AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
On March 23rd, we had the pleasure of hosting Solo Arts Heal with special guest, Twinkle Burke!
Twinkle is an Actor/Writer from New York City. She is equally comfortable on stage and screen and writing in different genres and styles. Her work has been performed with TMI Project, The Actors Studio Playwright and Directors Workshop, Lift Every Voice: Black Women Speak Festival, and The Drawing Board to name a few. She can be seen in various independent films and on TV in various shows, including Season 3 of HBO’s SUCCESSION. She plays “Eugenia” in Colin West’s latest film, LINOLEUM premiering at the SXSW Festival in March of 2022. She is an avid proponent for using the arts to learn, heal, and grow.
In this SAH, Twinkle performed a piece telling how she used her craft of acting to sustain herself while miscarrying her child.
Watch the performance here:
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AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
On February 23rd, we had the pleasure of hosting Solo Arts Heal with special guest, Barbara Dyskant!
Barbara is an energetic and versatile pianist, composer, singer-songwriter, and writer who strives to use her art to warmly evoke empathy with her audience and empower them to move forward in their lives, as well as to entertain and delight. She also was caregiver for both her daughter and her husband’s cancers.
Barbara’s other passions include hiking, dancing, camping, adventuring, laughter, meeting people, reading about science, preserving the environment, good conversations, and learning from everyone. And using what she learns from her experiences and those of others to improve lives.
Watch the performance here:
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Want to make 2022 the best year of your sex life? We’ve got the webinar for you in “Cancer, Chronic Illness, and Intimacy”.
From pleasure with a partner, or just riding solo, nothing is off limits in this webinar featuring sexual medicine rockstar , Dr. Rachel Rubin.
Featuring a panel of patients Dion (lupus), Jimmy (prostate cancer), Kim (multiple sclerosis), and Michael (testicular cancer), and questions from the audience, you’re sure to find answers to your own questions.
AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
From surviving to thriving to grieving… Award-winning artist and playwright Aoede shared stories, music and films illustrated how creating music and art has been her lifeline during her 14-year journey battling a rare chronic illness.
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AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
On December 22nd, we closed out our 2021 season of Solo Arts Heal with Alex Kaplan! (and on that note, we have even more fun to come in 2022!)
Alex, a Philadelphia native and LA transplant, was trained as an actor in the University of Miami’s conservatory and transitioned to a career behind the camera as a producer and director for the past decade.
Today, Alex is the Co-founding Executive Director & Chief Vision Officer at Of Substance (OfSubstance.org), an innovative non-profit revolutionizing addiction and mental health treatment, education, and support, using premium entertaining short films as a tool for deeper healing, growth, and transformation.
After surviving his own battles with addiction, Alex recognized the power of story as a tool in his recovery and found an exciting way to use his filmmaking experience to help others on their paths of overcoming struggles of shame & isolation. The biggest thing he learned on his journey is that his issue was far less about using substances than it was about WHY he used substances; It was about shame, isolation, a fear of not belonging, and a fear of not being good enough.
Alex and his co-founder Brian Gallagher built Of Substance to help us all recognize that we’re not alone in these feelings and to positively transform people’s relationships with themselves, others, and their beliefs in what’s possible.
“Our film “Trapped” is not simply for those of us who struggle with substance use, it’s for all of us who feel trapped sometimes. Hopefully Trapped will help us all better empathize with one another, recognizing and relating to the feeling and experience. This film helped my mother stop asking me “Why can’t you stop drinking?” and finally move our conversation forward to “I see you, I love you, I’m with you.” Our hopes are that this film can do that for you and your loved ones as well.” – Alex
Watch the performance here:
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