By Dorothy Lander In a recent posting on LinkedIn, Tye Farrow introduced his doctoral research and the concept of Architectural Determinants of Health (AD0H) as the health-causing features and patterns of placemaking that translate and extend social, structural, and environmental determinants, showing how purposeful design choices become practical levers to support health and wellbeing. In […]
www.tryhealingarts.ca H-ealing A-rts R-econciling P-eoples March 8, 2026 Happy International Women’s Day, Honourable Michelle Thompson & Honourable Tim Houston: I write on behalf of HARP The People’s Press (www.tryhealingarts.ca), Nova Scotia’s independent multi-media publishing house and shareholder-owned Community Interest Company, dedicated to the healing arts for health equity. After the huge rallies across Nova Scotia […]
Follow the Money. A commitment to truth and justice marks the resistance of the less powerful against the exercise of institutional power. Again and again, that resistance collides with a familiar quid pro quo: the inscription of billionaire donors’ names on our most beloved cultural and educational institutions, and their influence on policy. Sackler at […]
by Maurice Switzer* In grade school I recall having to memorize poems by Duncan Campbell Scott, oblivious to the fact that the author was responsible for devising a network of residential schools that caused irrevocable damage to the lives of thousands of Indigenous kids like me. We were assigned to read the rhymes of venerated […]
by Dorothy Agnes Lander For the past 25 years, I (Dorothy Agnes Lander) have been writing letters to Letitia Youmans (1822-1896), foremother in the Canadian Sunday School movement, which peaked in the 19th century continuing well into the 20th century. My letters all begin “Dear Letitia” and close with the sign off “Your sister in […]
On August 26, 20025, under bright skies at the Coady Warren Gardens in Antigonish, acclaimed poet, dancer, and educator Celeste Nazeli Snowber celebrated the launch of her newest collection, Creating in Dangerous Times with HARP Publishing: The People’s Press. The afternoon brought together poetry, dance, music, and community— embodying the spirit of the book itself: […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 – […]
