Stories can heal.
Stories can harm.
Stories matter.
During these tumultuous times, you have become a part of stories.
Your stories, the stories of others.
Stories about life and death, fear and courage, Us and Them.
You are invited to a special edition of the Doctors’ Lounge annual Festival of Medical Storytelling, an evening dedicated to sharing stories, poems, songs and artwork about the experience of being part of the health-care system,shared from any perspective.
Presenters are asked to keep their contributions to 5 minutes or less (we welcome creative efforts in pieces of one minute or less. In the past, some of these shorter presentations have been quite moving. It is amazing what can be conveyed in a few words! ).
Even if you are not prepared to be a presenter, feedback from audience members will hopefully make this a fully interactive experience. Dr. Rex Kay of Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities (www.ars-medica.ca ) will be on hand to give insightful feedback on the creative efforts presented. Ars Medica is an award-winning Toronto-based literary journal which explores illness, healing, perceptions of the body, and encounters with health-care.
Let’s usher out 2020 with a reminder that stories matter.
Discussion piece: poetry and the pandemic: here
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