Age of Creativity

Alexa

Job Title: Artist Educator

Organisation: Freelance

Email: alexaroselowe@gmail.com

Description: I lead weekly art sessions for older adults as well as running workshops.

Alison Teader

Job Title: Creative Arts Officer

Organisation: C&C

Email: alison.teader@ccht.org.uk

Description: Creative Arts Service providing arts activities and learning opportunities for older people living in C&C housing. Housing includes 4 residential care homes and sheltered schemes for older people.

allison foreman

Job Title: user involvement worker

Organisation: macc

Email: allison@macc.org.uk

Description: Support older people to influence policies in Greater Manchester

Andrea Haley

Job Title: Community Dance artist

Organisation: Freelance

Email: andrea@airarts.net

Description: I am a freelance dance artist delivering projects both on a national and local level. I am also the Lead Dance Artist for Royal Derby Hospitals and provide training on using dance with older people.

Andy Newman

Job Title: Facilitator - Dancer

Organisation: KolnuArts

Email: kolnuarts@gmail.com

Description: Facilitating, creating & performing, mainly dance, for, in & around arts projects. Worked with individual ways of receiving, processing & expressing information, creating & moving. Interested in arts around dance, capacity, care, engagement & enablement.

Becky Lees

Job Title: Creative Learning & Programme Manager

Organisation: Stratford Circus Arts Centre

Email: becky@stratford-circus.com

Description: We're an Arts Centre in Newham serving a diverse area. We offer a high-quality artistic programme alongside an outreach programme to ensure everyone in our community can access our work.

Bridget Poulter

Job Title: Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist/Dance Practitioner

Organisation: Moving Through Life

Email: bridgetdmp@gmail.com

Description: Registered DMP(MA, Goldsmith's College), dance practitioner working with older adults and children. Interested in work with people living with chronic/progressive medical conditions

Caroline Thorn

Job Title: Project Assistant

Organisation: Independent Arts

Email: caroline@independentarts.org.uk

Description: Independent Arts is a small charity based on the Isle of Wight founded in 1987. We use the arts as a tool to improve health, wellbeing and quality of life for older people, and others in our community facing disadvantage or social isolation.

Chris Avis

Job Title: Artist

Organisation: None

Email: chris_avis@yahoo.co.uk

Description: As an older artist (69) her work has been widely exhibited across Europe. She uses photography, print and moving image to explore the ageing process. In 2013 she received a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship, followed by a Barbican Guildhall Open Lab.

Christine McGowan

Job Title: Centre Manager

Organisation: Newhampton Arts Centre

Email: admin@newhamptonarts.co.uk

Description: Centre Manager at Newhampton Arts Centre an independent community arts centre in Wolverhampton, West Midlands with a wide range of a facilities. We run dropin sessions and arts classes/workshops as well as performances.

David Terrace

Job Title: Head of Community Partnerships

Organisation: Oomph Wellness

Email: david@oomph-wellness.org

Description: We provide training and support to people working/volunteering/living in community to deliver activity classes for older people.

Diane Henshaw

Job Title: Arts Officer

Organisation: Fermanagh & Omagh District Council

Email: diane.henshaw@fermanaghomagh.com

Description: Regional Arts Office for Fermanagh & Omagh District

Double Elephant Print Workshop

Job Title: Director

Organisation: Double Elephant Print Workshop

Email: simon@doubleelephant.org.uk

Description: DEPW is an Exeter based workshop for artists working in printmaking. We work extensively in community settings often alongside older people

Dr Fiona Marshall

Job Title: Senior Research Fellow

Organisation: University of Nottingham

Email: fiona.marshall2@nottingham.ac.uk

Description: Ethnographic enquiry in relation to rural dementia. Currently undertaking large community study about well-being among rural people living with dementia.

Ella Dinsdale

Job Title: Administrator

Organisation: Arts 4 Dementia

Email: amy@arts4dementia.org.uk

Description: Arts 4 Dementia re-energizes and inspires individuals with early stage dementia and their carers through arts workshops across the country.

