Creative Brain Week

04/03/2026

Great start to day 3 of www.creativebrainweek.com in the Royal Irish Academy of Music - RIAM these musicians wrote an exceptionally beautiful nuanced piece each individual weaving and reflecting on 'this is what my soul sounds like'. Trinity College Dublin Atlantic Fellows Royal Irish Academy of Music

03/03/2026

Pratchett Prize winner this year is: ASBESTOS with ROSS KILLEEN for Don't Forget to Remember, a moving live performance by the artist Asbestos, which was in the National Gallery of Ireland in January 2025.

Over the course of one weekend, Asbestos systematically erased 15 chalk portraits on blackboards. Each board depicts a memory of his mother Helena, who has Alzheimer’s. The performance was accompanied by a live sound installation, created in collaboration with artist and composer, Cian Walker. A recording of Helena's voice was played and recorded over again and again until it gently fades away; all a testament to the fragility of her memories, slowly disappearing from Alzheimer’s.

This exceptional event was captured in a film Don't Forget to Remember, which forms part of this year's www.creativebrainweek.com exhibition - free to attend in the Naughton Institute in Trinity College Dublin Atlantic Fellows

02/03/2026

Aaaaaaaan we're off! www.creativebrainweek.com Trinity College Dublin Atlantic Fellows

02/03/2026

Sometimes it is just people in a room doing extraordinary things.In just 10 years of GBHI at Trinity College Dublin supported by Atlantic Fellows these people have done and continue to do life changing work for equity in brain health globally. www.creativebrainweek.com

25/02/2026

SoFFt Productions are thrilled to be back production managing Creative Brain Week 2026! An event that sits right at the heart of what we love: bold ideas where arts and health integrate.

All events are FREE to attend, sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/41071500993?_gl=1*1ocyyol*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTA3MzIzODIwNy4xNzcxOTM0ODEx*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzE5MzQ4MTAkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzE5MzQ4MTAkajYwJGwwJGgw

This year’s programme is packed with work that proves how vital the arts are to our collective wellbeing.

A few highlights we’re especially excited about:
🧠Thinking. Better. Together.
Tuesday 3 March, 9.30–11.30am
A space for shared inquiry, collaboration and fresh thinking around brain health and creativity.
🧠A World of Music and Health
Wednesday 4 March, 3-4pm
With Jack Nissan and guests, introducing a music programme addressing women’s rights and digital exclusion, developed with Samata Collective in India and Kenya. A brilliant example of how music can be both artistic expression and social intervention.
🧠Experiential sessions with IMMA Horizon programmes
Friday 6 March, 2-4pm
Workshops offering a different way to experience the intersection of art, health and lived experience.

Creative Brain Week continues to show what’s possible when artists, researchers and communities come together.

23/02/2026

Just one week to go! Booking out fast. Can't wait to welcome everyone to be part of it. www.creativebrainweek.com Trinity College Dublin Atlantic Fellows IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art Royal Irish Academy of Music

Creative Brain Week: A heady mix of World-Leading Neuroscientists, Educationalists, Health Policy Makers, Artists and Innovators exploring the brain and creativity.

18/02/2026

www.creativebrainweek.com - spotlight on Tuesday 3rd March:

Weaving Worlds
Inspiring case studies and informative approaches to implementation that are Thinking. Together. Each moves beyond articulating problems to activating “Better” in the world.

- Cormac Russell social explorer and author, Founding Director of Nurture Development and a member of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago explores innovative approaches to development.
- Oonagh O’Brien Lecturer Computer Science, Post Doc Researcher Cyberpsychology considers technological use and its links with wellbeing
- Atholl Kleinhans Lecturer, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University examines education as a vehicle to drive social change in health care, introduced by Eimear McGlinchy
- Ed Collier Co Artistic Director of China Plate on theatre to create understanding
- Rene Weston of Sunshine Cinema introduces Africa’s largest solar-powered cinema network, delivering campaigns, films, and community dialogue, powered by trained youth facilitators
- Dela Wilson of Axel unpicks and re-weaves understanding to help people make sense of a changing world

Tickets are free, but are flying out the door. To book please click on the 'Click here' link at the top of the page for each day(s) you are interested in attending.
https://creativebrainweek.com/event/thinkingbettertogether/
TCD AlumniTrinity College DublinAtlantic Fellows

How do people move from senses to systems, what systems support or hinder? Speakers lay out a rich landscape for exploration, using their expertise as transportation.

17/02/2026

www.creativebrainweek.com - spotlight on Tuesday 3rd March:

Thinking Through The Senses: On The Nose
A week that moves between sensation and systems starts with an enjoyable introduction to the sense of smell. How does expertise from science and creativity generate olfactory understanding? Brain systems that makes sense from scent, wonders of wine and the perfumes of place and time. Featuring:

Chair: Mani Ramaswami Professor of Neurogenetics at Trinity College Dublin
Paul Dockeree Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Trinity
Harriet Tindal, Director of fine wine at Tindal Wine Merchants

All our events are free to attend, but book up early. You can book a ticket for online or in person attendance for this day here: https://creativebrainweek.com/event/thinkingbettertogether/

03/02/2026

Booking is now open for Creative Brain Week, featuring a dynamic mix of world-leading neuroscientists, educationalists, health policy makers, artists, and innovators who will explore the intersection of the brain and creativity.

This year’s theme is ‘Thinking. Better. Together.’ The event will take place from March 2–6, 2026.

Tickets are free, but availability is limited, and the speakers' program tends to fill up quickly. Click on the link to secure your space!

Be part of it: www.creativebrainweek.com

14/01/2026

CREATIVE BRAIN WEEK IS BACK! March 2nd to 6th. Watch this space for details of the programme for this year and when the tickets are being released we will post here. Want to get advance notice so you can book your place before the tickets go on general release? Click here and just put 'register for advance notice' in the subject line. https://creativebrainweek.com/contact/

06/06/2025

On Monday, this is happening: www.creativebrainweek.com So, Friday, you and I are heading into a few frantic days of last minute marketing to shift last stubborn tickets, installation of exhibition, making sure that speakers know when and where they are going and all staff and crew are tee'ed up and know what they are doing. It's all go go go. And I wouldn't have it any other way. This year is all about Kindness. That matters. We are the lucky ones Friday and should never take that for granted. So. Enough of this pause, let's go. LET'S GO!