Event | SPARC Symposium 2026: Sound(ing) Bodies

Wednesday, 27^th – Sunday, 31^st May 2026, London (UK)

This year’s SPARC symposium is centred on creative health and wellbeing.  Through immersive concerts, talks, workshops and a fieldtrip we invite practitioners from diverse artistic and academic backgrounds to come together to discuss, explore and debate.

The symposium brings together presentations by world-leading artists and researchers both from outside and within the City St George’s community, and from both the Department of Performing Arts and other departments and schools at the university. It features the first Creative Arts and Health Forum, jointly curated by the School of Communication and Creativity (SCC) and the School of Health and Medical Sciences (SHMS). The focus is interdisciplinary research initiatives in Creative Health, within the University and outside, across community and clinical contexts, including contribution to impact and public engagement. The forum also marks the launch of a landmark short course in Creative Health, the product of a partnership between City St George’s and London Arts & Health.

The symposium showcases SPARC Lab, our outstanding technological facilities for immersive sound and movement, based at City St George’s Department of Performing Arts, including an Ambisonic 24.4-channel loudspeaker dome surrounding the audience and the IKO: a unique, 20-sided, 3-D loudspeaker array.

https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2026/may/sparc-symposium-2026