Due to inclement weather, these lectures have been cancelled.
A growing trend in health care today is music therapy, which uses singing, playing instruments, and listening to songs as a therapeutic way to address the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of patients.
Seattle Pacific University, the first college in Washington state to offer an undergraduate music therapy program, will host a nationally recognized music therapy researcher for a series of lectures on the SPU campus
February 24-25.
Guest speaker Dr. Deforia Lane is a nationally recognized researcher, clinician, and spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association, as well as the director of music therapy at University Hospital Case Medical Center in Cleveland.
The lectures are:
Thursday, February 24
”Music, Faith and Healing”
Location: Demaray Hall, Room 150, SPU campus
Time: 1-2 p.m.
"Music Therapy and Medicine: Dynamic Partners in Health Care”
Location: Otto Miller Hall, Room 109, SPU campus
Time: 7-8:30 p.m.
Friday, February 25
Breakfast Session with SPU music therapy students
Location: Upper Gwinn Commons
Time: 8-9 a.m.
Admission is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the Dravus parking lot. Both Demaray Hall and Otto Miller Hall are wheelchair accessible.
Posted: Wednesday, February 23, 2011