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 […]