4th Annual Conference on Art Therapy was organized by DANA on 10th April, 2016. The Day-long programme was held at The Hotel Golden Park, Kolkata. Swami Tattwatitananda of the R>K>Mission Institute of Culture inaugurated the Conference. In his Key-note Address Dr Chittaranjan Andrate of NIMHANS, Bengaluru spoke on ‘Art, Creativity & Brain’. In the pre-lunch and the post-lunch sessions papers were presented by Dr Debasis Bhattacharya, Dr Sayandip Ghosh, Prof S. Nundy Majumder and Ms Trina Lahiri on topics entitled ‘An Overview of Art Therapy’, ‘Art Therapy as an Adjunct Treatment for Adult Psychiatric Patients’, ‘Interpretation of Visual Language – Looking through the Eyes of Children’, and ‘Art Therapy in Terminal Illness’respectively. The programme ended with a panel discussion having Mr Hiran Mitra, Dr Gautam Saha and Dr Gautam Bandyopadhyay and Dr Amit Chakraborty as moderator. Important personalities, both from the field of Art & Mental Health attended the conference. They were Mr Swapnesh Choudhury, Dr Partha Pratim Roy, Dr S.B. Sinha, Prof O.P. Singh, Mr Kalyan Chakraborty, Dr Arnab Banerjee, Mr Samindra Majumder, Dr Hena Barat Roy, Dr Tultul Ghosh, Mr Harit Basu, Ms Bandana Mukherjee, Ms Subhra Banerjee Pal, Ms Sutapa Chakraborty & Ms Rita Roy. The programme was anchored by Dr Sheila Banerjee and the Vote of Thanks was given by Ms Pallabi Mukhopadhyay on behalf of DANA.
INTUS offered financial support for organizing the conference.
