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Express Yourself is a creative and performing art exhibition that features the works of children and young adults suffering from chronic and life-threatening illnesses and their siblings.
Express Yourself provides children with the opportunity to be publicly acknowledged for both their struggles and their strengths. In a safe environment, filled with families, friends, healthcare specialists and art therapy patrons, these children sing, dance, recite poetry, play instruments and stand proudly by their works of art.
The process of preparing for the Express Yourself event provides these children with a much needed creative outlet that serves to reduce their stress and anxiety, decrease attention to their pain and normalize their hospital experience.
The exhibition provides all participants with something to look forward to and work towards, taking the focus away from the pain and sorrow of the illness. The event also provides patients and families with social opportunities to interact with other children and families in similar situations and take comfort in shared experiences.
Express Yourself - New York
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Kimmel Center for University Life
New York University
60 Washington Square South
(between La Guardia Place and Thompson Street)
New York, NY 10012
Directions
1:30-5:00 p.m.
Performances begin at 3:00 p.m.
Participating Agencies:
- Bellevue Hospital Center
- The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
- Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center
- Incarnation Children's Center
- Initiative for Women with Disabilities: Young Women's Program at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases
- Komansky Center for Children's Health at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Maimonides Infants and Children's Hospital of Brooklyn
- The Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital
- New Alternatives for Children
- NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases
- NYU Langone Medical Center
- Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center
- Schneider Children's Hospital of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
Sponsored By:
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine
If you are a healthcare agency interested in participating in Express Yourself, please call us at (201) 608-0146.
If you would like to submit artwork or perform in our next show, please call us at (201) 608-0146 or submit a contact form.
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