health est hit album. Jagged Lillle Pill. For the parents. Burke always throws in ;i good Elvis or Beatles tune. Burke has taken Make Music on the road to the C N E in Toronto, New York's Children's Festival, a wine festival in California and, last year, to a festival in Alberta called Big Sky. Burke loves the atmosphere of the Children's Festival and says it is always a highlight when he gets a liny twoyear-old up on stage, singing improv. He can't even recall a session that "went badly"--although he does remember throwing himself on the ground once in order to swing the sessions are worked through by the client and depends on what they need to do in order to express themselves. Burke took his knowledge of music therapy and created Make Music, his side business which he dubs "therapy as entertainment." He will be at this year's Vancouver Children's Festival for his ninth year. Make Music sessions are about 45 minutes long and in that short time over 35 children will participate in an improvised dance/theatre piece, sing songs and play a variety of instruments which include chimes, drums, bells, gongs, symbols, maracas and castanets. For the younger children the songs include "Twinkle. Twinkle Little Star" and "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain"; for the older kids. Burke incorporates current hits: last year he worked in the rap music from the hit movie Dangerous Minds The Vancouver International Children's Festival runs May 27- June 2, for details callTicketmaster, 280-4444. Kerry Burke can be heard daily in the Festival Village in the Make Music tent For a chance to win free tickets to Children's Festival shows, turn to page 15. ART THERAPY group's attention from their music making back to himself That's what he gets for giving a tent full of kids musical instruments and creative free will.-" Kerry Burke and a would-be performer share the spotlight during a Make Music session at the Vancouver International Children's Festival and this year he is thinking of using lyrics from Alaniss Morrissette's lat- Luch like music therapy, art therapy provides an opportunity to explore personal problems and potentials without having the spoken word act as an inhibiting agent in the expression of emotions. Art therapy allows one to project his or her own inner thoughts and feelings using simple art materials. Spontaneous art expression, in a nonjudgmental atmosphere, releases repressed thoughts or feeling, withoul the threat of repercussion. One of five pioneering training programs in Canada, the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute was established in West Vancouver in 1982. It offers a two-year, graduate-level program to train art therapists, has graduated 73 students and currently has 40 students in the program. The students learn that art therapy allows an individual to produce art in the form of painting, sculpture or drawing. The free associations in the Figure:A mother's way of expressing her grief over the loss of her son. Photo: courtesy of the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute.