Preview Reception & Fundraiser: Saturday, October 10, 6:30-9:00 pm $65 Rx Art: Take your medicine.

Our party and art viewing kicks off with drinks* and fine hors d’oeuvres at this gallery and poolside event. At 7pm, after the opening ritual, sample some of the best food in town. Enjoy art play-spin art, improv comedy and other special activities provided by our workshop presenters. Express yourself on the poetry wall. Children’s Bereavement Center, Inspire Fine Arts, Very Special Arts, Voices de la Luna will show you how they use arts for healing in our community.
George Prado and friends provide live music. Poolside dancing  is another creative option!
Dress is artsy/casual.

Is Art medicine? We say yes! Rx Art takes a moment to honor the benefits of the therapeutic arts for communities and individuals.
Co-organized by the Health and Healing Consortium and  Bihl Haus Arts. Co-chairs: Paula Davies and Kellen Kee McIntyre, PhD

*Your ticket price includes 2 complementary servings of wine or beer.  Additional will be available for purchase at a nominal fee.

Public Opening Reception: Friday, October 16, 5:30-8:30 pm FREE

Champagne Tasting and Lecture, “A Taste of Place”, Thursday, November 12, 7-9 pm $75

A Taste of Place
Dr. Kollen M. Guy is the author of When Champagne Became French (John Hopkins, 2003), the book on food, wine, and French national identity. This fascinating book, built upon the concept of terroir, “a sense of place,” traces in extensive detail the forces at work that transformed Champagne from a regional product into a world-recognized symbol of French patrimony, elitism, and spirit. From the anointment of French kings to treating illnesses like diabetes, the history of sparkling wine is a story of luxury, power, culture, and health.
Dr. Kolleen Guy will offer sparkling wine lovers a taste of her fascinating book about the origin and development of the champagne industry and will explore champagne's relationship to other regions that produce sparkling wines. There’s not a lover of the bubbly that would want to miss this event!
On November 12, 7-9 pm, a limited number of libation lovers will gather at Bihl Haus Arts to participate in Dr. Guy’s intimate conversation about how a region with few environmental advantages for grape growing was able not only to succeed, but to excel in the production of champagne , a delight synonymous with grace, style, and joyful gatherings. We will offer a variety of scrumptious hors d’oeuvres to complement the tasting of 3 wines, a New World and an Old World sparkling wine and a true French champagne. Under Dr. Guy’s expert guidance, you’ll ‘taste place’ and experience terroir firsthand.
When Champagne Became French, written in a lively style, is both a scholarly and readable book. It garnered the Gourmand International World Cookbook Awards prize for Best Wine History Book and Best Book on French Wine as well as the Clicquot Wine Book of the Year. The book will be available for purchase at the tasting. Dr. Guy can personalize a copy for you or for a gift as a wonderful memory of the evening.
Dr. Kolleen M. Guy is the has appeared on television and radio as an expert on the history of wine and European culture. When not zipping around Paris on the back of a motorcycle, in stiletto heels no less, to experience culinary specialties, she is working on a new book on the history of terroir. Dr. Guy was recently named to the UNESCO Commission for Preservation of the Champagne Region. Currently, she is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Online specials: Attend both fundraisers for $125
Purchase 10 tickets for $500

Health and Healing Consortium and Bihl Haus Arts are
501 (c) 3 charitable organizations. Your purchases may be tax deductible.

FIND YOUR INNER ARTIST/HEALER THROUGH ONE OF THESE Rx ART WORKSHOPS

Saturday, October 17 Yoga and Art Making
with Cheryl Alexander, ERYT 500, Wellness Instructor, National MS Society
Time: 1-4 pm
Location: Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg
Cost: includes art supplies $40
Special instructions: Dress comfortably; bring a yoga mat, a cushion and journal or sketch book. Art supplies and paper provided. Yoga mat optional If you will be practicing in a chair.
WEAR REDŠ, even if only a red bandana, or red undies! This is the color associated with groundedness, security, stress reduction, connection to the earth, qualities we will be working with in the class.
Contact: Anne Larme at 210-735-5161

In this class will discover:
-- Yoga and art can be practiced by anybody who has a body
--that the creative process is a healing process
--that art and yoga are em-bodying and that em-bodiment awakens inner knowing.
Participants create 2 pieces of art per class: one of the blockage experienced in the initial holding of a yoga posture; and one created after they have applied the yogic antidote to the blockage.
Cheryl has created, studied and taught Art since 1971 and Yoga since 1980 to people of all ages. Her passion in teaching is to guide students to their own unique and often quirky creative responses while simultaneously exposing them to the depth of tradition, in art and in yoga.

