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Do you care? What if healthcare and culture together make a difference to people and society?

Break-out session

How can we create a culture of care where people and communities can truly flourish? And what role can art and culture play in this?

In Leuven & beyond, more and more initiatives are emerging at the intersection of culture and care. In this session, we bring these worlds together and explore how we can go further by joining forces. We look at how existing initiatives can strengthen each other, and where new collaborations can make a real difference.

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What to expect?

An interactive and dynamic working session focused on exchange, ideas and concrete next steps. Together, we map needs and opportunities, share perspectives and work towards a shared ambition for a caring city and region, with culture as a catalyst.

For whom?

Everyone interested in the connection between culture and care. Whether you were part of the Culture & Care: A Joint Call for Change conference or not, you are welcome to join and contribute.

Language

This session will be held in Dutch.

Location?

Stage, 30CC/Schouwburg

 

Body & Soul is a multi-year project and city festival in Leuven that explores the question of how people can truly flourish in body and mind. It examines how we can develop resilience, create spaces for happiness and harness movement in a world full of change. Body & Soul is part of LOV2030.

Meet the speakers

Anna Kint & Niel Van Cleynenbreugel - Coconuts

Anna Kint & Niel Van Cleynenbreugel are co-founders of Coconuts. Coconuts is a creative enterprise in Leuven, for and by young adults with and without psychosis sensitivity. They bring people together around art, encounter, and reflection, starting from an exploration of the madness within each of us.

Anna is also founder and social designer at Freckle,a design agency for social change. 

Niel is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. As the founder of Studio Kraai, a psychotherapy centre in Leuven, and a lecturer on the postgraduate course in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at KU Leuven, he aims to establish ‘playful care’ as part of academic culture. He is also co-founder of Coconuts vzw and co-chair of the Herstelhuis at UPC Kortenberg.

Brenda Anyango

Brenda Anyango is an independent clinical psychologist, behavioural therapist, speaker, and space creator working under the name SemaNami - meaning “talk to me” in her mother tongue, Swahili. 

As a Black psychologist, her work centers on the intersection of mental health and social justice. Brenda primarily supports individuals who are systemically marginalized and consciously works from a contextual, creative, and culturally responsive therapeutic approach. 

Sieg Pauwels

Sieg Pauwels is coordinator for society and innovation at De Wissel, a support network for vulnerable young people and young families. He is responsible for initiating innovative projects, among others at the intersection of art and care, in Leuven and the surrounding region, contributing to a more inclusive society. 

Accessibility

We want everyone to feel welcome at the Summit of LOV. That’s why we consciously choose locations that are as accessible as possible.

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30CC Schouwburg

30CC Schouwburg is accessible for wheelchair users. The building includes a ramp, adapted door widths, a lift and accessible restrooms.

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