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Map project beads Canada from coast-to-coast-to-coast | CBC News Since March, dozens of Indigenous artists had been taking up a challenge to bead their states and provinces. Their hard work, diversity in beading styles, techniques, and cultural influences can be seen in a final map that was recently unveiled of both countries.

Barcelona Opera Reopens With An Audience Of Plants As Spain lifts its national state of emergency, the Liceu opera house in Barcelona finds alternative living things to fill nearly 2,300 seats.

" Grandma, how do you deal with pain?"

" With your hands, dear. When you do it with your mind, the pain hardens even more."

“With your hands, grandma?"

" Yes, yes. Our hands are the antennas of our soul. When you move them by sewing, cooking, painting, touching the earth or sinking it into the earth, they send signals of caring to the deepest part of you and your soul calms down.
This way she doesn't have to send pain anymore to show it.

" Are hands really that important?"

" Yes, my girl. Thinking of babies: they get to know the world thanks to their touches. When you look at the hands of older people, they tell more about their lives than any other part of the body. Everything that is made by hand, so is said, is made with the heart because it really is like this: hands and heart are connected. Masseuses know this: When they touch another person's body with their hands, they create a deep connection. Thinking of lovers: When their hands touch, they love each other in the most sublime way."

" My hand's grandma... how long haven't I used them like that!"

" Move them, my girl, start creating with them and everything in you will move. The pain will not pass away. But it will be the best masterpiece. And it won't hurt anymore. Because you managed to embroider your essence."

~ Elena Barnabé

Art by Beatriz Maciel

A museum let a group of penguins wander its empty rooms, and they couldn't take their eyes off the paintings Penguins from Kansas City Zoo spent a day at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where they admired masterpieces by Monet and Caravaggio.

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Jackson Po***ck’s Journey Towards Fractals “The modern artist...is working and expressing an inner world—in other words—expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.” Jackson Po***ck When the American painter Jackson Po***ck began pouring and dripping paint across canvases in the late 1940s and early 1950s, his work at f...

Photographer removes our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world Eric PickersgillOut of hand.Photographer removes our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new worldBy Steve MollmanAugust 28, 2019Are you reading this on a handheld device? There’s a good chance you are. Now imagine how’d you look if that device suddenly disappeared. Lonely? Slightly crazy...

The Rwandan prescription for Depression: Sun, drum, dance, community. “We had a lot of trouble with western mental health workers who came here immediately after the genocide and we had to ask some of them to leave. They came and their practice... From The Moth podcast, Notes on an Exorcism.

This summer, all roads lead to this groundbreaking exhibition of Indigenous Women artists | CBC Arts Check out some of the artwork appearing on 160+ billboards around the country this summer.

I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effect on our brains, but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically. In many cases, gardens and nature are more powerful than any medication. (Oliver Sacks, best selling author and professor of neurology at New York University School of Medicine until 2007)

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by colour, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery~Florence Nightingale

Amos Quebec before continuing on the James Bay highway to my new job with the Cree Health Board in Chisasibi

As heart rhythms synchronize, the sculpture lights up...we are all connected...

ILUMINA Burning Man 2017 * Official Video * ILUMINA is an interactive light and sound sculpture powered by people’s collective heart energy. During the experience, participants enter into a state of co...

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"works of heART"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaeX6fjfnTE

Ukulele Art - Lakota Ridge Jr. TRAILER Fast glimpse TRAILER of student "works of heart" on a FLEA canvas. Inspired by Kenna, a child from Montana and former patient at Cincinnati Children...

Art Therapy: The Role of the Relationship Does art therapy effectively support relational treatment goals?

"May your coming year be
filled with magic and
dreams and good
madness. I hope you read
some fine books and kiss
someone who thinks
you're wonderful, and
don't forget to make some
art- write or draw or build
or sing or live as only you
can. And I hope,
somewhere in the next
year, you surprise yourself."
~neil gaiman

I had a lot of fun volunteering at Outrun the Stigma Calgary on October 14. I even got to meet THE stigma :-)

http://www.outrunthestigma.ca/calgarychapter/events

Calgary Mental Health Events

gifted poet/singer/songwriter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-MgXtelSYQ

Ryan Adams - To Be Without You (Audio) New album ‘Prisoner’ feat. “To Be Without You” available for now: http://ryanadams.lnk.to/Prisoner Vinyl & box sets available: http://ryanadams.lnk.to/Prison...

Well I'm gonna paint my picture
Paint myself in blue, red, black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful
-Counting Crows
(self-portrait courtesy of Tish McAllise Sjoberg, Expressive Arts Therapist in San Diego, California)