Artists in Healthcare Manitoba – Healing through the Arts

Jan 23

HEAR Music Alberta

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From writer Lisa Collins:

“I wanted to take a moment and send you our newsletter with the brief article on Artists in Healthcare and the White Coat Black Arts podcast. It is always a delight to learn more about what is happening at the interface of the arts and health/mental health.

Artists in Healthcare appear to be one of the longest standing organizations in Canada using the arts to provide comfort and relief. It is always wonderful to learn of other organizations demonstrating how important arts are on the healing journey.”

Jan 09

Playing Guitar for Murray Sinclair

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Quinton Poitras shares what it was like to play music for Murray Sinclair while he was in hospital.

The Indigenous Health music program is funded by The Winnipeg Foundation.

Nov 25

Working Together Magazine

Toby Gillies and Natalie Baird with Outside Light

“We’re thrilled to share that The Foundation’s Working Together magazine new fall issue is hot off the press—and we couldn’t have done it without you! Your inspiring work and impact in our community shines in these pages, and we’re so grateful for your collaboration.

I was delighted to walk through the transformed tunnel and learn about how this project came to fruition. As always, I wish I had more pages to write about such a beautiful project that has such a profound impact on peoples’ lives, but I want thank you for all your perspectives, for it is what helped me craft this story.

I’ve tagged your page and included a link to the full publication. If you need any specific materials for your posts, just let us know—we’re here to help!

If you would like to receive a hard copy of the magazine, please email me back with your name, mailing address and number of copies – typically, we send about one or two copies. Our team will get those out to you and your organization!

Thank you again for your leadership! I hope this is just the beginning of the coverage I get to highlight pertaining to your projects!”

Shauna Turnley

Communications Advisor – Winnipeg Foundation

Jun 03

Don’t let the Sun catch you crying

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The NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
proudly presents

Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying

FREE SCREENINGS
Featuring an exhibition of resident artwork and memorabilia from the film.

Friday May 31st
Misericordia Health Centre Auditorium
99 Cornish Avenue, Winnipeg

10:00 a.m. Media Event and Screening – Filmmakers will facilitate an art activity for visiting students, guests, and Misericordia residents to celebrate intergenerational creativity and collaboration.

Additional public screenings and Q&A with filmmakers
at 12:00 p.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.

Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying is a short meditation on love, grief, and imagination. The hand-drawn animated documentary was created through a collaboration between mother, elder and narrator Edith Almadi and filmmakers Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies. This poetic piece celebrates life and the transformative ability of art to elevate and transcend us. Through vivid drawings and Edith’s simple yet magical words, the film explores our enduring bond with loved ones who have passed. In honouring her son’s life within the cosmos, Edith’s artworks embody colours, shapes and metaphors that remind us of the timeless power of love, gravity,
and grace until our final breaths.

Director’s Statement

“Since 2014, we have led an art program at Misericordia Place, a personal-care home in our neighbourhood. The program is a way to tell stories and connect with residents while nurturing the development of expressive and personal visual styles. This is where we met Edith Almadi. The film has grown out of many years of conversations with Edith, honing in on the parts of her story that we share. The animations are an expression of our combined imaginations, incorporating imagery from our minds, Edith’s words
and the drawings we’ve made together.”
— Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies

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Apr 16

April 2024 Thank you to the Aspers

“Artists in Healthcare would like to acknowledge and celebrate the generous ongoing funding which The Gail Asper Family Foundation and The Asper Foundation have gifted us with for close to a decade.

Anyone working in the charitable sector knows that the cycle of yearly grant applications for programs and projects is often related to a corporate focus which can shift as trends do.

This means that you can initiate something that’s wonderful for a given community, only to risk losing it once it’s been established because priorities change. To have supporters who value the work you do in a larger sense, and remain consistently interested in your work, can be somewhat rare.

We are so grateful for The Gail Asper Family Foundation and the Asper Foundation’s continued interest in our Art at the Bedside program, which is resuming post covid, in 2024 at St. Boniface Hospital and starting up at Health Sciences Centre.”

Dec 09

Annual Report: April 2022 – March 2023

Nov 15

Nov 2024 MAC Grant success!

A big Thank you to the Manitoba Arts Council for funding Artists in Healthcare’s ‘Taking the Music Rural’ grant for live music programming in the Brandon area.

Jan 24

Jan 2023 Good News!

The Johnston Group has supported the St. Boniface Hospital Atrium concert series with $5500. So that’s awesome!

Dec 03

Nov 2022 Tom Carson

With great sadness we advise you of the passing of our Board Chair, Tom Carson, on November 15, 2022. Tom joined the Board in January 2004 and assumed the role of Chair in April 2006.

His vision and passionate belief that the arts could transform the patient experience inspired us all. He led with the utmost integrity, intelligence, and care. Every project put forward that might make one patient or staff feel better about their day, was endorsed with enthusiasm.

He loved the live music program, Art at the Bedside, and the Art in Hospital donation program. He loved the arts in all their forms and personally knew the difference they could make in healthcare. But beyond understanding the magnitude of difference the arts could make, he dedicated his time and knowledge to this without reservation.

To learn more about Tom and his life, please see the attached obituary, which ran in the Winnipeg Free Press on November 26.

Tom Carson will be dearly missed.

Please see Tom’s full Obituary HERE