Art & Wellness

Art & Wellness Zone


Featuring activations by local practitioners and organizations striving to heal Baltimore communities through different mediums of art. The inaugural Art & Wellness Zone sponsored by Kaiser Permanente is an effort to uplift the importance of mental health and wellness for Baltimore’s creatives and the communities who support them.

Artscape 40: Inaugural Art & Wellness Zone presented by Kaiser Permanente

Friday, August 2

5:30PM & 7:30PM – Soundbath by Sanahara Ama Chandra

Baltimore-based Sanahara Ama Chandra (she/her) is a Reiki Master and Mystic, Sound healer, Energetic wellness practitioner, professional singer, griot, activist, holistic nurse care manager, inner child well-being arts integration teacher, lighthouse for the Wyrd and wonderful, and 9mama of two. She is a truth-seeking and speaking, storytelling, warrior woman who embodies Love Medicine wherever she goes. She is the Singing Bowl.

Her sound journeys embody her unique understanding of the power of presence, holding space, and curating experiences for core human needs expressed through channeled chants, songs, and messages incorporated into her sound baths.

Time TBD – Elite Response Trainng (First Aid CPR Training, opioid overdose recognition, basic resuscitation protocols, and Narcan administration)

Elite Response Training is a minority-owned training company, founded and staffed by experienced first responders who are deeply committed to the principle of preparedness. Elite Response Training currently provides detailed lectures on CPR, its importance, and how to perform it, along with an overview of the opioid overdose epidemic, identifying overdoses, and responding with Narcan.

7:30PM – 8:15PM – Soundbath by Sanahara Ama Chandra

Open HoursB’More Clubhouse 

B’More Clubhouse will feature a community collaborative art piece entitled “What Does Mental Wellness Look Like?” 
B’More Clubhouse invites individuals with mental illness to rejoin the momentum of daily life. Through meaningful, active participation in the maintenance and running of the clubhouse throughout a work-ordered day, members are given the opportunity to live life on their own terms.-

Saturday, August 3

11am – 12:30pm

MICA Brown Center – 1301 W Mt Royal

Move Slowly: Dreamseeds 

is a socially engaged art, music and workshop series co-created by Hannah Brancato and Sanahara Ama Chandra. For artscape, join us for a community healing space centered on dreaming for a more just future. During these workshops, engage in reflection and conversation through written prompts, art making, and sound healing.  
Move Slowly: Dreamseeds originated with interviews with five anti-sexual violence activists: Ignacio Rivera, Jadelynn St Dre, Alexis Flanagan, Sanahara Ama Chandra, and Nuala Cabral, and workshop participants from a series of five community workshops in Baltimore. Through activist and community member’s stories, the project is an homage to those who are dreaming and fighting their way into freedom, and a roadmap to help us head in that direction.

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Community Installations On View

Interact with Dreamseeds and B’More Clubhouse community collaborative art installations

3:00 PM – 5:00 PMRoberta’s House – Mask painting activity for the entire family

Elite Response Training – Learn more about First Aid CPR Training, opioid overdose recognition, basic resuscitation protocols, and Narcan administration.

B’More Clubhouse

1:00PM – 2:30PM – WombWork Productions at Eubie Blake Center

  • Dreamseeds 11am – 12:30pm (Brown Center)
  • DiscoverMe/RecoverMe Folktale Storytelling Session 1-3pm (Brown Center)
  • Roberta’s House Art activity 3-5pm (Brown Center)Elite Response Training available for drop-in opiod overdose awareness and response training and free narcan kits (11a-5pm TBD) (English & Spanish)

Dream seeds and BMore Clubhouse ongoing art installations throughout the day 

WombWork Productions
Baltimore’s Preeminent Social Justice Theatre company, WombWork Productions presents “ Who’s Got the ACE’S? ” at Eubie Blake Cultural Center. Through song dance and drama they share a dynamic theatrical production confronting the very serious issue of drug addiction plaguing the Baltimore community.

Sunday, August 4

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Dreamseeds

1:00PM-3:00PM – DiscoverMe/RecoverMe Folktale Storytelling Session

DiscoverME/RecoverME facilitated by David Fakunle, Deborah Pierce-Fakunle, and Valerie Pierce will bring folktales from various cultural traditions, blended with stories from our personal living experiences, to catalyze active reflection and discussion with participants about their life’s journeys past, present and future. The aim is to cultivate a space for individual and collective healing and create moments where the participants’ intrinsic positive qualities are revealed through their narratives.

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Roberta’s House – Mask painting activity for the entire family

11:00PM – 5:00PM

Elite Response Training – Learn more about First Aid CPR Training, opioid overdose recognition, basic resuscitation protocols, and Narcan administration.

B’More Clubhouse 

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