It's easy to feel discouraged with all the bad news of closed businesses, lost jobs, and disrupted routines.
Integral Arts founder and director Karyn Alzayer has been hard at work making sure there are activities and programs to participate in to help us forget, at least for a little while, some of this uncertainty.
View a short video about the project here.
Visit the Healing Hands website for more information and to submit your own!
Stay updated with this project on our Facebook page. There are currently over 80 hands submitted from 3 different countries!
You can also read a quick write-up about the project in the Boston Globe here.
Onward in Love and Health,
Karyn Alzayer
President and Executive Director
Integral Arts founder and director Karyn Alzayer has been hard at work making sure there are activities and programs to participate in to help us forget, at least for a little while, some of this uncertainty.
Healing Hands
We’ve all been thinking about how much our hands can carry germs these days that it’s easy to forget they are also vital, powerful parts of ourselves that we use to connect, create, communicate, and console. I wanted to create a project to help us feel connected to one another through this difficult time, and I thought there would be no better way to do that than through our hands. I’m inviting people to write words of encouragement on a tracing of their hand, scan them, and send them to me. I’ll be gathering them into a big art project for public display when this is all over. But I’ll need YOUR help to make it happen. So get those art materials out and get going!View a short video about the project here.
Visit the Healing Hands website for more information and to submit your own!
Stay updated with this project on our Facebook page. There are currently over 80 hands submitted from 3 different countries!
DiscoSkype
DiscoSkype is an online dance party where participants can connect and dance together from the comfort and safety of their own homes. Join us Saturdays at 7pm EST and dance your worries away! Playlist is approx. 30 min and is also kid-friendly. Contact us for the weekly link to join in. This activity will be ongoing throughout the duration of the emergency declaration. See Henna Inspired's website for more details.Covid-19 Memorial Beads Project
Integral Arts founder Karyn is embarking on a project to memorialize the loss in the US to Covid-19 with memorial rose petal beads. Learn more about her project here.Everett City Hall Gallery
The newest edition of the Everett City Hall Gallery is officially open! The had to make some adjustments and transform it into an online exhibition, but that just means you can peruse this amazing artwork from the comfort of your own home. Check it out here!You can also read a quick write-up about the project in the Boston Globe here.
Other Local Arts News
Many local places around Chelsea, Everett, and Malden are encouraging families and residents to place objects such as teddy bears or other stuffed animals, drawings of rainbows, or their original hand tracings from Healing Hands in front windows so people going on walks will have interesting things to find. Feel free to join in the fun! Add something in your own windows or share photos of interesting finds of your own.
Onward in Love and Health,
Karyn Alzayer
President and Executive Director