Yankee Quilters' Spring Fling - dinner program scheduled for May 16

Back Sore from Quilting, Crafting or Sewing?

Yankee Quilters Guild invites all to its May dinner program on Tuesday, May 16th with speaker Christa Nee, OTR/L, who will give tips on "Joint Protection and Body Mechanics for the Quilter." Christa is an occupational therapist, yoga instructor and a Quilter!

Yankee Quilters' Spring Fling will be Tuesday, May 16th at the Willow Brook Restaurant, Route 16 in Mendon. Tickets for the buffet meal are $40 for members and $45 for non-members. 

If you would like to attend, please email yankeequilters11@gmail.com with ATTN SPRING FLING in the subject line. Credit card payments can be taken over the phone or send check to the address below.

Tickets also available at the May Guild meeting on Tuesday, May 9th, 7:00 at Emma's in Franklin.

Yankee Quilters

PO Box 53

Franklin MA 02038

Yankee Quilters Guild is a 501-c-3 charitable organization based in Franklin with members throughout the region. Donations to the Guild are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by current law. For more information about the organization, see Yankee Quilters’ Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/YankeeQuilters

 

Yankee Quilters' Spring Fling - dinner program scheduled for May 16

Danielle Hopkins & Heath Nisbett talk Music Therapy with Cathleen Liberty in this episode of "The Topic"

Danielle Hopkins & Heath Nisbett, Music Therapy

Danielle is Director at the Franklin Senior Center. Heath is one of the instructors of the “Tune It Out“ guitar program for veterans. Both are Board certified music therapists.

Audio file => https://anchor.fm/franklin21/episodes/Music-Therapy-e1fn4m6

Brian Schreck is the music therapist Heath was referring to about "heartbeat" music therapy https://www.thebeatoftheheartmovie.com/ 

Berklee's free online course on music wellness https://www.coursera.org/learn/music-for-wellness 

American Music Therapy Association  https://www.musictherapy.org/

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We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm). 

For additional information, please visit  the Health Dept page at www.Franklinma.gov   

If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at  cliberty@franklinma.gov 

The music for the intro and exit is called “Positive and Fun” by Scott Holmes Music and is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License  

Scott Holmes Music => https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes

You can also subscribe and listen to "The Topic" audio on your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "The Topic" 

Danielle Hopkins & Heath Nisbett talk Music Therapy with Cathleen Liberty in this episode of "The Topic"

Veterans History Project Hosts Panel on Post-Traumatic Stress and Music

Veterans History Project Hosts Panel on Post-Traumatic Stress and Healing Power of Music The Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP) will observe Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Month with a panel discussion on Wednesday, June 23, as part of a virtual program titled "Post Traumatic Stress & Music: The Healing Power of Song." The discussion will debut at 8 PM ET through the Veterans History Project Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/vetshistoryproject) where panelists and a moderator will be available to answer questions and address remarks in the comments section. Click here for more information. (https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-21-031/veterans-history-project-hosts-june-panel-on-post-traumatic-stress-and-the-healing-power-of-song/2021-06-16/)