Dementia | Arts & Health Antigonish (AHA!)

AHA Connects Aug 15 – Arts Canopy

August 15, 2023AHA!

Today we celebrate Arts Canopy, a program designed to help people living with dementia rediscover their best selves, their creativity, and their current abilities and capacities, by using the arts to foster socialization, a sense of joy and other ways of remembering.

Arts Health Month – November 2019 Playshops

November 18, 2019AHA!

AHA! has two great November playshops lined up for you on the last weekend of the month:

Friday, Nov. 29, 6-8: Holiday Baking with 4th year StFX students and staff (at least one student is a...

Arts Canopy – Branching Out Artist Workshops

September 24, 2019AHA!

Are you an artist interested in facilitating arts based programs for people living with dementia?

You are invited to our free workshop:

Tuesday October 15 : 4 8 pm RK MacDonald Nursing...

Arts Canopy Branching Out

June 20, 2019AHA!

Arts Canopy Branching Out. A workshop for artists in facilitating arts-based programs for people living with dementia.

Arts Health Antigonish (AHA!) invites artists of all expressions to join us...

Arts Canopy Project Update

July 17, 2017AHA!

Since October of 2016, Arts Canopy has been providing arts based programming in music, visual arts, dance/movement, and poetry for people with dementia. It addresses the mental wellbeing of this...

Arts Canopy Project

October 14, 2016AHA!

Living with dementia? You're invited to join us in Arts Canopy!

Arts Canopy will offer creative spaces to enjoy the moment and socialize with others. No arts, music or writing experience...

AHA! is hiring – Arts Canopy Arts Facilitator

May 9, 2016AHA!

Arts Health Antigonish (AHA!) is hiring……

POSITION TITLE: Arts Canopy Arts Facilitator

Hours and Term: approximately 8 hours weekly for 10 weeks...

(AHA!) is hiring…… Arts Canopy Project Coordinator

April 28, 2016AHA!

Arts Health Antigonish (AHA!) is hiring……

POSITION TITLE: Arts Canopy Project Coordinator

Term and hours: approximately 8 hours...

Romi Jones Writing for Elders with Dementia

October 3, 2014AHA!

On September 26th, Winston Churchill Trust Fellow, Romi Jones, spoke to a group at the RK MacDonald Nursing Home in Antigonish about facilitating writing for elders with dementia.