[CANCELLED] Forum Series: If Music be the Food of Love, Play on – Meaningful Music in Health Care
10 March 2020 • 5:30pm
Steven Baxter Recital Studio
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RINEKE SMILDE, presenter
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Music can touch people deeply and lead to improved well-being, an all-encompassing word for everything that makes life worth living, or at least liveable. Meaningful Music in Health Care is a project carried out in Groningen, the Netherlands, where musicians perform person-centred improvisations for elderly patients and nurses in the hospital. This provides valuable moments of aesthetic experience and significant meaning for everyone involved, leads to patients experiencing less pain, and increases the compassionate skills of nurses. Three key concepts are central in this practice: Participation, Compassion, and Excellence, which includes ‘situated excellence’. Improvisation also plays a key role in the expression of the self and of ‘the other’. https://vimeo.com/223576165
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Rineke Smilde PhD is a flautist, musicologist and music educationalist. She is Professor of Lifelong Learning in Music at Hanze University (Prince Claus Conservatoire) in Groningen and Professor of Lifelong Learning and New Audiences at the University of Music & Performing Arts in Vienna. In Groningen Rineke leads the international research group ‘Lifelong Learning in Music’ that examines questions about the relationship between musicians and society, and what engaging with new audiences means for the different roles, learning and leadership of musicians. Her particular research interests are the learning styles of musicians and the role of biographical learning in the context of lifelong and lifewide learning. Rineke has published various articles and book chapters on different aspects of lifelong learning in (higher) music education. She lectures and gives presentations worldwide and has led various research groups for the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), where between 1997 and 2005 she served as a board member and vice president. In her research, since 2010 Rineke also focuses on Music, Health and Wellbeing. This led to a research into Music and Dementia, which appeared in a book form in 2014 (While the Music Lasts – on Music and Dementia, together with Kate Page and Peter Alheit), and into Meaningful Music in Healthcare, a research into participatory music practices in the hospital, which was described in 2019 in the book If Music be the Food of Love, Play on, with Erik Heineman, Krista de Wit, Karolien Dons and Peter Alheit.
TICKETING INFORMATION
• Free admission.
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• Out of respect for other concertgoers, no children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission.
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