A chamber opera based on Dana Walrath’s graphic memoir series.

Libretto by Dana Walrath, music by Erik Nielsen, and featuring soprano Mary Bonhag as Alice and pianist Allison Cerutti.

The performance will be followed by a panel discussion. Admission is free and donations are welcome. All attendees must be vaccinated and masked.

For more information go to monteverdimusic.org/aliceheimers-opera.html

A chamber opera based on Dana Walrath’s graphic memoir series.

Libretto by Dana Walrath, music by Erik Nielsen, and featuring soprano Mary Bonhag as Alice and pianist Allison Cerutti.

The performance will be followed by a panel discussion. Admission is free and donations are welcome. All attendees must be vaccinated and masked.

For more information go to monteverdimusic.org/aliceheimers-opera.html

Thursday, August 27th The Woolfer will be hosting a special book launch event for Menopause: A Comic Treatment. Four members of the team that bring you Drawing Together are included in this anthology. The event will feature discussion with past DT participants and contributors to the book, Monica Lalanda and Rachael House. AND, if that’s not enough, we will also have a video of many more contributors to the collection, including Lynda Barry and Ellen Forney. JOIN US! 

Registration is here: https://www.thewoolfer.com/feeds 

During these times of necessary change, I am proud to be a part of this anthology Menopause: a comic treatment, releasing this week.

With 25 contributions from diverse and powerful women, we take back this taboo topic, reject the colonization of our bodies, and speak truth to power.  These reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly agree!                                                      

If you are free, Thursday August 20th, there is a virtual launch party at Chicago’s beloved Women and Children First Bookstore.  You can order the book from them or from Penn State Press (they have a link for international orders on their site), from your favorite independent bookstore, or from Bookshop an online service that supports independent bookstores.

Please join the boycott of Amazon, long in motion among writers but now more essential than ever as the uprising and pandemic demand that we all reframe how we use money. Amazon bargains enrich the elite while hurting workers, part of the systemic anti-black and brown racism embedded in today’s global order. Spending to change this unjust social order and to save the planet brings new layers of meaning to each transaction. In that spirit, the money I received for my contribution to this volume has gone directly to the National Domestic Workers Alliance  and to E.A.T. .  Consider a gift to them as well!   

Panel Speaker

Public Lecture on Aliceheimer’s: Comics, Medicine, and Healing Dementia at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/aliceheimers-comics-medicine-and-healing-tickets-59026007377

Speech on Aliceheimer's to the Irish Parliament (Oireachtas) as part of the May green ribbon campaign.

Panel Member at the Bealtaine Discssion. Taking inspiration from Damien Hirst’s iconic Shark in formaldehyde Sculpture The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), this multidisciplinary discussion will explore how we conceive, imagine, understand, process and articulate the difficult subject of death and dying. Through the diverse eyes of artists, academics and medics, as well as personal testimony, we hope to examine and shed light on our peculiar capacities, perceptions, taboos, fetishes, fears and even shame around conversations on death.

MENTAL WEALTH: is a weekly programme, hosted by Brian Greene, all about our mental health and wellbeing. Aimed at anyone interested in their mental health, the programme has interviews with leading figures in the mental health area, with news, events and the latest technology to keep our headspace well. Tune in Tuesdays at 12:30-1pm.

Aliceheimer's talk at the Theatre of Memory. A conference of the world experts in the fields of arts, psychology, research, oral history, consultation, museums, academia, specialised dementia care, education and community organisations from Canada, USA, Singapore, Sweden, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Germany, Finland, Denmark, the UK and all across Ireland.

Speech at the Christ Church Cathedral in a program commemorating the 104th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

UCL Medical Anthropology Talk

UCL Social anthropology Talk

Seminar of the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust & Genocide Studies at the IAS

History of the Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series

Visiting Scholar/Artist at University College London

Medical and Health Humanities Seminar

The Dementia Services Information and Development Centre and MISA Creative Life in association with the National Gallery of Ireland bring you ‘One Thursday at the Gallery’ - a recognition of the increasingly important role the Arts are playing in the world of dementia care.

Keynote Speaker 

dinner program speaker

https://www.alz.org/gmc/in_my_community_103425.asp

Graphic Medicine Panel

Aliceheimer's book talk about connections with Alice. 

Aliceheimer’s