Creating to heal
Concordians are harnessing the power of the arts to help people cope with loss
October 24, 2022
By Ian Harrison, BComm 01, with files from Richard Burnett, BA 88
Source: Concordia University Magazine
Excerpt
When 176 people were killed after a passenger airliner was shot down near Tehran in January 2020, the Concordia community was devastated.
Two of the passengers — Siavash Ghafouri-Azar, MASc 19, and Sara Mamani, MASc 18 — were recent graduates who had just wed in Iran.
(En français à la suite)
The Spring 2021 Art Hives Institute: from Social Isolation to Circles of Care A 3-Part Online Training Series
Concordia University's Art Hives HQ & engAGE Creative Living Lab present:
THE SPRING 2021 ART HIVES INSTITUTE: From Social Isolation to Circles of Care-
A 3-Part Online Training Series
March 19th, 26th & April 2nd, 2021
Health Evidence Network synthesis report 67
What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review
Daisy Fancourt & Saoirse Finn, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe
Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
Abstract
Evidence Summary for Policy: The role of arts in improving health & wellbeing
Report to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, United Kingdom, April 2020
Dr Daisy Fancourt, Katey Warran & Henry Aughterson
Department of Behavioural Science & Health, University College of London
In August of 2020, facilitators from the global Art Hives Network were invited to engage in a 4-part workshop series during which we paused to reflect on the current functioning of the network and envision how to move forward towards greater impact and resiliency. Another purpose that brought this group together was to increase the network's capacity to evaluate its impact and build capacity across individual Art Hives to do the same.
In August of 2020, facilitators from the global Art Hives Network were invited to engage in a 4-part workshop series during which we paused to reflect on the current functioning of the network and envision how to move forward towards greater impact and resiliency. Another purpose that brought this group together was to increase the network's capacity to evaluate its impact and build capacity across individual Art Hives to do the same.
Concordia celebrated the launch of its first-ever campus art hive on June 11, 2018. The art hive will also serve as the International Art Hives Network Headquarters. Pictured are Janis Timm-Bottos, Art Hives founder and associate professor of creative arts therapies, and Stephanie Rossy, vice-chair of the Rossy Family Foundation.
Canadian First: Concordia opens campus art hive and International Network Headquarters
The Science Shop is Art Hives Network’s new initiative in collaboration with Vanier College and Concordia’s office of the VP, graduate and research department. The aim of these public science events is engage the community in public conversations about the intersection between science and creativity. Taking place in the community art studio La Ruche d’Art, a life sized cabinet of curiosities packed with art supplies, a multitude of art made by community members and a whole host of odds and ends, one may think it an odd place to be discussing molecules and mutations, among others.
The model and practice of Art Hives have evolved through two decades of sustained practice research, continuous observation and adaptation, and experimentation with spaces and organizational structures led by Dr. Janis Timm-Bottos, who has developed and established six successful art hives in different locations across North America.