Thanks to everyone for your generous support of the UMass Stroke Support Group. The event was a big success. If you missed it, you can see the highlights here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lTMn1iAiJU
This Spring (2015), the UMASS Amherst Stroke Support Group will be hosting their annual community awareness event – Stilled Longing – an afternoon showcasing the artistic talents of the Department of Communication Disorders 2015 class of M.A. graduates in Speech Language Pathology. The event brings together art and music creations inspired by the members of the Stroke Support Group, which include paintings, a photo exhibit, video vignettes and a classical concert. The concert will feature art songs and arias by Bach, Brahms, Bizet, Broadway songs by Sondheim, Flaherty, Rogers and Hammerstein, performed by local musicians, and featuring our own Clarissa Ocampo, formerly a professional opera singer, currently a second year graduate student in Speech Language Pathology. The concert will also feature opening and closing musical pieces performed by Dr. Ronald Bell, a UMass alum who is a stroke survivor, as well as artworks created by the students that center around the lives and experiences of stroke survivors in the community.
Stilled Longing: A Stroke and Aphasia Awareness Spring Concert will be held on Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 1:30 pm at the First Baptist Church, 434 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA. A reception will be held following the concert.
This event is open to the public and admission is free.