Activity: When we last met, it was Winter and we were decorating our Harry Potter-themed outfits and Xmas cards. In March, we welcomed artist-psychotherapist Dr Patricia Townsend to SGDP to launch her book on the creative process and psychoanalysis, and to share her artworks. It's finally Spring, so it's time to recharge and celebrate the lightness, brightness (and hay fever!). Let's draw cherry blossoms on unwanted lab tubes, make a card for Father's Day, or make a drawing to put on your office wall to say 'Well Done' to yourself and your team for all your work in 2019 so far. For two hours, let's forget about the stress from writing our dissertations, analysing data sets, and news updates from Westminster.

 

All welcome! No need to book. No prior experience in art needed.

 

We will supply some art materials, but feel free to bring cookies, things you wish to use (jars, buttons, potpourri) and your enthusiasm. The best artwork wins a special, secret prize!  

 

Enquiries: Kai kai.tan@kcl.ac.uk or Isabella isabella.vainieri@kcl.ac.uk 

 

Art and Science Creative Collisions is a hands-on programme for interdisciplinary conversations and ways to get creative with research at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre (SGDP) of King's College London. A legacy of #MagicCarpet's National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement 2018 Images Award for Culture Change, the programme is co-led by artist Dr Kai Syng Tan and PhD researcher Isabella Vainieri. #MagicCarpet was an Arts Council England funded, Unlimited art-science commission by Kai and Professor of Psychiatry Philip Asherson.

 

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