South Africa Meets the South West: Arts-in-Medicine Abroad
A free public lecture by Patrice Repar, DMA
The SMU-in-Taos & UNM-Taos Lecture Series presents a lecture with Patrice Repar
Wednesday, October 19th from 7 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. at the Taos Community Auditorium.
For more information call (575) 737-6242.
South Africa Meets the South West: Arts-in-Medicine Abroad is an ongoing series of projects designed to explore and develop the role of creativity and the arts in healing and health care at home and abroad. A thriving collaboration that began in 2007, the program engages artists and health care professionals from New Mexico and South Africa in various forms of exchange including performances, conference presentations, clinical studies, and a new study abroad course. The interactive performance-lecture composed for the UNM Taos/SMU-in-Taos Lecture Series will include the results of a 3-month study recently completed at South Coast Hospice in KwaZulu Natal.
Profile: Patricia Ann Repar, DMA is a composer of contemporary chamber music and electronic soundscapes; performed narratives, original instruments and vocal improvisatory structures; video documentaries and recorded oral histories; installations in medical environments and site-specific work; and performance experiments in health education. Dr. Repar has been featured as a guest composer, performer, and educator throughout the United States and Canada as well as in parts of the United Kingdom, South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Australia. As an Associate Professor in the departments of Music and Internal Medicine (section of Integrative Medicine) at The University of New Mexico Dr. Repar teaches music composition and arts-in-medicine. She founded and currently directs Arts-in-Medicine: Healing and the Humanities, a program designed to enhance healing and health care through arts-based clinical service, education, community outreach, and international exchange. Sometimes referred to as a ‘living installation’ the program employs musicians, dancers, writers, visual artists and body workers who engage patients, their families, and healthcare professionals throughout UNM Hospitals (UNMH) in creative encounters of a rejuvenating, transformative, and educational nature. Since the fall of 2007 Dr. Repar has been working with health care professionals and artists in Africa to further develop and expand the role of arts in healing and health care.
South Africa Meets the South West: Arts-in-Medicine Abroad is an ongoing series of projects designed to explore and develop the role of creativity and the arts in healing and health care at home and abroad. A thriving collaboration that began in 2007, the program engages artists and health care professionals from New Mexico and South Africa in various forms of exchange including performances, conference presentations, clinical studies, and a new study abroad course. The interactive performance-lecture composed for the UNM Taos/SMU-in-Taos Lecture Series will include the results of a 3-month study recently completed at South Coast Hospice in KwaZulu Natal.
Profile: Patricia Ann Repar, DMA is a composer of contemporary chamber music and electronic soundscapes; performed narratives, original instruments and vocal improvisatory structures; video documentaries and recorded oral histories; installations in medical environments and site-specific work; and performance experiments in health education. Dr. Repar has been featured as a guest composer, performer, and educator throughout the United States and Canada as well as in parts of the United Kingdom, South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Australia. As an Associate Professor in the departments of Music and Internal Medicine (section of Integrative Medicine) at The University of New Mexico Dr. Repar teaches music composition and arts-in-medicine. She founded and currently directs Arts-in-Medicine: Healing and the Humanities, a program designed to enhance healing and health care through arts-based clinical service, education, community outreach, and international exchange. Sometimes referred to as a ‘living installation’ the program employs musicians, dancers, writers, visual artists and body workers who engage patients, their families, and healthcare professionals throughout UNM Hospitals (UNMH) in creative encounters of a rejuvenating, transformative, and educational nature. Since the fall of 2007 Dr. Repar has been working with health care professionals and artists in Africa to further develop and expand the role of arts in healing and health care.
