Forget Me Not Following a significant funding award from Scottish charity the Life Changes Trust, the Festival and King’s Theatres officially launched Forget Me Not in September 2015, a pioneering collaborative project designed to create dementia friendly communities at the heart of our cultural venues. Led by the project’s Coordinator Paul Hudson, Forget Me Not has set out a full and inclusive programme of events and activities to engage and support people living with dementia, their carers and their families. We have commissioned full audits of our venues to address ways we can make our public spaces more welcoming and easier to navigate, and based on the recommendations, we refurbished the Festival Theatre Café in January to create a more dementia friendly environment. The activities, which are currently based at the Festival Theatre and the Studio, have included theatre shows, tea dances, storytelling sessions, focus groups and a theatre club for carers, partnership working with Alzheimer Scotland and arts organisations across Scotland including the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Dance Base and Janice Parker Projects.
715 people have attended Forget Me Not events since September 2015
Helen Buchanan photographed at the ‘It’s a Funny Old Story’ stortytelling event at the Festival Theatre photo by Greg Macvean
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