Philanthropic Phriday 25: AMP4Life
Sep. 4th, 2020 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blogcutterThis week, my donation goes to the Awesome Music Project's AMP4Life. It's a nation-wide initiative dedicated to providing music therapy, both digitally and in-person, to vulnerable communities. Appropriately enough, it is being launched in Bobcaygeon, Ontario, site of the long term care centre where so many residents and staff died in the early days of the pandemic:
https://www.theawesomemusicproject.com/amp4life
And just to be clear, despite the "4Life" in its name, it has nothing to do with the anti-abortion movement. I place myself firmly in the pro-choice camp and believe that any decision to abort must rest first and foremost with the mother to be, in consultation with... well, pretty much whomever she opts to consult with, likely family and health care professionals of her choice.
Music therapy, as well as related therapies like bibliotherapy and art therapy, is something I've been interested in for some time. I guess the book I'm currently reading, Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, might qualify as a kind of music and literary therapy all in a single volume. Set mostly in London during 1967 and 1968, it's about a fictional supergroup (one formed from the best elements of other disbanded bands) which after plenty of blood sweat and tears manages to make it big. In the process, they rub shoulders with plenty of real-life celebrities like John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones and Leonard Cohen (who of course would definitely count as both a musical and literary celebrity).
https://www.theawesomemusicproject.com/amp4life
And just to be clear, despite the "4Life" in its name, it has nothing to do with the anti-abortion movement. I place myself firmly in the pro-choice camp and believe that any decision to abort must rest first and foremost with the mother to be, in consultation with... well, pretty much whomever she opts to consult with, likely family and health care professionals of her choice.
Music therapy, as well as related therapies like bibliotherapy and art therapy, is something I've been interested in for some time. I guess the book I'm currently reading, Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, might qualify as a kind of music and literary therapy all in a single volume. Set mostly in London during 1967 and 1968, it's about a fictional supergroup (one formed from the best elements of other disbanded bands) which after plenty of blood sweat and tears manages to make it big. In the process, they rub shoulders with plenty of real-life celebrities like John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones and Leonard Cohen (who of course would definitely count as both a musical and literary celebrity).
