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HARP The Movement

We have begun this year—in Chinese culture The Year of the Rabbit, symbolic of longevity, peace and prosperity—by naming HARP a movement. Because HARP The People’s Press is far more...

By Dorothy Lander Published January 29, 2023 Art for Health Practitioners, Artists, blog, Carbon Couple, Children, Climate Change, Health Equity, Social Inclusion, Writing and Publishing

Peace by Chocolate, the Book – A Healing Arts Primer

Poking out of the top of my 2022 Christmas stocking was the book Peace by Chocolate: The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey from Syria to Canada by change-maker/author Jon Tattrie. Also...

By Dorothy Lander Published January 6, 2023 Art for Health Practitioners, Book Reviews, Health Equity, Peace, People's Photo Album, Social Inclusion, Stories of the Healing Arts, Writing and Publishing

Review of Celeste Snowber’s The Marrow of Longing by Kathy Mantas

Posted by Dorothy Lander https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29700/22074 Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary JournalVolume 7 Issue 2, 2022 A REVIEW OF “THE MARROW OF LONGING” BY CELESTE NAZELI SNOWBER Kathy Mantas Nipissing University kathym@nipissingu.ca...

By Dorothy Lander Published December 12, 2022 Art for Health Practitioners, Arts-Based Research, Genealogy, Memoir, Poetry, Writing and Publishing

A Climate Rally for My 80th Birthday

We are witnessing a huge global rallying cry to act swiftly and powerfully to arrest the climate crisis, which is set to destroy both us humans and many other species,...

By John Graham-Pole Published March 6, 2022 Art for Health Practitioners, Artists, blog, Bookstore, Carbon Couple, Children, Climate Change, Health Equity, Mi'kmaq Nation, Peace, Social Inclusion

HARP Publishing The People’s Press – The Year in Review

On Christmas Eve 2021, our healing arts social enterprise publishing house HARP Publishing The People’s Press reached its 15-publication milestone, when the novel Songlines, the last in John Graham-Pole s...

By Dorothy Lander Published December 25, 2021 Art for Health Practitioners, Artists, Bookstore, Carbon Couple, Children, HARP Logo, Health Equity, Stories of the Healing Arts, Writing and Publishing

HARP Publisher and Author – A Relationship

The Choreography of Care Behind every book or other publication of HARP The People’s Press is a relationship. HARP’s latest title The Choreography of Care by Stuart Pimsler is...

By Dorothy Lander Published December 4, 2021 Art for Health Practitioners, Artists, Stories of the Healing Arts, Writing and Publishing

Bees’ legs as Pollen Press

Posted by Dorothy Lander M’s Humble Bumble bee companion in Hmmm – M the Humdinger (www.harppublishing.ca/books/hmmm) When I was crafting M’s humming companions for the intergenerational storybook entitled...

By Dorothy Lander Published June 24, 2021 Animal Medicine, Art for Health Practitioners, Arts-Based Research, Bookstore, Children, Nature Writing, Poetry, Writing and Publishing

Botanical Greeting Cards – Gifts for Nature Lovers

The 12 botanical collages that illustrate the storybook Hmmm – M the Humdinger are available as 5’ x 7’ greeting cards. www.harppublishing.ca/books/hmmm Dorothy Lander crafted the botanicals collages and M’s...

By Dorothy Lander Published December 15, 2020 Art for Health Practitioners, Artists, Nature Writing, Shopping Online, Stories of the Healing Arts

KPH – You’re Just My TYPEwriter!

You’re Just My TYPEwriter! – by Kyla Heyming, KPH – For Those I Have Loved (HARP, 2020) https://www.harppublishing.ca/books/for-those-i-have-loved/ My love affair with the typewriter began as most passions do:...

By Dorothy Lander Published November 21, 2020 Art for Health Practitioners, Death and Dying, Grief and Loss, Memoir, Poetry, Writing and Publishing

Hmmm: A Storybook as Appreciative Inquiry in 5-D

You can take the girl out of the research lab But you can’t take the research lab out of the girl I am astonished to come to this conclusion so...

By Dorothy Lander Published November 8, 2020 Animal Medicine, Art for Health Practitioners, Artists, Arts-Based Research, Book Reviews, Children, Health Equity, Nature Writing, Social Inclusion, Stories of the Healing Arts, Writing and Publishing

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