The smiles on the faces of the people illustrates the power of the arts to remind people of their lives outside conflict. I am so impressed by the courage and resilience of these performers.
Showing posts with label Participatory Arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Participatory Arts. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 November 2014
Resilience in Damascus: Singing for Peace
Syrians are suffering under ISIS. Fear of bombing has stopped people from gathering in large numbers on the streets. Now, with the intensification of conflict, the air-strikes by the US and Canada and the recent beheadings by ISIS, public gatherings are even more dangerous. Yet street performers continue to go into the streets bringing people together.
The smiles on the faces of the people illustrates the power of the arts to remind people of their lives outside conflict. I am so impressed by the courage and resilience of these performers.
The smiles on the faces of the people illustrates the power of the arts to remind people of their lives outside conflict. I am so impressed by the courage and resilience of these performers.
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Dementia and Care with Dignity
I few weeks ago I wrote about an environmental and arts in health program that I had been involved in to enhance the environment of a medical ward housing demetia patients in the West of Ireland. With the recent deaths in Canada of Alzheimer patients who have wandered out of their care facility, I have been compelled to undertake further research and explorations into what is possible for the care of the elderly with severe
Alzheimer disease.
What follows is a video done by CNN during which we are invited by Dr. Gupta to travel to Hogewey, a small village in Weesp, the Netherlands, to a nursing home that is really a village complete with shops, hair salons and community programmes. The architectural adaptations, nursing care, and arts activities such as music, cooking and other projects, allow patients to participate in their community and succeeds in providing a safe, healthy living environment.
We are taken to a wonderful village in which people are enabled to lead a life with dignity despite their severe dementia. It illustrates what can be done with creativity, architectural adaptations and proper training for all staff.
We in Canada need to learn a lesson!
What follows is a video done by CNN during which we are invited by Dr. Gupta to travel to Hogewey, a small village in Weesp, the Netherlands, to a nursing home that is really a village complete with shops, hair salons and community programmes. The architectural adaptations, nursing care, and arts activities such as music, cooking and other projects, allow patients to participate in their community and succeeds in providing a safe, healthy living environment.
We are taken to a wonderful village in which people are enabled to lead a life with dignity despite their severe dementia. It illustrates what can be done with creativity, architectural adaptations and proper training for all staff.
We in Canada need to learn a lesson!
Friday, 31 January 2014
An arts and Peacebuilding project in Bahrain
The combination of imagination and action is powerful and can be transformative. What follows is a project taken up by a group of young Bahrainian men and women to provide opportunities for renewed tolerance and understandings of each other. It is the story of ULAFA'A, the team of individuals and the process.
They initiated everything from Free Hugs, to collaborative notebooks.
The project was presented at Brandeis University in 2013.
The project was presented at Brandeis University in 2013.
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
A Beginning
Launch evokes opportunity; new beginnings; a next chapter; possibility.
As a start to the exploration into Launch International and its potential, I thought I would share this project that opened the Annual Arts Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland this past summer. It was imagined by Jorge Rodriquez-Gerada, a Cuban American artist and marks his most recent earthworks portrait.
Wish required moving more than 4,400 tons of soil and sand with the help the community. It was initially "drawn" through the use of satellite navigation, a process that took 18 months. It covered 11 acres in Belfast's Titanic Quarter and could be viewed from many surrounding tall buildings that were opened to the public until the rain slowly eroded the portrait.
The community was involved in the physical creation of the work making this a collaboration and celebration.
As a start to the exploration into Launch International and its potential, I thought I would share this project that opened the Annual Arts Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland this past summer. It was imagined by Jorge Rodriquez-Gerada, a Cuban American artist and marks his most recent earthworks portrait.
Wish required moving more than 4,400 tons of soil and sand with the help the community. It was initially "drawn" through the use of satellite navigation, a process that took 18 months. It covered 11 acres in Belfast's Titanic Quarter and could be viewed from many surrounding tall buildings that were opened to the public until the rain slowly eroded the portrait.
The community was involved in the physical creation of the work making this a collaboration and celebration.
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