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Achieving Peak Performance with Ana Alexandre This student-focused presentation is based on six ways to increase energy and reach optimal health. Handouts include tips on how to stock a healthy kitchen, regulate blood sugar, promote healthy digestion, eat for energy, immune system support, information about fats, and easy recipes for healthy on-the-go snacks. Information is presented in an accessible format, is appropriate for student budgets and easy to apply. Community partners: HUMBER COLLEGE – THEATRE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM RANDOLPH ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PERFORMING ARTS LODGE (PAL)
with Dr. Anita Shack and Ruth Bittorf This interactive clinic discusses the importance of self-esteem. Participants explore exercises to help define, develop and maintain a healthy self-image. Factors contributing to the artists’ perception of self worth are considered with emphasis is placed on examining core beliefs, quieting the inner critic and tools to shift attitudes and perceptions. Community partners: EQUITY SHOWCASE THEATRE
with Ginette Hamel This interactive session focuses on preventing and coping with injuries. Participants will explore exercises to increase strength and stability and learn what to do in the first 24 hours of injury including: listening to pain and seeking treatment, preventing further damage and technique review and correction. Community partners: HUMBER COLLEGE - THEATRE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
with Ginette Hamel and Jennifer McGillis This interactive workshop combines basic theory, practical tips and exercises designed to assist visual artists with the specific physical challenges of their practice. Participants learn to identify potential ergonomic hazards, how to create healthy workflow environments and improve posture to minimize and prevent injury. Topics of focus include basic anatomy and ergonomic concepts, identifying hazards and creating solutions, types of injuries and causes and how to prevent injury. Community partners: ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN SHERIDAN COLLEGE – ANIMATION DEPARTMENT
with Susan Green This workshop focuses on the physical release of tension and stress associated with artistic practice. The Mitzvah Technique is postural re-education designed to help realign skeletal framework, rebalance musculature and stimulate deep breathing using the body’s ability to correct itself (the Mitzvah Mechanism). Participants are introduced to practical, gentle and versatile exercises beneficial for all ages, artistic disciplines and fitness levels. Focus is placed on postural alignment exercises to release tension and daily stress, tools to help correct existing patterns of body misuse and prevent future problems and practical applications for daily routines, artistic practice and self-care. Community partners: DANCER TRANSITION RESOURCE CENTRE
with Madeleine Hallé This workshop focuses on the psychological aspects of performance preparation through the use of techniques such as visualization, emotional control and concentration. A full-day session allows participants to participate in exercises and detailed discussion of many different aspects of these techniques and tools. Community partners: GLENN GOULD SCHOOL OF THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC RANDOLPH ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL SHERIDAN COLLEGE – MUSIC THEATRE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM SCHOOL OF TORONTO DANCE THEATRE (SCHOOL OF TDT) TORONTO DANCE THEATRE COMPANY (TDT) YORK UNIVERSITY – DANCE DEPARTMENT
with Dr. Anita Shack This presentation reviews body structure and function with a focus on posture and healthy alignment. Emphasis will be placed on the injury process (causes, inflammation, and how the body compensates, protects and heals itself) and injury relief (avoiding misuse/over use and forming good habits). Students will participate in a body inventory, joint opening and breathing exercise and will discuss types of injuries and how to avoid them. Community partners: HUMBER COLLEGE - THEATRE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM RANDOLPH ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PERFORMING ARTS LODGE (PAL) UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO – FACULTY OF MUSIC
The AHCF partnered with Cultural Careers Council Ontario for their 3rd annual HR Swap Meet focusing on a practical afternoon of work and life skills for artists. Speakers and topics included: Creating Emotional Resilience with career counsellor Anne Carbert, Financial Therapy and the Ailing Pocket Book with financial planner Amanda Mills, Balance and Body Mechanics with physiotherapist Ginette Hamel and Eating for Energy with nutritionist Susie Langley. Community partners: CULTURAL CAREERS COUNCIL ONTARIO (CCCO)
with Dr. Jean-Jacques Dugoua and Ted Rickard This presentation is designed to help visual and media artists develop safe and healthy professional practices, from the inside out. Many visual artists repeatedly expose themselves to toxic and potentially harmful chemicals and situations in order to produce their work and make a living. What are the consequences? What can be done to support a healthy diet and reduce injury? Students will explore toxicity in artists’ materials, health and safety in the studio and risk management strategies. Community partners: GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE – JEWELLERY DEPARTMENT TORONTO SCHOOL OF ART (TSA)
with Lori Holmes This presentation focuses on ways to prevent vocal injury and assure longevity through voice protection and preparation. By the end of this session students will understand the basic anatomy of voice production, be able to determine behavioral and environmental influences, and identify healthy voice strategies. Community partners: HUMBER COLLEGE - THEATRE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM RANDOLPH ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS |
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