Music Heals: Music Therapy Awareness and Fundraising in Canada

Almost all children respond to music. Music is an open-sesame, and if you can use it carefully and appropriately, you can reach into that child's potential for development.

— Dr. Clive Robbins, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Clinic

Music therapy has been an invaluable tool with many of our rehabilitation patients. There is no question that the relationship of music and medicine will blossom because of the advent of previously unavailable techniques that can now show the effects of music.

— Mathew Lee, Acting Director, Rusk Institute, New York

(Music therapy) can make the difference between withdrawal and awareness, between isolation and interaction, between chronic pain and comfort-between demoralization and dignity.

— Barbara Crowe, past president of the National Association for Music Therapy

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological diseases-Parkinson's and Alzheimer's-because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

— Oliver Sacks, M.D.

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

— Hal A. Lingerman

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

— Thomas Carlyle

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

— Leonard Bernstein

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

— Confucius

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

— Leo Tolstoy

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Music’s the medicine of the mind.

— John A. Logan

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Music is what feelings sound like.

—Author Unknown

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

— Jimi Hendrix

The power of music to integrate and cure. . .
is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

— Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

— Beethoven (1770-1827)

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from everyone loves music

— Billy Joel

One good thing about music,
when it hits you, you feel no pain

— Bob Marley

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The Gift of Music: Stories of Music Therapy

Presented by the Music Therapy Association of British Columbia, a special screening of the new film by Scott Rondeau. The film depicts the multi-faceted aspects of the music therapy profession. From Montreal to Victoria, from Winnipeg to Whitehorse, music therapy is used to enhance the quality of life of Canadians. Through music therapy a blind baby learns to engage her other senses, a dying man records a love song for his wife, and a polio survivor overcomes many challenges to make music his career. These stories and others will touch hearts and open minds. Produced by Hell Creek Entertainment in Association with the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund.

Thursday March 29 at the VanCity Theatre (1181 Seymour St)

We are very happy to announce the date for the screening of The Gift of Music, Stories of Music Therapy
for the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund in support of music therapy projects in BC at the Vancity Theatre.

The film depicts the multi-faceted aspects of the music therapy profession. From Montreal to Victoria, from Winnipeg to Whitehorse, music therapy is used to enhance the quality of life of Canadians.

Through music therapy a blind baby learns to engage her other senses, a dying man records a love song for his wife, and a polio survivor overcomes many challenges to make music his career.

These stories and others will touch hearts and open minds.

Film Screening: Thursday March 29 at the VanCity Theatre (1181 Seymour St)
Presented by the Music Therapy Association of British Columbia.

Film Screening and Q+A with local music therapists, Director in Attendance, Silent Auction and Post-Screening Reception with Live Music. Donations Accepted

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The Music Heals Charitable Foundation was formed to help raise awareness of the healing powers of Music and to help fundraise for Music Therapy and related services across Canada. Music Heals is a not-for-profit society incorporated in British Columbia and registered with Canada Revenue Agency as a charitable foundation.
Our mission is to support a wide range of music therapy services to communities across Canada by providing ongoing funding for those agencies that develop and use music therapy.

The Gift of Music: Stories of Music Therapy

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Vancouver-based Music Heals Charitable Foundation supports a wide range of music therapy services to communities in B.C. and across Canada.