Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Saturday 20 September | 3 - 5PM Via Zoom
Together with writing prompts, shares, and reflections, The Creative Center Presents: Writing Letters to Life will include somatic practices combining breath-work and gentle movements.
In this workshop, participants will use old-fashioned letter-writing as a channel to remember, restore, and gather parts of ourselves that may have been relegated to oblivion. As individuals and as a collective, we will touch on themes such as illness, loss, impermanence, forgiveness and love. We will also draft a letter to send ourselves a compassionate written reminder of what brings us inner comfort in life, put it in an envelope, stamp it and forward this in the mail to our physical address.
Together with writing prompts, shares, and reflections, Writing Letters to Life will include somatic practices combining breath-work and gentle movements.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he helps unfold within the quotidian. He is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing. He has recently taught healing, meditation, and somatic movement related workshops at Copper Beech Institute, The Creative Center, Hispanic Society of America, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, Healing Circles Global, and the In My Mind conference at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center in New York. Nicolás was recently a Senior Lecturer and Social Practice Artist in Residence in the Art and Art History Department at The University of Texas, Austin; and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. He teaches with Breath-Body-Mind Foundation. He holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. In 2021 he received a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher certification from the Interdependence Project in New York City. Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, he was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011.
The Creative Center at University Settlement is a nationally recognized leader in the field of arts in health dedicated to bringing the transformative power of the arts to people living with cancer, chronic illnesses, caregivers and older adults. Recognizing art as a vital tool for healing and connection, The Creative Center delivers high-quality visual, literary and performing arts programming in hospitals, community settings, and online.
