MOTHER TREES FOR HUMANITY: The “INUP” (Maya) & “OLIVE”(Palestine)
Since the beginning, we humans have been intimately linked to trees, sharing the breath of Mother Earth, the inhale-exhale cycle of carbon and oxygen. Behold how images of trees are featured as cover art for titles representing separate genocides four decades apart: to the left, In the Arms of Inup, as told by Indigenous Storyteller and […]
Creating in Dangerous Times: A Book Launch in the Heart of Nova Scotia’s Highlands
Join us on August 26 for a festive book launch in Antigonish, NS, as we celebrate the power of creativity with poet, dancer, and educator Celeste Nazeli Snowber. Antigonish is about to welcome acclaimed poet, dancer, and educator Celeste Nazeli Snowber to the Highland Heart of Nova Scotia for a celebration, the launch of her […]
Creativity is Great Medicine for Us All
Art is an essential nutrient for human culture. Every society has used art to create a social glue, to express its faith and ideas, and to interpret the world.
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. […]
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 […]
Diving into Canada’s Ocean Playground: Estu and Plove Meet Richard Powers
HARP The People’s Press is located in Canada’s Ocean Playground — Nova Scotia (www.tryhealingarts.ca). This slogan has been used on Nova Scotia’s license plates since 1972, coined by Alistair J. Campbell (1886-1960), who headed up Nova Scotia Tourist Association for over twenty years. In the last week of 2024, I (Dorothy Lander aka Plove – […]
It’s Never too Late to have a Happy Childhood
If children being treated for cancer can give themselves a boost of healing humour, then let’s all of us follow their example.
Imagination and Health
Artmaking always uses imagination, that magical quality which seems to single us humans out as unique from every other living being.
Surviving and Thriving with Polio: Sally’s Story
Sally MacKay’s heartfelt, courageous, and often humorous book traces her life as a young girl stricken with poliomyelitis in the late 1940s, before the availability of immunization. Sally speaks of her almost lifelong affliction with polio as being both an adversary and a companion, which defined her life path and molded her character. A life […]
