Be part of Creative Brain Week 2026, online and in person at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). A week of curiosity designed to stimulate creative brains featuring exhibitions and talks by world-leading neuroscientists, educationalists, health policymakers, artists, and innovators:

Creative Brain Week | Day 1

Speakers Program:

Opening Day

March 2 | Naughton Institute, Trinity

3.30–5.30pm UTC (Dublin)

7:30–9.30am UTC -8 (San Francisco)

Celebrating 10 years of GBHI's growing impact around the world and 5 years of Creative Brain Week’s emerging network.

Creative Brain Week | Day 2

Speakers Program:

Thinking. Better. Together.

March 3 | Naughton Institute, Trinity

9:30am–5:00pm UTC (Dublin)

1:30am–9:00am UTC -8 (San Francisco)

Investigating how shared thinking and practical action evolve from senses to systems, and revealing what deepens collective knowledge.

Creative Brain Week | Day 3

Thinking Better Together Through the Senses: Sound

March 4 | Royal Irish Academy of Music

10:30am–4:30pm UTC (Dublin)

Examining what we know about sound. Asking and answering questions in music. Does sound carry knowledge? Can new songs remake the world?

Creative Brain Week | Day 4

Thinking Better Together: Brains, Bodies, Stories, Systems

March 5 | Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity

10:00am–5:00pm UTC (Dublin)

Exploring the interplay between cultures, creativity, and health-making systems through case studies, reflections and workshops. 

Creative Brain Week | Day 5

Thinking Better Together: Unseen Senses

March 6 | Irish Museum of Modern Art

10:00am–5:00pm UTC (Dublin)

With the gallery’s commitment to “Radical Hospitality” as a starting point, GBHI and IMMA invite audiences to assemble and explore the rich complexities of Thinking, Better, Together as an art form.

Creative Brain Week | Daily

Creative Program & Exhibition

March 2–6 | Naughton Institute, Trinity

9.30am–5.30pm daily

Music, performance, visual art exhibitions, interventions, and installations demonstrate the creative brain in action. Featuring:

• Lancet photo essay premiere: visualising relationships between the arts and health
• Case studies: celebrating a decade of the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health
• Koko Suzanne film: a girl’s life is upended when her grandmother’s behaviour sparks fears of witchcraft

Creative Brain Week | Daily

Associate Program

March 2–6 | Unit18, Trinity East Campus

Various times

Facilitated by the Atlantic Fellow-led Two Cent Collective, this exhibition brings together mixed‑media artworks and performance-based pieces created by young people from the Linn Dara schools in Dublin. Featuring:

March 2 | 12.30pm

Opening Reception

March 4 | 4.30–5.30pm 

GBHI Talk: How designing for brain health can help tackle the loneliness epidemic

Creative Brain Week is a Global Brain Health Institute innovation at Trinity College Dublin, 

presented in association with Creative Aging International, and with support from the Atlantic Institute.

Generously supported and inspired by 

Global Brain Health Institute | Trinity College Dublin | Creative Aging International

Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) | Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) 

Harry Hartford, Trinity alumnus and President, Causeway Capital Management LLC

University of California, San Francisco

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