Join in the Fun!

The HeART of Healing project supports all forms of thoughtful heARTwork: from the big to the small, the spoken to the solid. If you’re a veteran heARTist or if it’s your first time thinking outside the proverbial box– examining the relationship between art and health– we’ve made it easy for you regardless of your heARTistic background!

Here’s a list of options you can do at-home, in the office, along the city streets to spread the message behind the HeART of Healing, just click and follow the blue rabbit link:

Attend an Event
Be a HeARTist
Behind-the-Scenes Look
Enter Our HeART Contest
Host an Event
Organize the Gnomes
Post Our Webtag
Spread the Word

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Attend an Event

Check out our Calendar of events and see how you can plug into the equation. Be as animated as you wish, participate in live art demonstrations, take to the streets and discover new perspective, let ART reshape time and space, define new directions for our community health care systems. By attending the events of the HeART of Healing project, you actively support community organizations who are making the magic of medicine happen, regardless of its media format, through the reinforcement of commUNITY connection.

Think big, think grand! Take a stand upon colorful and playful grounds, redefine how policy makers understand your community, what makes your heART sing for more broad-minded things than insurance entanglements and back-dealing, high-wheeling disconnected enterprises.

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Be a HeARTist

Challenge yourself to create your own heARTful message, take to the streets and art galleries, fuel interest from other artists to get involved, this project is what you make it. Define and construct using your language and terms.

In the event that you would like to sign you or your organization up to be a pART of the HeART of Healing project, you can; in fact, the more the merrier. You can also follow a “who, what, when, and where” approach to the HeART of Healing events on these respective pages, moreover if you decide to become involved on a more prominent level, your information would also be displayed in these locations, too! Contact us to learn more!

Note: When you make a connection with us, be sure to include who you/your organization is, what the event will be, where it will be located, and any relevant links back to your own resources. Our goal is to establish a network of communication from heARTists to community. We’ll not only recognize your efforts by alerting audiences to your location, but will also connect you to the broader umbrella of the HeART of Healing mission.

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Behind-the-Scenes Look

Go behind-the-scenes at the HeART of Healing Project here, at our Archimedes subscribed RSS feed. This site is meant to keep community organizers and HeART of Healing artists coordinated during the planning stages and the month of the project. Think of it like a high-tech walkie talkie version, where google documents, and meeting minutes are utilized to make the magic happen.

For all of you twittering folks, you can follow the fun through this fandangled version of updates here at our official HeART of Healing Twitter page.

If you’re a Facebook aficionado, join our new HeART of Healing Facebook page here.

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Enter Our HeART Contest

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Children of all ages! You are personally invited to take a shot at this year’s hottest HeARTist contest. All skill levels welcome, color in or out of the lines, redefine how our mascot moves through space and time… crayons, stop animation, FLASH or HTML, describe whatever ticks on your insides.

Click on our HeART of Healing Bunny Stand-in page to select the drawing of your choice.

Awards will be given for the following age brackets (0-10), (11-18), (19-28), (29-39), (40-60), (60+). Judges will be representative of each respective group, for example winners for the (0-10) will be selected by a local elementary school.

Eligible submissions should include name, basic contact information, age, and a brief description of what the HeART of Healing means to you. Send submissions to us using the Contact page.

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Host an Event

We’re all about expanding access to health care and to widen the debate, therefore S    P    A    C   E (the final frontier) is a necessary entity to making this happen. Venues? It’s all about filling it with information, people, concepts, and stretching the imagination. So think: living rooms, expanses of grassy lawns, sidewalks, bus stops, movie theaters, restaurants and bars, large stadiums with vast amounts of setting, or a virtual tour of your own internetting ventures. A venue is what you make it. If you happen to have a venue that you’d like to allocate for the HeART of Healing, perhaps some grand idea, of how you see it manifesting, just contact us! We’ll not only recognize your efforts by alerting audiences to your location, but will also connect you to the broader umbrella of the HeART of Healing mission.

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Organize the Gnomes

So, you’re simply aching to oversee and help to organize the nitty-gritty, minutia of middle-management? Well, we have a job for you! Be thee a data entry extraordinaire, telephone operator, or tag-team specialist, the HeART of Healing project could use a few pointy people behind the scenes. Did we say a few? whew! We have more than enough to do, and we could use a slew of extra hands to set the city on fire with our transformative projects. Contact us, tell us what you’re good at, and we’ll put your skills to good use!

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Post Our Webtag

Our HeART of Healing webtag is a simple and easy way to alert the virtual world of a new health reform paradigm.  Be creative, use your Myspace, Facebook, blog page, personal business page, the sky’s the limit! Onlookers will oogle and ah over the bunny, click, and voila`! The little blue rabbit will connect them into the wider message and back to the HeART of Healing website. It’s a great way to show your support, and you only need to lift your fingers, eh, a handful of times.

Just follow the instructions below and add it to your webpage in the comfort of your own home.

1. Download Image: Visit our Official HeART of Healing Bunny Stand-in page to select the image of your choice. Right click on the images therein and save the image(s) you like best.  Place this GIF image in your website “images” directory.
2. Code for your Webpage: Cut and paste this code into your webpage. <img height=”100″ width=”100″ src=”http://theheartofhealing.us/”></a>

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Spread the Word

Tell your friends, colleagues, bosses, bus drivers, grandmothers, local and state representatives, whoever strikes your fancy about the efforts of the HeART of Healing or the community grassrooted organization, the Archimedes Movement. Moreover, you can share our website directly, or your can twitter-tweet to your heART’s content. It’s up to you.

The momentum behind the April events will continue to build, so the earlier you and your connections are in on the fun, the more you can see as the month unfolds. Yep. The mystery behind the HeART of Healing will be revealed one person at a time, if we work hard enough at it, the big hoopla event at the end of the month can potentially be THE best place to be in Portland!

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