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Words & Wisdom
featuring singer-songwriter
Ashley Campbell
presented by Spurrier Group
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An evening benefiting
Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU
April 18, 2024
Virginia Museum of History & Culture
Wine Reception | 5:45 p.m.
Program | 7 p.m.
Please join the Senior Board of Children's Hospital Foundation for the 7th Annual Words & Wisdom event as singer-songwriter Ashley Campbell celebrates the healing power of music.
Music is feeling. It is a completely different language. It reaches the depths of the soul and is processed by our brains in a much deeper way. Ashley Campbell saw this firsthand, touring with her father, Glen, as he persevered through the later stages of Alzheimer’s.
In her inspiring presentation, Ashley shares how music enabled her father to preserve intellectual functioning longer than his doctors ever expected. How, even in the most advanced and immobilizing stages of the disease, a favorite song would find him tapping his toes. Combining personal stories, science, and live performance, Ashley makes a moving — and highly entertaining — case for the healing power of music.
Our Project:
Building a Child Life Zone
Your impact
Proceeds from Words & Wisdom will support construction of our Child Life Zone, a state-of-the-art therapeutic play area inside the Children's Tower. A sanctuary. A place where kids can be kids.
The Zone will be staffed by the hospital’s child life specialists, certified professionals who help children and their families cope with medical challenges through play, education and self-expression. The unique amenities of the Child Life Zone include therapeutic craft and play centers with a high-tech electronic games wall, a multi-use theater and interactive broadcast studio and a kitchen and eating area.
"When children have opportunities to play and explore, it can lower their stress levels and regulate their emotions, putting them in a better place mentally and emotionally to recover. As Fred Rogers said, 'it’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.'"
– Heather Rossi, Senior Certified Child Life Specialist at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU
2024 sponsors
Presenting
Spurrier Group
Platinum
C&C Electrical Service, Inc
Haley Automotive Group
TCV Trust & Wealth Management
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP
Gold
Jane and Mark Cooke
Genworth Financial
Heartwood Wealth Advisors
Hilb Family Foundation
Wendy and Bill Schultz
Silver
Laura Hatcher
Jayfair Corporation
Jeanne Kreiser
Mako Builders, Inc.
Mosquito Squad
Weinstein Properties
Bronze
Dr. Laura Aisenberg
Jerry and Karen Bischof
Canal Capital Management, LLC
Gentry Locke
Dr. and Mrs. James Staples Hunter Jr.
Mrs. Page A. Kastelberg
Ann and Bill Lagos
Brenda Migliarese
Pre Con Inc.
Robin and John Schilling
Virginia Cancer Institute
Joyce S. Winters
Paper
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Scott Angus
Ms. Nan Boyd
Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci, P.C.
Catherine Jordan Design, LLC
Emily and Charles DuBose
Ron and Perry Gunn
Peter-Blair
Ruffin & Payne Inc.
Shaheen, Ruth, Martin & Fonville Real Estate
Karen P. Shudtz
Molly and Dick Tashjian
Sandy and Rob Taylor
Contact
Please feel free to contact us by email and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Email: events@chfrichmond.org