UK

+44 (0)1303 220870

http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/index.asp

 

Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

 

Honorary President, Singing Hospitals International Network, Germany

 

Executive Co-Editor, Arts & Health, an International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice

Published by Taylor & Francis in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Arts and Health

 

Editorial Board, Perspectives in Public Health

Published by Sage for the Royal Society for Public Health

 

Follow me on Twitter: @StephenClift