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Local children take part in hoarding art project at site of new children’s hospital

Date posted: 10 August 2017

Image shown: L-R: Sisters Kelsey and Shannon Redmond from the Rialto Youth Project.

Children and young people from Dublin 8 are taking part in an art project that will see a section of the hoarding erected around the new children’s hospital transformed to a design of their creation. This is the latest initiative by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board to involve the local community in the development of the hospital.  Read More

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Interiority: An Exploration of the Inward Gaze

Date posted: 10 August 2017

Image shown: INTERIORITY: An Exploration of the Inward Gaze

Prompted by the idea that Shakespeare’s soliloquies may have been influenced by his attending public anatomical dissections in Renaissance London, text to replace with INTERIORITY brings together artists with speakers from the fields of medicine and health, anatomy, history and cultural theory in three public talks, to explore the relationship between body and mind: how we imagine and experience our interior selves, and how this affects our way of expression in the world. INTERIORITY will take place at The Old Operating Theatre Museum and The Freud Museum, London on 15 and 16 September 2017. Read More

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Culture Night at St. Patrick’s University Hospital

Date posted: 7 August 2017

Image shown: Jonathan Swift, founder of St. Patrick's University Hospital

St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services are hosting two public events to celebrate Culture Night on 22 September 2017. Take part in an evening of collaborative creative writing with Fighting Words and check out artworks by recent graduates from NCAD in the Emerging Artists exhibition. Read More

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CUREkenny Arts for Health and Wellbeing Festival

Date posted: 4 August 2017

Image shown: ‘Transition’ by kind permission of artist Sylvia Hemmingway, Blackstack Studio.

CUREkenny is the first Festival of Arts for Health & Wellbeing in St. Luke’s General Hospital, text to replace with Kilkenny (SLGHK). Curated by the Arts Department at SLGHK, the festival is taking place throughout the month of August 2017 and includes events for patients, staff, visitors and the general public.  Read More

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The Trial: Participatory project on access to health provision on release from prison

Date posted: 29 July 2017

Image shown: The Old Courtroom, Kilmainham Gaol. Photo credit: Sarah Buckley and Damian Murphy, National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.

The Trial is the working title for a new visual art project due for public exhibition in April 2018. It will focus on health and welfare provision in prisons, text to replace with and access to healthcare after release from prison in Ireland. Read More

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