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 – […]
P. V. Rogagopal and VishwaMitra Yogesh leading the peace walkers from Dalhousie University to the Halifax waterfront, Sept. 21, 2024. www.walk4peace.ca On September 21, 2024, Dorothy and I commemorated the International Day of Peace by walking together with many others on a pilgrimage for peace on our earth (www.walk4peace.ca). We walked with peace activists P. […]
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) […]
Quaecumque sunt vera. St. Francis Xavier University is making history. For the first time in its history, the campus of “whatsoever things are true” and a leading edge interdisciplinary degree program — BASc in Climate and Environment—is naming a new building and a prestigious health research Institute in “honour” of a corruption accomplice, billionaire donor […]
What a difference a century makes! Meet the two men at the centre of the two photos illustrating support for innovation in health: William S. Archibald, the official photographer for the 1924 Antigonish Highland Games fundraiser for St. Martha’s Hospital, which raised $8000 – alumnus of St. Francis Xavier University, engineer, star figure skater, yachtsman […]
