Artists in Healthcare Manitoba

Healing through the Arts

Category: News

This Man Is Making Music Using His Brain Implant

Quoted from – Ashley King : Digital Music NEWS “A quadriplegic man is using his brain implant to produce musical tones by assigning them to different movements identified by six chips in his brain. Galen Buckwalter has been a quadriplegic since a diving accident when he was 16 left him paralyzed from the chest down.
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HEAR Music Alberta

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
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Playing Guitar for Murray Sinclair

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.

Working Together Magazine

“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
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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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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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