Heal Up! Arts & Wellness Talk with Heather Robles
Arts & Wellness Talk with Heather Robles
January 31 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Virtual
After years of integrating discoveries from her birth doula practice, dance teaching, and artistic practice, Heather Robles invites you to a chat about body cycles, womb work, storytelling, lineage, catharsis, and dance. You will leave this talk with unique tools for creative ritual to deepen your own individual wellness practice.
Heather Robles (she/her/ella) is a nondisabled queer Latinx cis woman of indigenous Mexican descent who lives on the stolen land of the Lenape and Canarsie peoples in what is now called Brooklyn. She is a certified birth doula at Our Birth Doula, Artistic Director of Alma Dance Company, and Executive Director of the New York Dance & Performance Awards, The Bessies. Heather is also a dance educator, teaching artist, producer, and advocate for mental health in the dance field.
Photo by Michelle L'Esperance
About Heal Up! Career Pathways in Creative Wellness
A 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council Creativity and Wellness Professional Development Series
This professional development series explores career pathways and training that offers artists an opportunity to integrate their art and wellness skills.
These workshops feature art and wellness practitioners and welcome participants from all creative industries into a supportive space to learn about the transformational power of the arts. This professional development series will assist creative agents in growing and expanding their craft on practices of wellness.
Community development, social engagement, creativity, museum wellness, craft, and indigenous experts will discuss new art and wellness training programs, workshops, and engagements from a variety of cultural practices and educational spaces (formal and informal).