Arts & Health InterSECT

“Arts & Health InterSECT” – Creating Health and Wellness Through the Arts in Southeastern CT
co-hosted by six of the SECT Cultural Coalition’s Arts in Health Roundtable members (ArtReach, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern CT, Horses Healing Humans, Reliance Health, The Lighthouse, and Writers Block Inc.)

Learn, share and be inspired by arts-based collaborative health and wellness efforts in the region and beyond.

Free to attend, but registration is required. Click here to register

Program includes:

• Coffee and networking with co-host information tables
• Kick-off performance by Writer’s Block
• Welcome and Introduction: Wendy Bury, Southeastern CT Cultural Coalition
• Remarks by:  State Senator Heather Somers, co-Chair of Public Health Committee and Bill Stanley, Vice President, Development & Community Relations, Yale New Haven Health, Lawrence & Memorial Hospital
• Keynote:  Judy Dworin, Judy Dworin Performance Project, Inc.,  Founder, Executive & Artistic Director (bio below)  Judy Dworin Performance Project is an award-winning organization whose work on stage, in schools and in prison communities sparks awareness about social issues and provides compelling experiences through multi-arts performance and residencies in the community.
• Collaborating for Impact: Presentations featuring local organizations:
  • Common Thread Project (Reliance Health, UCFS, The Light House, Horses Healing Humans)
  • The Light House (a project with Riverfront Children’s Center and Emerson Theater Collaborative)
  • Artreach
  • Writer’s Block (a project with Safe Futures)
• Community discussion and Q&A with speakers and presenters

*Snow Date - February 23, 2018