Ellie Lewis-Nunes

Job Title: Communities Officer

Organisation: Gunnersbury Park & Museum

Email: gunnersburylearning@ealing.gov.uk

Description: We are the local history museum for Ealing & Hounslow, set in a glorious 186 acre public park

Ellie Stout

Job Title: Grants Manager

Organisation: The Rothschild Foundation

Email: ellie.stout@rothschildfoundation.org.uk

Description: Managing The Rothschild Foundation Grants Programme which provides grants to organisations across a number of priority areas, including older people

Emily Bradfield

Job Title: PhD Student

Organisation: University of Derby

Email: e.bradfield@derby.ac.uk

Description: I am researching arts & health for older people and will be carrying out a systematic review of literature as part of my PhD. I am interested in bridging the gap between research and practice.

Emily Hall

Job Title: Freelance Pottery and Basketmaker

Organisation: Freelance Pottery and Basketmaker

Email: info@emily-hall.co.uk

Description: Freelance potter teaching in care homes in and around London. Working with groups or 1-1 sessions, those with dementia or physical disabilities. I'm always looking to expand across other age groups to show the wonderful benefits of working with clay.

Emma Radford

Job Title: Dramatherapist

Organisation: Self-Employed

Email: emmaaaradford@gmail.com

Description: I am a qualified dramatherapist, using art, music and drama techniques to promote the well-being and health of a range of client groups. I have a particular interest in working with older people.

Farrell Curran

Job Title: Arts Partnership Manager

Organisation: Age UK Oxfordshire

Email: farrellrenowdencurran@hotmail.com

Description: I manage the Age of Creativity website- I also develop arts opportunities for older people across Oxfordshire.

Fiona Costa

Job Title: Visiting research fellow

Organisation: University of Roehampton

Email: Fiona.Costa@roehampton.ac.uk

Description: My research interest is the effect of music on the well being of older people, particularly those in their 80s and over, many of whom are frail and vulnerable. Music is easily accessible, and no physical or cognitive ability is required for listening.

Grae Wall

Job Title: Arts Development Officer

Organisation: St Albans Arts Team

Email: grae.wall@1life.co.uk

Description: Promoting, developing and managing arts events and activities in and around the St Albans District.

Gwendoline Hibbs

Job Title: Marketing and PR Consultant

Organisation: Hibbs Communications

Email: hibbs.pr@gmail.com

Description: I am a PR and marketing professional currently working in the field of biophilic design. Previously I worked as a consultant in the music industry for over 25 years.

Hazel

Job Title: Access and Community

Organisation: National Portrait Gallery

Email: hazelbasran@gmail.com

Description: Artist and Educator working in museums and art galleries.

JEANETTE SULTAN

Job Title: Ms

Organisation: SHABBYSHOCK

Email: j.sultan@live.co.uk

Description: I create bespoke upcycled furniture in vivid colours. I also deliver Art sessions to service users.I deliver classes and workshops.I write for RELOVED magazine. I am a full member of Scottish Artists Union and a profile maker with Craft Scotland.

Jeffrey Goldblatt

Job Title: Skin Care

Organisation: Shoreline Medical Spa

Email: AnklestiTI@gmail.com

Description: I am an experienced skin care specialist in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Jennifer Whiteoak

Job Title: Community Engagement Officer

Organisation: National Trust

Email: jennifer.whiteoak@nationaltrust.org.uk

Description: Working with various community groups to ensure that our property is accessible to all. Specifically I work with schools, families, special needs groups and people living with Dementia and elderly care groups.

Jessica Conneely

Job Title: Founder and teacher

Organisation: Dance4wellbeing

Email: jess@dance4wellbeing.com

Description: I work as an artist for the Arts Health Institute in Australia.Founder of Dance4wellbeing and Dance for Parkinson's Australia teacher

John W Cook

Job Title: Chairman

Organisation: PCAT

Email: john.cook@pcat.org.uk

Description: I help in a number of local community groups, including a 60+ companion group, a dementia cafe and chair the local CAT.

Jonathan

Job Title: Chief Executive

Organisation: Age Concern Colchester

Email: jonathan.moore@ageconcerncolchester.org.uk

Description: Making lives of Older People in Borough of Colchester happier & healthier

Judith Bacon

Job Title: Services Manager

Organisation: Poole Well-being Collaborative

Email: judith.bacon@pwbcollaborative.org.uk

Description: Run the Poole sical Prescription Service so always looking for interesting and innovative ideas to share with people who want to expand their social networks

Justine Ranson

Job Title: Creative development officer

Organisation: Telford & Wrekin Council

Email: justine.ranson@telford.gov.uk

Description: working on a range of projects using creativity to improve health outcomes for people of all ages

kate

Job Title: Creative Age Programme Manager

Organisation: equal arts

Email: kate@equalarts.org.uk

Description: managing the creative age programme for cultural organisations to establish and deliver imagination based, dementia friendly older people creative programmes.

