Arts, Veterans, and Health Care
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How can the arts enable healing? In healthcare facilities and veterans’ hospitals, the arts are doing crucial work today. Learn and experience how the arts rehabilitate both physically and mentally, and every day help to recover the lives of our ill and wounded through intensive and hands-on creative work. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins for a special demonstration.
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