Al & Malka Green Artists' Health Centre

Al & Malka Green Artists' Health Centre The Al & Malka Green Artists' Health Centre is a facility in the Family and Community Medicine Program of the University Health Network, Ontario Canada.

🎨 Wellness Workshop: Transforming Tension with the Alexander Technique 🌿Returning this fall! Discover how the Alexander ...
09/01/2026

🎨 Wellness Workshop: Transforming Tension with the Alexander Technique 🌿

Returning this fall! Discover how the Alexander Technique can help artists reduce tension, prevent injury, and bring greater ease and awareness to both performance and everyday life.

Join us for an interactive, engaging session featuring stories, demonstrations, self-experiments, and discussion. Explore new perspectives on posture, movement, and the mind-body connection, and discover how greater awareness can support ease, confidence, and creativity in your artistic practice.

✨ Led by Tanya Bénard, ATC-Certified Teacher, who brings warmth, empathy, and humour to her teaching. This workshop will cover introductory material similar to previous AHC Alexander Technique workshops. Artists of all disciplines are welcome, with priority given to those who have not previously attended.

📅 Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2026

🕐 Time: 1:30–3:30 PM

📍 Location: Artists’ Health Centre Dance Studio

💚 Free workshop

🔗 Register via the link in bio!

🔗LINK IN BIO | ALAS Ontario is excited to partner with The Artists’ Health Centre for this essential Q&A session!Who’s L...
09/01/2026

🔗LINK IN BIO | ALAS Ontario is excited to partner with The Artists’ Health Centre for this essential Q&A session!

Who’s Liable? Legal Essentials for Artists Hosting Public Events

Hosting a workshop, open studio, or outdoor art event can be a great way to build an audience. But it’s also an easy way to expose yourself to legal risk you may not have considered. When a guest trips on a cord, a participant burns their hand on a kiln, or a gust of wind sends your display flying, who’s liable?

This session will break down liability risks artists face when inviting the public into their studios, booths, and outdoor spaces, and will outline the practical steps artists can take before anyone walks through the door. What do general liability and event insurance actually cover? When does a waiver hold up and when is it just paper? What should artists look for in venue contracts? What precautions can artists take to reduce risk? Join us to find out, and to help prevent a claim from ever starting.

Bring your questions for the Q&A period. ⁉️

⏰September 24th at 12:00-1:00 PM ET

📍Online Workshop via ZOOM

In partnership with Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS), The Artists’ Health Centre is pleased to host this Q&A session for artists of all disciplines to ask legal questions about hosting public events.

About the Speaker:

Lewis Waring is an experienced lawyer with a passion for culture. Lewis takes a practical approach shaped by his work on construction and banking matters, and has a growing interest in entertainment law and legal issues affecting artists.

✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Youth Workshop Series: Your Art, Your Story! 🎨💫Through zine making, mask m...
08/30/2026

✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Youth Workshop Series: Your Art, Your Story! 🎨💫

Through zine making, mask making, and collaborative sculpture building, youth artists ages 12–17 explored social connection in the modern age and reflected on identity, belonging, self expression, community, and what it means to connect with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. 🌐🤝

Our mask making workshop invited participants to explore how they experience and express themselves with others. Through colours, symbols, words, images, and abstract forms, each artist created a mask reflecting the different ways we present ourselves to the world and the parts of ourselves that may exist beneath the surface. 🎭✨

A special thank you to Jennifer Fader, RP, Registered Psychotherapist & Expressive Arts Therapist, for representing the Artists’ Health Centre and supporting this meaningful creative exploration.

We are incredibly grateful to Linda Wu, founder of ThriveTogether, for her collaboration in bringing this workshop series to life and for creating a space where youth could explore connection, identity, and self expression through the arts. 💛🎨

Reflecting on the experience, Jennifer shared that “participants expressed they enjoyed learning to create in a process oriented way that wasn’t just about making something that looked good or for grades!”

Thank you to all of the young artists who joined us throughout the Youth Workshop Series. Your creativity, perspectives, curiosity, and willingness to explore big questions about connection and identity made this series so special. 🙌

We can’t wait to see how your zines, masks, and collaborative sculptures come together in the October community art exhibit, celebrating youth perspectives and the many different ways we experience and create connection. ✨

ThriveTogether
Integrative Therapy Studio

🎨 CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Mandy Lowe Artist-in-Residence ProgramAre you an emerging visual artist in the GTA interested in ...
08/27/2026

🎨 CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Mandy Lowe Artist-in-Residence Program

Are you an emerging visual artist in the GTA interested in exploring the intersections of health, learning, and community?

University Health Network (UHN)’s Education Program is inviting applications for the inaugural Mandy Lowe Artist-in-Residence Program, a one-year residency honouring Mandy Lowe’s contributions to clinical learner education and her love of the arts.

