新香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Maine Women Writers Collection holds series of events on healing through story and art

Book art produced by participants in 鈥淲riting the Body: Artists鈥 Books for Ourselves and Each Other,鈥 a workshop held on Septemb
Book art produced by participants in 鈥淲riting the Body: Artists鈥 Books for Ourselves and Each Other,鈥 a workshop held on September 14 by the Maine Women Writers Collection

On September 13, the 新香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Maine Women Writers Collection (MWWC), in collaboration with the University of Kent School of English, hosted a symposium titled, 鈥淭ell Me What Hurts: Storytelling and the Healing Arts." The event, held on the Biddeford Campus, was presented in conjunction with an exhibition of artist鈥檚 book by Martha A. Hall, titled 鈥My Creativity Heals Myself and Others,鈥 and a book arts workshop, hosted by MWWC on September 14, which focused on storytelling around health and healing. The symp

The symposium was planned by Amy Amoroso, M.F.A., and Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., both in 新香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Department of English, as well as Cathleen Miller, M.A., M.L.S., curator of the MWWC, and Stella Bolaki, Ph.D., from the University of Kent鈥檚 School of English. The event featured two keynote speakers. Sherri Mitchell (Weh鈥檔a Ha鈥檓u Kwasset) spoke about healing from an indigenous perspective in her talk, 鈥淗ealing Our Collective Trauma and Reconnecting with Spiritual Source.鈥 Hedy Wald, Ph.D., delivered her address, 鈥淐aring for Our Patients, Our Students, Ourselves: The Power of Narrative,鈥 which explored how narrative can be used in health professions education to humanize medical environments and inform public health and research policy agendas.

In addition to the keynotes, the symposium featured a panel on writing, a panel on teaching with artists鈥 books, and a panel that presented student perspectives. 新香港六合彩资料 students and alumni Arooba Almas, Meghan D. Morash and Thomas Rooney participated. Also included was a viewing of a 新香港六合彩资料 documentary, 鈥,鈥 featuring artist Martha Hall, a resident of Orr鈥檚 Island, Maine, who died in 2003 at the age of 54, after years of painstakingly creating artist鈥檚 books to explore the experience of living with cancer.

The symposium concluded with a reception at 新香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Ketchum Library Art Gallery, currently exhibiting works by Hall that are held in the Maine Women Writers Collection and Bowdoin College鈥檚 Special Collection and Archives. The exhibition will run until December 14.

The September 14 workshop, titled 鈥淲riting the Body: Artists鈥 Books for Ourselves and Each Other,鈥 was led by Rebecca Goodale, a professor of book arts at USM. Participants learned book-making techniques and had an opportunity to make three books throughout the day.

Miller expressed her pleasure in the success of the symposium and its related events in bridging medicine and the arts in a meaningful. 鈥淚t was exciting and gratifying to help spark truly interdisciplinary dialogues about healing, narrative and creativity by bringing together artists, writers, doctors, social workers and educators, among many others,鈥 she shared. 鈥淲e hope that this will be the first of many such events.鈥

At the Maine Women Writers September 13 symposium 鈥淭ell Me What Hurts: Storytelling and the Healing Arts,鈥 Sherri Mitchell (Weh鈥
At the Maine Women Writers September 13 symposium, 鈥淭ell Me What Hurts: Storytelling and the Healing Arts,鈥 Sherri Mitchell (Weh鈥檔a Ha鈥檓u Kwasset) speaks to the audience about healing from an indigenous perspective.