Healing With The Arts!
Radical Connections transforms healthcare with all kinds of artists. Connecting the arts and health improves quality of life for residents, patients, and everyone working in and visiting healthcare settings. Creative participation is crucial for humanizing healthcare by celebrating individuals as well as the diversity of cultures, abilities, and communities.
Our Vision
Mission Statement
Wellness, for all, involves the opportunity to play, create and make choices. People in care need those same opportunities. Participation in the arts brings joy and connection; it demonstrates that people receiving care are much more than their medical conditions.
Elder care needs radical transformation. With our help, elders and everyone in healthcare can share their wisdom and enjoy arts and culture.
People experiencing mental or physical distress should be surrounded by healing environments. We bring meaningful music, visual, literary, or movement-based arts into hospitals and care settings.
True creative participation humanizes care by celebrating a diversity of individuals, cultures, abilities, and communities. Connecting arts and health improves quality of life for residents, patients, visitors, and everyone working in healthcare.
We improve care and strengthen communities by bringing artists and people in healthcare together.
Current Initiatives
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Community Connections
Radical Connections is partnering with the Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County (DSORC) and Connected Canadians to bring virtual one-on-one sessions with artists to seniors in their homes. RC artists are also performing in-person at DSORC’s weekly day programs, the Daisy Café and Café Marguerite.
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Storytelling in Palliative Care
Professional storyteller Kim Kilpatrick is working with Bruyère palliative care patients, family caregivers, and healthcare staff to gather and craft 55-word stories. Kim, together with visual artist Rachel Gray and healthcare researchers, will share their responses to this unique story-gathering process with a wider audience through events at Bruyère, the Ottawa Art Gallery and academic and medical conferences.
“In the age of life-long learning,
creative engagement is the new fitness class.”
