Art Focuses on Mental Health Throughout The Harbor Region

Long Beach and San Pedro to host “Bridge Wellness” Through Art and Healing

“Bridging Wellness” is a series of community pop-ups generously supported by WE RISE LA and Arts Council for Long Beach. “Bridging Wellness” is a collaborative effort with partners Angels Gate Cultural Center, Compound LB, 10 other organizations and numerous artists in the Harbor region. County wide pop ups can be found on the WE RISE website and all “Bridging Wellness” local pop ups can be found on the Arts Council for Long Beach website.

WE RISE encourages well-being and healing through art, connection, community engagement and creative expression throughout May, Mental Health Awareness Month. WE RISE includes Art Rise, a series of 21 art experiences; Community Pop-Ups, hyperlocal activities across Los Angeles County neighborhoods; and a robust Digital Experience, offering original programs that can be enjoyed from anywhere. All installations and activities are meant to be participated in online or viewed from a distance individually or in small groups, in order to remain COVID-safe, per county health guidelines, while fostering community connection and collective healing.

“We are grateful to receive support from county partners to help communities heal through the arts. It is more important than ever to create opportunities for artists to intersect with local nonprofits,” stated Griselda Suarez, executive director for Arts Council for Long Beach.

For more information:

Details: https://artslb.org/bridging-wellness/ and https://whywerise.la/community-pop-ups/

Sanctuary Of The Aftermath Healing Centered Art: Many Paths To Wellness

Healing Centered Art: Many Paths to Wellness explores how the creation, sharing, and utilization of art can enhance our mental health and wellness, and help heal individual and community trauma.The interactive discussion will be an exploration of our path through the overlapping mental health impacts of pandemic losses, racial trauma, and other stressors in the last year. An opt-in, healing self-reflection/community care time will be offered. Participants will be invited to create during a brief art expression. Attendees can utilize any simple art supplies available at home.

The interactive panel discussion will be led by Tiombe Wallace, MS MFT,  a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 23 years of experience as a Black intersectional feminist therapist, educator, and activist.

Panelists include artists Nica Aquino, Jason Jenn, Rosalyn Myles and Vojislav Radovanović, whose work is on view in Sanctuary of the Aftermath at Angels Gate Cultural Center. The panel will discuss how the artists’ paths uncover the universal in a therapeutic process and invites viewers to share in their experience through immersive art. Eventbrite registration is required to join the virtual event.

Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m., May 26 Online

Details: Eventbrite registration is required to join the virtual event. www.eventbrite.com/e/we-rise-healing-centered-art-many-paths-to-wellness-tickets