Social Activities
Welcome Reception & Theatre Performance (Tuesday April 8, 2025)
The welcome reception will be celebrated at Edifici Rectorat at the University of Lleida (Plaça Victor Siurana, 1. 25003 Lleida)
The reception will be followed by a theatre performance at the Municipal Teatre Escorxador (Lluís Companys Street, s/n. 25003 Lleida – about 8-min walk). We will walk together from Edifici Rectorat to Municipal Teater Escorxador. The theatre performance is entitles “Together: A theatrical conversation”.
Title: TOGETHER: A THEATRICAL CONVERSATION
Synopsis: What does it mean ‘to belong to a generation’? And to be part of ‘Gen Z’ in particular? How is our generational identity different from our own experience of ageing? To what extent do we understand each other if we inhabit different ‘age-created’ worlds? What binds us to the older generations? What meanings do we derive from their life stories? What intersections do our narratives and our identities create when we think of them ‘together’? A young company formed by 3rd and 4th year-students of English Studies has explored these questions in a 12-week-long theatre workshop: we invite you to join the theatrical conversation that has resulted from this exciting experience.
Visit to La Seu Vella & Conference dinner (Thursday April 10, 2025)
La Seu Vella is one of the finest artistic productions of 13th-century Catalan architecture of and, by extension, of medieval European architecture. A guided tour will be proposed and will be followed by the Conference dinner that will be held in one of the magnífic space of La Seu Vella, the Canonja.
“In There Out Here: Art Making Space to Live Well with Dementia”
From the 7th to the 12th April 2025, you are very welcome to visit the exhibition “In There Out Here: Art Making Space to Live Well with Dementia” that will be shown in the second floor of Edifici Rectorat (very close to three of the room where lectures and parallel sessions will take place during the conference). Susan Cox and Hiro Ito have very kindly offered to have the exhibition in Lleida during the conference days.
About the exhibit: The exhibit showcases multi-media artworks (including masks and collage) made by persons living with dementia and their care partners, and in collaboration with academic researchers, and art workshop facilitators. The exhibition was created and launched in 2021 as part of a larger research project focused on what it means to live well with dementia to the end of life.
