Television interviews

 In this episode, applied theatre practitioner Georgia Bowers, shares her experience of working in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic. She talks about the benefits and challenges of producing theatre workshops with the strict safety restrictions imposed by the pandemic. 

To listen follow the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/humansofhealthcare/arts-for-wellbeing-002-georgia-bowers-theatre-practice-in-a-care-home

 Dr Georgia Bowers is a leading Creative Ageing practitioner, academic and pro-ageing activist. Her work explores how theatre making with older adults can tackle ageism and takes place in care homes, hospitals, sheltered housing accommodation, day centres and via online video platforms. Georgia has worked for arts organisations such as Royal Opera House, Brighton People’s Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Spare Tyre and London Bubble. Both her research and Creative Ageing practice has been celebrated and shared throughout Europe and North America. She is currently the Programme Leader for Applied and Contemporary Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting. 

To listen follow the link below:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/series-5-episode-7-dr-georgia-bowers/id1609475984?i=1000654326745

This series is a collaboration between LLARC and the British Society of Gerontology's Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA). We talk to early career researchers in Gerontology about their research projects.

In this episode, Dr Mervyn Eastman and Dr Arlind Reuter talk to Georgia Bowers, theatre maker and PhD researcher at the University of Portsmouth. We learn from Georgia about how theatre can counteract feelings of shame and the pro-ageing praxis framework.

To listen follow the link below:

https://www.mixcloud.com/LLARC/llarc-in-conversation-with-bsg-era-georgia-bowers-on-theatre-ageing-and-participatory-research/

In the inaugural episode of the Everyday Creativity Research Network Podcast, Prof Owen Evans (Edge Hill University) speaks to creative ageing specialist Georgia Bowers (University of Portsmouth) about the term 'everyday creativity' and what it means to her. 

To listen follow the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/user-297122810/georgia-bowers-podcast?si=b3123f5fcd2144a39a63db196d360664&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Georgia Bowers is an applied theatre practitioner, researcher and academic currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Portsmouth and her research is interested in learning about how theatre can be used to disrupt the established narratives around ageing, and the impact this may have on participants. Georgia speaks about the ways that applied theatre might be able to create shame resilience among older adults. Georgia’s interest in this area started from a summer job as an activities coordinator in a care home, which provoked her to address her pre-conceptions about working with older adults and instead open up and be inspired by the vibrancy and energy of her collaborators. She then began to develop an applied theatre practice by setting up a theatre company within the care home which helped the collective of residents tell their stories, learn about each other and build community. Her research builds on these experiences and seeks to measure what difference theatre can make to adults over 65 who take part in a regular theatrical intervention.

To listen follow the link below:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/applied-theatre-older-adults-shame-resilience-with/id1086139707?i=1000554379508

Inspiring conversation with Applied Theatre Researcher, Georgia Bowers. Her passion for Applied practice with older adults has contributed to her research ‘Applied Theatre and Older Adults: The Impact of Theatrical Engagement with Adults aged 65+’. Georgia’s research further evidences how transformational Applied Practice can be and how it is the duty of theatres, funders and practitioners to provide it. 

To listen follow the link below:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s01e15-georgia-bowers-applied-theatre-and-older-adults/id1537978401?i=1000564862158

With guest Georgia Bowers. Georgia spent the height of the pandemic working in a care home for over 100 older people. Much has been reported on the handling of the pandemic in relation to care homes. In this episode, Georgia provides a vivid account calling into question the value placed on the lives of older people, and the regard for carers on the frontline. She talks about having to suspend emotion and just carry on; but the strain and helplessness of seeing residents lose their liberty and life is something that carers will carry for a long time. 

 To listen follow the link below: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2NvbnZlcnNhdGlvbnMtd2l0aC1jYXJlcnM/episode/NjE4YjkzNDYzNGZhMjcwMDEzMzJhMGRj?hl=en-GB&ved=2ahUKEwiI5O29u7P0AhVJVsAKHYAMAekQieUEegQIExAR&ep=6 

 Producer: Sophie King 

 Conversations with Carers was created by Rashmi Becker, Founder of Step Change Studios, and supported using public funding by Arts Council England.  www.stepchangestudios.com