In 2011, visual artist Marie Brett and musician Kevin O’ Shanahan collaborated with The Alzheimer Society of Ireland’s Bandon Day Care Centre on a project entitled Converging Lives. The project resulted in a series of audio-visual portraits of participants attending the Bandon Day Care Centre and was short listed and received commendation at an International Dementia Excellence Awards ceremony in Sydney, Australia on 28 June 2012.
With support from Create’s Artist in the Community scheme/research phase Kevin and Marie collaborated with filmmaker, Chris Cullen of Epic Productions, Cork to complete this edited version of Converging Lives.