On Friday February 14th at 6pm, Creative Art & Dance Therapy students, artists, performers, and the community will gather together to tell stories through spoken word, art, music, and dance to raise awareness and funds for those effected by the recent earthquakes and after shocks in Yauco, Guánica, and Ponce, Puerto Rico. This one-day event will allow guests to interact with the artists and performers, as well as, meet and learn about the team of Creative Arts Therapy students from Pratt Institute who will be traveling to Puerto Rico to provide therapeutic art services, supplies, and donations to those impacted on February 19-24th.

Featured artists include: spoken word poet Tine Marie Dominguez, The Títere Poets, singer Ziete Eve, painter Albert Areizaga, painter Nelson Host Santiago, multi-media artist Cristina Maldonado, and MORE.

About the team:
The fundraiser curated by Nuyorican Art Therapy student Sarah Serrano-Esquilin and student therapist team led by Puerto Rican Art Therapy student Gina Schütz, will allow for an evening of mental health discussion, cultural awareness, connection, and resiliency, while being immersed in a world of art.

Our fundraiser is a call to action; a unification within the Puerto Rican diaspora, an elevation of our voices calling for freedom and change. Healing Arts in Puerto Rico is a call to invite others to continuously act and support while utilizing the arts to uplift and promote wellness and healing.

AGES: All ages welcomed
Donations collected at HEALING ARTS IN PUERTO RICO are dedicated to:
• Providing meals for the student art and dance therapists providing therapeutic work.
• Providing materials needed to implement therapeutic healing.
• Providing additional supplies to those effected by the earthquakes & aftershocks.

For more information, contact:
Email: CantFightTheFro@gmail.com
Instagram: @CantFightTheFro


CONTACT: Sarah Serrano-Esquilin
347-218-1093
Email: CantFightTheFro@gmail.com


ABOUT Healing Arts:
Healing Arts is a collective of student Creative Arts/Dance Therapists training at Pratt Institute, with a common goal to promote wellness, skill building, and healing to those impacted by traumatic events. *Creative Arts Therapy students are working towards licensure, and will be implementing therapeutic art AND not Art Therapy or Dance Therapy (until officially licensed).

FOR IMAGES OR TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CURATOR OR ANY OF THE FEATURED ARTISTS, PLEASE CONTACT Sarah Serrano-Esquilin: CantFightTheFro@gmail.com