T4: Center for Creative Expression for Persons with TBI
Center for Creative Expression
Are you interested in Art, Dance, Music, Writing, Drawing, Sculpting, Painting?
The Center for Creative Expression provides free classes for adults with traumatic brain injury at the City of Houston Multi-Service Center at 1475 West Gray in Houston and The Arts Alliance Center of Clear Lake at 2000 NASA Parkway. The classes run for 12 weeks and all are free of charge.
Our next schedule of classes includes Painting and a Creative Writing class. Classes will begin the first week in March. Contact us at 713-797-5971 or by e-mail to sign up for the classes.
Some of our earlier classes included:
Creative Writing:
Writing is a powerful tool for self expression and has been proven to be especially therapeutic. In the Creative Writing sessions, personal stories were explored through different genres of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc.). Participants read good poems, good stories and had a chance to write and share their own.
Dance and Movement:
Included activities from all the expressive arts (drama, dance, music, and visual art). Participants took real life experiences and created stories to music and movement.
Dance from Within:
Created by Tina Sabuco of ARTS ALIVE!, this program encourages each participant to explore their unique and individual styles of movement through Creative Dance and Creative Drama. Participants use an array of props and costume pieces to dramatize a variety of stories (based in reality AND fantasy) accompanied by a wide variety of music compiled especially for each story. Dance from within helps each participant to think, move, breathe, play and have FUN--all at the same time!
Drums:
This was an entry level session of drumming and rhythm.
Mosaics:
Students created their own stepping stones and memory jugs, and in the process learned the mosaic process, including design, creation and grouting.
Painting:
Introduction to painting focused on developing new skills, but also offered the chance to learn and create through self-expression. The course investigated color, mark-making and compositional elements. Students explored ways to utilize these painting techniques to establish their own unique style.
For more information, complete our on-line
form or contact:
Terri Hudler-Hull, MS
Sr. Project Coordinator
Baylor College of Medicine &
Memorial Hermann|TIRR
Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC)
2323 S. Shepherd, Suite 907
Houston, TX 77019-7022
713.630.0526, 713.630.0529 (FAX)
terri.hudler-hull@memorialhermann.org
