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Festival in a Box: Reflecting on the G8 Summit on Dementia

Festival in a Box: Reflecting on the G8 Summit on Dementia

by aseifert | Dec 13, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement

  Dementia has been in the news in a big way over the past week. Tuesday saw the first ever G8 Dementia Summit opening in London with a headline grabbing promise from David Cameron to double funding for dementia research by 2025. This follows similar promises of...
Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: A Visit to the Camden Archives

Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: A Visit to the Camden Archives

by aseifert | Dec 6, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement, Training and Research

Earlier this week I spent a day researching in the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre at Holborn Library. Now that our weekly Festival in a Box visits with people living with dementia in Camden are well underway, my aim was to find stimulus materials which—based...
Festival in a Box (Some Thoughts on Boxes)

Festival in a Box (Some Thoughts on Boxes)

by aseifert | Nov 29, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement

Boxes have a history within dementia research and memory activities. Some very important work in the field of arts and health has come about through the production of ‘memory boxes’, for example. Via the work of the European Reminiscence Network or the ‘House of...
Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: Thinking about ‘dementia friendly communities’

Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: Thinking about ‘dementia friendly communities’

by aseifert | Nov 20, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement

 Meetings:  At 9am on Monday morning a fairly disparate group of people gathered for a meeting and training session for the Festival in a Box project. Alongside myself and other researchers, in attendance were one local Bloomsbury artist (last seen leading a walk at...
Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: Opening the First Archive

Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: Opening the First Archive

by aseifert | Nov 6, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement, Training and Research

The First Box: Earlier this week a plain, slightly damp cardboard box was delivered to my office. Whilst hardly looking like anything to get excited about, I knew that this was in fact a very important package indeed. It was nothing less than the first ‘output’ of my...
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