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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 …

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Annual Report: April 2022 – March 2023

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 2023 Good News!

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

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 …

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Annual Report: April 2021 – March 2022

Music as Therapy, March 2022

Donor-funded arts program aids in recovery for thousands annually When Ernie Jones takes something on, he gives it his all. Now retired, he taught at a local elementary school for 32 years. He has bowled in the same league for the past 62 years (and with the same team for the past 46!). Jones took …

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Annual Report: April 2020 – March 2021

Artists in Healthcare Manitoba Annual Report 2020 – 2021:Here is the Artists in Healthcare’s newly designed Annual Report – with Huge thanks to Bounce Design and Chuck LaFleche.

Music for St Amant Centre

Here is what some St. Amant staff are saying about Artists in Healthcare: “Music, most especially online performance with Erica during this period has been relaxing as well as creating fun moments for our residents. Often times, the period tend to be engaging as some of the residents on my unit sing along and interact …

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Aaron Shorr, a Baroque Trio and Marco Castillo and Davidian Chorley