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- Coast Kids Create
MAF - conference room
Tuesday, April 7 at 12:30pm
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- Read CHART's Google Challenge Proposal and Visit the Website! 12:43pm Oct 22
- Robin's Last Week in India 1:33am Jul 22
- Robin in India...Week 2 1/2!! 12:29am Jul 17
CHART-Communities Healing Through Art ~New pictures!!!!
CHART-Communities Healing Through Art
In July of 2009, Cathy Moon, ATR-BC, and Angela Lyonsmith ATR-BC, LCPC, traveled to Tanzania and Kenya, in association with Global Alliance for Africa (GAA) and with support from CHART to establish therapeutic art programming for orphaned and vulnerable children. GAA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to a...ddress, through partnerships with non-governmental and community-based organizations, the broad-based needs of children who have been orphaned and otherwise affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in East Africa.
In 2008, Cathy and Angela had served as consultants for GAA, working with children, meeting with representatives from potential partnering organizations, and participating in a cultural exchange between East African and US artists, art educators, and cultural workers. The purpose of the exchange was to create a shared undershanding of basic creative arts therapies theory and methods, and to learn about relavant cultural practices, gried and healing rituals, and the needs of vulnerable children in teh East Africa region. In 2009, Cathy and Angela returned to work in conjunction with their African counterparts, providing theraputic arts experiences for children along with "training for the trainers" in Africa who would be facilitating the ongoing theraputic arts programs.
Traveling between Tanzania and Kenya, the groups of US artists, art therapists, and social workers collaborated with African artists and cultural workers, leading art activities and meeting with local officials at GAA partner sites in Arusha, Moshi, and Bagamoyo, Tanzania as well as in Kibera, Naivasha and Nairobi, Kenya. Art workshops were offered at the Vijana (youth) center in Arusha as well as a public talk on art therapy concepts by Cathy and Angela. Cathy and Angela gave a public presentation on art therapy at the Vijana Vocational Centre in Arusha, Tanzania. Over 50 local psychologists, teachers, students, and cultural workers attended the presentation.
The GAA group offered art workshops at the first community library eatablished recently and built by GAA in Kibera, the second largest slum in Africa. After recent strife between tribal communities, the hope is that this library will serve as a neutral space and place of learning that is open and welconing to all people living in Kibera. GAA facilitated trips for the children of Kibera to the Nairobi National Game Park and to the Elephant Orphanage outside of Nairobi.
The group visited a studio program in Naivasha, lead by Sane and Eunice Wadu, that serves street children, and toured RoMoMa, Nairobi's art museaum, making connections with other artists who are interested in furthering the development of theraputic arts programs in Kenya.
In Tanzania, the group offered art experientials for local school children at the Bagamoyo College of Art, Arusha and at a Masai girl's school in Arusha, and met with staff at Loyola Counseling Center in Moshi. The trip and collaborative theraputic arts trainings were key steps toward developing sustainable therapeutice arts programming for orphaned and vulnerable children in East Africa.
Cathy and Angela will be presenting about this experience at teh upcoming American Art Therapy Association conference in Dallas, TX, the Illinois Art Therapy Association conference in Chicago, IL and the Mt. Mary spring symposium in Milwaukee, WI. They will also be provinding ongoing supervision via cyberspace to the theraputic arts trainees in Africa. Pans are underway for Summer 2010, as with the further development of the theraputic arts program and training of additional African artists and cultural workers will be as the focus.
For additional information about the trip and GAA Theraputic Arts Program, please contact Linda Stolz, Director of Programs, at lstolz@globalallianceafrica.org.
Judith Muir Currently here at the Institute for Music and Health we are doing several workshops at the Mill St Loft in Poughkeepsie using Art and Music to help caregivers and early onset Alzheimers.
Anni Dore
Have a great conference!
I'm with you in thoughts. Anni in the Alps: sodeli.
CHART-Communities Healing Through Art !!CHART will be at the AATA conference next week!! November 18-22 is the American Art Therapy Association Conference. While you are there stop by our table, grab a brochure, and meet and great other CHART fans! CHART's Clinical Director, Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro, and CHART representatives will also be there. Stop by and tell us hi.
CHART-Communities Healing Through Art Thank you CHART fans for all your support. Happy Fall!
Ron Maruwat
And a conference on the Social Determinants of Mental Health
http://www.adler.edu/about/2010annualcon
Patricia Estes Like millions before me... Art and Energy are my entire well-being. Currently, I am trying to make a successful connection between the two, so that they may morph in to something beautiful, beloved, and spiritually substantial.
Anni Dore
I am an enthusiastic Art and Artist Maker.
Ready to help. Hugs. A
CHART-Communities Healing Through Art Hello CHART fans! I wanted to give a quick update on our recent activites. Earlier this month I made a trip up the California Coast to Big Sur (the Pacific Valley area) to meet with Robin Burnside of the Big Sur Learning Project. CHART and Coast Kids Create are partnering with Big Sur Learning Project to develop a new ...program! More news to come. ~Robin London www.chartaid.org
Pranathi Maramraj
I am a recent graduate of the Creative Arts Therapy program at HofstraUniversity in Long Island, NY. I am a Louisiana resident and am back inLouisiana working on several projects: 1)Triumph Over Tragedy-An art workshop sponsored by the Shreve......port
Regional Arts Council for 8th grade students about the Great Depress...ion
and the new deal era in north Louisiana.2)Safe House-An art therapy
project in a homeless shelter, Providence House, in honor of Domestic
Violence month.3)ChakraMeditative Art Therapy-A masters thesis on the integration of arttherapy and chakra meditation (eastern healing practice).I am VERY excited to be in touch with CHART!!! :)Pranathi
Jill Loraine Waterfield
Interested Expressive Therapists and People- I would like to invite any Expressive Therapists and people generally interested in CHARTs activities to get together in Zurich, Switzerland, and discuss ideas for getting involved in similar projects locally or remotely. This would be an informational meeting to see what's ...happening in our community and get involved. Perhaps we can form a local Swiss 'CHART' community that expands into something overseas- who knows, we'll see!
If you are interested, please email Jill at jlwaterfield@me.com and we can discuss a good time that works for everyone.
Sincerely, Jill Waterfield, ATR
