Reminisence Theatre Workshop
Reminiscence Theatre Workshop
We are delighted to welcome Karen Meehan to the DCU All Hallows Campus in March to facilitate a Reminiscence Theatre Workshop.
Following her mother's death in 2016, Karen did a BA in Drama and spent a year studying how to bring Reminiscence Theatre to Ireland, creating the opportunity for people to write their own stories and writing plays about their own lives.
She founded Making Hay Theatre in Sep 2017 – since then has written two plays ‘We Were All Young Once’ and ‘A Play with Me in it’. She is currently doing a series of reminiscence workshops in Navan Alzheimer’s Day Centre and co-creating a new play called ‘The Magic Navan Carpet’.
Karen's mentor Pam Schweitzer MBE director of European Reminiscence Network (ERN) is hosting the next ERN Conference in Dublin which will be held in the Marine Hotel, Sutton, Dublin 13 from 1-3 May 2019. Making Hay Theatre is the first and only Irish group in ERN so this is a huge honour – there will be a great opportunity to learn how other countries are working creatively with older people and share experiences with them. There will be speakers and participants from the Far East, North America, all around Europe (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Netherlands) and from UK and Ireland.
More details on the conference will follow.
In the meantime have a look at the Makeing Hay Website here.