Art Heals Podcast arthealspodcast

In December 2022 The Highs and Lows Choir and Kettle Choir performed together in a concert at the Recovery Club in Vancouver.  This podcast is about the two choirs and their show together

During a nine-month battle with depression, Sergei Van Hardeveld leaned on pottery and singing to get through. "The healing part was being able to focus and not think about the past or the future and just to be in the present," Sergei said. Since then, he's picked up painting and photography and found purpose through environmental and social causes. We met Sergei at Leeside Skate Park in Vancouver to talk about thriving through creative expression and his new focus on love.

On the eve of her 60th birthday, Art Heals caught up with acclaimed Vancouver musician and composer sylvi macCormac ("aka elviS"), who turned to soundscapes after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. With influences ranging from Buffy Sainte-Marie and Bruce Cockburn to Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp, sylvi has produced works for Co-op Radio, the Vancouver Adapted Music Society (VAMS), and the Utsam Witness Project. In 2012, she was named one of Vancouver's Remarkable Women, and released her first documentary film, Patience and Absurdity, about her relationship with her mother who was facing dementia. Whether she's profiling social justice and Indigenous rights issues or fellow artists and people with disabilities, sylvi's work explores the intersection of pain and beauty and gives back to the communities that have supported her along the way.

In this episode, you’ll met Alaric Posey, a Vancouver-based composer and music teacher.

Sarah Jickling is a Vancouver-based musician and mental health advocate who isn’t afraid to sing about her deepest truths and struggles.