Making Connections
A Creative Arts Therapy Expo
 
Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center
760 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY, 11206
Third floor
 
Thursday, March 11th, 2010. 
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
 
Admission is free
Some workshops require preregistration
Register here
 
Welcome to our Expo!
 
The Creative Arts Therapy Department at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center is pleased to present its 2010 Creative Arts Therapy expo, Making Connections.  Patients' art, multimedia exhibits, a patient panel discussion, and live performances will illustrate the innate capacity of the creative arts to expand the depth of one’s expression.  Group experientials, led by the Creative Arts Therapy staff, will invite the audience to engage in the creative process and to discover its communicative potentials. In addition, we will be offering workshops and presentations to provide an understanding of the therapist’s role in facilitating through the use of art the experience of “making connections.”
 
 
We are pleased to host out keynote speaker, Sherry Reiter, PhD, a clinical social worker and registered poetry therapist who combines talk therapy with writing therapy. As Director of The Creative “Righting” Center, she focuses on poetry, story, and the reclaiming of voice as dynamic healing components.   Dr. Reiter divides her time between writing, teaching at Touro College, Hofstra University, and private practice.  She is also the coordinator of Poets-Behind-Bars, a writing therapy program for inmates of the Indiana State Maximum Security Prison.  She is a past president of the National Association for Poetry Therapy, a recipient of the Art Lerner Pioneer Award (2005) and Touro College Teacher of the Year Award (2009).  She lives in Brooklyn with her family.  Writing Away the Demons is her first book.

We thank the Woodhull Medical Group and the Department of Medical Communications for their support.
 
 
For more information please contact Nir Sadovnik at Nir.Sadovnik@woodhullhc.nychhc.org or by phone 718-630-3399