Imagination and Health
Artmaking always uses imagination, that magical quality which seems to single us humans out as unique from every other living being.
Tag: healing art
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 […]
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 […]
Creating a Bee and Butterfly Garden
Another world is not only possible. She is on her way. On aquiet day I can hear her breathing. – Arundhati Roy There’s a good reason why “Think global, act local” is a popular idea: it’s the only possible way for us as individuals to counter our climate crisis. And for us as a human […]
Indigenous Cultural Practices: Learning to Live with Fire
Cultural Burns by Koren Smoke, Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe Kwe, Alderville First Nation, Illustrator for ReReading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar (2022) by Dorothy Lander https://tryhealingarts.ca/product/book-rereading-cpt/ Posted by Dorothy Lander, co-publisher HARP the People’s Press: H-ealing A-rts R-econciling P-eoples I listened to Sunday Magazine on CBC radio with host Piya Chattopadhyay in conversation with environmental […]
Two Photos Mark a Century of Health Innovation, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
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 […]
Tommy Landry: A Legacy of Light
Tommy Landry (1958-2024): His Legacy of Light In 2021, Tommy Landry, a core member of L’Arche Antigonish participated in Dorothy Lander’s Botanical Hands project. Tina Angustia presented Tommy with images of flowers from which to choose for Dorothy’s botanical collage, using a photo of his dominant hand as her canvas. Tommy nodded and smiled to […]
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 […]
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 […]
