SARASOTA By Kay Kipling 4/3/2020 at 11:22am Some tips from educator-consultant Hedda Matza-Haughton. If you’re suffering arts withdrawal because you can’t attend concerts, plays, movies or exhibits right now, Hedda Matza-Haughton has a few ideas for you. Matza-Haughton, a Sarasota-based licensed clinical social worker, health educator, actress, playwright and director (as well as a breast cancer survivor)…
The Art of Healing is a 20-minute documentary exploring the role art has in healing a person’s mind, body, and soul.
As a cancer survivor, she looked at life through a different lens and teaches others how to do the same. Hedda is the founder of “For the Health of It” Consultation Services,
Art is a creative outlet that provides health benefits to those affected by cancer. Art therapy is becoming more widely used in the field of medicine as its ability to help people is evidenced. BY Bonnie AnnisPUBLISHED May 17, 2019 Bonnie Annis is a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed in 2014 with stage 2b invasive ductal…
Marcia “Muff” Calderon has become a children’s book author. She has self-published (as Marcia Calderon) God is in Everything: A Bedtime Story for Little Ears. She came up with the idea at a weekend silent retreat and says the writing went pretty fast. It’s available on Amazon. “It’s a non-denominational book, like a prayer to…
First-ever Baltimore Orioles Wellness Week at Ed Smith Stadium. Arts for Health Sarasota-Manatee was invited to participate in the 2018 Wellness Week hosted by the Baltimore Oriels at the ballpark in Sarasota, August 6 & August 8. This first-ever (and they hope annual) wellness day event at the Ed Smith Stadium proved to be a…
The team is facilitating an intergenerational program with Carrie Mill’s VPA students at Booker Middle and older adults. They need your help in voting for this pilot program that is an inter-generational education outreach program called “SoloSynergy” that gives 2 groups a larger voice in the world. Middle school children and adults aged 60+ often…
Article by Linda Joffe Arts for Health Sarasota-Manatee Member Practitioner Profile: Linda Odom A trio of highly stressful events in the late 1990s set Linda Odom, then on the management fast track at Delta Airlines, on a wholly unexpected path into the expressive arts. After 29 years, she’s still at Delta, but not on the…
A rousing one-woman performance by Hedda Matza-Haughton, she invites the audience to explore intimacy and aging through the stories of her characters. There is a character who only loved one person who passed and left them to figure out life alone, another who is facing cancer and afraid of losing her identity, a man who…
The story in Brief: Physical exercise has an anti-aging effect on the hippocampus region of the brain – an area that controls memory, learning, and balance. A new study, comparing different forms of exercise – dancing and endurance training – undertaken by elderly volunteers for eighteen months, shows that both can have an anti-aging effect on…