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Dear all,
Hope everyone is well. A reminder of our Summer Programme session TODAY 16:00-17:00 BST by Faye Upton on “Synaesthesia - Experiencing a Sense Through Another”. We hold our sessions in the hope to include our friends from US, Asia, Canada, Australia and elsewhere outside of UK. Do join us, even if for just a few minutes, before bedtime/breakfast, to say hello :) We are an international network and we are keen to learn more about the dynamics and nuances of how neurodiversity, creativity and research entangle with the various socio-political-cultural systems worldwide. DO get in touch if you wish to share your insights, lead a session etc!
TODAY: THURSDAY 21st July 16:00-17:00 BST
Faye Upton on “Synaesthesia - Experiencing a Sense Through Another” *
ZOOM: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/92920422354
Meeting ID: 929 2042 2354
Part of the Summer Programme Like Minds curated by Tony Gee and Mike Barrett
Do you hear music or perceive colours in your mind upon a certain sensory stimulus? Do you experience colours or smells when visualising specific numbers, letters or names? This is called synesthesia - a relatively common phenomenon. Many people who have it - don’t even realise that many others don't experience the world in the same way as they do. Faye will be chatting about her discovery of synesthesia and what happened next ......
Faye is a KCL alumni currently working at a cancer hospital in Kuwait as a nuclear medicine technologist. Perhaps appropriately, the term ‘synesthesia’ derives from the Greek meaning "to perceive together"- in keeping with the ‘feel’ of our regular online sessions.
*Please join in ways that work for you (with/without your cameras on, with/without using the chat function and so on). Our sessions, as is our Network, are inclusive spaces and we ask that participants are respectful of our diverse and divergent approaches to 'neurodiversity'. We will not tolerate racist, ableist, xenophobic, trans-phobic, and otherwise discriminatory behaviours/language, and ask that participants are aware of various privileges at play.
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OTHER FORTHCOMING PROGRAMMES as part of
“Like Minds” curated by creative arts-science duo Prof Tony Gee and Mike Barrett
Summer 2022 programme for the Neurodiversity In/And Creative Research Group
The Neurodiversity Network is creating a series of informal virtual chats over the coming months called "Like Minds” with an exciting selection of guests and topics. These will take place on weekdays during the next few months (typically Thursday or Friday afternoons at 4 pm) via Zoom as a complement to our regular Friday sessions. The initial programme, guests and topics are posted below. If you would like to host a session yourself or have additional suggestions for guests and topics please get in touch.
Thursday 4th August (4-5 pm Zoom chat)
“Aphantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” – Brian Irvine
Brian will be chatting with us about his experience of Aphantasia – sometimes known as ‘image-free imagination’ – a condition that is almost certainly more common than we may think.
Brian is an ESRC funded researcher at ACER, the University of Birmingham’s Autism Centre for Education and Research. There he researches Specialist (Autism) Mentoring in HE. He also mentors at Royal Holloway, University of London where, over the last decade, he has had the pleasure of regular meetings with many brilliant students as they journeyed through their university life. His background is in autism education and – last century – was Head of RE at a secondary modern. For fun he keeps bees, as it avoids being interrupted for a few hours. @BigBadBee
Tuesday 6th Sept (4-5 pm Zoom chat)
“Still busy” – Carmen Byrne
Busy finding stillness in visual arts practice and arts-based research, where neurodiversity redefines being still through busyness.
Carmen is an interdisciplinary artist and arts-based researcher who specialises in co-productive working to inform social change. Recent work includes with Shelter, Oxford University and many more.
best wishes
Kai and Ranjita
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Best wishes
Kai
Dr Kai Syng Tan FRSA SFHEA
(she/her) Senior Lecturer
Programme Leader (Executive Creative Arts Leadership MA/MFA),
EDI lead/co-lead (Department of Art & Performance; Research Centre for Study of Race & Racism [Advisory Board Member]; Race Equality Activities Planning Group, University Disability Forum; Faculty E&D)
Art & Performance, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
Twitter: @kaisyngtan @wesatonamat
* Interview: Neurodiversity and Creativity, Beshara Magazine https://besharamagazine.org/uncategorized/neurodiversity-and-creativity-kai-syng-tan/
* Join me: Workshop at University of Oxford, Mind, Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School 2022 14 July - 15 July with Dr Mohammed Rashed (Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London)
* Watch: How to Thrive in 2050: BBC Culture in Quarantine commission https://kaisyngtan.com/artful/bbc-film-press-kit/
* Journal article: The Artful Agile Atypical Octopussy. Performance Review https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2021.2005972
*Journal article: Art and psychiatry in the 21st century: here's to more messy – and magical – entanglements, British Journal of Psychiatry ow.ly/61Kx50GQBrH
*Journal article: Towards an anti-racist Fine Art Ph.D.: ‘Anti-racism productive antagonisms’ (ARPA) for the supervisor, student and examiner in Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, Volume 20, Number 1 https://doi.org/10.1386/adch_00029_1 Abridged version: cloreleadership.org/cultural-leadership/towards-anti-racist-fine-art-phd
*Journal article: Covid-19 and Mental Health: Could Visual Art Exposure Help? Co-authored op-ed In Frontiers in Psychology 30 April 2021 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650314
*Diversify ‘neurodiversity’ and widen ‘research’ - join 349 neurodivergent innovators and allies on the Neurodiversity In/& Creative Research Network https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=NEURODIVERSITY
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