ASaP Symposium

2020: Better Together

This year, we endured a global pandemic together. We challenged the way we think about connecting and sharing art. We celebrated art and science together through virtual lecture demonstrations, discussions, and an art exhibit.

2017 INTERGENERATIVITY: CREATIVE EXCHANGE BETWEEN GENERATIONS

In its fifth year, the ASaP Symposium used intergenerative and transdisciplinary approaches to look at creating profound cultural transformation, generating art, ideas, community, connection and reflection.

2014 Widening the Circle: Intersections of Art, Science, and Community

In this symposium, ASaP created a holistic, creative approach that benefits people with Parkinson's disease and those on the Autism Spectrum. The symposium included a panel, film screenings, and a lecture demonstration. Highlights of the symposium were a master class, workshop, and seminar all led by David Leventhal (Brown ’95), Program Director, Dance for PD® and former Mark Morris Dance Group dancer.

2019: The Power of pARTnerships: on College Hill and Beyond

A spirited group of thinkers, dreamers and doers gathered in Studio One at Granoff Center for the Creative Arts on Brown’s campus to explore ways to improve health and wellness through the arts. We spent the day celebrating the partnerships and the people who make our work possible at the intersection of art and science. 

2016 Designing the Next Steps

This symposium was a day of workshops, community classes, discussion, design, lecture/demonstration, and art installations. This year’s focus was on the power of design and the implementation of arts programming in the medical field.

2013 Explorative Symposium-The Intersection between Art and Science 

In this forum, we gathered people from the arts and sciences. We intended for this forum to lead to the establishment of an Arts/Science collaborative council at Brown. The event included a keynote speaker, Dr. Sara Houston, and luncheon, a panel discussion, and breakout sessions.

2018: Beauty in the Space of Medicine and Art

Through performance, workshops, classes, art installations, and presentations our intergenerational group will examined those best and invisible things to which Helen Keller refers. By considering beauty beyond our visual, auditory, and tactile senses, we discovered a deeper universal definition of beauty and co-created and experience moments of beauty and truth. We also explored and experienced how beauty inspires healing.

2015 IMAGINE

In its third year, this symposium was a series of films, panels, performances, workshops, community classes, lecture/demonstration, and art installation. This year’s focus was on the power of technology and art to transform the experiences of people with Parkinson’s Disease and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

2012 Dance, Music, and Neuroscience at the Cogut Center

In this presentation, Balaban and Strandberg discussed the impact dance can have on patients in terms of disease, wellbeing, and creative and artistic growth. The goal of this presentation is to expose students and faculty to complementary practices that can benefit patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as PD, and emphasize the importance of arts within the medical field.