Creative Brain Week

Creative Brain Week Australia is coming up - August 27th to 30th - in Brisbane! Each of the 4 days has a separate theme: Kindle, Attune, Thrive, Rise. A packed programme of progressive practice, connecting creativity and science in brain health. See the full programme here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/creative-brain-week-brisbane-2026-4854570 Congratulations to Queensland Brain Institute Trinity College Dublin Kim-Huong Nguyen, Dominic Campbell and the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI)

Global Creative Brain Weeks are a fast developing global ecology of knowledge, nuance and inspiration.

Global Creative Brain Week's are usually led by an Atlantic Fellow working in their home country, supported by Dominic Campbell working remotely. This approach ensured that Global Creative Brain Weeks were built from local expertise and knowledge, responding to local challenges, and rooted in equitable information exchange with developments in Ireland. This became “Thematically Connected, Locally Informed” a fourth ingredient in Creative Brain Week’s values driven “recipe” alongside “Nothing About Us Without Us”, “No Tell Without A Show, No Show Without A Tell” and “Each One Teach One”.

An asset based community development approach has been adapted to ensure the team in each location work to their strengths. The difference between countries and location, and the expertise and experience of each team’s leadership, make this enriched diversity of approaches and practices possible. As they mature it's becoming a unique and vital ecosystem of generous knowledge making and practical information exchange.

We are very excited that there are three Creative Brain Weeks happening in the next few months: Australia (27-30 August) (https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/creative-brain-week-brisbane-2026-4854570?msockid=013563666fa960b0203274786ed761b4), Singapore (1-5 September) and Mexico (14-16 October) (https://insp.mx/avisos/semana-del-cerebro-creativo-mexico-2026).

Proudly supported by Global Brain Health Institute, Creative Aging International, LaSalle College, Trinity College Dublin, The Queensland Brain Institute University of Queensland, The Ireland FundsSingapore, National Institute of Public Health (INSP) Mexico and Atlantic FellowsThe Atlantic Institute.
www.creativebrainweek.com

Creative Brain Week Australia is coming up - August 27th to 30th - in Brisbane! Each of the 4 days has a separate theme: Kindle, Attune, Thrive, Rise. A packed programme of progressive practice, connecting creativity and science in brain health. See the full programme here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/creative-brain-week-brisbane-2026-4854570?msockid=013563666fa960b0203274786ed761b4 Congratulations to Kim-Huong Nguyen, DominicCampbell, The University of Queensland, Trinity College Dublin and Global Brain Health Institute

Creative Brain Week, Brisbane - 2026 Find all Creative Brain Week Australia events here. Choose a day that suits you or purchase a 4-day ticket and don't miss a thing.

Great start to day 3 of www.creativebrainweek.com in the Royal Irish Academy of Music - RIAM these musicians wrote an exceptionally beautiful nuanced piece each individual weaving and reflecting on 'this is what my soul sounds like'. Trinity College Dublin Atlantic Fellows Royal Irish Academy of Music

Pratchett Prize winner this year is: ASBESTOS with ROSS KILLEEN for Don't Forget to Remember, a moving live performance by the artist Asbestos, which was in the National Gallery of Ireland in January 2025.

Over the course of one weekend, Asbestos systematically erased 15 chalk portraits on blackboards. Each board depicts a memory of his mother Helena, who has Alzheimer’s. The performance was accompanied by a live sound installation, created in collaboration with artist and composer, Cian Walker. A recording of Helena's voice was played and recorded over again and again until it gently fades away; all a testament to the fragility of her memories, slowly disappearing from Alzheimer’s.

This exceptional event was captured in a film Don't Forget to Remember, which forms part of this year's www.creativebrainweek.com exhibition - free to attend in the Naughton Institute in Trinity College Dublin Atlantic Fellows

Aaaaaaaan we're off! www.creativebrainweek.com Trinity College Dublin Atlantic Fellows

Sometimes it is just people in a room doing extraordinary things.In just 10 years of GBHI at Trinity College Dublin supported by Atlantic Fellows these people have done and continue to do life changing work for equity in brain health globally. www.creativebrainweek.com

SoFFt Productions are thrilled to be back production managing Creative Brain Week 2026! An event that sits right at the heart of what we love: bold ideas where arts and health integrate.

All events are FREE to attend, sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/41071500993?_gl=1*1ocyyol*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTA3MzIzODIwNy4xNzcxOTM0ODEx*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzE5MzQ4MTAkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzE5MzQ4MTAkajYwJGwwJGgw

This year’s programme is packed with work that proves how vital the arts are to our collective wellbeing.

A few highlights we’re especially excited about:
🧠Thinking. Better. Together.
Tuesday 3 March, 9.30–11.30am
A space for shared inquiry, collaboration and fresh thinking around brain health and creativity.
🧠A World of Music and Health
Wednesday 4 March, 3-4pm
With Jack Nissan and guests, introducing a music programme addressing women’s rights and digital exclusion, developed with Samata Collective in India and Kenya. A brilliant example of how music can be both artistic expression and social intervention.
🧠Experiential sessions with IMMA Horizon programmes
Friday 6 March, 2-4pm
Workshops offering a different way to experience the intersection of art, health and lived experience.

Creative Brain Week continues to show what’s possible when artists, researchers and communities come together.

Just one week to go! Booking out fast. Can't wait to welcome everyone to be part of it. www.creativebrainweek.com Trinity College Dublin Atlantic Fellows IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art Royal Irish Academy of Music

Home - Creative Brain Week Creative Brain Week: A heady mix of World-Leading Neuroscientists, Educationalists, Health Policy Makers, Artists and Innovators exploring the brain and creativity.

www.creativebrainweek.com - spotlight on Tuesday 3rd March:

Weaving Worlds
Inspiring case studies and informative approaches to implementation that are Thinking. Together. Each moves beyond articulating problems to activating “Better” in the world.

- Cormac Russell social explorer and author, Founding Director of Nurture Development and a member of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago explores innovative approaches to development.
- Oonagh O’Brien Lecturer Computer Science, Post Doc Researcher Cyberpsychology considers technological use and its links with wellbeing
- Atholl Kleinhans Lecturer, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University examines education as a vehicle to drive social change in health care, introduced by Eimear McGlinchy
- Ed Collier Co Artistic Director of China Plate on theatre to create understanding
- Rene Weston of Sunshine Cinema introduces Africa’s largest solar-powered cinema network, delivering campaigns, films, and community dialogue, powered by trained youth facilitators
- Dela Wilson of Axel unpicks and re-weaves understanding to help people make sense of a changing world

Tickets are free, but are flying out the door. To book please click on the 'Click here' link at the top of the page for each day(s) you are interested in attending.
https://creativebrainweek.com/event/thinkingbettertogether/
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Thinking. Better. Together. - Creative Brain Week How do people move from senses to systems, what systems support or hinder? Speakers lay out a rich landscape for exploration, using their expertise as transportation.