Explore the joy of arts your family at The Artground.
25 May 2025 (Sunday)
2.30pm – 4.30pm
The Artground at One Holland Village, 7 Holland Vlg Wy, #01-20, Singapore 275748
Register online. Payment of $10/pax is to be made on the event day. Materials and teabreak are provided.
Dementia Helpline: 6377 0700
Email: [email protected]
You can find the full schedule of Memories Café sessions on Dementia Singapore homepage.
Memories Café is supported by Keppel Corporation
This programme offers a fresh change of environment to caregivers who may have long been attending support groups held in more formal settings such as dementia day care centres, while encouraging the interaction and bonding between the person living with dementia and family members. Ultimately, it provides an avenue for persons living with dementia and caregivers to have respite and enjoy themselves despite dementia.
The concept of Memories Café was originated from Dr Bere Miesen’s “Alzheimer’s Café” in 1997 in the Netherlands. Dr Miesen’s initiative aims to provide a normalised café setting for persons living with dementia with the following objectives:
- To minimise social stigma on persons living with dementia and to encourage social acceptance through the engagements in a café within a community setting.
- To provide an alternative platform for social interactions and respite to persons living with dementia and their caregivers, moving away from long-term care environment and their homes.
- With organised activities for persons living with dementia and their caregivers, Memories Café aims to improve their interaction and bonding with each other.
The Memories Café programme, modelled after the Alzheimer’s Café, was successfully piloted in early 2014. The responses garnered from the two pilot sessions were overwhelming, which spurred Dementia Singapore to include this programme as part of its regular programme for its beneficiaries. The programme remains very popular and fully enrolled at almost every session.
The Artground is Singapore’s first multi-disciplinary arts centre dedicated to children from birth to 9 years old, a space where families come together to explore and experience the joy of the arts. This session begins with a 20-min music and movement sing-along, followed by a 40-min art-making session where you’ll create a special family collage celebrating your loved ones as your real-life superhero!
Registrants will be contacted and asked to send 4-5 photos of your loved ones in action—cooking, gardening, fixing things, or sharing their wisdom. These will be printed and used during the session.
Thereafter, enjoy a relaxing teabreak with new friends at Memories Café.
Caregivers and their families.
