Art and Design to Create a Sustainable Future
Instead of spreadsheets and strategic plans and business plans, consider the part you can play in designing a sustainable future for the world, guided by existing art – dance, poetry, storytelling, humour, gardening, culinary arts, essays, paintings and … and -? Here is my Canadian template that highlights fempieces over masterpieces as my guide. 2. […]
Blooming Blue and White for St. Francis Xavier University
How do you celebrate and represent your school colours? This year—2025— marks the fiftieth year that one of HARP’s Co Founders, Dorothy Lander, has been continuous in-place connected to St. Francis Xavier University (StFX). That is to say, Lander has admired her alma mater from nearly every possible angle. As a StFX student and alumna […]
The Ecstasy of Learning Where Your Shadow Falls
Only rarely do we get to learn where our shadow falls. Here is one of those instances. Dr. John Graham-Pole, pioneer in bone marrow transplants for children and the arts-in-medicine movement, received this surprise email from a patient 38 years on…
I Don’t Do Drugs, I Am Drugs!
On Jan. 11, 2025, Cathy Hassels Monning of Amsterdam, posted on LinkedIn Example2 of 25 in a series of powerful examples of arts and health to start the new year.Example 2 refers to the attending physician for a patient who has sickle cell disease,and to Jill Sonke, former artist-in-residence at University of Florida, Centre for […]