Therapeutic Landscapes Conference
This inaugural event was jointly organised by the Arts for Health Research Group and the Folk Cultures group.
It was held at the Art House, at the University of Worcester, March 2024
ARCHIVED Programme: March 2024
Day 1
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Lucy WRIGHT Tradition is good for you: towards an inclusive ‘hedge’ folklore for all
Sonia OVERALL Walking, Wassailing and Wellbeing: creative explorations of place and custom
Nar Bahadur SAUD Nepali Déuda Folklore: An Embodied Practice for Emotional Well-being
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Isabella JOHNSTON Using plant lore and foraging to create collective learning paradigms
Sarah SCAIFE and Emma CAPPER Walking within and beyond spells of illness
Kate GATHERCOLE Hedge Singing
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Becky DODMAN Premonitions of this Place
Emily WILKINSON Kinship & Crows: An A/r/tographic Journey into the Mythology of Dinas Brân
Katie FORRESTER Illustrating Human Relationships to Nature through Reinterpreting Folktales (River Severn)
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Chris TAYLOR Nature Constellations Outside.
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Melanie ROSE Eradicated Landscapes
Ben COX Creating a solution tangential to the problem: When does wellness culture get in the way of real healing?
Jojo TULLOH Land Makar
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Emily O KELLY Decolonising Death, Digitizing lost rites & Archival Paganism
SK MARLEY Our Transcapes : a pilgrimage of queer prehistory
Janine MARRIOT “People of a Like-minded Philosophy”: Secular and sacred pilgrimages to UK burial grounds
Daniel SOMERVILLE A Year of Observance : The Pagan Wheel of the Queer
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Sarah BELLASARIO The Transformative potential of ritualising creativity
Jacqui EDWARDS Maiden, Mother, Crone: Exploring the Witch as an Embodiment of Female Identity in Virtual Worlds.
Maija LIEPINS The Art of Listening In The Dark (performance lecture)
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Ralph NEL Meditation Rune Drawing
Eleanor MULHEARN & Desdemona MCCANNON Dream Votives
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Nature-based integration: connecting communities with/in nature
Day 2
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Rima STAINES Artist as Amulet maker ?
Ranji PATEL Old Skills, New Ways: Being with trees, making with wood and it’s contribution to emotional health and wellbeing
Hannah ROLLINGS Broomsquires of Devils punch bowl
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British Pilgrimage Trust
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Ethan PENNELL The Dartmoor Folklore Project
Sara TRILLO exploring lost landscape features and vanished settlements
KALANTERY Dunya Becoming like lichen
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Emily UNSWORTH WHITE and Ruth SIDGWICK Save our Avon Pilgrimage
Patricia BRIEN and Su FAHY A River Haunting
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Courtenay CRAWFORD Landscapes of liberation: socially engaged meditation and the cultivation of radical wellbeing
Tim HUTTON The Return
MORTON SOURCE MATERIAL: a local history of water
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REYNOLDS Ffion+ EVANS Angharad Heritage, ritual & the land: public archaeology at Bryn Celli Ddu, Ynys Môn
Sharron KRAUS Stepping into a Still Place: Annwfn and the Birds of Rhiannon
STONE CLUB Revisiting Ancient Sites in a Modern World (film)
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John Cussans and Des McCannon
When asked what they enjoyed the most, this is what attendees shared:
The Speakers
