- Tangled Tales – using humour and positive stories to challenge the stigma of dementia
Tangled Tales is a collaborative project that uses creative and participatory visual and performance art approaches to challenge the stigma of dementia, through focusing on humourous or positive stories of people’s daily experiences of living with dementia. This programme of work has two aspects:
1) The Lost and Found labyrinth – a visual meditative walking installation where gathered stories are shared on postcards either pictorially or in words.
2) On Cloud 79 – an ethnocomedy that is as humourous as it is moving, interweaves some of the collective stories into the characters of Grandad, Enid, June, and, Sally and their families and carers, to create a sense of the complexity of living with dementia.
The labyrinth has been shared at a number of locations across the Liverpool region including:
Primary schools as part of dementia awareness training 2018- present
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, June 2018
NHS Dementia Awareness Day, Liverpool Royal Hospital, May 2018 and May 2019
Open Eye Gallery, October 2017
Between 2017 and 2019, the performance has been taken to Laughterhouse Comedy Club, Hope Street Theatre, and Liverpool Royal Hospital.
2. Labyrinth of loneliness – combining verbatim and immersive theatres to share experiences of living with loneliness
Combining verbatim and immersive methodologies to understand the experience of loneliness, this project will see the creation of an original piece of theatre based upon real lived experiences of loneliness. Currently, the work is in the early research phase and will be developed over the coming months.
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