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August 14 through September 1, 1999, Eastern Europe Creativity, Spirituality and the Arts in Healthcare 7th International Conference
The 7th International "Exploration of Creativity" Conference will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania; St. Petersburg, Russia and Prague, Czech Republic this year. The focus is to advance the arts in Healthcare throughout developing countries of Eastern Europe.
May 13-16, 1999, Charleston, SC NAPT Conference
November 21, 1998, Philadelphia, PA
Arts-ticulation: Articulating Health Care needs of the Elderly through the Arts
This successful event was co-sponsored by and held at the Philadelphia County Medical Society offices at 2100 Spring Garden Street.
IAMA views the arts as powerful tools in communicating health care needs. We are embarking upon an innovative and creative new project - illustrating how the arts can and are used to articulate health care needs. Our first focus was the elderly and on November 21st, in Philadelphia, PA, IAMA coordinated and co-sponsored a symposium and a multimedia arts exhibit/performance illustrating the feelings of the elderly about the process of aging with its concomitant decline in functioning and health. Depictions of aging and illness occured through drawing and painting, sculpture, photography, music, dance, song, prose and poetry.
The Symposium Program:
Welcoming Remarks by Lawrence Robinson, MD, MPH, Deputy Health Commissioner, Philadelphis Department of Public Health
What the Great Artists Thought of Medicine and their Doctors by Philip Sandblom, MD (still impressive at age 95 and author of Creativity and Disease now in it's 11th edition)
The Health Care Needs of the Elderly by Todd Goldberg, MD
The Real Health Care Needs of the Elderly as Expressed Through the Arts by John Diamond, MD (author of many books)
Drama as Medium by Joy Coghill, CM, MFA, LLD, DLitt
Art as Medium (the art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton) by Don Lambert
Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Sheila Moriber Katz, MD, MBA (President of IAMA)
Performance Program:
Where've You Been (recording sung by Kathy Mattea)
Searching your Eyes of Time (performance piece by Sheila and Asher Zagar)
Green Winter (selected poems by Elise Maclay read by Joy Coghill)
Hob House (readings by the author, Tom Bostelle, via video)
Four pieces by Susan Burghardt-Diamond, soprano, accompanied by Peter Muir (piano)
Poetry, Ruth Scult reading from her own work
Driving Miss Daisy (excerpt)
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July 12-15, 1998, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
VIIth International Music Medicine (IMM) Symposium
The International Society for Music in Medicine (ISMM) will sponsored the first IMM conference to be held in the Pacific region at the University of Melbourne. IAMA and many other international organizations are in association with ISMM for the symposium. The conference goal is to present state of the art research and applications of music in medicine and discuss standards and definitions.
Contact the Convener, VIIth IMM Congress, Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Australia 61-3-9344-5346 (fax).
February 24-28, 1997 (past success)
Foundation for Hospital Art Paintarama - Baltimore, MD
Volunteers from IAMA participated. Pictures and Info (about 125K; 4 JPEG items)
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