Summer School 2023 – Arts, culture and health

You can now consult the report on the summer school’s Arts, culture and health: what relationships? What are the benefits?

Initiated and organized by the AgeTeQ laboratory and the Université de Montréal, this second edition was part of the training activities of the research chair CREAT. The Arts and Health Axis, headed by Dr. Beauchet (also director of the AgeTeQ laboratory), was the driving force behind this event. CREAT provided financial support for this event.

As part of this second edition of the Arts Culture and health summer school, a filmed discussion from the Université de Montréal reunited three Wise Women: Nathalie Bondil, Kim Thúy and Joséphine Bacon. The theme of the discussion was “Beauty will save the world”.

Click here to view the video excerpt from the Université de Montreal Wise Women’s conference.

Conference presenting the results of the research project “Co-development and deployment of a cycle of museum visits to combat social isolation among Montreal seniors”

On February 6, 2024, the scientific results of the research project “Co-development and deployment of a cycle of museum visits to combat the social isolation of Montreal seniors” were presented by Prof. Olivier Beauchet, head of Axis 2. Arts and Health of the CREAT Chair.

The half-day conference brought together a large number of people keen to learn more about the virtual guided tour program, a unique social innovation in Canada aimed at combating seniors’ social isolation. The project, which received support from the FRQSC, was developed as part of a collaboration between the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and the AgeTeQ research laboratory located at the Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal.

To read an article published in La Presse about this study, click here.