Public Libraries and Creative Health

A symposium on Creative Health and the important role public libraries play in supporting communities' health and wellbeing.

Public libraries take on new roles, one of those is to become part of the social infrastructure promoting public health and tackling health inequalities through creative health. The programme of this symposium wants to highlight how creative health can become an intrinsic part of library offer and its added value on existing library services. The aim is to create more awareness about the value of public libraries for public health and the benefits that creativity has for our health and wellbeing.

The symposium is open to everybody interested in creative health and/or public libraries.

Programme:

• The concept of Creative Health. Thomas Kador, Lecturer UCL Arts and Sciences
• Creative Approaches to Well-being in Public Libraries. Katie Plant, Senior library assistant Balham Library, GLL Wandsworth, Founder of CathArtism
• Public libraries as social infrastructure for creative health? The staffing implications of wellbeing activities for displaced people. Bart De Nil, PhD candidate UCL Arts and Sciences / Practitioner-trainer
• Bradford Libraries' health and wellbeing offer. Dionne Hood, Library Development Manager Bradford Libraries
• More names will be added to the programme in the coming weeks.
• Q&A

Practical Info:

• Where: Bradford City Hall, banqueting hall Get directions with Google Maps
• When: 30 May 2025, 13h – 15h (doors open at 12h30).
• Registration: Attendance is free, but we ask you to register

This symposium is organised by UCL Arts and Sciences and Bradford Librairies