Katherine

Job Title: Project Coordinator

Organisation: Magic Me

Email: katherineeves@magicme.co.uk

Description: Magic Me is an arts charity that brings the generations together to build a stronger, safer community. Our projects often link unlikely partners. Young people aged 8+ and adults aged 60+ team up through shared, creative activity.

Keiron

Job Title: Management Team

Organisation: 3rdthought

Email: keiron@3rdthought.eu

Description: 3rdthought is an older persons theatre group based in London, creating new performances and collaborations, and using technology to enable more frail actors to take part in performances from home.

Lisa Evans

Job Title: Founder

Organisation: Creative Stays

Email: events@creativestays.co.uk

Description: To support people to stay well & make the most of life by engaging them in creative activities and peer encouragement that promote self-confidence, build interpersonal skills, & empower strategies to increase mental wellbeing

Lizzy Green

Job Title: Project Co-ordinator

Organisation: Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

Email: e.green@trinitylaban.ac.uk

Description: Projects Co-ordinator for projects for the over 60s and CPD for music teachers and practitioners

Llinos Jones

Job Title: Participation and Marketing officer

Organisation: Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru

Email: llinos.jones@theatr.com

Description: My work here is to reach out to the communities, and encourage people to take part in the arts, for their well being/health and many other benefits.

Luminate

Job Title: Administrator

Organisation: Luminate

Email: info@luminatescotland.org

Description: Luminate, Scotland's creative ageing organisation, runs a diverse programme of creative events and activities throughout the year, including an annual arts festival running from 1st to 31st October across Scotland.

Marian Pocock

Job Title: Arts Partnership team

Organisation: Age UK Oxfordshire

Email: marianpocock@ageukoxfordshire.org.uk

Description: Helping to deliver various aspects of Art Partnership and Age of Creativity work

Mark Croasdale

Job Title: Artist and Theatre Practioner

Organisation: Freelance Practioner

Email: mark.croasdale@hotmail.co.uk

Description: Mark utilises a range of media according the specific needs, demands and context of each project. The thread linking all of his work is storytelling which he uses to create an interactive experience for the audience.

Mary

Job Title: artist

Organisation: none

Email: mary.millner@gmail.com

Description: I am a painter, sculptor and curator and I teach part-time

Maureen La Frenais

Job Title: Creative Consultant

Organisation: Waking the Giant Heritage & Arts Consultancy

Email: wakingthegiant@live.co.uk

Description: Working within museums, heritage and arts organisations, or wherever it works! Project management experience, storytelling, heritage interpretation, arts projects reminiscence and memory boxes.

Mia Gulati

Job Title: Development Manager

Organisation: Stratford Circus Arts Centre

Email: mia@stratford-circus.com

Description: Stratford Circus Arts Centre is a charity and arts centre that is inclusive and open to all, with over 125,000 visitors a year. Last year we reached over 16,000 children and young people through performances, workshops and classes.

Neil Parker

Job Title: Administrator

Organisation: London Arts in Health Forum

Email: neil@lahf.org.uk

Description: London Arts in Health Forum is a membership organisation which aims to develop the role of culture in wellbeing and to promote and support arts in health activity across London and nationally.

New Theatre Oxford

Job Title: Marketing Department

Organisation: New Theatre Oxford

Email: oxfordpress@theambassadors.com

Description: The premier arts and entertainment venue in Oxford.

Nora

Job Title: Exercise Therapist

Organisation: Envolve Wellness

Email: nora@envolvewell.com

Description: I deliver specialist exercise interventions to people with long-term health conditions, dance for parkinson's, boxercise for autism, cardio for less mobiled populations

Paul Cann

Job Title: Consultant

Organisation: Independent

Email: paullewiscann@gmail.com

Description: Working to promote the role of creative arts and its accessibility to older and disadvantaged people

Paulette Ward

Job Title: Marketing Officer

Organisation: Chancery House Day Care Centre

Email: marketing@chanceryhouse.org.uk

Description: Providing care and companionship for the over 55s and professional respite care for those with dementia or memory loss

Penny Collinson

Job Title: Lecturer in Dance & Somatic Movement

Organisation: University of Central Lancashire

Email: PSCollinson@uclan.ac.uk

Description: I am a teacher of dance and somatic movement Education(SME)both at UCLan (MA Dance & Somatic Well-being), and as a private practice, I am also a member of the Knowing Body Network which seeks to share promote and develop the field of SME.

