Portland’s Creative Arts Therapies (CAT) Week Celebration
Portland-based creative arts therapists have teamed up to celebrate Creative Arts Therapies (CAT) Week 2010. Portland’s smorgasbord of activities coincides with the national celebration of Creative Arts Therapies Week, March 21 to 28, promoted by the National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations.
The workshops and events featured in Portland during the last week of March showcase how the disciplines of art therapy, dance/movement therapy, music therapy and psychodrama can be used in health care, education, and community settings to promote health, social functioning, positive behavior changes, self-awareness, and mind-body integration. These activities are open to all those interested in using creative arts for healing and promoting creative arts therapies into the fabric of PDX life. Preregistration is necessary for workshops.
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*denotes activity lead by a creative arts therapist
†denotes related activities of interest to CAT community
March 5-28th
Event: Creative Arts Therapy Group Show
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Place: The 100th Monkey Studio, 110 SE 16th Ave., Portland
Description: The 100th Monkey Studio honors healing in the creative arts with this month-long exhibit. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Free Arts NW.
Cost: Free
Saturday, March 20
Event: Authentic Movement Introductory Workshop*
Link to flyer
Time: 2- 5 PM
Place: Belmont Yoga, 4246 SE Belmont St., Suite #4 (upstairs), Portland
Description: This unique and profoundly simple form of movement is practiced with eyes closed, in the presence of a nonjudging witness. It derives from Carl Jung’s work with “active imagination.” Please bring a journal; art materials will be supplied.
Facilitator: Carolyn Johnson
Cost: $25, limited to 10 participants
Registration: (503) 442-4014 or email carolynmjohnson@msn.com
Events: Art History: Artists Intent & Process
Leader: Beth Ann Short MA, ATR-BC
When: March 20th from 12-2:30pm OR Thursday March 25th from 6-8:30pm
Registration: 503-232-3457
No art experience necessary!Did you ever look at a classic piece of art and wonder what was behind the art and it’s composition? Art making is a complex process that involves technique/use of materials as well as telling a story with the media. In art therapy, art therapists use assessment techniques in supporting individuals through the therapeutic process. These assessment techniques take into consideration many formal points in the art process as well as clinical theory and the individual’s life experiences.
In this lecture series participants will journey through multiple periods of art history with a board certified registered art therapist examining the art and artist’s experience considering these points of assessment. Participants will learn about the featured artist’s life, process in creativity and see visual proof of the therapeutic use of art-making in the creator’s life.
Expect rich discussions in this interactive series. This inspiring workshop is designed for adults over the age of 18. These interactive lectures may be taking in the entire series or individually.
Series I: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
Featuring the art of Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh & Paul Gauguin
Cost: $25 per person
Tuesday, March 23
Event: Putting Passion into Action*
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Time: 6 – 8 PM
Place: Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland
Description: An introduction to psychodrama. No previous acting experience necessary.
Facilitator: Tamar Berg
Cost: $20
Registration: (503) 320-2555 or email bergtamar@yahoo.com
Wednesday, March 24
Event: Creative Dance Portland*
Link to flyer
Time: 10 – 11:30 AM
Place: Opening to Life Studio, 407 NE 12th. Ave., Portland
Description: This ongoing class of individual and group improvisation follows Barbara Mettler's approach to dance. No previous experience is needed.
Facilitator: Yael Schweitzer
Cost: $8 per session
Registration: (971) 404-8249 or email mindfultherapy@live.com
Friday, March 26
Event: Tao Soup† performance
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Time: 8 PM
Place: The Brooklyn Bay, 1825 SE Franklin, Bay K, Portland
Description: In this ensemble piece five drunken monkeys offer insight and humor inspired by the Tao Te Ching. The work is rooted in the mindfulness and body-based improvisational form originated by Scott Kelman.
Cost: $15, discount for students & seniors
Reservations: (503) 258-9000 or email brooklynbay@mac.com
Saturday, March 27
Event: Entering into Emptiness Workshop†
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Time: Two days ― 9 AM – 4 PM Saturday; 10 AM – 5 PM Sunday
Place: The Brooklyn Bay, 1825 SE Franklin, Bay K, Portland
Description: The creative process is an act of entering into emptiness and discovering what emerges from moment to moment. By engaging other players through awareness, movement, sound and words, the group discovers connection, meaning, and story. No previous experience is needed.
