Cut & Paste — Ken Haller on arts and healing
Cut and Paste
English - February 05, 2020 18:57 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts arts culture stlouis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As a pediatrician who is also an accomplished cabaret artist, Ken Haller says he may play several roles over the course of a day: teacher, doctor, friend, singer. He says those roles are all different aspects of his chief pursuit: being a healer.
He explores the link between arts and healing in an improvisational acting course he leads at St. Louis University School of Medicine and in his latest cabaret show, “The Medicine Show,” which he’ll perform at Blue Strawberry in St. Louis on March 14. It’s also the subject of a five-year effort recently launched by the Arts & Education Council with help from an $825,000 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health, called the Arts and Healing Initiative.