Litadoolan

Presented my research today at NIHR INSIGHT South London 🌿

The argument: personhood in dementia care isn’t lost — it’s sometimes just held in a part of the record no one can find in time.

The model: three temporal layers — past biography, present encounter, anticipated future — held simultaneously, not sequentially.

The next step: building a tool that makes this accessible at the point of care. 30 seconds. That’s the brief.

Watch this space.

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What does it mean to stay with someone — rather than explain them, fix them, or predict their future?

I’ve been thinking about this through theatre and dementia care, and wrote about it for The Stage. The piece looks at how performance can shape public understanding of dementia — and where responsibility really lies.

This question continues to shape my wider work across care, performance, and medical humanities.

You can read it here:
https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/what-is-theatres-responsibility-when-staging-dementia-lita-doolan

If you work in care, theatre, or education, I’d genuinely love to know what resonates.

Writing

I’m sharing a new data-driven artwork as part of Do Not Delete Art’s “Censorship Art Spots” — a collective response to online erasure, algorithmic silencing, and visibility gaps.

This work looks at how meaning fragments, clusters, and disappears inside digital systems.

The full video is live on .art

Beautiful bank holiday sunshine ay..
✨ Grateful to be part of this year’s digital program with Table for One, Play for None.

Tickets have just gone live — and it already has the little “selling fast” badge on the Fringe site 💜. Quietly tickled pink to share this moment with the festival community.

If you’re exploring the digital program this September, I’d love to welcome you.

🎭 Digital Fringe
📅 30 Sept
🎟️ Tickets via the Melbourne Fringe site

https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/whats-on/events/table-for-one-play-for-none

Latest show ‘table for one play for none’ just launched as Melbourne Festival releases their program …. don’t miss out … just saw it’s selling fast … we are delighted to celebrate the popularity of digital work .. so join us .. get your ticket and let us welcome you this Autumn 🍂

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Sometimes art is a laugh.
Sometimes it’s a lifeline.

In Worry, Bookcase, Five Balls…,These works sit in the space between humour and heartbreak

There’s honesty here, mischief, but also delight.

We are invited fully into the stillness and the chaos of the Artists expression .

🎨 Sam Kissajukian’s exhibition is at Summerhall for 2025. Go for colours. Stay for words. Leave with light.

A tree got felled on Waverley today because of storm floris. IIt was dramatic it being cut down slowly piece by piece cause it couldn’t stand on its own at least not safely so it brought me closer to this work by Andrew Goldsworthy at a nearby exhibition. All about the land. And soul and beginning. .

Street Art from Naples, I like the look of the sky and this guy here looks full of life. #

Catch the twist of Anne Bayne’s mid 18ty century live story in this gripping 30 minute on demand story.

Streaming all Summer. link in bio

🔗 get the best of the fest while you’re sat on the sofa

Book Early!

Half an hour to yourself after a hard day with story that comforts uplifts and supports. Explore Dunsapie Loch with Anne- the sequel to Anne Bayne of Duddingston Loch by multi award-winning writer Lita Doolan.

Come and get lost in the lochs this Summer

Experience a Scottish story of independence this Summer 🎧

Bit.ly/AnneDunsapie

Anne Bayne of Dunsapie Loch Experience the captivating tale of Anne Bayne who welcomes her husband, the renowned artist Allan Ramsay, home from the Grand Tour, only to discover that London and a friendship with Samuel Johnson beckons. As Allan's career flourishes, plans for a monument in his honour emerges. Anne wrestles with....