Annual Luncheon 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Canad Inn Polo Park

Photo of the 300+ audience at Creative Retirement Manitoba's 2010 Annual Luncheon
listening to Hon Jim Rondeau, Minister of Healthy Living, Youth and Seniors.

 

guest speakers
Nigel & Lucille Bart
founders of Artbeat Studio

presented
Healing and Empowerment
through Creative Endeavour

Artbeat Studio is a unique community based, peer directed program that provides social supports, free working artstudio/gallery space and mentorship for persons with mental illness for the purpose of empowerment.

Lucille Bart, BA. Executive Director of Artbeat Studio Inc. is a professional potter with extensive experience in production, marketing and teaching. She is a certified counselor and holds a deep appreciation for the therapeutic value of the creative process and restorative potential of art making. Her education, passion and family experience with serious mental illness provides the ongoing impetus for developing Artbeat Studio as an organizational model for empowering participants with strategies and resources for their mental health recovery and connection with meaningful work.

Nigel Bart, BFA, is the Founder and Studio Facilitator of Artbeat Studio Inc. Music and art play an essential role in his life and are a great resource in his recovery from Schizophrenia. Recognizing a strong connection between his own mental health and creativity Nigel sought ways to support other artists in similar circumstance. Artbeat Studio Inc. opened in 2005 with guidance of his parents, a committed board of directors, and supportive funders. Nigel has produced an award winning anti-stigma video “Inside Out”, exhibited paintings at the National Art Gallery of Ottawa, and remains a dedicated advocate for equitable opportunity and acceptance of persons with mental illness.