MONTREAL/March 3, 2005—
International Creative Arts Therapies Week
Concordia University’s Graduate Program in Creative Arts Therapies, in collaboration with the Association des Art-thérapeutes du Québec (AATQ), and the Association québécoise de musicothérapie (AQM), will hold a press conference on March 4th, 2005, at 11 a.m., in room VA-323 of the Visual Arts Building (1395 René Lévesque Blvd. West), outlining the project The Arts as Pathways to Healing.
Organizers will present information on the First Film Festival on Creative Arts Therapies, taking place at Concordia University from noon to 10:00 p.m. on March 4, and a schedule of the events being held throughout Quebec from March 6th to 13th, 2005 as part of International Creative Arts Therapies Week. The films and public events feature the psychotherapeutic modalities of visual art, dance/movement, music, and psychodrama-theatre in clinical practice. These activities are open to professionals and the public.
The press conference will feature well known professionals working in the arts, psychiatry and education, who will discuss the effectiveness of creative arts therapies’ interventions used in different institutions. Guest speakers include: Dr. Brian Greenfield, Director of the Adolescent Suicide Prevention Unit at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, and Dr. Jaswant Guzder, child psychiatrist at the Jewish General Hospital and Christopher Jackson, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Stephen Snow, PhD, Acting Director of the Creative Arts Therapies Program at Concordia University, will moderate the event and address questions.
Creative Arts Therapies Week aims at raising awareness of creative arts therapies. The Creative Arts Therapies Film Festival will show how various forms of arts – music, dance, visual arts and theatre—are used in rehabilitative, psychiatric, medical, community and educational agencies with various populations. Filmmakers and creative arts therapists will be present to discuss their work.
For more information, contact Guylaine Vaillancourt, music therapist at (450) 466-4654 or by e-mail at guylaine@distributel.net
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
