ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS
Date : 14 October 2023
Time : 13:00 – 16:00
Location : Auditoriam 5th Floor, BACC 

Speakers
Carol Rogers, National Museums Liverpool
Carol Sinclair, Applied Arts Scotland
Anne Gallacher, Luminate, Scotland
David Cutler, The Baring Foundation
Ruth Edson, Manchester Art Gallery
Asst.Prof. Khemmiga Teerapong, Bangkok University
 
The Thailand – UK Creative Ageing Round Table considers an urgency to address the ageing society issue that Thailand is facing by exploring the meaning of arts and how arts serve as a vehicle for meaningful engagement and enjoyment for the ageing population. The Round Table aims to raise awareness, advance collaboration, facilitate knowledge exchange, and foster capacity building concerning creative ageing through collaboration between Thailand and the UK, and to highlight creative ageing as a means to enhance the quality of life and well-being for the ageing population and promote a more inclusive society.
 
**Talk is conducted in English, with simultaneous interpretation in Thai
**Activity is free of charge
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Speakers:
Carol Rogers MBE Director of House of Memories National Museums Liverpool
Carol Rogers leads the multi-award-winning House of Memories, a flagship dementia awareness programme for National Museums Liverpool. House of Memories is making a difference to people living with dementia, their carers, families, and communities. More than 60,000 people have benefited from the programme, which continues to expand across the UK and globally in USA and South East Asia. In January 2015, Carol was acknowledged by HRH Queen Elizabeth II and awarded an MBE (Member of The British Empire), for her role leading House of Memories.

Carol Sinclair Ceramic and Craft Artist
Carol Sinclair is a ceramic artist with over 30 years experience of running her own craft practice. For the last 14 years her work has explored the theme of dementia and she exhibits her ceramic sculptures and installations with the purpose of raising this often difficult subject with audiences. In addition she has been running workshops for carers, sharing with them the value of making as means of both escaping their caring duties and also processing their caring experiences. Carol’s interest in this areas comes from her own personal experience of being a carer for a family member with dementia and actively using her own making practice to help her deal with her own day to day stresses. Subsequently she sought to share through craft activities the power of making for health and wellbeing

Anne Gallacher Director of Luminate, Scotland
Anne Gallacher is Director of Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing organisation. Anne’s career in the UK cultural sector has included posts with Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Watford Palace Theatre. In 2005 she was awarded a Clore Cultural Leadership Fellowship. Anne became the founding Director of Luminate in 2012. Originally set up to run a nationwide creative ageing festival, Luminate has evolved into an organisation that works all year-round to support the development of creative ageing practice. Away from Luminate, Anne is Chair of the Board of All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre and a trustee of Edinburgh dementia charity the Eric Liddell Community. She is a keen choral singer and is a member of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus.

David Cutler Director of the Baring Foundation
Since 2003, David Cutler has been the Director of the Baring Foundation one of the UK’s best known independent funders. He leads their arts programme which from 2010 – 2019 exclusively focussed on creative activities for older people. He has spoken widely on the issue of creative ageing, nationally and internationally and has published numerous reports and blogs on the topic. Before that David worked on a variety of social justice issues in the voluntary sector and a London local authority. He has degrees from Oxford University and the London School of Economics.

Ruth Edson Learning Manager: Communities Manchester Art Gallery and Platt Hall
Ruth is the Community Learning Manager for both Manchester Art Gallery and Platt Hall. Ruth has extensive experience of co-producing exhibitions and programmes in partnership with communities, artists, charities and academics within gallery and museums, local authorities and in a freelance capacity. Ruth is passionate about placing museums and galleries at the heart of solutions that offer creativity as a means of generating societal change. Over the past three years, she has led and curated Uncertain Futures; a collaborative art and research project addressing intersectional inequalities facing women over 50 in relation to work and ageing.

Khemmiga Teerapong Assistant Professor, PhD Faculty of Fine and Applied Art Bangkok University
Dr. Khemmiga Teerapong is currently an assistant professor in art and design at Bangkok University, Thailand. She completed her Bachelor and Master degrees in Visual Communication Design at Silpakorn University, Thailand, and the University of the Arts London, UK, respectively. Subsequently, she received her PhD, in Creative Media from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. For over five years, she has been involved in research about creative practices in multiple fields, including creative districts, creative economy, participatory design research and social design. Internationally, she has also been part of collaborative research projects focusing upon design for social innovation across Southeast Asian countries, Australia, Japan and the UK.