ARTICLE: Toronto project demonstrates healing power of arts

[ENCATC Arts and Health]

The Art Heals Health project is working to bring music, dance, comedy and painting into the medical mainstream. This article focuses on three artists who are using their talents to help patients: a dance class dedicated to people suffering from Parkinson’s disease, a comedy workshop for the ones battling with cancer, and a musical therapy centred on songwriting with the dying, pulling them into a musical participation that many believe has measurable therapeutic benefits

Read the full article: http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/04/03/toronto-project-demonstrates-healing-power-of-arts.html