Name: Conversations on Loneliness
Start: 2024-07-09T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-07-09T19:00:00+01:00
Location: The Mission Theatre

Are we living in a loneliness epidemic? Come to this panel discussion to find out how art and research can help us understand loneliness.
About this Event

According to the media, we are suffering from a ‘loneliness epidemic.’ Scientists, medics, and politicians are scrambling to identify the most effective ways to eliminate loneliness from our lives. Yet respected scholars and artists also hint that ‘to be alive is to be lonely.’ What is loneliness and how should we view it? Is it a pathology to be cured? Or an inevitable human experience from which we are increasingly estranged?

If loneliness is an inevitable part of our journey, how can learn to live alongside it more comfortably? We invite you to consider these questions (and more) in a panel discussion with loneliness scholar and author Dr Sam Carr, photographer Adrian Wyatt, and one more pannelist to be announced.

Come along to the Mission Theatre on Tuesday 9th June to see how art, research and community can help us understand loneliness.
About the panel

Sam Carr is a Reader with the Department of Education and Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. He is a scholar of loneliness and was the director of 'The Loneliness Project,' a large-scale exploration of older people's inner experience of loneliness. He is also the author of All the Lonely People: Conversations on Loneliness, recently published by Picador.

Adrian Wyatt is a professional Photographer based in Bristol who amongst other styles, embraces Mindful Photography. Having struggled with complex PTSD he has seen how it has been life transforming for him. Today Adrian runs two weekly photography for well-being groups in Keynsham and Radstock called ‘Snap & Stroll’ as well as running a variety of photography workshops and courses in Bristol, London, Rotterdam, and Morocco. He believes in the power of creativity to reconnect us to ourselves, to others and to the world around us; a means to combat loneliness and social isolation. He enjoys nothing more than helping people to find hope and connection in difficult times through photography.