Friday, October 23 Mandalas and Movement
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Children’s Bereavement Center
332 W. Craig Place
Cost: $15 or $25 for CEUs available to social workers, counselors or chaplains

I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point -- namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the centre, to individuation. ... I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.
- C. G. Jung. Memories,

Join us for a work shop where you too can experience and learn about mandalas. Using music and movement we will experience the ancient art of the mandala as we follow our heart we will find and express emotion of self with ease and joy as it leads us our living center.
Delightfully taught by the Bereavement Center staff
Contact: Michelli Gomez at mgomez@cbcst.org

Sunday, October 25 Expressive Art: Creative Play for Healing, Self Discovery and Transformation with Dianne Monroe

Date: Sunday Oct 25, 2 to 5 pm
Location: Bihl Haus, 2803 Fredericksburg
Cost: $35 (includes all art supplies)

Learn an easy-to-use and enjoyable approach to healing, self-discovery and transformation. Discover new ways to nourish yourself while strengthening your ability to share your gifts with others.

Expressive Art is a way of using creative play to travel deeply into our inner being. It is based on medical research into deep imagery and the mind-body connection and is used for physical and emotional healing, a deeper understanding of self, and as a guide in one’s journey through life.

In many ways, Expressive Art is not about healing as much as it is about discovering the full, magical power of your authentic self – in the course of which profound healing occurs.

This workshop combines Expressive Art with nature, using inner imagery to explore our relationship with the natural world and the wisdom it has to offer. It introduces perspectives on growing the inner resources needed to navigate complex change.

Dianne Monroe is a writer, photographer and Expressive Arts Facilitator who offers a range of experiential and transformational-learning based workshops. Her workshops often combine Expressive Art with Deep Ecology, using inner imagery to explore our relationship with the natural world and the wisdom it has to offer. She has worked with children and adults in a variety of situations, presented at conferences on “The Healing Power of Art” and trained therapists, counselors, teachers and others in ways to integrate the arts into their work.
Contact: Anne Larme at 210-735-5161
Or dianne@diannemonroe.com

Friday, October 30 Drumming Your Story
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Children’s Bereavement Center
332 W. Craig Place
Cost: $15 or $25 for CEUs available to social workers, counselors or chaplains

If you have a pulse you can play the drums! This joy-filled workshop is designed to demonstrate the usefulness of drumming and music as a means of creating community and telling your story. These elements create the magic that helps us find resolution.
Delightfully taught by the Bereavement Center staff.
Contact: Michelli Gomez at mgomez@cbcst.org

Saturday, November 7 Deepen the Healing Powers of Journaling with Leia Francisco, M.A., Certified Journal Facilitator
Time: 1-4 pm
Location: Bihl Haus, 2803 Fredericksburg
Cost: $30 includes materials and book Writing through Transitions.

Journal writing is a vital part of integrative medicine and self-discovery. It is a powerful therapeutic tool that captures feelings, thoughts, and insights in ways not ordinarily accessible to us in daily living. Research has shown how regular writing about emotional or physical trauma can improve the immune system and lift the psyche, helping us to “restory” ourselves. Our journals offer an easy, affordable and uniquely personal means of healing wounds and gaining wisdom

Under the guidance of a certified journal facilitator, you will experience the three levels of journal processing linked to the journal writer’s needs. You will see how structural shifts help the journal writer improve well being and draw on personal strengths.

This is an interactive workshop that includes several journaling techniques, facilitation strategies, suggestions on writing to navigate transitions, and a list of resources.
Contact: Anne Larme at 735-5161 or lfrancisco@stx.rr.com

Saturday, November 14 Poetry & Arts Heal Wounded Minds
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m
Location: Bihl Haus, 2803 Fredericksburg
Cost: $35 fee includes a copy of Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine

This two hour workshop is divided into two sessions. The first session will be directed by James Brandenburg, a certified poetry therapist. He presents his work with high school and college students who have participated in his poetry therapy sessions, and gives a about the definition, history, and relevance of poetry therapy.
In the second session, Mo H. Saidi, a physician-writer, will lecture about medicine and the arts and on the therapeutic implications of the arts, especially concerning poetry and depression. He also will describe the role of the creative arts in the life of several noted artists with emotional problems.
Several poets will read their own works related to the workshop subjects.
Enrollment limit: 25
About the presenters: Mo H. Saidi is a physician-writer with a master’s degree in Literature from Harvard; his book of poetry, Art in the City, won the 2007 Eakin Award of the PST; his second book, The Color of Faith, will be published this year. He is Co-Editor of Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine.

A former Poet Laureate of the SA Poetry Association, James Brandenburg is Adjunct Professor at San Antonio College and retired from a position as Counselor at Clark High School. He has published two books of poetry and is one of only two Certified Poetry Therapists in the State of Texas. He is Co-Editor of Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine.