Join us for the next instalment in our digital sandpit series on Zoom on 31st January 2022 at 6.30pm for this fantastic informal peer learning event.

We will be exploring the question of how participants get involved in our arts and health projects. This will be a panel event, where established practitioners will share their experiences, give us an insight into best practice, and facilitate dialogue about recruiting participants!

Meet the panelists

Shanika Warren is the Creative Engagement Manager at Emergency Exit Arts. Shanika has experience in outreach and creative engagement for organisations such as Talawa Theatre Co, Tender Arts and London Bubble. She also works extensively in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sector.

Dr. Katharine E. Low is a practitioner and researcher in socially engaged theatre and sexual health, with over 18 years’ experience both internationally and in the UK. She is Senior Lecturer in Applied Theatre and Community Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her practice lies in creating participatory-led theatre and creative arts-based practice with local communities to explore and gain greater understandings of the key health and social concerns facing their communities in South Africa, Tanzania and the UK. Katharine collaborates with medical practitioners and NGOs to co-facilitate projects based around sexual health and other health concerns. Katharine has published her research in a number of journals and her books include Applied Theatre and Sexual Health Communication: Apertures of Possibility (2020, Palgrave Macmillan) and Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing with Veronica Baxter (2017, Bloomsbury Methuen).

Elijah Kellman is a Social Prescribing Link Worker with a background in Health Psychology and holistic coaching. Previously, Elijah has helped individuals to meet their own health goals through motivational interviewing and co-established a Social Prescribing programme at UWE Bristol for university students with moderate mental health. Currently, Elijah is connecting outpatients of UCLH with arts/culture initiatives to address mental health needs within the Camden community and embed Social Prescribing practice within an acute care setting.

Join us on Zoom on 31st January 2022 at 6.30pm for this fantastic informal peer learning event. We look forward to seeing you there!

The panel will be moderated by Kat Themans (CSSD) and Alina Puleston (LAAH).