Imagination and Health
Artmaking always uses imagination, that magical quality which seems to single us humans out as unique from every other living being.
Category: Arts in Medicine
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 […]
We MAKE the Road by Walking
In September 2024, Dorothy Lander joined Walk4Peace (www.walk4peace.ca) and was joyfully reminded that change makers and radical adult educators cannot be stopped in their tracks. Cannot be silenced. John Graham-Pole and Dorothy Lander joined the Walk For Peace in Antigonish from the Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) to Bethany (Sisters of St. Martha) […]
About the HARP Logo
Why choose the harp as our logo? A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and opening on a little lawn, surrounded in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man’s heart. The season, the scene, the […]
The Idea of a University BRAND
Universities across the country are buzzing with the return to campus of professors, varsity teams and residence life staff preparing for the start of another academic year and welcoming first year students. Every university has a unique brand but this marketing language is relatively new. Branding the university coincides with the devastating underfunding of universities […]
Branding: Coordinating My Wardrobe to the HARP Colour Palette
Posted by Dorothy Lander: dorothy@tryhealingarts.ca The talented team at This is Marketing (https://www.thisismarketing.ca/) chose a unique colour palette to illuminate the HARP brand. The TiM team instructed Dorothy Lander and John Graham-Pole to scour their wardrobe for these colours during the photoshoot in our home as part of creating the new website of HARP The […]
Love Medicine: A Healing Art
L to R Clockwise: John Graham-Pole aged 2 on Mummy’s knee with sisters Elizabeth, Mary, and Jane, High Bickington, Devon, 1944; John and Bridget, Shands Hospital, University of Florida (UF); John and Roddy, Shands UF; John arm-wrestling with Jarrad after surgery, Shands UF. Posted by John Graham-Pole For a caregiver to know if something is […]
The Ancestral Power of Father Bauer
Posted by Dorothy Lander Once a month, John Graham-Pole and I showcase the publications of HARP The People’s Press at the Antigonish Farmer’s Market. Ken Kingston, the news anchor at 98.9 xfm (CJFX), stopped by and we congratulated him on his recent well-deserved award from Theatre Antigonish, The Father Cyril Bauer Award. Ken and I […]
Arts Medicine: Where and When and How and Why Did it Start?
Aboriginal Rock Mural Kimberley Region, Western Australia Posted by John Graham-Pole I don’t have answers to any of these questions, but I can tell you a story. It’s 1960, and I’m entering St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School in the city of London on a quite unlooked for scholarship in Classical languages. It’s true I’ve been […]
HARP Publisher and Author – A Relationship
https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/the-choreography-of-care/ Behind every book or other publication of HARP The People’s Press is a relationship. HARP’s latest title The Choreography of Care by Stuart Pimsler is no different. The Arts-in-Health movement in North America has kept HARP Publisher John Graham-Pole and Choreographer-Dancer Stuart Pimsler connected for over three decades. This video captures their connection […]
