Publications and conferences

The Baring Foundation published two new reports in 2023, both of which include contributions from Moving Memory. Creative Ageing – What Next? can be found online here Creative ageing – what next? – The Baring Foundation

Sian’s contributing essay is also published as a blog on the Baring Foundation website here: Older artists as leaders: resisting ageism in creative ageing – The Baring Foundation

The Baring Foundation has also just published a report on the Celebrating Age programme: Celebrating Age – The Baring Foundation – which includes Moving Memory on the front cover.

In April 2023, Moving Memory facilitated the first national Arts, Health & Ageism Round Table – an open invitation to charities, practitioners and organisations working in, or connected to the arts, health and ageism sectors to discuss the impact that ageism plays in arts and health. The Round Table took place on the morning of Friday 21 April 2023 on Zoom with 73 individuals signed up to take part, 5 panel member presentations, and smaller break-out sessions led by members of the Moving Memory team. An archive recording of the sessions can be found here https://vimeo.com/showcase/10385346

We have written about several of our projects for The Age of Creativity network

blog-post, British Society of Gerontology, Creative Ageing Special Interest Group, June 2020

Case study (prevention research and practice), SCIE (Social Care Institute for Excellence), March 2019

Meet the dancing queens! – Yours magazine issue284, November 2017

Moving, memories and being more ourselves – Sian Stevenson and Cathy Westbrook: Animated (the magazine of People Dancing) Summer 2017

Never Too Old To Dance – Dancing Times, February 2017

Cracking the Crinoline – Sian Stevenson: Ageing in public: creative practice in ageing and the public realm across the UK, ed Daniel Baker, Cubbitt Gallery Education, 2016

Dancing with Difference: Towards a New Aesthetics – N. Shaughnessy: Applied Theatre: Aesthetics, ed Gareth White, London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2015

We have presented our work at the following events:

Ageless, Yorkshire Dance: Leeds, 25-26 October 2019

People Dancing: international conference: Glasgow, 3 – 5 Oct 2017

Local Government, the arts and older people: Nottingham, 5 Sept 2017

Arts in Society, American University, Paris 13 – 16 June 2017, Gestures of Defiance, gestures of defiance – notes

AHRC public engagement event Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 2014

Dance Digital Conference, University of Bedford, April 2014

Lifting the Curtain, Dementia UK Conference, 2013

TAPRA Conference , University of Kent, 2012