Project Chrysalis is a therapeutic program to bring performers, musicians, dancers, artists, clowns, story tellers, puppeteers, and mimes into hospitals, hospices, schools, juvenile youth facilities, senior centers and other institutions that can use joy and healing entertainment for adults as well as children. We also plan to use other therapies such as horticulture (butterfly gardening), drumming, healing touch and massage, comedy, and theater as well. We believe that love and caring can be powerful therapeutic tools. Our presenters and volunteers offer this through performance arts and other means. We will go wherever there is a calling.

Many of our people use the butterfly as a symbol for healing and transformation and incorporate this theme in their programs and performances. Horticulture and animal therapies are well accepted modes that can better many peoples lives. Butterfly therapy incorporates the best parts of these therapies while weaving in a whole new range of others. Butterfly therapy is now emerging in various forms in other programs around the world. Our
butterfly gardening program is spreading joy around the world and has been acclaimed for its novel and innovative approach. We have been covered on CNN, the BBC, and many national publications and newspapers. Last year we reached over 20,000 children in the San Francisco Bay area alone.

If you are a musician, performer, artist, gardener, therapist, or in any way interested in helping people in need, please consider supporting or volunteering for Project Chrysalis.

In February 17, 200 we did our first program at San Francisco General Hospital Psychiatric Division with the help of Gorilla Choir and Latifa. We did a multifaceted, holistic butterfly therapy entertainment program there.
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We also plan to do some public interest lobbying on issues that affect children. Imagine mimes, clowns, minstrels, and belly dancers walking the halls of the State Capitol in Sacramento or some other city lobbying to get pesticides out of schools or in support of nonviolence legislation.

I would welcome any help or advice to make this happen. If you haven't already volunteered, please contact me and send us a short bio, a picture and brochure of you or your group if available, and contact information including any website you may have.

If you know of anyone in the healing or performance arts who would be interested in this, please forward this to them. If you would like to set up a similar program in your area or if one already exists, please let us know.

Please email me at bflyspirit7@aol.com

Alan Moore