Rebecca Seymour

Job Title: Dance artist

Organisation: freelance

Email: rebsmm@gmail.com

Description: I co-ordinate Elevate, an arts activity programme for patients at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. I teach Dance for Parkinson's class and creative dance classes for people living with dementia.

ruth purdy

Job Title: freelance artist

Organisation: self employed

Email: contact@ruthpurdy.co.uk

Description: I provide arts interventions in the social care and sheltered housing sectors

Sally Brown

Job Title: Project Manager

Organisation: Holme Valley Sharing Memories

Email: sally-brown@btconnect.com

Description: Sharing Memories is a group of older people, in their 80s and 90s who meet every week to share memories and life experiences and learn new art skills which we share with other community groups of all ages.

Samantha Patel

Job Title: Locality Officer

Organisation: Breckland Council

Email: Samantha.patel@breckland.gov.uk

Description: Silver Social - a 3 year arts programme targeted at older isolated people in Breckland, Norfolk. Live performances and workshops will tour ten towns / villages. Funded by Arts Council.

Sarah Ecob

Job Title: General Manager

Organisation: Venue Cymru & Theatr Colwyn

Email: sarah.ecob@venuecymru.co.uk

Description: Venue Cymru is a theatre and conference centre; Theatr Colwyn is a theatre, cinema & photographic hub. Work for older people includes dementia friendly screenings, textile art project, photography group and a range of smaller arts projects

Sharon

Job Title: Manager

Organisation: Creating Conversations

Email: sharon@creating-conversations.org

Description: An activity kit that has been carefully designed to transform the care environment into a stimulating social space, allowing participants to be involved from the outset in a way that feels comfortable to them.

Sharon Bailey

Job Title: Artist

Organisation: The Grange Throckley

Email: sharon@isisarts.org.uk

Description: Grange is a day care centre that was set up by the local community and that offers elders a wide range of creative activities with professional artists. We do this to support elders to remain independent in their own homes and to combat social isolation.

Shelley

Job Title: Owner & Workshop Facilitator

Organisation: Puppeteria

Email: shelley@puppeteria.ca

Description: I teach others how to use puppets as a tool for building relationships through storytelling, enhanced communication, and creative problem-solving.

Sian Stevenson

Job Title: Creative Director

Organisation: Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company

Email: infomovingmemory@gmail.com

Description: Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company use a collaborative workshop process to produce moving and meaningful performances with a highly visual and physical aesthetic. There is strong use of movement, words, music and projections to tell stories and entertain

Simon Ripley

Job Title: Director

Organisation: Double Elephant Print Workshop

Email: simon@simonripley.co.uk

Description: I am an artist printmaker working in a wide range of settings across the South West with all ages and abilities. I have a particular interest in working with older people

Simona Scotto

Job Title: Director

Organisation: Counterpoint Dance Company

Email: simona@simonascotto.com

Description: Simona Scotto Director of Counterpoint Dance Company. Educator, choreographer, producer of dance work for the over 55's.

Sophie Wood

Job Title: Director

Organisation: Fisher Arts and Social Club

Email: sophiemakesspaces@gmail.com

Description: Weekly arts and social club for older people and their carers. We connect people with local artists and engage in different activities every week.

Susie Tate

Job Title: Dance artist - health & wellbeing

Organisation: Susie Tate

Email: susietate8@gmail.com

Description: I develop and deliver dance and movement programmes in hospitals and health care environments.

Sylvie Silver

Job Title: Executive Director

Organisation: NAPA

Email: sylvie@napa-activities.co.uk

Description: National charity that supports activity provision in care settings

Tara Stevenson

Job Title: Arts Development Officer

Organisation: Woking Borough Council

Email: tara.stevenson@woking.gov.uk

Description: Arts, Community, Development

Tei Williams

Job Title: Arts Partnership Assistant

Organisation: Age of Creativity

Email: teiwilliams@ageofcreativity.co.uk

Description: My responsiblities include the marketing of the Age of Creativity, fulfilling its social media strategy and answering your queries.

Toki Allison

Job Title: Film Audience Network Access Officer

Organisation: BFI

Email: toki@filmhubwales.org

Description: The aim of my role is to increase access to cinema for hard-to-reach audiences.