What do you pack for the rest of your life?
In partnership with Community Learning at Tate Modern, LAHF is proud to present a discussion event to conclude London Creativity and Wellbeing Week.
Celebrated novelist and journalist Lionel Shriver is joined by ethicist Deborah Bowman to explore the connections between creativity and wellbeing in a fascinating evening drawing together the worlds of health and the arts with conversation and readings.
Shriver's work has often addressed thorny questions with a public health dimension: How much money is a single life worth? Are killers born or made? And why are we getting so fat? Her novels include Big Brother, So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World and We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was successfully adapted into a film. Shriver gives a couple of readings from her novels and discusses the issues that underpin her work.
Professor Deborah Bowman, is the Professor of Bioethics, Clinical Ethics and Medical Law at St. George's, University of London. She has an active interest in the ways that the arts and humanities can be used to foster ethical awareness and support learning – especially in clinical settings.
This evening promises to be a fascinating opportunity to examine the relationship between the arts and health, to look at the ways the arts can inform our approach to health and consider creative ways of improving wellbeing. Concluding with a question and answer session followed by refreshments and the opportunity to meet professionals working in the field of arts in health, the evening promises to be a fantastic finale to the 2014 Creativity and Wellbeing Week.
- Further information on the 2014 Creativity and Wellbeing Week