Arts and the Brain: A Symposium on the Healing Power of the Arts
The arts can play an important role in helping people with acquired brain injury cope with trauma, regain mental function, and explore their new capacities.
(on behalf of the Open Door Gallery at Worcester Art Museum)
Arts and the Brain: A Symposium on the Healing Power of the Arts
September 22, 2017
Open Door Gallery at Worcester Art Museum
150 Salisbury Street
Worcester, Massachusetts
10 AM to 4 PM
Presented by VSA Massachusetts and Seven Hills Foundation in association with The Institute for Arts and Health, Lesley University, and Boston Arts Consortium for Health (BACH)
This will be a day long symposium exploring the role that the arts can play in helping people with acquired brain injury cope with trauma, regain mental function, and reorient their lives around their new capacities and opportunities.
The backdrop for the symposium will be an exhibition of artwork by Jon Sarkin, an artist whose story of emerging from a brain injury with a new and remarkable capacity for visual art is chronicled in Shadows Bright as Glass: The Remarkable Story of One Man’s Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph. Jon will share his experience in a multi-media performance.
Speakers, will explore the contribution art making and art therapy can make to healing brain trauma. Ronald E. Hirschberg, M.D. of Harvard Medical School will share his work on the music-brain interface and neurologic music therapy (NMT).
Participants will have a choice of experiential workshops in Visual Art, Music, Movement and Intermodal Arts that will explore resources for program development.
The symposium will be appropriate for people who have experienced brain injury, their caregivers, people interested in the creative arts therapies and those working in programs serving people with brain injuries.
Registration is limited and costs $25. 5 CEs for Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Occupational Therapists CE’s will be applied for and, if approved, will be available for an additional $25.
For more information and registration contact: Symposium@vsamass.org
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