Welcome to the Well Arts Institute
We Have Five Workshops:
Voices of Our Elders for anyone over 60.
Beautiful Minds for people living with mental illness, and families of the mentally ill, through the National Alliance on Mental Illness Washington County Center.
Soldier’s Heart for veterans with PTSD, by referral at Portland Vet Center.
Nurses Story Project (currently looking for partners).
Returning Heroes, a Reunion Writing Workshop for anyone who’s taken any of our past workshops over the last 11 years.
Holiday Changes To Workshop Schedule: Friendly House Workshop Meeting on Monday January 23rd from 11:15-12:45pm (Not January 16th)
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What’s New On The Website?
- We have an online ticket-buying discount for next month’s Voices of Our Elders workshops!
- We have a new online volunteer application, through survey monkey. Click To Apply to Volunteer with Well Arts.
- We have a new webform on the volunteer page to log volunteer hours!
- We have an updated donation page!
- We have new performance and workshop information below!
Upcoming Performances
Hollywood Senior Center’s Voices of Our Elders Workshop
Performance Title: A Dose of Reality
Performance Dates and Times: Fridays February 3rd and 10th at 8pm, Saturdays February 4th and 11th at 3pm
Performance Location: Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 Northeast 40th Avenue.
Tickets: $10 at the door and $8 online! Click Here To Purchase Online!
Friendly House Voices of Our Elders Workshop
Performance Title: We Are Still Here
Performance Dates and Times:Performances Fridays February 17th and 24th at 8pm, Saturdays February 18th and 25th at 3pm
Performance Location: Also at Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 Northeast 40th Avenue
Tickets: $10 at the door and $8 online! Click Here To Purchase Online!
Beautiful Minds
Performance Title: Beautiful Minds
Performance Location: TBA
Performance Dates: March
Tickets: $10 (Online Ticket Purchasing Coming Soon)
Returning Heroes
Performance Title: I:you
Performance Location: TBA
Performance at Concordia University, NE 27th and NE Highland
Thursday May 10th at 8pm
Friday May 11th at 8pm
Saturday May12th at 8pm
Performances at Launchpad Gallery 534 SE Oak St Portland, OR 97214
Friday May 18th at 8pm
Saturday May 19th at 8pm
Tickets Pay-What-You-Will
Drop In Classes
Beautiful Minds at NAMI
Beautiful Minds is a brand new drop in class at the National Alliance for Mental Illness Washington County Center, 18680 Southwest Shaw Street
Aloha, OR 97007-1250, 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month, beginning September 10th. All classes are completely free of charge! Performance will be in March!
Voices Of Our Elders Drop In Classes
Friendly House’s current theme is “Cooking A Story”. Elders are writing stories and poems based on food, recipes and families! Hollywood Senior Center’s current theme is “Life’s Pop Quizzes: Creating a Textbook for the Younger Generation”. We’re weaving in our tried and true exercises with new stuff. You are always welcome to drop in and stretch your creativity!
Friendly House
The first and third Mondays of each month, from 11:15 am to 12:45pm, at Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Avenue. Drop-in cover charge is $5. Performance in January. (Please click on Friendly House to see their website.)
Hollywood Senior Center
The second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 10:15am-11:45am at Hollywood Senior Center 1820 NE 40th Avenue. Drop-in cover charge is $5. Performances in January. (Please click on Hollywood Senior Center above to see their website!)
Returning Heroes: I:you
Returning Heroes is a reunion writing workshop for any past Well Arts participant who has completed a workshop-to-performance journey! We’ll begin sessions the first week of March 2012, at Augustana Lutheran Church (2710 NE 14th Avenue). Day of week to be determined. There are two weekends of performance, one weekend at Concordia University and one weekend at Launch Pad Gallery!
Soldiers’ Heart
This is a two month, annual workshop at Portland Vet Center starting September of 2012. If you wish to participate, you must be referred by a Portland Vet Center counselor. The last session is an invited reading: each veteran will be asked to invite one person to come, to whom he or she wants most to tell his/her story to.
Nurses’ Story Project
This is a series of four-cluster workshops: four one-hour session workshops focused on a particular artform (creative non-fiction, poetry, theatre, etc). We are currently recruiting partners!
Upcoming Community Presentations
Timpanogos Storytelling Festival
Veteran Well Arts actors David Loftus and Mikki Lipsey are joining Artistic/Executive Director Katy Liljeholm in presenting two workshops and a 40 minute best-of Well Arts performance at Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, at Brigham Young University in Utah, February 7-10, 2012
Announcing New Artistic/Executive Director!
Katy Liljeholm has directed in the United Kingdom, Cleveland, and Portland for seven years. She holds a duel bachelor’s degree in Theatre and Literature, specializing in directing. Katy toured as a puppeteer for nationally-award winning Tears of Joy Theatre as well as directing shows for them. She has worked with Teatro de Milagro, Broadway Rose, Profile Theatre Project, New Century Players, and done a little moonlighting over at Portland Center Stage and Artists Repertory Theatre. She has stage-managed, directed, and been a board member for Portland Actors Ensemble (now celebrating its fortieth anniversary as Portland’s oldest theatre company). She worked for Portland Theatre Works for five years, helping to select scripts and produce a monthly reading series of new works. She’s volunteered with Write Around Portland. She’s taught residencies and after-school classes at elementary schools around Oregon and Washington. She was pleased to assist Valerie Moore, previous Well Arts Executive Director with curriculum and evaluation development on Voices Of Our Elders: The Best Is Yet To Come, as well as facilitating and scribing for some of the truly wonderful workshop participants. She is proud to have Val as a mentor and friend! When not creating theatre, Katy is found writing, gardening, and enjoying life with her new husband!
Member Since 2005
