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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.
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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.
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