Event

Date
Wednesday 22 January 2025
Time
3-6pm
Location
The Coombe Hospital, Rita Kelly Theatre
Price
Free - RSVP at earliest convenience
Are you a resident of Dublin 8 and interested in art, health and public spaces?
Outlandish Theatre invites you to participate in a ‘Theatre Room’ demonstration workshop, a Smart D8 project in collaboration with the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI).
Smart D8 is a health and wellbeing initiative focusing on Dublin 8’s diverse population of 45,000, bringing together a range of key stakeholders from industry, academia, healthcare providers, public organisations, and citizens.
What to expect
The Smart D8 project is a research project to evaluate the health benefits that creative making processes can bring to the healthcare sector and what the intersection of art and health means within today’s society.
In this Theatre Room demo workshop, you will experience elements of Theatre Room, working with physical, textual and aural creative prompts with three artists and asked to give feedback.
Schedule
Wednesday 22 January at The Coombe Hospital, Rita Kelly Theatre
Workshop 3 – 4.30 pm, facilitated by Bernie O’Reilly, Maud Hendricks, James Hosty
Discussion 4.30 – 5 pm, facilitated by Dr. Nicholas Johnson
Chats and refreshments at 5 pm.
How to participate
No experience is required. Limited places available. For more information and to register, please email info@outlandishtheatre.com.
This event will be documented by a photographer. You will be asked to sign a form to provide permission to document the event for internal use and social media.
What is Theatre Room?
Theatre Room is an ‘Arts is Health’ concept project by Outlandish Theatre. In Theatre Room artists Bernie, Maud and James take up a semi-permanent space and residency in a health care setting. Theatre Room is a designated space for the artist to work, and invite staff and clients to engage in themes and materiality the artist is exploring. The room holds two chairs, a table, a sound desk and recording equipment, paper, pens and pencils and a suitcase full of props and instruments. The aim in Theatre Room is to create an autonomous arts space, in which to co-create with patients and staff, away from their everyday routine. The participant can observe the artist at work and when feeling called join the process of co-creation, leading to the possibility of performing in a project outcome.
The first Theatre Room (Martha Whiteway Day Hospital at James Hospital, four-month residency in 2023) led to a performance outcome Destinations, co-created with 20 clients and members of staff at The Day Hospital, performed in the Martha Whiteway Day Hospital, Plymouth University and St. John’s Hospital in Sligo.
Theatre Room in Sligo (spring 2024) connected residents and staff at the hospital’s three wards to diverse engagements, a performance ‘Susan Power’ and a film ‘Hair’ performed and screened to 40 staff members and clients.