The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature
This review explores the relationship between engagement with the creative arts and health outcomes, specifically the health effects of music engagement, visual arts therapy, movement-based creative expression, and expressive writing. Although there is ...
About Art Therapy
Facilitated by a professional art therapist, art therapy effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns.
Ten Benefits of an Open Mic - Alice Osborn
I’ve been a regular open mic reader for over six years and an open mic instigator, known properly as a host, for eighteen months. Organizing open mics takes a lot of work: setting up the venue, marketing the event, organizing the reading schedule, testing the mic, making sure folks don’t go over the…
What is Drama Therapy
Drama therapy is the intentional use of drama and/or theater processes to achieve therapeutic goals...
Expressive Therapies
The expressive therapies are the use of the creative arts as a form of therapy, including the distinct disciplines expressive arts therapy and the creative arts therapies (art therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, poetry therapy, and psychodrama). Unlike traditional arts exp…
Panel Discussion talk: ‘Time’s Up! A Movement for Change’
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