LAURELHILL Day centre, Lisburn
Title of Work: Lifes Road Trip - ‘All Aboard'
Facilitating Artist: Genevieve Swift
Life's road trip - All Aboard' - Over the course of 8 sessions, this wonderful group of ladies and gentlemen living with various stages of dementia, and I worked together on the theme of Life's Road Trip, to imagine, create and bring to life brand new characters who had led full and interesting lives. The characters and their life stories were created from and inspired by snippets taken from group conversation and discussion about participant's lives, and also from key props selected by the group as part of the process. Once created the characters needed a place to meet and a reason to talk- and since public transport had featured a fair bit in our group chats, we set our characters chatting to other passengers or to themselves whilst taking a journey by public transport.
I have had so much fun and many many laughs working at Laurelhill day centre and I want to thank them for coming on this journey with me and making it so much fun. - Over the course of 8 sessions, this wonderful group of ladies and gentlemen living with various stages of dementia, and I worked together on the theme of Life's Road Trip, to imagine, create and bring to life brand new characters who had led full and interesting lives. The characters and their life stories were created from and inspired by snippets taken from group conversation and discussion about participant's lives, and also from key props selected by the group as part of the process. Once created the characters needed a place to meet and a reason to talk- and since public transport had featured a fair bit in our group chats, we set our characters chatting to other passengers or to themselves whilst taking a journey by public transport.
I have had so much fun and many many laughs working at Laurelhill day centre and I want to thank them for coming on this journey with me and making it so much fun.
Laurelhill Day Centre, Lisburn
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