Support our efforts, sign up to a full membership!
(Start for free)
Register or login with just your e-mail address
Pop / Rock 07/04/2021

Sing For Hope Announces Live, Virtual Performances With Healing Arts Interactive

Hot Songs Around The World

Water
Tyla
306 entries in 20 charts
Stick Season
Noah Kahan
313 entries in 19 charts
Houdini
Dua Lipa
285 entries in 26 charts
Strangers
Kenya Grace
442 entries in 24 charts
Lovin On Me
Jack Harlow
293 entries in 22 charts
Popular
Weeknd, Playboi Carti & Madonna
266 entries in 18 charts
Lose Control
Teddy Swims
316 entries in 25 charts
Beautiful Things
Benson Boone
159 entries in 24 charts
Si No Estas
Inigo Quintero
283 entries in 17 charts
Greedy
Tate McRae
621 entries in 28 charts
Unwritten
Natasha Bedingfield
291 entries in 22 charts
Anti-Hero
Taylor Swift
615 entries in 23 charts
Cruel Summer
Taylor Swift
572 entries in 20 charts
Snooze
SZA
223 entries in 13 charts
Sing For Hope Announces Live, Virtual Performances With Healing Arts Interactive
New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Sing for Hope Healing Arts, which brings bedside performances and creative workshops to nursing homes and healthcare sites, goes digital with today's launch of Healing Arts Interactive (www.healingartsinteractive.org). Healing Arts Interactive will feature live, interactive performances by leading artists from Broadway, Lincoln Center, and the world's top stages, available to anyone with internet access. As a non-profit, Sing for Hope is allotting all proceeds from the initiative to support working artists and bring the arts to under-served communities at large.

Recent Sing for Hope research has shown that, for the senior audience, art isn't just a hobby or interest; for many, it's a crucial part of their well-being. The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent shutdown have exacerbated the sense of loneliness and depression already felt among millions of older adults as they have been cut off from family and largely confined to their rooms or homes. Healing Arts Interactive will provide a vital service to residents of the nearly 31,000 nursing homes nationwide effectively locked down due to the virus, and will also benefit the 50+ million seniors living in their own homes. It directly addresses the dual challenges of reaching this fragile population, along with the growing need to support artists directly with income and performance opportunities while they are critically underemployed.

Famed soprano Ren�e Fleming, a leading arts and health advocate and Sing for Hope founding board member, said, "We are learning more every day about the positive potential of music for health and well-being. In these isolating times, delivering vibrant, engaging arts programming to our most vulnerable seniors could not be more critical." Fleming spearheads a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the Arts to bring attention to the intersection of music, health, and neuroscience, and she has given presentations with scientists and practitioners around the world on the subject.

Sing for Hope's new Healing Arts Interactive will present daily live, interactive performances by many of the world's most gifted artists, with a robust calendar offering at least three events per day. Members will enjoy a wide variety of music, ranging from Broadway and jazz to classical, gospel, and world music, as well as museum tours, dance performances, readings, and so much more. Being interactive, the program allows members to speak to the performers, ask questions, and connect in a whole new way.

This personal access to a world of live art is affordably priced at $9.99 per month or $99 per year. Healing Arts Interactive is available on any device � phone, computer, tablet, or smart TV; no special software or apps are necessary. 100% of membership proceeds go directly to the artists, providing critical employment opportunities at a time when so many in the performing arts are underemployed.

"In a digital world, Sing for Hope is no longer bound by location or in-person access," said Monica Yunus, Sing for Hope Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director. "Healing Arts Interactive enables us to significantly further our core mission of 'Arts for All,' reaching individuals around the nation and across the spectrum of independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care."

"Healing Arts Interactive is a lifeline for so many, allowing us to connect audiences with arts programming, while providing employment for artists during this year when our stages have been dark," added Camille Zamora, Sing for Hope Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director. "It serves to spread the power of community, mental stimulation, and emotional release that only the arts can provide."
Artists and patrons alike are eager for Healing Arts Interactive.

"Sing for Hope and the Healing Arts Interactive has created a space for performers to share their gift and connect with our seniors in the most accessible way," said Broadway artist Nathan Lucrezio, whose credits include Aladdin and Cinderella. "Whether it's a movement class or a concert, this opportunity is changing the way the arts can impact our elderly and inspire us through the digital age."

According to Cathy Rowe, DrPH, Coordinator of SOMA Two Towns for All Ages, "Sing for Hope has brought arts and entertainment into the homes of our older residents, helping to fight the isolation of COVID. Sing for Hope provided our first entree into online programming with movement class and weekly concerts. Because of their popularity, more and more of our residents have used technology to connect during the past year. We never could have provided such a range and depth of programs on our own."

Unitex, the largest family-owned linen and uniform service provider to the healthcare industry in the U.S., has signed on as Founding Sponsor of Healing Arts Interactive. "We are excited to introduce this innovative new platform to the 300+ facilities we serve throughout the Northeast," said David Potack, President of Unitex. "We care deeply about the residents that live in these facilities and the particularly trying time they have had during the current health crisis. We are proud to be partnering with HAI to help bring the arts to these underserved and isolated residents."

Broadcast studio space for Healing Arts Interactive is generously provided by 28 Liberty, a Fosun International property in Lower Manhattan. Since 2016, Fosun has been a major supporter of Sing for Hope, including providing pro bono space for the Sing for Hope Pianos Studio.

Sing for Hope, popularly known for the artist-designed Sing for Hope Pianos it places throughout NYC for anyone to play, has been instrumental in the healthcare community through its Healing Arts programming. For the past fifteen years, Healing Arts programs have aided healthcare staff in achieving their patients' prescriptive therapeutic goals by creating a positive environment focused on reducing pain, helping patients express emotions and needs, and supporting caregiver wellness. Learn more and become a member at www.healingartsinteractive.org.

Sing for Hope harnesses the power of the arts to create a better world. Our creative programs bring hope, healing, and connection to millions of people in hospitals, care facilities, schools, refugee camps, transit hubs, and community spaces worldwide. Founded in New York City in 2006, Sing for Hope partners with hundreds of community-based organizations, mobilizes thousands of artists in creative service, and produces artist-created Sing for Hope Pianos across the US and around the world. The official Cultural Partner of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Sing for Hope champions art for all because we believe the arts have an unmatched capacity to uplift, unite, and heal.

Sing for Hope's work is made possible by the Sing for Hope Founders' Circle: The International Foundation for Arts and Culture (Dr. Haruhisa Handa, Chairman, Sing for Hope Global Patron), The Arnhold Foundation in loving memory of Sissy and Henry Arnhold, The Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, The Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Foundation, and Ann Ziff; The National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Fosun International; and the generosity of donors like you. Learn more and join the movement at singforhope.org.






Most read news of the week


© 2001-2024
top40-charts.com (S4)
about | site map
contact | privacy
Page gen. in 0.0105400 secs // 4 () queries in 0.004185676574707 secs