8:00 – 8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:00 am

Welcome: Dalia Gottlieb-Tanaka and Hilary Lee, Chairs of The Society for the Arts in Dementia Care, in Canada and in Australia

9:00 – 9:40 am

Opening Address: Rémi Quirion, Scientific Director, DHRC & INMHA; Professor, McGill University, Montreal

Art and Dementia  -  A Personal Viewpoint

9:45 – 10:25 am

Shaun McNiff, Psychologist and artist, Dean & University Professor, Lesley College, Boston

Universal Access to Creative Expression: The Ideal and the Restraints

10:30 – 11:15 am

Coffee Break, Poster Presentations and Networking

11:15 – 11:55 am

Susan H. McFadden, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Nourishing the Human Spirit through Creative Expression

12:00 – 1:15 pm

Lunch (you are invited to dine at any of the places on Granville Island)

1:20 – 2:00 pm

Elinor Fuchs, Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, School of Drama, Yale University, New Haven 

My Mother’s Dementia/Our Lives in Art

2:05 – 2:25 pm

Coffee Break

2:30 – 3:35 pm

Discussion with Audience Participation

Moderator: Susan H.  McFadden, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

3:40 – 4:30 pm

Gala opening of Mindscapes 2008. International exhibition of art produced by seniors with dementia

5:30 – 7:30 pm

Social Dinner at the Granville Island Hotel (Admission by ticket - see online registration)

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Musical Performance: Tami and Yuval Admoni, Internationally-known piano duo from Israel at the Emily Carr Theatre (Admission by ticket - see online registration)

8:00 – 8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 8:50 am

Welcome

8:50 – 9:30 am

Janice Graham, PhD, Professor, Medical Anthropologist, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax

Accessing and Rights of Access

9:35 - 10:15 am

Hilary Lee, Occupational Therapist and artist; Chair, Society for the Arts in Dementia Care (Australia)

9.35 -9:55 The Society ‘Down-Under’. A report on the new chapter of the Society in Australia with examples of local projects

9:55 -10.15 Bringing out the Human Essence in People with Dementia. Summary of findings from a Master's research study on the ‘Spark of Life’ program

10:20 - 10:35 am

Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:20 am

• Peter Graf, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia

• Dalia Gottlieb-Tanaka, Chair, Society for the Arts in Dementia Care (Canada), Adjunct Professor, Centre for Population Health Promotion Research (CPHPR),UBC

• Hilary Lee, Occupational Therapist and artist; Chair, Society for the Arts in Dementia Care (Australia), Perth

The Development of an Assessment Instrument for Creative Expression Abilities of Seniors with Dementia (CEA)

11:25 - 12:05 pm

Dr. Peter Spitzer (aka Dr Fruit-Loop), MB.BS., FACRRM, Churchill Fellow

LaughterBoss: Review of an Australian Program Operating in Aged and Dementia Care since 2003

12:10- 1:15 pm

Lunch (you are invited to dine at any of the places on Granville Island )

1:20 – 2:00 pm

Dr. Ruth Bright, AM, Past President of the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA) and the World Federation of Music Therapy, Adjunct Lecturer at the ‘Australian’ University of New England's School of Health

Music Therapy as a Supportive Intervention in Coping with Change

2:05 – 2:45 pm

Patricia Baines, PhD, Anthropology, MA, Psychology, MA, Art Therapy, Diploma in angewandter psychologie, Art therapist/counsellor, Alzheimer's Australia, Tasmania

Honouring the Artist Within:  The Cultural Legitimation of being Creative in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian Societies and its Implications for Individuals Living with Dementia 

2:45 - 3:45 pm

Discussion with Audience Participation

Moderators: Drs. Ruth Bright, Peter Graf, Patricia Baines

3:40 – 3:45 pm

Closing Remarks: Dalia Gottlieb–Tanaka, Chair, Society for the Arts in Dementia Care