Newcastle University - Arts Medicine 2018

Dry Water's Curiosity Cafe - The Art Of Not Knowing. Curiosity Café is an integrated arts programme run by Dry Water Arts for people living with young (early onset) dementia and their carers. Curiosity Café enables participants to articulate their needs, ideas and aspirations and is a label free environment with the emphasis on creative, expressive exploration and critical questioning. . It is maintained, directed and adapted by the suggestion and expression of its participants. Sessions are structured to provide a degree of familiarity and safety from which spontaneity can arise. Each week is a development from the previous week, building on the discoveries, interests or suggestions from participants. Curiosity Café began in 2015 and in 2016/17 Dry Water was awarded funding from EngageFMS and Newcastle University’s Institute for Creative Arts Practice, to enable an exchange visit with the Dementia Innovation Hub based at Newcastle University. Part of the Campus for Ageing and Vitality at Newcastle University, the Dementia Innovation Hub is a catalyst for innovation to stimulate the delivery of world-class support for people with dementia and their families, and has partners across the North East. The funding was given in recognition of the work Dry Water have been doing with people living with Dementia and their carers, Dry Water is a Not For Profit socially engaged arts organisation founded and run by professional artists/researchers Frances Anderson and Paula Turner. Filmmaker : Frances Anderson www.drywater.org @drywaterarts info@drywater.org

Very proud to have been asked to present our work and share our film "Curiosity Cafe - The Art Of Not Knowing" at Engage FMS and Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice event.