We are fundraising for
Saguaro🌵 in Los Angeles, CA,
Love the Sun: Art + Music Festival🌻 in Loveland, CO,
and Brightmoor Maker Fest 2026 💙 in Detroit, MI!

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$52,500 total

An Overview of our 2026 Impulse

Apathy, hopelessness, and depressing news is everywhere and we all need each other to reach through to a changed future. Art is a doorway, and artists are standing in it and walking through. Yet, commodification and brittle systems weigh on the freedom that is true to art. Thus we seek new systems of support that are centered on freeing art and artists to do the work of creating the new now.

Each of Heal AuRT’s 3 key projects help fulfill our mission of
living art research 🌵, accessibility to culture 🌻, and therapeutic experiences 💙 through the arts and collaborative partnerships.

🌵In Los Angeles in March, we are bringing into being a living art theater experience called Saguaro: a story about a cactus who goes on a spiritual search, in live colored light, music, spoken word, and Eurythmy. Saguaro brings to consciousness our own relationships with water, earth, and cosmos. The project involves research and development of new tools for colored light and interdisciplinary collaboration.

stills from Saguaro 2024 @ Metamorphosis of Fear @ Lightforms, Hudson, NY

We need your help to bring these seeds to life.

🌻 In Loveland Colorado in June, Heal AuRT is partnering with the Cresset Center on the Uhrich Farm to create our 2nd annual “Love the Sun” Art + Music Festival, celebrating the summer solstice through art-reaching for love + spirit-while rooted in connection to ecology and agriculture.

morning movement circle and Italian folk band Amuni! Love the Sun, photos@Julie John

This year we want to tend to our local artistic relationships and also invite visiting artists to come out and deepen the artistic substance, new imaginations, and opportunities for collaborations in the arts. Reach out if you want to get involved!

💙 In July, Heal AuRT will collaborate with Sunbridge International Collaborative and the Brightmoor Maker Program (Teaching students craft skills and entrepreneurship) for a Detroit summer: tending to the Sunbridge Community Healing Park and creating Maker Fest 2026. This year a focus will be on Earth Healing inspired by Johannes Matthiessen and on strengthening youth entrepreneurship, and creative connectivity between local community initiatives.

We believe that Heal AuRT will become a source of support for many artists and healing work in the world. In this way we hope to begin from the center out, to support healing imaginations and freedom. We are excited to share this journey through the year with you.

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