The Art & Memory Café is a flagship experience of the Memory Mosaics initiative curated by Kiggundu Art Studio. The event, organised by Kiggundu Rodney Erismas an Atlantic Fellow from Uganda, is designed to bridge the gap between care and community through creative, community-centered engagement.

We are thrilled to welcome American filmmaker Sarah Friedland to the UCSF Memory and Aging Center for a screening of her feature film Familiar Touch. Awarded the Luigi de Laurentiis Lion of the Future for best first film and Best Director award at the Venice International Film Festival (2024), this film intimately follows an octagenarian woman's transition into assisted living and the shifts in identity, memory, and physicality that follow.

Museums and galleries are special places where individuals and communities can come together for connection, wellbeing, and sense making. There is growing evidence that visiting cultural spaces can lower anxiety levels, lift depression and loneliness and potentially slow cognitive decline and decrease the risk of developing dementia. 

Join Creative Minds artists and doctors from the UCSF Memory and Aging Center on Saturday August 23rd at 11 a.m. for a brain health talk with Dr. Charles Windon, lunch, and an afternoon of arts and music activities. Photography and visual arts displays from Creative Minds participants will be on view. Event is free and open to the public.