Visual Art: Dementia friendly tours at IMMA this Summer
9 Jun 2017 (Past)
Art can trigger conversations and connections that don’t rely on memory, providing a great framework for a morning or afternoon visit to your local gallery or museum.
Are you living with Dementia or do you know someone who is? Did you know that IMMA offers free dedicated tours for people with dementia and their carers, friends and family?
IMMA is part of the Azure Network and offers special tailor-made tours of specific artworks so that participants have the chance to discuss and explore the exhibitions. All tours are delivered by IMMA staff members who are specially trained in facilitating art tours for people with dementia.
Finish up with an optional complimentary tea or coffee and a chat in IMMA’s on-site café.
Upcoming Azure Art Tours for people with Dementia, their carers and friends at IMMA this Summer
Friday 9th June 2017 / 11am -12.30pm
How to Book?
You can book for an Azure tour by contacting Caroline via email to edcommbooking@imma.ie or telephone 01 612 9956. If booking in advance doesn’t suit you, you’re also more than welcome to come along to our tours as a ‘drop-in’ attendee – just meet us at reception at the times/dates mentioned above.
What to expect?
Read the recent blog to get more details on what you can expect from Azure tours at IMMA, and to find out more about the Azure Network nationwide. You can also read more about the programme on thejournal.ie or Irish Times.
If you would like to stay up to date with all the latest dementia-friendly tours and events at IMMA please join the Azure Mailing list by selecting it from the list on this webpage.
IMMA is part of the Azure Network, an alliance of cultural organisations that aim for greater inclusion of people with dementia in an Irish cultural context. Inspired by the ‘Meet Me at MoMA’ programme for people with dementia at MoMA, New York, Azure’s primary objective is to reduce the barriers experienced by people with dementia and their carers in accessing cultural organisations, and to ensure that every aspect of their engagement with these organisations is sensitive to their needs.
You don’t need your memory to continue to look at art and discuss it. It’s constant throughout the entire conversation.
Colette Sheridan, The Irish Times
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