How are we thinking, talking, and learning about ageing?
Join the conversation at Warwick Arts Centre as we explore the topic of ageing. Following thoughts on ‘Embracing Ageing as an Adventure’ from our guest speaker, internationally best-selling author Carl Honoré, researchers from the University of Warwick will share how we are tackling questions about ageing across a range of fields.
This event will include a series of talks, as well as an interactive exhibition in the Warwick Arts Centre foyer. Reserve your free space now, with more details to be announced soon!
Event Information
Doors and interactive exhibition from 6:00pm
Talks to start at 7:00pm.
Event end 9:30pm
This event is aimed at those 18+ but those aged 14+ are welcome to attend with an accompanying adult.
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Talks and activities at this event may discuss topics such as ageing and ill-health. Some displays at the exhibition in the foyer, “timing out: creative responses on prison life” will share creative outputs which cover sensitive and potentially re-traumatising subjects including those of oppression, marginalisation, structural and interpersonal violence, crime and confinement.
About our Guest Speaker:
Carl Honoré is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and speaker. His bestselling books have been published in 36 languages and his online videos have more than 10 million views.
Carl’s latest book, Bolder, explores how we can age better and feel better about ageing. It’s a spirited takedown of ageism and a blueprint for harnessing the new longevity. Bolder was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Reader’s Digest Book of the Month. In 2024, Carl was named as an Advocate for Aging by the American Society for Aging and Next Avenue.
At the Exhibition:
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This exhibition presents visual art and poetry created by men serving very long sentences in a high-security prison in England. Researchers from the Department of Sociology and School of Law at Warwick engaged with these men in the context of an education programme delivered at the prison.
The exhibition’s theme, “Timing Out: Creative Reflections on Prison Life” considers how life unfolds within constrained horizons of time and within controlled spaces. What does it mean to move through major stages of life - youth, adulthood, and old age - while in custody, when imprisonment disrupts the typical markers of work, education, family, and community? How does growing up or growing older behind bars reshape one’s sense of self, perception of time and their sense of belonging?
The exhibition also challenges the assumption that prison time is either wasted or straightforwardly ‘constructive.’ While policy often frames education, work and rehabilitation as central to prison life, in practice - especially in Category A prisons - opportunities for learning, creativity, and personal and purposeful development are rare and have recently been severely underfunded. All this raises questions about the complex relationship between punishment – time – and justice.
Through these artworks, viewers are invited to reflect on what it means to pass time inside; to imagine a life lived within the confines of prison’s contained spaces and its regimented and controlled temporal dimensions.
Content warnings: The creative outputs cover sensitive and potentially re-traumatising subjects including those of oppression, marginalisation, structural and interpersonal violence, crime and confinement.
Resonate events are always free to attend. Tickets are non-transferrable and only available directly from the Resonate Website.
This event is in collaboration with the 2025 ESRC Festival of Social Science.