The selected artist will receive a $4,000 honorarium to create and display an original artwork or small series in the Health Sciences Library at Toronto General Hospital. Artists are invited to explore themes such as:

🎨 Health and wellness in healthcare education
🤝 Community, collaboration, and shared learning
💡 Art as a way of moving health education forward

As part of the residency, the selected artist will also design and deliver one engagement session for UHN students and staff, provide a short artist statement or reflection, and participate in an informal reception.

Who can apply?

Emerging visual artists and current students residing in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

📅 Application deadline: September 30, 2026
📧 Submit applications: [email protected]

Applicants are asked to submit a project proposal (500 words maximum), resume/CV, contact information, and relevant portfolio/work samples.

🔗 Visit the link in bio for the full call for proposals and application details.

08/13/2026

Thank you, Fei (Dr. Xia), for taking us along for your physician takeover! 🌿

We’re so grateful you shared a glimpse into your day and your work supporting artists’ mental health and wellbeing. We loved learning more about your practice and the meaningful work you do! 💚

Join us for our Community Sculpture Workshop, where we’ll work together to design and build creative sculptural pieces f...
08/13/2026

Join us for our Community Sculpture Workshop, where we’ll work together to design and build creative sculptural pieces for a community art exhibition.

No sculpture experience is needed—just bring your imagination and be ready to create with others!

✨ Your artwork will be featured in a community zine and public art exhibition alongside creations from other youth in the series.

🍕 Pizza & snacks provided
🎨 All materials provided

📍 Parkway Forest Community Centre
55 Parkway Forest Rd, Toronto
2nd floor – Multipurpose Room 2

📅 Sunday, August 16th, 2026
🕐 1:15pm–2:45pm

Spots are limited! Register with this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScv5xPppC7u8v_I9CUMqU9e3oFgrTR-MbezCvvWzjnw8AR4CQ/viewform

📣Calling all youth artists!Introducing our mask making workshop🤩We will use mask making to explore identity, self-expres...
08/09/2026

📣Calling all youth artists!

Introducing our mask making workshop🤩We will use mask making to explore identity, self-expression, and connection through colour, symbols, words, and imagery. Whether your mask is bold, quiet, funny, mysterious, or completely abstract, this is a space to create something that reflects your story🎭

No art experience is needed—just bring your ideas and curiosity.

✨ Your artwork will be featured in a community zine and public art exhibition alongside creations from other youth in the series.

🍕 Pizza & snacks provided
🎨 All materials provided

📍 Parkway Forest Community Centre
55 Parkway Forest Rd, Toronto
2nd floor – Multipurpose Room 2

📅 Sunday, August 9th, 2026
🕑 2:15pm–3:45pm

Spots are limited! Register through this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScv5xPppC7u8v_I9CUMqU9e3oFgrTR-MbezCvvWzjnw8AR4CQ/viewform?pli=1

We are pleased to announce our upcoming physician takeover featuring Dr. Yu Fei Xia (she/her), a GP psychotherapist pass...
08/07/2026

We are pleased to announce our upcoming physician takeover featuring Dr. Yu Fei Xia (she/her), a GP psychotherapist passionate about providing OHIP-covered group and individual psychotherapy for artists through the ups and downs of their lives and careers.

Dr. Xia’s work focuses on creating a safe and supportive space for artists to explore:

• Mindfulness and self-compassion
• Worry, self-doubt, and overwhelming emotions
• Mental health through the ups and downs of artistic careers
• Support during and after experiences with cancer

Her counselling approach is informed by modalities including CBT, IPT, and AEDP. With medical training from McMaster University and residency and fellowship training at the University of Toronto, Dr. Xia has also explored the ways in which the arts and medicine can enhance one another through projects presented nationally and at international Health Humanities conferences.

Stay tuned for her takeover on Tuesday, where she will share highlights from her day and provide a glimpse into her work supporting artists’ mental health and wellbeing!😊🌿

07/29/2026

Grateful to .foundation for investing in opportunities like this. Conferences are where ideas grow into collaborations, and collaborations lead to better care for performers around the world. 💙

Thank you for hosting another successful symposium! We are looking forward to PAMA 2027 in Manchester UK 🤗🇬🇧🌏

🎭🌎 Fantastic news! We’re gearing up for the 44th Annual PAMA International Symposium, taking place July 23–26 at Weill C...
07/22/2026

🎭🌎 Fantastic news! We’re gearing up for the 44th Annual PAMA International Symposium, taking place July 23–26 at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City!

This year’s theme, “From Practice to Performance: Occupational Health for Every Stage,” focuses on integrating actionable, real-world injury prevention and health management for artists.

We’re especially excited that the AHC’s Research Scientist Dr. Shelly-Anne Li will be delivering presentations and facilitating a workshop at the symposium! 🎤✨ Dr. Li’s presentation will introduce the inaugural global set of 10 healthcare professional competencies and 5 institutional responsibilities for treating and assessing musicians. She will also be leading a workshop on using knowledge translation to advance performer wellness in higher education institutions.

Follow along on our social media as Dr. Li shares her experience at the symposium!🗽

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