the toolkit: Improv w/ Shanda Bezic – Red Nose Remedy
“the toolkit” is a workshop series designed to bring together a community of like-minded artists who use their practices to serve the greater good.
programs
Mississauga Arts Council seeks ArtsCare Program Proposals and ArtsCare Participant Referrals
Mississauga Arts Council (MAC) is excited to expand our ArtsCare program! We are seeking participant referrals and new therapeutic arts program proposals so that we can expand our ArtsCare programming this fall.
The Ozerdinc Grimes Family Therapeutic Recreation and Creative Arts Program
Learn about the Perley Health long term care home’s Therapeutic Recreation and Creative Arts Program for long term care residents
ART Rx: Here’s why the Mississauga Arts Council wants to start a ‘social prescription’ pilot in Peel
From depression and concussion recovery to MS, arts have helped Mississauga residents take back their lives Published on The Mississauga News website on October 7, 2021. When Christine Long learned she had multiple sclerosis, it hit very suddenly while she was walking across a parking lot. “It felt like something was tearing inside my brain,” she said, explaining she quickly ended up in hospital unable to use the right side of her body, unable to focus her eyes, sick to her stomach, speechless. “It was pretty frightening,” she said, remembering the long hospital stay and rehabilitation. When released from hospital,… Read More »ART Rx: Here’s why the Mississauga Arts Council wants to start a ‘social prescription’ pilot in Peel
Rewiring our brains to understand how art promotes mental health
Christine Long’s use of visual art to develop new pathways in her brain and her 17 year journey of recovering her physical and mental health.
Ontario Brain Institute: How dancing can boost cognitive health
TVO.org speaks with Sarah Robichaud of Dancing With Parkinson’s about how physical exercise can help the body — and the brain
Art of Wellness Documentary
The Art of Wellness documentary spotlights the important role of the arts and the positive impact that participating in arts-based programming has on our wellbeing, supporting people with high stress, anxiety and depression.
Program: Write Around Peel (Writers Collective of Canada)
Open workshops where participants create first draft writing. WCC has 6 essential practices that allow our writers the ability to go deep. We encourage authentic writing!
Program: Arts Wellness at SKETFCH (SKETCH Working Arts)
Various food, art, and mental health resources for youth navigating or on the margins of homelessness.
Program: Contagious Cities (Wellcome)
Contagious Cities was an international cultural programme which supported local conversations around the global challenges of epidemic preparedness. The programme was staged across four cities: Berlin, Geneva, Hong Kong and New York. It ran from September 2018 to December 2019.