Special Art of Recovery Opening Concert
Wed August 28 2024 7PM Four Lives: Welcome to the Studio is a performance that blends original music, poetry, and spoken narrative depicting three clients and their relationship with an art therapist working in a studio in a psychiatric hospital. Sara is an angry, self-destructive adolescent. John is a middle-aged man struggling with addiction and depression. Lenore is an elderly woman facing the inevitable losses and challenges of that phase of her life. Each story is told through art.
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This Was Not Your Fault - Bruce L. Moon |
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Bruce L. Moon is a singer-songwriter, active painter, and performance artist. He has logged years of stage time performing at colleges, dive bars, open mics and concert venues. For the last 25 years he has performed solo in a range of settings, including WVIA Public Radio in Scranton, PA; The Roisin Dubh in Galway, Ireland; a street festival in Savannah; a coffeehouse in Seattle; the Riverwalk in San Antonio; Bishop Hill Creative Commons; and street festivals around his hometown, Bloomington, IL.
The Art of Recovery Concert is a homecoming of sorts. Bruce is a native of Sidney, but moved away after high school in pursuit of his career in art therapy and teaching. Bruce says, "You know, I've played in 17 states and four foreign countries, but never in my hometown - at least not as an adult."
Bruce has 23 LPs available on Spotify, Pandora, and Apple Music and videos of his work can be seen on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/bclunar123. He believes that good music ought to comfort people who have been afflicted and afflict people who are too comfortable. He earned a couple of master’s degrees from a Methodist Seminary and a PhD in creative arts from the Union Institute in Cincinnati. He spent 22 years working as an art therapist at a psychiatric hospital in Columbus and another 20 years as a college professor in Scranton and Milwaukee. People he’s met and experiences from the places he's been are woven deeply into his music. He says, “Everybody has a story and I hope my songs honor and comfort the folks I’ve encountered.”
The Art of Recovery Concert is a homecoming of sorts. Bruce is a native of Sidney, but moved away after high school in pursuit of his career in art therapy and teaching. Bruce says, "You know, I've played in 17 states and four foreign countries, but never in my hometown - at least not as an adult."
Bruce has 23 LPs available on Spotify, Pandora, and Apple Music and videos of his work can be seen on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/bclunar123. He believes that good music ought to comfort people who have been afflicted and afflict people who are too comfortable. He earned a couple of master’s degrees from a Methodist Seminary and a PhD in creative arts from the Union Institute in Cincinnati. He spent 22 years working as an art therapist at a psychiatric hospital in Columbus and another 20 years as a college professor in Scranton and Milwaukee. People he’s met and experiences from the places he's been are woven deeply into his music. He says, “Everybody has a story and I hope my songs honor and comfort the folks I’ve encountered.”
