Jan 05
Photo of Rebecca Baird’s art installation at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Please refer to Artists in Healthcare’s annual report to read about our Art in Hospital Donation program which has recieved $359,000 of donated art given to Manitoba hospitals over the last two years.
Dec 22
Dec 08
Click on the image to see the report:
AIHM Annual General Report for 2019 – 2020
May 06
“Thank you so much for coming here, this has been really seriously helping me.”
“I’m going to stop getting fake nails so I can learn how to play the guitar.”
“I love this, I’m going to keep writing after I’m out of here.”
“Oh, so you can practice expressing yourself, and you’ll get better at it…”
There are amazing mental health benefits from telling and sharing your story … thank you Telus!
May 04
The Personal Care Home of Choice for Winnipeg’s Jewish Community
The Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre is a not-for-profit, government-funded facility that honours Jewish values and traditions while welcoming seniors of all backgrounds.
May 01
Our deepest gratitude to The Gail Asper Family Foundation and The Asper Foundation for their continued support of Artists in Healthcare. While some of our programs are suspended until is it safe to be back inside healthcare, we’re working on virtual music programming and our Art at the Bedside program continues to make art kit projects for patients.
Trying times bring us challenges and growth. Having ongoing support to continue work to bring joy and solace to patients is so important, needed more now than ever. We can’t express our thanks more sincerely .. and look forward working in new ways, to adapt to new realities as we find out what they are.
Feb 22
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain,” sang Bob Marley.
Songwriters may take poetic licence, especially where descriptions of their own powers are concerned, but there’s more than a little truth to Marley’s statement. Contemporary studies demonstrate music’s potential to ward off depression and lower stress-related hormones such as cortisol. This is a rather clinical way of expressing what the Ancients already recognized as music’s special power to bring “charm and gaiety to life” (Plato).
More insightful perhaps are recent scientific discoveries that music may also improve blood flow and post-surgery outcomes and quite literally reduce pain.
It’s with such knowledge that Artists In Healthcare Manitoba (AIHM) is proud to expand its programming with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra (MCO) beginning this spring. AIHM provides arts-centric healthcare programming in facilities across Manitoba, while the MCO is known as “Canada’s, tiny perfect chamber orchestra” (Toronto Star). We think it’s a special pairing.
Among those who will enjoy uplifting concerts through this collaboration are seniors in long-term care, patients and residents in hospitals and hospices, and mental health patients across thirteen Manitoba healthcare organizations. Funding for patient support arts programming is often outside of such organizations’ scope, and the MCO and AIHM are honoured to help fill this need through the support of Johnston Group and The Winnipeg Foundation. Musical styles performed will run the gamut from classical to pop—there will be something for everyone. A priority will be performing Indigenous music for residents of Selkirk Mental Health Centre, in accordance with the traditional emphasis in Indigenous culture on the need of music for healing.
Benefits of this program will extend beyond healthcare, helping to keep Manitoba musicians performing and connected to local audiences. Administrative costs will be kept exceptionally low, with 90% of the program’s budget going directly to participating musicians.
The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Artists in Healthcare Manitoba thank both Johnston Group and The Winnipeg Foundation for their generous support of this collaborative program.
Sep 12
Click here to see the Report
After much work and number crunching, we are proud to release the 2017-2018 Artists in Healthcare Manitoba Annual Report.
Jan 09
A message from the Board Chair
“On behalf of Artists in Healthcare Manitoba, I am pleased to provide you with our Annual Report for 2016/2017
In the past year, we were delighted to see the work we have done at Selkirk Mental Health Centre culminate in a Sarasvati production held at the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film. The production also toured Manitoba high schools, doing important work to open communication addressing the stigma and marginalization associated with mental illness.
The Art in Hospitals program was introduced to the community with hundreds of pieces of Indigenous Woodlands art being donated to Winnipeg hospitals and Selkirk Mental Health Centre. This program invites donors to gift art works to the facilities of their choice, to be used by the hospitals as they deem fit. Details will be provided further on in this report. As in past years, we continue to see the profound effects and outcomes live music and visual
arts bring to the communities of healthcare, and our ongoing vision is to one day, see our programs in every hospital in the City of Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba.”
Click on the link below to read the report:
