Senses and Emotions in the National Health Service (75th Anniversary Event)

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MORNING: EXHIBITION TOURS, UCL GREAT ORMOND STREET INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH
Tours of the ‘Sensing Spaces of Healthcare’ exhibition with curator Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith and contributing artists. This exhibition is a collaboration with GOSH Arts.
One-hour tours for small groups (up to 15 people) will take place at 10.00am and 11.30am.

Location: UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH

If you are joining the afternoon/evening events after the exhibition tour, there is time at this point in the schedule to get lunch at the Wellcome Collection café, or there are a number of other cafés in the area between GOSH and the Wellcome Collection.

AFTERNOON: ARTIST-LED WORKSHOPS, WELLCOME COLLECTION

Location: Franks & Steel Room, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2BE

1.30 - 2.00pm: Coffee provided at the Wellcome Collection, Dale Room.

2.00 - 3.00pm: Cecilia Charlton: Introduction to Bargello Embroidery.
In this workshop, Cecilia Charlton will explain some of the history behind traditional bargello embroidery and how it can be manipulated to create unique patterns. She will introduce participants to the bargello materials and explain that while the bargello technique has complex results, they are achieved through quite simple structures. The participants will be encouraged to experiment with the technique to discover their own individual modes of expression. Through collective sewing we can explore ideas of community and the nurturing, inclusive nature of textiles.

3.15 - 4.15pm: Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith: Mapping your Dream Hospital.
Join Becka to map your dream hospital environment. In this workshop, Becka will share one of the research methods developed during the Sensing Spaces of Healthcare project. She will invite people to create a speculative floor plan of their dream hospital. Becka will guide attendees through three steps to create their dream hospital floor plan. These steps replicated the approaches used to carry out creative research with NHS staff and patients during the Sensing Spaces of Healthcare project. To support sensory ways of working attendees will be given a range of materials, from illustrated paper resources to sensory objects and collage materials. At the end of the workshop each attendee will have created their own speculative hospital floor plan. This workshop might be of interest to anybody who wants to think in new ways about hospitals, or creative practitioners and researchers interested in exploring new methods.

4.30 - 5.30pm: Joanna Brinton: Reimagining the Archives
Join artist and printmaker Joanna Brinton, founder of Good Studio Risograph in a workshop using archive images from Great Ormond Street Hospital and beyond. Colour and create your own mini risograph publication inspired by the changing use of colour in the NHS. Joanna is particularly interested in the effect our environment has on our experience and has worked with GOSH staff to design and create large-scale window installations, a flag for the exterior of the hospital and even a garden for the Portering team.
The exhibition is being documented to make a short film about the event to be used in University and Hospital marketing and publicity. Those attending exhibition tours may be captured in the general shots of people viewing and engaging with the artwork. If you would rather not be included in the the film please make yourself known to Simone on the day who will make sure to avoid including you in the film. For terms and conditions, please follow this link.

5.30 - 6.00pm. Coffee provided at Wellcome Collection, Dale Room. The Wellcome Café is also open until 6pm – if you are staying for the evening after workshops, you may wish to use this time to get some food.

EVENING: PUBLIC TALKS, ROUNDTABLES & PERFORMANCES. HENRY WELLCOME AUDITORIUM, WELLCOME COLLECTION. The ‘Williams Lounge’ is also available as a quiet space or a break space during this time. If you want to move in and out of sessions you are welcome to but please do so at ‘changeover’ times to avoid interruptions.

Location: Henry Wellcome Auditorium, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2BE

6.00 – 6.10pm. Introduction and welcome
6.10 - 7.00pm. New histories of the NHS: senses, emotions & nostalgia roundtable. Agnes Arnold-Forster, Jennifer Crane, Saima Nasar. Chaired by Jennifer Crane
7.00 - 8.00pm. Migration and Memories of Hospital Staff. Young Historians Project (7.00-7.30) and Glenside Hospital Museum (7.30-8.00)
8.00 - 8.30pm. Comfort break, with light refreshments provided in the Williams Lounge.
8.30 - 9.15pm. Arts & Play in Children’s Hospitals: past, present future. Katherine Smith, performance: ‘Actions with Tin Cans’. followed by discussion with Katherine and representatives from Great Ormond Street Hospital arts and play teams. Chaired by Caroline Moore, GOSH Arts.
9.15 - 9.45pm. Angela Whitecross and Stephanie Snow: Voices of COVID-19 .
9.45 - 10.00pm. Closing comments, following by closing performance: Katherine Smith: ‘Walking on Tin Cans’