Creative Arts Therapies Week

Concordia's Department of Creative Arts Therapies, in partnership with the associations of creative arts therapies of Quebec, is pleased to host numerous activities taking place as part of Creative Arts Therapies week, March 19 to 28, 2010.

Highlights of the week include:
 
* Creative Arts Therapies Information Fair and Film Festival, March 27
Come see films, live demonstrations, and meet with industry professionals and representatives from organizations and training institutions.  For details, click here.
 
* Creative Arts Therapies workshops, March 13 to 28
For details on drama therapy and dance/movement workshops regarding trauma and social change, click here.
 
* Creative Arts Therapies Week across Quebec, March 13 to 28
For a complete and bilingual list of province-wide events, click here.

Activities during Creative Arts Therapies week will emphasize the role of the therapist in facilitating and supporting the unique tools and abilities of participant with whom they are working. In workshops, information sessions, film viewings and conferences open to the public, interested individuals will be encouraged to learn first hand how collaborative experimentation in music, theatre, dance and art lead to increased resolution and healing in social, intercultural and interpersonal problems. 

Guylaine Vaillancourt, Department of Creative Arts Therapies faculty member and professional music therapist, is proud to introduce author-composer-interprete Gaële as the official spokesperson of Creative Arts Therapies week.

"Her innate sense of the power of creativity and the richness of her songs evoque values from which we also draw, as creative arts therapists."

For more information on Creative Arts Therapies week, contact Guylaine Vaillancourt at g.vaillancourt@concordia.ca or by telephone at 514-848-2424 ext. 5670.

Other Concordia Creative Arts Therapies events include:

• You Arrive - Trauma, Sexuality and Individuation, an arts-based research performance with Bonnie Harnden on April 7,

• The launch of Yehudit Silverman's new film, The Hidden Face of Suicide, on April 11.