Twist Out Cancer provides psychosocial support to individuals touched by cancer through creative arts programming. We are a global community that enables survivors, previvors and caregivers with opportunities to share, connect, and heal. Our community is a unique forum for individuals impacted by cancer to experience healing through the creative arts. Through storytelling and art, we educate, inform and inspire the community to act. Since 2012, our programming has touched the lives of more than 250,000 people in 27 states and 8 countries. As we continue to empower the cancer community to openly share their experiences, we strive to inspire the next generation of leaders and artists to share, connect, and heal.
Twist Hearts Service Project is designed to guide participants through expressive arts directives (any form of self-expression counts! Art, dance, music, baking, sewing, crafting, etc!) that allow them to explore their inner creativity and focus on the love that has resulted from the experiences they share within themselves and their community. Through this experience, individuals will learn about Twist Out Cancer’s mission and create artwork to be publicly displayed at their school, faith community, or another approved location. Participants will design a workshop and/or curate the art show to help educate observers on the benefits of creative arts therapy within the populations that TOC services. The artwork created can then be used to fundraise for Twist Out Cancer programs to help individuals who have been touched by a cancer experience.
GOALS OF THE PROJECT/SERIES
- Develop a project to support creative arts therapy and psychosocial support for individuals impacted by cancer.
- Provide a safe and creative space for participants to explore personal relationships and their experiences of love within relationships, self love, community love, and/or love as an emotional/state of being.
- Use creative arts therapy/ expressive arts directives and prompts to explore deeper emotional connections and enhance expressive communication, both verbal and non-verbal.
- Provide a safe space for reflection, learning, and connection for students, adults, and anyone that participates in the Twist Hearts Service Project.
- Build camaraderie, connection, and community through non-clinical creative arts therapy.
- Create individual or group artworks that can be exhibited at a school, gallery, and re-produced into wearable items, prints and gifts on the Twist Out Cancer Store to help fundraise for TOC programs.
Project Scope:
- Design and curate a community art workshop or art show to educate observers/attendees about benefits of creative arts therapy. *This will be the responsibility of the participants, not Twist Out Cancer.
- Fundraise for future Twist Out Cancer programs through the proceeds of the art show/ online shop.
FEES PAYABLE TO TWIST OUT CANCER
Program Project Fee: minimum $1200 donation for a Community Service project. Program includes supervision by a licensed art therapist.
TOC branded bracelets, digital promo asset design, provided by request.
The above fee corresponds to the agreement to perform all services indicated in the above Project Scope.
Jacqueline Carmody, Art Therapist & Director of Twistshop Programming
Twist Out Cancer
708-308-5787
