Event

Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Robbins Hall, JCC MetroWest, 760 Northfield Avenue, West Orange, NJ, 07052

Have you ever noticed how energized and happy you feel after singing, dancing or creating art? Now, science is confirming what we’ve always known in our hearts: the arts uplift, inspire and make us healthier. Please join The Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Parkinson’s Disease Family Advisory Council at as we celebrate the power of art and music!

Art Exhibition | 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Stroll through the art exhibition featuring 23 different artists.* The exhibit will be open from April 27 through May 11 (weekdays from 8:00 am to 8:15 pm and weekends from 8:00 am to 3:45 pm).

Sing For Your Health | 2:00 to 3:00 pm
In this hour-long workshop experience the power of singing. Learn about the science of sound healing, take home some great vocal exercises and sing familiar songs together accompanied by accomplished musicians from the NYC area!

Registration is required.

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Dana Calitri | Singer & Co-Founder of Sing For Your Health!
As a top session singer and multi-platinum selling songwriter, Dana Calitri has worked with everyone from American Idol’s Chris Daughtry, Elton John, Celine Dion, and *NSYNC to Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones. She has appeared on over 30 million records and her music can be heard all over the world on radio, TV, film, TV, video games and toys. Dana is a Professor of Songwriting and Voice at New York University and teaches privately in Bloomfield, NJ and NYC. Dana’s interest in Sound and Healing began 25 years ago and profoundly changed her own relationship to singing and creating and ignited her passion for teaching and sharing the gift of music. She is co-founder of Sing For Your Health! which hosts workshops for those living with Parkinson’s Disease.

Rochelle Rubin | Curator and Abstract Painter
Rochelle Rubin is an Abstract Painter who has had solo and group exhibits in museums, galleries and open studios. She has curated shows here and abroad. She holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University. Rochelle is in collections in France, Greece, London, New York, New Jersey, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Austin, Washington D.C, The Catskills, Marin and Cape Cod. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Beacon, The Star-Ledger, and The Boston Phoenix. She has attended artist residencies in France and Greece. Rochelle crafts paintings inspired by memories, events, emotions, and experiences. Whether triggered by a piece of music, a fleeting glance, a world event, or an overheard conversation, her artistic journey navigates from intuition to recognition, to obliteration and back. Within these moments of clarity, distinct shapes, colors, patterns, marks, and lines emerge, giving life to abstract paintings that convey ideas of protection, containment, escape, joy, and opposition. She aims to delve into the realms of the past and present, as well as the tangible and imaginary. The narrative often revolves around emotions that can inspire the viewer to moments of curiosity and contemplation. Rochelle’s work can be viewed at: www.RochelleRubin.Art

*Amy Putman, Curtis Crouch, Dana Calbi, Debbie Galant, Donna Bassin, Evan Stuart Marshall, Fern Bass, Gail Winbury, Irene Brandle, Jane Rubin, Janice Belove, Joan Gantz, Ken Aidekman, Laura Lou Levy, Linda Streicher, Marcia Miele Branca, Marian Held, Mona Brody, Noel Nowicki, PE Pinkman, Vince Salvati, Alyce Gottesman.

For more information, please contact Ellen Robertson, JCC MetroWest Wellness Director, at 973-530-3414 or erobertsona@jccmetrowest.org.