Browsing by Author "Dowling, Finuala"

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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - Art speaks to and from silence
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Dowling, Finuala; Baumann, Sean
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid continues his conversation with Finuala Downling and Sean Baumann about how art can be used to bring public attention to difficult and hidden areas of mental illness. Finuala discusses the methods he uses to catch her audiences attention and Sean talks about methods he uses to 'dislocate' the senses of his audience while emphasising the continued problem of stigma around mental illness. This is the fifth video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - In dialogue about mental illness
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Baumann, Sean; Dowling, Finuala
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid engages in discussion with Finuala Downling and Sean Baumann about how poetry and music can help us understand and talk about mental illness. They discuss the insider-outsider view of mental illness, experience of the world through the eyes of psychosis, and the role of imagination and empathy when listening to first-hand accounts of mental illness. This is the fourth video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - Seeing and living with dementia
    (2015-01-21) Dowling, Finuala
    In this video, writer and poet Finuala Dowling introduces and read six short poems that are taken from her anthology ‘Notes from the Dementia Ward’. This is the second video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Writers reading: favourite books
    (2013) Heyns, Michiel; Dowling, Finuala; Coovadia, Imraan; Omotoso, Yewande; Rose-Innes, Henrietta
    What books do writers read for pleasure? This course will reveal which recent books five prominent South African writers - Finuala Dowling, Michiel Heyns, Yewande Omotoso, Henrietta Rose-Innes and Imraan Coovadia - are currently enjoying and why. For anyone interested in learning more about what prominent SA writers read for pleasure.
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    Writers Researching: Fact and Fiction
    (2014-09-29) Irwin, Ron; Moffett, Helen; Beukes, Lauren; Makholwa, Angela; Dowling, Finuala
    What is the relationship between research and the writing process and between historical ‘truth’ and fictional ‘truth’? Are there boundaries which should not be crossed? In this course writers will talk about the research that resulted in their recent novels. Ron Irwin, author of Flat Water Tuesday, will discuss how he researched people, places and real events and the challenges associated with turning the events of one’s own life into a novel. Helen Moffett, one of the trio behind the Girl Walk In series, will explain how she and her co-authors research and write erotica novels, providing insight into collaboration, champagne and condoms. Award-winning Lauren Beukes will describe how she ‘kinks’ reality in relation to the real-world research that informed The Shining Girls and Zoo City. Angela Makholwa will explore the process of writing the criminal mind, including interviews with a serial killer for Red Ink, and research about women who killed their husbands for Black Widow Society. Readers always assume that everything that happened in your book happened to you, complains Finuala Dowling, so what’s the point of trudging uphill for five hours in search of one sentence? Referring to both Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart and her latest manuscript, The Fetch, she discusses the price of authenticity.