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Welcome to Art Heals, a podcast about arts and mental health, and the people who create to heal. In each episode, we interview someone who uses art to enhance their own healing or who produces work that helps raise awareness about a variety of mental health challenges. The podcast highlights artists and creative initiatives where arts and mental health meet.The aim is to inspire, raise awareness, reduce stigmas, and explore diverse stories of healing. Read more about our team and our media coverage at http://www.elainejoe.com/art-heals-podcast.
Episodes
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Joining in Harmony
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
In December 2022 The Highs and Lows Choir and Kettle Choir performed together in a concert at the Recovery Cafe in Vancouver. This podcast is about the two choirs and their show together
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Sergei Van Hardeveld on art, love and environmentalism
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
During a nine-month battle with depression, Sergei Van Hardeveld leaned on pottery and singing to get through. "The healing part was being able to focus and not think about the past or the future and just to be in the present," Sergei said. Since then, he's picked up painting and photography and found purpose through environmental and social causes. We met Sergei at Leeside Skate Park in Vancouver to talk about thriving through creative expression and his new focus on love.
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
sylvi macCormac's remarkable life of sound
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
On the eve of her 60th birthday, Art Heals caught up with acclaimed Vancouver musician and composer sylvi macCormac ("aka elviS"), who turned to soundscapes after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. With influences ranging from Buffy Sainte-Marie and Bruce Cockburn to Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp, sylvi has produced works for Co-op Radio, the Vancouver Adapted Music Society (VAMS), and the Utsam Witness Project. In 2012, she was named one of Vancouver's Remarkable Women, and released her first documentary film, Patience and Absurdity, about her relationship with her mother who was facing dementia. Whether she's profiling social justice and Indigenous rights issues or fellow artists and people with disabilities, sylvi's work explores the intersection of pain and beauty and gives back to the communities that have supported her along the way.
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Alaric Posey and the Highs & Lows Choir
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
In this episode, you’ll meet Alaric Posey, a Vancouver-based composer and music teacher. He’s also the assistant conductor and manager of the Highs & Lows—a low-barrier choir that promotes wellness for people with mental health challenges. From an early age, Alaric found inspiration and purpose in music. More recently, the choir has become his home. Co-producer Serena Renner and host Elaine Joe interview Alaric in the pavilion-style sanctuary where the choir used to rehearse.
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Sarah Jickling and "The Family Curse"
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Sarah Jickling is a Vancouver-based musician and mental health advocate who isn’t afraid to sing about her deepest truths and struggles. Her first album, When I Get Better, told the story of her journey through bipolar recovery. Her latest record, The Family Curse—released last November—explores the root of her mental health challenges: intergenerational trauma and family mental illness. When she’s not recording under the name Sarah Jickling and Her Good Bad Luck, Sarah can be found spreading mental health awareness at local high schools with Reach Out Psychosis, a touring presentation developed by the BC Schizophrenia Society. She’s also studying circus arts at Tantra Fitness in Gastown, which is where we met her on a rainy Saturday morning.