Torrance Festival of Ideas
April 21-22
https://tinyurl.com/torranceideasfest2025
The 2025 Torrance Festival of Ideas explores festival theme of Creativity and Health. This global online two-day festival features presentations from world-renowned scholars on their pioneering ideas on the intersections between creativity and mental health, physical health, community health, and medicine.
Registration is FREE but seats are limited!
Monday, April 21
ANITA JENSEN (Lund University, Sweden)
Healthier together: Arts on Prescription for Mental Health Wellbeing
VICKY KARKOU (Edge Hill University, UK)
The Arts & Arts Therapies with Children and Young People
SUSAN IMUS (Columbia College Chicago)
Aesthetic Mutuality: Creating Breeds Creating
KELLY BARNETT (Balance Medical Center, Vancouver, Canada)
Should Doctors Prescribe Creativity?
LISA GALLAGHER (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio)
HeRe We Arts®: Health, Resilience, & Well-Being Through the Arts
CHRISTIAN RÖMINGER (University of Graz, Austria)
Creativity & Physical Activity: What’s the Evidence?
Tuesday, April 22
ALEX RODRIGUEZ (University of Florida)
Arts Engagement as a Health Behavior
BRODERICK FLANIGAN (Athens, GA)
Using Art to Discuss Economic Health in Low Wealth Communities
SHOSHI KEISARI (University of Haifa, Israel)
Enhancing Social Connectedness in Old Age Through Theatre-Based Interventions
ERICA CAO (Stanford University)
Co-Creation in the Medical Humanities
SUJAL MANOHAR (Baylor College of Medicine, Texas)
How the Arts and Humanities Can Benefit Health Professions
RICHARD SCHAEFER (Johns Hopkins University)
Art Imitates Medicine and Medicine Imitates Art
This event is organized by UGA’s Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development.