Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary PracticeShaping Change, Transforming Communities
Presenter: Cheryl McLean
Cheryl McLean is an independent scholar, educator and executive editor and publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and editor of The CAIP Research Series and books, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Inquiries for Hope and Change" and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" (Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Calgary, Published by Detselig Temeron Books, Calgary). In her current presentation Cheryl speaks about the vital role of the creative arts in contemporary research and interdisciplinary practice shaping change and transforming communities. Drawing on leading edged research and the creative arts in practice, this compelling talk demonstrates (through topical research examples, stories, narratives, monologues, poetry and film) how the arts applied across disciplines can help foster quality of life while addressing some of the most critical social issues of our modern times.
Cheryl McLean M.A. has a background in academic publishing and journalism,Adult Education and Social Sciences (Social Science, University of Western Ontario, London) mental health and the arts (MA Concordia University, Montreal). In her graduate work and research she studied Creative Arts Therapies and acting (Stanislavski/realism) under the mentorship of Dr. Muriel Gold, formerly the Artistic Director of the Saidye Bronfman Theatre, Montreal and worked as a group therapist with older persons in mental health in residential care with Maimonides Jewish Geriatric Hospital and The Rene Cassin Institute of Social Gerontology. She wrote the “ethnodrama” script “Remember Me for Birds” about aging, mental health and autonomy based on data gathered in research and true stories (a number of her clients were Holocaust survivors) and toured, performed as a solo actor, in keynote solo performances for national conferences, universities and medical schools in Canada and the U.S. (among them The National Association of Drama Therapy,Rhode Island, Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work Educators' National Conference,Congress of the Humanities, McGill Medical School, McGill Division of Geriatric Medicine) She has taught the course "Creative Responses in Death and Bereavement" at The University of Western Ontario, London and has presented about the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice for health research and university based creative arts programmes as well as organizations in healthcare, hospice,palliative care and bereavement and recently presented for The Dietitians' of Canada National Conference and The University of British Columbia, UBC, Okanagan. Her research based ethnodrama was produced as an educational film in 2006.
An agent of change and longtime arts advocate, as publisher of IJCAIP and Editor of the CAIP Research Series, Cheryl McLean continues to publish new research in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice to help shape the emerging international field raising awareness about the vital role the arts have to play for hope and change in communities worldwide.
Information: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com Booking now for 2011-12
