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Professional Caregiver Workshop
This 6- session workshop provides you the opportunity to explore, record and understand through the form of memoir writing and poetry the often morally complex, profound and dramatic experiences that are inevitably part of ones daily working life. Under the guidance of author, Peggy Rambach, and with the camaraderie of class members also in the healthcare field, you will have the opportunity to read your work-in-progress, discuss it, and revise it as a means of learning the techniques necessary to produce writing, and provides enduring insight to both you and your readers. Participants will be asked to devote time to writing and revision primarily outside of scheduled class time. The class will culminate with a reading (that is optional) and a booklet of the work to emerge from the workshop, available for distribution to family and friends. Participants need to bring writing materials to the workshop.
Thursday, March 6th (6-week session)
7:00 to 9:00pm
$90pp, Credit Cards Accepted or Checks payable to:
Vermont Arts Exchange - Arts and Healing Initiative
Sage Street Mill/P.O. Box 725
North Bennington, VT 05257
To register call 802-442-5549, for more information call 802-345-5155
Peggy Rambach, is the author of the novel Fighting Gravity, and a collection of stories entitled When the Animals Leave. Her non-fiction has also appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The Guardian the Boston Globe Magazine, the Boston Globe Book Section. She is the editor of All That Matters; Memoir From the Wellness Community of Greater Boston and Seeds of Lotus; Cambodian and Vietnamese Voices in America, both published by The Paper Journey Press. Ms. Rambach was twice awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant in Fiction, and was named a 2005 Literacy Champion by the Massachusetts Literacy Foundation. She has been a lead teaching/artist for the Vermont Art Exchange's Healing Arts Initiative since 2005.
Opera Boston presents new expressive therapy residency for patients at Tewksbury Hospital based on Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar
BOSTON - Opera Boston announces an expressive therapy initiative for residents of Tewksbury Hospital in partnership with The Healing Arts: New Pathways to Health, a collaboration of the Vermont Arts Exchange and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Over the course of a twelve-week residency, twenty cast members - including patients, staff, local high school students, and Opera Boston artists - have come together to create an original production based on themes from Osvaldo Golijov's opera Ainadamar. This exciting event is FREE and open to the public on April 14 at 6:30 pm and April 15 at 2:00pm in the Saunders Auditorium at Tewksbury Hospital. A third performance will be reserved for 100 fifth graders from the Ryan school. Students will prepare for the event with a curriculum about disability awareness and then participate in a follow up workshop with performers at the school to discuss personal experience with disability. No tickets are necessary, for directions call 978-851-7321 or visit www.mass.gov
Soprano Emily Browder, who has appeared in many Opera Boston mainstage productions including Ainadamar, L'étoile, La vie parisienne, and The Crucible--, leads the workshops in association with the expressive therapists of Tewksbury Hospital; Browder is a certified Voice Movement Therapist.
Says Browder: "This project is an incredible act of team-work. Our theme is "we are each other's brightest stars," and the best moments come when we feel that phrase come alive while we sing, speak, and move right there in rehearsal! We are thrilled to present our show, and Osvaldo's music, with the community."
Opera Boston presented the Boston premiere of Ainadamar earlier this year.
Opera Boston is Boston's most innovative Opera company. Founded in 1980, the company has presented more than 70 operas, including 34 regional and two world premieres. In addition to its critically acclaimed, award-winning mainstage productions, Opera Boston offers a range of programs, including an occasional chamber opera festival, a popular informal cabaret series and an extensive educational program in Boston's schools.
For more information about Opera Boston call (617) 451-3388.