Facilitator: Melanya Helene
Cost: $100
Registration: (503) 258-9000 or email brooklynbay@mac.com
Event: In My Mind's Eye: PhotoTherapy and the Creation of Photographic Narratives*
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Time: 1 – 4:30 PM
Place: The 100th Monkey Studio, 110 SE 16th Ave., Portland
Description: Explore the practice of photo projection, the reworking of photo biographical images and the use of collage in the creation of self-portrait photographic imagery. Bring a family photograph for color copying and use in your artwork.
Facilitator: Rachel O’Rourke
Cost: $60 all materials included
Registration: (503) 232-3457
Event: Young Film-makers Festival Film Screening
Time: 7- 9 PM, doors open 6:30pm
Place: Mosaic, 1832 NE 39th Ave., Portland
Description: This film showing caps a week-long spring break program, sponsored by the City of Portland through the Office of Violence Prevention, during which at-risk youth create four short films on the theme of "cultural brokenness.” Free Arts NW, a local organization committed to bringing therapeutic art activities to under-served youth, is program facilitator.
Facilitator: Free Arts NW, a Program of the Charitable Partnership Fund
Cost: Free
Information: freeartsnw@gmail.com
Event: Tao Soup† performance
Link to event
Time: 8 PM
Place: The Brooklyn Bay, 1825 SE Franklin, Bay K, Portland
Description: In this ensemble piece five drunken monkeys offer insight and humor inspired by the Tao Te Ching. The work is rooted in the mindfulness and body-based improvisational form originated by Scott Kelman.
Cost: $15, discount for students & seniors
Reservations: (503) 258-9000 or email brooklynbay@mac.com
Sunday, March 28
Event: Entering into Emptiness Workshop†
Link to event
Time: Two days ― 9 AM – 4 PM Saturday; 10 AM – 5 PM Sunday
Place: The Brooklyn Bay, 1825 SE Franklin, Bay K, Portland
Description: The creative process is an act of entering into emptiness and discovering what emerges from moment to moment. By engaging other players through awareness, movement, sound and words, the group discovers connection, meaning, and story. No previous experience is needed.
Facilitator: Melanya Helene
Cost: $100
Registration: (503) 258-9000 or email brooklynbay@mac.com
Event: Impressionism Open Studio*
Link to event
Time: 11 AM – 1 PM
Place: The 100th Monkey Studio, 110 SE 16th Ave., Portland
Description: Explore impressionism with a short interactive talk at the beginning of class, then spend the remainder of the class creating your own Impressionist piece. No art making experience necessary!
Facilitator: Beth Ann Short
Cost: $40 including all art materials
Registration: (503) 232-3457
Event: Portland Creative Arts Therapies (CAT) Coalition* – open meeting
Link to flyer
Time: 2 – 4 PM
Place: People’s Food Co-op, upstairs Community Room, 3029 SE 21st Ave., Portland
Description: This meeting is for creative arts therapists, health workers, and those interested in using creative arts for healing and promoting creative arts therapies into the fabric of PDX life. Come and learn more about how you can get involved in peer networking, community outreach, public health policy advocacy, and in-service trainings for health and education professionals.
Facilitators: CAT Coalition steering committee
Cost: Free
Information: Carolyn Johnson at (503) 442-4014 or email carolynmjohnson@msn.com
Event: Healing Cancer Through the Arts
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Exhibit Dates & Hours: Monday through Friday
March 4 through April 9, 2010
8am to 5pm
Place: Legacy Good Samaritan Building 3, Lower Level
1130 NW 22nd Ave., Portland
Parking available in parking structure 3 at east end of Building 3.
Description: an exhibit featuring the art of Legacy Good Samaritan cancer patients, their families and the Legacy staff who support them. The art reflects and communicates each artist's cancer experience.
Cost: Free
Information: Wendy Tucker Garrean at (503) 413-8404