Heal Up! Arts & Wellness Admissions Roundtable
Heal Up! Arts & Wellness Admissions Roundtable
April 15 | 11 AM - 12:15 PM
Virtual
This roundtable will examine the courses, training seminars, and volunteer opportunities accessible to artists, cultural practitioners, and other members of the creative community engaged in arts and wellness education. This presentation will feature administrators from formal and informal learning venues discussing the application process for arts and wellness programs.
Speakers include: Michael Aryee, Artist at Flex Dance Program; Sobha Kavanakudiyil, Educational Theatre Program Director at the City College of New York; and Shola Thompson, Founder of Community Revitalization Partnership & Mental Health Trainer at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Michael Aryee is an artist and administrator at Dance Flex Program Inc. He grew up in Ghana and studied Philosophy, Politics & Economics at Trinity College. Michael is a Strategist and Chess instructor at PS 264 Bay Ridge Elementary. Michael is an alumnus of the New School where he earned a Masters in Conflict and Security. Michael is a lifelong student and occasional teacher.
Sobha Kavanakudiyil is a Chair Emeritus for The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable and she is the Director of The Graduate Program in Educational Theatre at The City College of New York. She also works as an Arts Education Consultant and is part of the inaugural class of the Americans for the Arts Speaker’s Bureau and a Mentor for the Arthur Miller Foundation and Department of Education mentoring program. She is the recipient of the Fulbright Specialist Fellowship and has traveled to Seoul, Korea, and Puebla, Mexico to share her love of theatre with teachers and artists abroad.
Shola Thompson is a Mental Health Trainer at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as well as the founder of Community Revitalization Partnership, a non-profit aimed at creating therapeutic spaces within NYC schools. Over the last 10 years within private practice and public partnerships, Shola has worked collaboratively with clients to create lived experiences that honor themselves, their relationships and the spaces that mean the most to them. Shola's work is centered in healing, resilience, and equity.
About Heal Up! Career Pathways in Creative Wellness
A 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council Creativity and Wellness Professional Development Series
This professional development series explores career pathways and training that offers artists an opportunity to integrate their art and wellness skills.
These workshops feature art and wellness practitioners and welcome participants from all creative industries into a supportive space to learn about the transformational power of the arts. This professional development series will assist creative agents in growing and expanding their craft on practices of wellness.
Community development, social engagement, creativity, museum wellness, craft, and indigenous experts will discuss new art and wellness training programs, workshops, and engagements from a variety of cultural practices and educational spaces (formal and informal).