Creative Brainwaves: The Poetry of Dance for Brain Health  

Talks & Workshops on the Creative Arts Improving Brain Health 

Creative Brainwaves is a three-part series of talks and workshops exploring how engaging in creative arts can improve your brain health.This series is curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin.

These talks, curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) will feature neuroscientists, psychologists, researchers, people with dementia and their carers, people with acquired brain injury, brain health activists and creative artists who work to improve brain health.  

Join us to learn how art, singing, music, dance, poetry and writing can stimulate your senses and improve cognition. There is always a special welcome for for people interested in brain health, people living with dementia, acquired brain injury and their caregivers at each session. 

Local support organisations including Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, Living Well with Dementia & Social Prescribing for Health & Wellbeing DLR will also be present at these sessions.  

Talks are FREE, but booking is essential via dlr Libraries Eventbrite 

Bookings via dlr Libraries Eventbrite / | libraryculture@dlrcoco.ie | 01 280 1147 

All events take place in the Studio Theatre, Level 1,  dlr LexIcon, Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire, A96 H283  

Tea and coffee will be provided. 

Wednesday 22nd May, 11:00am – 1.00pm

The Poetry of Dance for Brain Health  

Professor Ian Robertson  

Ian is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin (1999–2016) and was the founding Director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, as well as Dean of Research of Trinity College Dublin, from 2004–2007. Ian is the Founding Director of the Global Brain Health Institute, TCD.  

Julie Feeney 

Julie Feeney is a singer-songwriter, composer, actress, carer and record producer from Galway, Ireland. She produces and orchestrates her own work, composing both instrumental and electronic music, with full orchestrations.  

Anusha Yasoda Mohan 

Anusha Yasoda Mohan is a Perceptual Neuroscientist and dancer.  As a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), she specialises in the Neural mechanisms underlying tinnitus.  She is an accomplished Bollywood dancer and she also works with ‘Brain For Movement’.  She is a Global Atlantic Fellow at The Global Brain Health Institute, TCD.  

Veronica Casey 

Veronica works with adults to develop their reading and writing skills, and teaches creative writing to both children and adults. A poet and short story writer, one of Veronica’s greatest joys is to hear other people’s stories, andto give them a pathway to share their experiences too. Veronica also works in the community, developing and running projects to promote wellbeing through health, education, and physical activity. 

Mike Hanrahan  

Mike Hanrahan is an author, songwriter and guitarist, born in Ennis, County Clare.  He performs with Stocktons Wing and Eleanor Shanley.  He is deeply committed to exploring and developing creative arts in well-being.  He is a Global Atlantic Fellow at The Global Brain Health Institute, TCD.