Strengthening Our Minds Across a Lifetime This 2-part PBS program--The Art of Connection and Creativity--reveals the vital role the arts play from our earliest to our final years of life. The latest Alzheimer research shows that dance is the most powerful single tool to prevent dementia. At-risk teens discover how the arts give meaning to their lives, and connect them to others. Chronically ill toddlers or veterans battling PTSD find healing and purpose through the arts. See how conductor Marin Alsop transforms children’s lives through her El Sistema-based music program in Baltimore. Arts & the Mind should be required viewing for every budgetcutting school administrator or politician who considers the arts expendable.
120 min. DVD
