Connecting The Arts to Better Health
Professionals from Arts For Health Sarasota Manatee are out in the community, promoting physical and emotional well-being by engaging people with the arts.

Professionals from Arts For Health Sarasota Manatee are out in the community, promoting physical and emotional well-being by engaging people with the arts.
Join us for an interactive, fun-filled morning focusing on how you can increase laughter and joy in your daily life. Discover joy in aging and how laughter has positive health outcomes. You will be laughing and at the same time learning the physical and emotional benefits of laughter and joy, including research in this area.
Hedda Matza- Haughton, LSCW, Co-chair and one of the founders of Arts For Health Sarasota-Manatee has written and is performing her play entitled Inner Voices: Sex, Intimacy & Aging, a one woman show where through the eyes and hearts of different characters, you experience their truths about sex, intimacy, and aging. Hedda Matza-Haughton, LSCW Hedda’s…
Mural collaboration with AFHS-M, Inc. & Health Department of Manatee County Lisa Richardson and Marcia Calderone made the mural. The mural features the word ‘Welcome’ in eighteen different languages. BRADENTON — A new mural will be unveiled Tuesday at the Florida Department of Health in Manatee County. The art will be located in the immunization area of the building. The…
Arts For Health Sarasota-Manatee Presents at Florida Health Care Activity Coordinators’ Association District VI Meeting on July 21, 2016. It’s difficult to imagine a more ideal audience for an arts and health presentation than the group gathered at the recent Florida Health Care Activity Coordinators’ Association District VI meeting at Kobernick-Anchin-Benderson in Sarasota. Guest speaker, Hedda-Matza-Haughton, LCSW,…