Julia Henderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5049703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Henderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Henderson |
| SIGNATURE | HENDERSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7110-0250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Implicit Narratives in Participatory Arts Collaborations with People with Lived Experience of Dementia
Over the past decade, participatory arts programs for people with lived experience of dementia have expanded in scale, number, and approach, both in North America and the United Kingdom. This narrative analysis considers how participatory arts programs and practices generate implicit narratives about what it means to live with dementia and about the value and meaning of arts and creativity to human experience. Using as examples several large‐scal…
From “the Tragic Self” to “the Empowered Self”
Stories, Arts, and Equity
Health inequalities persist despite extensive public health research and interventions. Qualitative approaches are increasingly recognized for their ability to capture the nuanced, lived experiences of marginalized populations—an essential perspective in a world marked by complexity and uncertainty. This paper draws on two case studies to examine the role of qualitative methods in public health research, emphasizing the importance of amplifying m…
Measuring what matters to older persons for active living
‘Knocking at the door of humanity’
The lived experience of dementia includes loss of identity due to the negative and pessimistic social narratives that are stigmatizing and socially isolating. In the community-based participatory research (CBPR) project Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experiences of Dementia, eleven individuals living with dementia participated as ‘peer collaborators’ in weekly co-creative workshops over two years. The purpose of this study was to investigate ho…
Performing the Lived Experience of Dementia
Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experience of Dementia (RTC) is a five-year collaboration between education, arts, and health care that uses community-based, arts-engaged, participatory research approaches, including theatre, to work with participants with the lived experience of dementia. This article is based on interviews with the three project leads as well as one project participant, and details RTC’s key elements of creative practice, its …
Frontline Faces of Covid-19
This article describes the author’s process of meaning-making in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, through a project that creates digital portraits of frontline workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE). The goal of the project has been to help transform public perception of PPE from something scary into something that allows the humanity of the workers to shine through. The project seeks to publicly honour the sacrifices of frontli…
Dramaturgy of assistance
The autobiographical shows The Waiting Room (by John Mann and Morris Panych), and Sonic Elder (by Vancouver’s The Chop Theatre), both featured performers with dementia or marked age-related memory loss who performed rock music live on stage. These professional Canadian productions used a dramaturgical approach (dramaturgy of assistance) that foregrounded relational and embodied selfhoods, thus highlighting the performers’ musicality and relations…
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Dramaturgy of assistance
The autobiographical shows The Waiting Room (by John Mann and Morris Panych), and Sonic Elder (by Vancouver’s The Chop Theatre), both featured performers with dementia or marked age-related memory loss who performed rock music live on stage. These professional Canadian productions used a dramaturgical approach (dramaturgy of assistance) that foregrounded relational and embodied selfhoods, thus highlighting the performers’ musicality and relations…
Frontline Faces of Covid-19
This article describes the author’s process of meaning-making in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, through a project that creates digital portraits of frontline workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE). The goal of the project has been to help transform public perception of PPE from something scary into something that allows the humanity of the workers to shine through. The project seeks to publicly honour the sacrifices of frontli…
Performing the Lived Experience of Dementia
Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experience of Dementia (RTC) is a five-year collaboration between education, arts, and health care that uses community-based, arts-engaged, participatory research approaches, including theatre, to work with participants with the lived experience of dementia. This article is based on interviews with the three project leads as well as one project participant, and details RTC’s key elements of creative practice, its …
‘Knocking at the door of humanity’
The lived experience of dementia includes loss of identity due to the negative and pessimistic social narratives that are stigmatizing and socially isolating. In the community-based participatory research (CBPR) project Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experiences of Dementia, eleven individuals living with dementia participated as ‘peer collaborators’ in weekly co-creative workshops over two years. The purpose of this study was to investigate ho…
Measuring what matters to older persons for active living
Implicit Narratives in Participatory Arts Collaborations with People with Lived Experience of Dementia
Over the past decade, participatory arts programs for people with lived experience of dementia have expanded in scale, number, and approach, both in North America and the United Kingdom. This narrative analysis considers how participatory arts programs and practices generate implicit narratives about what it means to live with dementia and about the value and meaning of arts and creativity to human experience. Using as examples several large‐scal…
From “the Tragic Self” to “the Empowered Self”
Stories, Arts, and Equity
Health inequalities persist despite extensive public health research and interventions. Qualitative approaches are increasingly recognized for their ability to capture the nuanced, lived experiences of marginalized populations—an essential perspective in a world marked by complexity and uncertainty. This paper draws on two case studies to examine the role of qualitative methods in public health research, emphasizing the importance of amplifying m…
Art Therapy and Mental Health (6 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Citizen journalism (4 works) · Dementia (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Lived experience (3 works)