City Art Centre

City Art Centre provides a safe place for consumers/survivors of the Mental Health System to express themselves through art media and creative writing. Peer support, fellowship and encouragement facilitate recovery, foster self- responsibility and improve quality of life.

“As an art, the essence of therapy is communication. By liberating patients from the restrictive confinement of words and setting them loose in the much wider vocabulary of paint and clay, they [are] enabled to formulate the meaning of their predicament and by mobilizing the creative resources latent within their own personalities, they [are] assisted to heal themselves.” Dr. Anthony Stevens in his book Art as Healing.