Public Engagement & Programming
The Daughter’s Department of Dementia Care
An exploration of the experience unpaid family dementia caregiving, The Daughter’s Department of Dementia Care is an online exhibit made up of four distinct works that audiences can engage with at home or on-the-go. The exhibit includes photography, a gaming video, and a solo show, asking the audience (caregivers, policy makers, and the medical community alike) to newly see this unique type of caregiving. Click below to visit the exhibit!
Creating Creative Health in Dementia Caregivers
Supported No Barriers USA as a programming consultant, designing and facilitating creative health programming for caregiver retreats in Colorado. Developed original exercises on caregiver identity and resilience, collaborated with program leads, facilitated across three retreats, and contributed an exercise adopted for ongoing organizational use.
Creative Health @ University of Huddersfield
The Feminist Daughter Dementia Dilemma
what do you do when you finally figure out who you are right as your Mom totally forgets who she is?
This solo show is the personal experience of caregiving for someone who doesn't remember and what happens to the caregiver when all social support and services disappear. Spoiler alert: Craziness...craziness is what happens.
Using comedy, poetry, and storytelling, (possibly song?), The Feminist Daughter Dementia Dilemma highlights the need for caretaking for those with dementia handled as a public, social issue as opposed to a private one.
This piece was developed through workshops with Luna Stages, one-on-one with Lauren Weedman, and was part of Santa Monica Rep's 4th Annual Playreading Festival. As a work-in-progress, this piece is a part of the online exhibit, The Daughter’s Department of Dementia Care.
