About
Wild Child Writers - No Age Limit!
Well Arts’ mission is “to explore, develop, and practice creativity as a means to wellness.” We partner with residential, service, and advocacy organizations to work with the people they serve facing life altering health issues. At our partner organization we facilitate creative writing and visual art workshops. At the end, each participant receives a bound book of their creations. Our partner organization receives a bound anthology of all participant creations. We then pair participants with professional actors, who rehearse with the writer. The actor performs the stories onstage for the general public, either onsite, or at a traditional theatre space.
Audience reacts to "Stuck: Kids with Diabetes"
We have worked with children and adults living with cancer, children with Juvenile Diabetes and their families, adults with AIDS, Mulitiple Sclerosis, veterans, people in drug addiction recovery, and elders. There is compelling evidence today that after a traumatic, life-changing event an individual benefits greatly from creative expression. The arts give us tools to look back and evaluate our life’s journey, to find meaning in life events, and to lower the anxiety, fear and depression that so often aggravates traumatic health issues. Creative work allows a person to take an experience in which they feel powerless, and create something from it that endows their experience with meaning and hope, giving them a sense of control. Bringing their experience to the public, through creative storytelling, gives a voice to the disenfranchised. The public experiences ‘what it would be like’ in a way that simple facts and figures cannot achieve. We all benefit from understanding the experiences of the elderly, the struggling, the survivors in our community.
Our Vision:
To advance and promote the relationship between the arts (performing, visual, literary, movement and music) and wellness.
Our Programs & Services:
Theater Performance - resulting from three to four month writing process with individuals who share a common traumatic experience or illness.
Workshops - Customized, hands-on workshops which can include creative writing, music and art exercises.
Consultation- Professional facilitators assist groups to bring arts into healthcare settings.
Education- Presentations on the role of arts in healthcare.
