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Sound Therapy Radio is pleased to welcome Kat Thorsen as our in-house Art Therapist. Kat is the c0-creator of CJ the Sock Monkey and a regular participant at creative ventures around Vancouver. As a multi-talented Artist, Kat creates in many different mediums, graffitti, watercolour tattoos, body painting, sewing, crafts, film and animation.
Katarina Thorsen (Kat) is the resident art therapist at Keith Lynn Alternative Secondary School in North Vancouver. The student population presents with a variety of issues including behavioral challenges, learning
disabilities, substance abuse and mental health.
Kat’s own artwork (drawing, painting, quilting, journaling, sock animals) can be found in private collections in Canada, USA and Sweden. Kat is passionate about the therapeutic power of art and though her main focus is at-risk children and
youth, she is currently developing a workshop series that will facilitate creative expression and self-empowerment in adults. Always in the pursuit of new creative outlets Kat is also working on a Graphic Novel based on her research into a historical Vancouver murder mystery.
We are excited to know what creative adventure is on the horizon
For more details go to: http://katthorsen.wordpress.com/about/
To read more about Katarina’s work with sock monkey/art therapy for at-risk
youth go to http://klasssockmonkey.wordpress.com/
To read more about Katarina’s art therapy and visual art, go to
http://katthorsen.wordpress.com
To read more about Katarina’s sock creations, go to
http://poststreet.wordpress.com/
Another exciting episode of Art of the Mind, where we share workplace stories. In studio we have singer songwriter Carolyn Stewart and musician Christina Alconcel.
Melanie Rose tries some new material in the comedic testing station. We also talk with Michael Schratter who is on his world ride for mental health, http://www.ridedonthide.com/ he is currently in Mexico anticipating going to Guatemala.
We also speak with Dr. Alexandra Morton, Wild Salmon advocate who talks about living and working in a remote location. And the upcoming Rally for Wild Salmon on October 25th.
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Carolyn Stewart
Christina Alconcel
Dr. Alexandra Morton
In this episode we feature the musical stylings of Alexander Keurvorst and Cumulus Dischord. Sarah Mulder a local visual artist also drops by for a visit to talk about her creative projects. Alexander, Ana and Sarah tell us that you can survive in Vancouver without a driver’s license.
Be sure to check our Sarah Mulder’s art show in November at the Agro Cafe on Granville Island
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'City Glance' by Sarah Mulder. Sewn in City Scapes on canvas
In this episode we talk about the upcoming World Suicide Prevention Day on Friday September 10th. Representatives from the Crisis Center and SAFER a suicide prevention group, a service of Vancouver Coastal Health join us on the line. Pat Bayes from Stand up for Mental Health gives us an update of whats happening.
Justin Mehia also plays live in studio for us.
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While our minds were mentally checked out from a Sun Soaked weekend of Festivals, Arts and Music we bring together randomly a beautiful cast of radio guests.
So let us take you away from the daily stresses of being a weekend warrior, with a little Sound Therapy Radio. Today in studio, we have comic and Aboriginal Mental Health advocate Monique Hurteau, and local singer songwriter Britt Bonshor. Later in the program we will hear a little bit of Ranj Singh and the discriminators.
Heres the archived episode, may take a few minutes to load
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Monique Hurteau, Stanley Theatre May 31.
Britt Bonshor, Seven
Julia Spitale
Hello and welcome to another edition of ‘The Artist Lounge’, where we congregate with local creative talent and talk about what inspires us and specifically, what perspires us, during the hotness of summer. July and summer is in full swing and every tuesday night we have our creative campfire, and to create the atmosphere of your favourite camping trip we asked our guests not to take a shower for a couple of days and installed an outhouse on the football field. Unfortunately the team mistook it for a tackling dummy, not good…
Marlene Swidzinski
But just like any night time, outdoor fun fest we have great conversation, laughs and music. So, today in studio we have comedians Jan Bannister and Marlene Swidzinski and musical guests, the serial hugger, musician David Blair and Singer songwriter Julia Spitale.
Below is the archived broadcast, make take a moment to load.
Jan Bannister
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David Blair
Isabella Mori
Welcome to another edition of Sound Therapy Radio ‘Art of the Mind’. Today we chat about Social Media and what could be a better way to talk about it than in the intimate confines of the CJSF radio broadcast studio. So, a lot of people are talking social media these days. Long gone are the unidirectional onslaught of messages through commercial television, print and radio, the people now have an easy access to voice their views.
Vicky Rae
In Mental Health, how can we best use this? Is it meeting with your psychotherapist over skype? How we manage the paranoia of 13,000 followers on twitter. Could even your email inbox make your manic impulses and neuroticism even more convenient?
Well maybe there can be a purpose for all this, we discuss social media and its role in mental health in destigmatizing Mental Health.
In studio, we have Psychotherapist and Blogger Isabella Mori who is the co-founder of Mental Health Camp. Visual Artist Vicki Rae shares her story about the power of Art in dealng with her personal battles and how she is transforming that experience and collaborating with others.
As always we blend in some great musical talent in the discussion. singer songwriter Ron Janzen joins us in studio and explains to us what a Musicianary is. Musical guest Padma also sings live and showcases the amazing creativity that can be inspired by living in a yurt.
Here’s the episode, may take a moment to load.
Padma
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Ron Janzen
Like this:
I’m sorry Canada but this year I am finding it very difficult to celebrate your Birthday.
You likely know the reasons why, but I feel betrayed; what did we all do to deserve this. One would think that you get better with age.
I’ve known you for all my life, you’ve made mistakes in the past, but I’ve never seen this in you before. The look on your face, the evil in your eyes, the aggressiveness, the contempt, the lack of respect and dignity. However, its the anger, like a seething Pit Bull ready to attack at even a flinch of a feather. Its like I could feel your teeth plunging to the core of my heart, twisting and turning with the vengeance seemingly detached from any resemblance of me as a living being. How can I, or anyone trust you any longer? I don’t know where to start and its difficult to find the energy to do so.
How can I celebrate when there are mutual friends of ours in prison being held for unjust reasons. This looks like Martial Law! Even those who you have released are still in pain, they are traumatized, they are hurt, yet the worst part of all this is that they no longer believe in you. I see the anger in them towards you, its quite frightening. Will you even acknowledge what you have done has caused deep hurt? Our friends truly believe that they did nothing wrong. Are you choosing to sweep this under the rug and discount the emotion of your friends?
Oh Canada, what happened to the True Patriot Love? Today, I ask myself; how can I continue to stand on guard for thee?
A Rose by any other name can’t be this funny!
September 20, 2010 in Announcements, Arts Review, Commentary | Tags: CJSF 90.1 FM, J Peachy, melanie rose, sound therapy radio, Stand up for mental health | by J Peachy | 1 comment
We are excited to announce that Melanie Rose will be joining the Sound Therapy Radio team. Melanie is burning up the comedic world and will be helping add some lightness to our sometimes dark episodes. An Alumni of the Stand up for Mental Health program, Melanie attributes comedy for saving her from some pretty despair times.
Melanie has learned that laughter is always the best medicine. She has learned not to PANIC when she is MANIC.
Although, her love for tye dye shirts might be helping her get over the Ex.…it may also explain why she is still single.
She is a mother of 4 girls that don’t live with her (a long story).. but she is real…Anxiety and all…she tells jokes and stories of her life, and hopefully shows people it might just be OK to be “Crazy”.
So be on the lookout for Melanie on the airwaves of Sound Therapy Radio
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