Partnering with communities to provide a safe environment for creative exploration and expression.
Healing Through Music and Dance (HTMD) shares skills to create music and dance; clears a path for safe and creative expression of feelings; and begins trauma recovery. HTMD returns to communities to build lasting relationships through trust and open dialogue.
By listening to the needs of communities and youth, HTMD uses music and dance to foster connectedness and self-expression in a safe and creative environment. HTMD offers interactive workshops, concerts, and dance opportunities in Alaskan communities.
“Our village and especially our children are grateful and so blessed, to have Mike Stevens spend time with us. He is amazingly talented and brings so much energy, joy and happiness to our community!
The kids walk the streets and play their harmonica’s for days after his trip here. Music is so important in the lives of our children, it brings them alive and makes them happy! We all need music in our lives.”
— Cynthia Erickson, founder My Grandmas House, Tanana, AK
This Arts, Health and Well-Being in Alaska project is supported, in part, by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts with funding from Rasmuson Foundation.
HTMD is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
