Opportunities & Events
Life Stories, Comics and Dementia Care: A Wales–Japan Online Event
Location: Online | Start Date: 28 September 2026, 10am - 11am UK
Summary:
Join Re-Live for the online launch of Here & Now, a life story comic co-created with people living with dementia and family members in Wales and Japan. Discover how comics and manga can bring lived experiences to the page, open up conversations and connections, and contribute to imagining the future of dementia care in Wales.
Content:
Re-Live invites artists, health and social care professionals, researchers and anyone interested in arts and health to the free online launch of Here & Now - a new life story comic co-created with people living with dementia and family members in Wales and Japan.
Over the past year, people living with dementia and family members have worked alongside comic and manga artists to transform their experiences into visual stories exploring the complexity of life with dementia, including identity, relationships, caring, loss, humour, love and connection.
At this one-hour launch, we’ll open up the pages of Here & Now and hear directly from the people at the heart of its stories. We’ll meet comic and manga artists from Wales and Japan, see some of the artwork, and hear from Dr Yukimi Uchide, Re-Live’s partner in Japan and an innovator in creative dementia care.
Re-Live will also share what we have learned from people living with dementia and their families about the role creativity can play when life is full of waiting — offering movement through imagination and ways to explore and express changing experiences.
Copies of the comic will be available in English and Welsh for artists, organisations, professionals, families and communities.
Monday 28 September 2026 · 10am–11am UK · Online · Free
Book a free place via Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/here-now-launch-of-a-walesjapan-life-story-dementia-comic-tickets-1994389494666
Here & Now is supported by Wales Arts International, British Council Wales and Arts Council of Wales, as part of the Wales–Japan 2025 Culture Programme.