Join us on 28th June 2023 to reflect on 75 years of the National Health Service, through a day of exhibition tours, workshops, performances, and public talks exploring the theme: ‘senses and emotions’. This is a public-facing event, and you are welcome to join whether you work in healthcare, are a researcher, or are just interested in the subject.
We offer a series of tours, workshops, performances, and talks on the broad theme of SENSES & EMOTIONS for the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service. This event is funded by the Sensing Spaces of Healthcare project.
We are providing separate tickets for morning, each workshop, and for the evening event. You are welcome to attend for the full day, though we anticipate that most people will drop in to the parts that are of most interest. For this reason, we are not providing lunch or dinner, but we do have coffee/tea and other light refreshments in the afternoon and evening, and the Wellcome Collection café is available throughout the event.
*** ALL ELEMENTS OF THIS EVENT NEED TO BE PRE-BOOKED, WITH A SMALL FEE FOR EACH EVENT. THIS PAGE EXISTS PRIMARILY FOR INFORMATION AND TO ADVERTISE THE EVENT – BOOKING IS VIA THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL ONLINE SHOP: HERE . Registration will close on Friday 23rd June, to enable us to share attendee lists with venues ***
This event is held across two sites. Please see details below.
MORNING: EXHIBITION TOURS, GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL / UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.
Tours of the ‘Sensing Spaces of Healthcare’ exhibition with curator Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith and contributing artists. This exhibition is a collaboration with GOSH Arts.
One-hour tours for small groups (up to 15 people) will take place at 10.00am and 11.30am.
If you are joining the afternoon/evening events after the exhibition tour, there is time at this point in the schedule to get lunch at the Wellcome Collection café, or there are a number of other cafés in the area between GOSH and the Wellcome Collection.
AFTERNOON: ARTIST-LED WORKSHOPS, FRANKS & STEEL ROOM, WELLCOME COLLECTION. [See below for full workshop details]
1.30-2.00pm: Coffee provided at the Wellcome Collection, Dale Room.
2.00-3.00pm: Cecilia Charlton: Introduction to bargello embroidery.
3.15-4.15pm: Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith: Mapping your Dream Hospital.
4.30-5.30: Joanna Brinton: Reimagining the archives
5.30-6.00. Coffee provided at Wellcome Collection, Dale Room. The Wellcome Café is also open until 6pm – if you are staying for the evening after workshops, you may wish to use this time to get some food.
EVENING: PUBLIC TALKS, ROUNDTABLES & PERFORMANCES. HENRY WELLCOME AUDITORIUM, WELLCOME COLLECTION. The ‘Williams Lounge’ is also available as a quiet space or a break space during this time, if you want to move in and out of sessions you are welcome to do so but please do so at ‘changeover’ times to avoid interruptions.
6.00-6.10. Introduction and welcome. Victoria Bates.
6.10-7.00. New histories of the NHS: senses, emotions & nostalgia roundtable. Agnes Arnold-Forster, Jennifer Crane, Saima Nasar. Chaired by Jennifer Crane.
7.00-8.00. Migration and Memories of Hospital Staff. Young Historians Project (7.00-7.30) and Stella Mann and Jo Forbes-Cooper from Glenside Hospital Museum (7.30-8.00).
8.00-8.30. Comfort break, with light refreshments provided in the Williams Lounge.
8.30-9.15. Arts & Play in Children’s Hospitals: past, present future. Katherine Smith, performance: ‘Actions with Tin Cans’. followed by discussion with representatives from Great Ormond Street Hospital arts and play teams: Judith Brocklehurst (Artist), Abigail Reid (Children and Young People Activities Co-Ordinator) and Caroline Moore (Head of Arts). Chaired by Caroline Moore.
9.15-9.45. Angela Whitecross and Stephanie Snow: Voices of COVID-19 .
9.45-10.00. Closing comments, followed by closing performance: Katherine Smith: ‘Walking on Tin Cans’.
Further details about workshops:
All workshops are maximum 25-30 participants, age range 8+.
2.00-3.00pm: Cecilia Charlton: Introduction to bargello embroidery.
In this workshop, Cecilia Charlton will explain some of the history behind traditional bargello embroidery and how it can be manipulated to create unique patterns. She will introduce participants to the bargello materials and explain that while the bargello technique has complex results, they are achieved through quite simple structures. The participants will be encouraged to experiment with the technique to discover their own individual modes of expression. Through collective sewing we can explore ideas of community and the nurturing, inclusive nature of textiles.
3.15-4.15pm: Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith: Mapping your Dream Hospital.
Join Becka to map your dream hospital environment. In this workshop, Becka will share one of the research methods developed during the Sensing Spaces of Healthcare project. She will invite people to create a speculative floor plan of their dream hospital. Becka will guide attendees through three steps to create their dream hospital floor plan. These steps replicated the approaches used to carry out creative research with NHS staff and patients during the Sensing Spaces of Healthcare project. To support sensory ways of working attendees will be given a range of materials, from illustrated paper resources to sensory objects and collage materials. At the end of the workshop each attendee will have created their own speculative hospital floor plan. This workshop might be of interest to anybody who wants to think in new ways about hospitals, or creative practitioners and researchers interested in exploring new methods.
4.30-5.30: Joanna Brinton: Reimagining the archives
Join artist and printmaker Joanna Brinton, founder of Good Studio Risograph in a workshop using archive images from Great Ormond Street Hospital and beyond. Colour and create your own mini risograph publication inspired by the changing use of colour in the NHS. Joanna is particularly interested in the effect our environment has on our experience and has worked with GOSH staff to design and create large-scale window installations, a flag for the exterior of the hospital and even a garden for the Portering team.
The exhibition is being documented to make a short film about the event to be used in University and Hospital marketing and publicity. Those attending exhibition tours may be captured in the general shots of people viewing and engaging with the artwork. If you would rather not be included in the the film please make yourself known to Simone on the day who will make sure to avoid including you in the film. For terms and conditions, please follow this link.