Description
Presented by Mama Joe Project
On Wednesday, August 5, the Mama Joe Project will present My Mama Joe, Hope & Help at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Washington Place Auditorium. Before the film screening, the Providence event will include a community practice and resource gathering beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Rather than approaching this as a traditional resource fair, I would like to invite our arts and well-being community to help make this hour an active expression of what our field can offer.
This could include a brief, accessible, and participatory experience that allows attendees to encounter your work firsthand. Possibilities might include:
- A simple creative activity connected to memory, caregiving, identity, or connection
- A short movement, music, writing, visual art, or storytelling experience
- An interactive demonstration of an arts-based health or well-being practice
- A participatory installation, reflection prompt, or community expression
- A creative engagement tool that caregivers or families could carry into their own lives
- Or even materials distribution that represents and depicts your work/practice.
Resource tables are available as well for display of organizational material distribution.
The goal is to move beyond describing the value of arts and well-being practices and allow people to briefly experience that value for themselves.
The broader event uses documentary film and personal storytelling to open conversation about Alzheimer’s dementia, family caregiving, brain health, and the supports people need before, during, and after a caregiving experience. The pre-screening gathering gives us an opportunity to demonstrate how creative practice can support reflection, expression, connection, meaning making, and care within that landscape.