In the Garden Pines of Sarasota Rehabilitation and Senior Care Community It looks like a Picasso to me! Beautiful! These exclamations of joy were met with a response of recognition of I know you, you are my friend! During the summer and fall of 2015 Marcia Calderon and Cynthia Bydlinski, art and health facilitators and…
Programming Brings Joy and Learning to Northport and Sarasota Communities On June 18 at the Northport Library and July 18 ,2016 at Gulf Gate Library in Sarasota, community residents, numbering over 70 participants in all, laughed and learned with Hedda Matza-Haughton, LCSW, presenter, laughter expert, and arts and health practitioner for “For the Health Of It” Consultation…
By Carrie Seidman, Herald-Tribune Dance is the best medicine. That was the take-away message of a public forum by The Coalition for Arts and Health, a local grass-roots network of artists, healthcare providers, organizations and individuals working to make the arts — music, theater, visual arts, dance and literary arts — an integral part of…
Need To Journal Life is fleeting, and we rarely take moments to slow down, reflect and look back at how far we’ve come. For many of us, days of brightly decorated childhood diaries embellished with plastic locks are long gone, but the reasons to open up and put pen to the page still remain. Here…