An exhibition featuring art by Allegany County artists Sandy Arnold and Darrin Isom, who have spent the last several months interviewing and sitting with Allegany County individuals who have - with resilience - faced, suffered from, and overcome a range of challenges and loss due to substance use and/or mental health disorders.
In addition, artists Schroeder Cherry, Nancye Hesaltine, Kathleen Hoagg, Michelle Labonte, and Elisif and Peter Bruun share works invoking four themes of resilience recurring throughout the stories from Arnold's and Isom's project:
Allegany College of Maryland, College Center
October 5, 2018, 4:30 - 7:30pm
Join us for the kickoff of Resilience: Healing What Ails Us Through Strength, Tenacity & Fellowship with a screening of the Sundance and Academy Award-nominated film, "Heroin(e)" and community conversation on Allegany County's efforts around…
Allegany Arts Council
October 7, 2018, 2:00 - 5:00pm
A celebratory event focused on the art, artists, and subjects portrayed in the Resilience: Healing What Ails Us Through Strength, Tenacity & Fellowship exhibition. The afternoon features live Bluegrass music by Heather and Cory Wharton and…
Frostburg City Place
October 14, 2018, 6:00 - 8:30pm
The Allegany County community comes together in song, music, stories, art, and sharing on a wide spectrum of challenges, triumphs, and stories of resilience related to the opioid epidemic and other behavioral health challenges. The evening features…
First Presbyterian Church of Cumberland
October 18, 2018, 6:30 - 8:30pm
A community healing event aimed at honoring and remembering those who have lost their battle to substance use disorder and/or mental health disorders, those whose lives have been impacted by those losses, and to uplift and support those who are…
Frostburg State University, Gira Center, Room 397
October 19, 2018, 3:30 - 6:00pm
How do we find resilience in the face of loss? Join Peter Bruun, founder and director of the New Day Campaign, as he shares "Elisif's Story," a 35-minute video about the life and death of his daughter from a heroin overdose, and a display of art…
Allegany Arts Council
October 28, 2018, 2:00 - 5:00pm
A healing event featuring information about and experiences with mindfulness, massage therapy, trauma-sensitive yoga, and other integrative health practices. The event features the Bluegrass band Day Old News performing at the McCoury Family Stage…
Allegany Arts Council
October 30, 2018, 5:00 - 8:00pm
A reception featuring Bluegrass music performed by the Haystack Mountain Boys from 5:00pm to 6:30pm followed by a community 6:30-8:00pm conversation reflecting on the month-long "Resilience" project, complete with a sharing on what happened over…