Movement for Hope is a new charitable organisation, which raises awareness and support for neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and stroke, by creating multimedia art projects. Neurological diseases are a leading cause of disability in the world, for people of all ages. We fund projects for neurological diseases and charities to support (i) cutting-edge research, (ii) professional education and (iii) equipment purchase, such as wheelchairs and stair lifts. Our creative arts projects involve collaborating artists, neuroscientists and awareness advocates. We are called Movement for Hope because movement inspires both art and science, and describes our progression towards a physically and psychologically healthy society.

Movement for Hope is a new charitable company, limited by guarantee, which raises awareness and support for neurological diseases through multimedia art. Correspondingly, this creative awareness strategy simultaneously raises public awareness for a broader scope and use of multimedia art; it also celebrates the importance of all art!  Our theme of movement is utilised as a foundation to encourage and inspire the combination of artistic and scientific elements of raising awareness for neurological diseases.

Movement for Hope funds awareness projects for neurological diseases and credible neurological disease charities to support cutting-edge research, supply professional education and advocacy, purchase equipment for sufferers such as wheelchairs, and provide programs and services to help support sufferers of neurological diseases and their families to cope with illness.

Movement as Inspiration

Here’s the inspiration behind utilising a theme of movement to combine art and science:

We live in a world immersed in movement of all kinds. Movement is life. At the most fundamental level the movement of our heart, blood and lungs keeps us alive. Movement stretches far beyond everyday small and large physical movements, such as moving our fingers and walking; it also includes emotional movement, artistic movement, and strategic movement. Movement nourishes our bodies and minds and connects us with each other and our environment. Movement brings dynamic and creative exchanges of awareness, new perceptions and new beginnings; it allows us to push our limits and grow.

We have the capacity to be captured by something as simple and simultaneously complex as movement and be uplifted by it, solely because we were a part of it, have heard about or observed it. Rejuvenating one’s optimism through the concept of movement as a single medium—combining all its existing forms into one, happens when we bridge arts and science with the nobleness of the human spirit. Envision the impact movement can have on virtues of courage and gratitude—imagine the hope that can be gained as a result.

The Share Hope Initiative:

Our Share Hope initiative is space where anyone can send us their stories, artistic expressions and inspiration, and encouragement. There are three categories that we have as guidelines for posts:

(i) relevant to multimedia art or neurological diseases or both

(ii) describes movement in any form

(iii) demonstrates a hopeful outcome

Send us your stories today at sharehope@movementforhope.org or be one of the first to post them to our social media feeds!

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With movement we find energy and with energy we find life. Movement is a foundation for both science and art—at the core of both are chemical components which are constantly in motion. In practice, science is unified with art as a creative process, starting with exploring a theory, developing a hypothesis, creating and executing an experiment, and finally analysing the results and sharing the findings.  Correspondingly, this is also a form of artistic, literary and strategic movements united by any question which is powerful and interesting enough for the answer to be worth seeking.  The wonders of the world in which scientists are able to see under a microscope, or in the form of images, cannot exist without art as inspiration and movement as its foundation. Two examples of this are magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorescent imaging (such as confocal microscopy), used to see cellular components more clearly. In MRI the movement of positive charges (protons) allows researchers and medics to image details of natural structures. In fluorescent imaging, chemical processes aid in making something visible by fluorescence, unlocking the components of active events at a fixed point in time. It is likely that neither of these technologies would exist without Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation, or post- Renaissance artists’ influence on line, composition, and perspective in images. The historical significance of both are important for these types of technologies.
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Likewise, one cannot fully appreciate the artistic beauty and the elegance of nature if we remove the science underlying its vibrancy. Artists cannot physically dance, sing, sculpt, paint or write without movement of the body, nor imagine or sense their environment without science as a part of their experience. The ability to make art and to appreciate it is deeply rooted with our nervous systems. Because of this one cannot separate it from science easily or at all—even imagination requires chemicals in our brains to move and communicate with one another. Hence, the beauty of movement, as an artistic form, is necessary to appreciate the dimensions of the world we are conscious of and live in (for example architecture or fashion). Art in all forms influences our perception of our environment and today’s artistic innovations, multimedia as one of these technologies and forms of expression, has helped to unite separate art forms and non-artistic entities into one. Movement initiates this transformation and is intertwined into its outcome. More specifically, both fields of science and art want to mobilise change (emotionally, physically, or strategically) so individual lives are impacted and communities are impacted— even if just for a moment.
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No part of our body operates alone. Each molecule which makes up our nervous systems requires movement to communicate and exchange “nourishment” from its micro-environment to survive. Each muscle receives feedback from its neighbours and generates sophisticated chemical and electrical signals. Every sensation you feel is a composite of many tiny events. Essential processes utilise movement to help sustain our internal balance and function (for example, the chemical gyroscope called homeostasis). Within the body, there are a host of such processes, including:

(i) cells dividing and genetic components being allocated (i.e. mitosis and meiosis)

(ii) red blood cells carrying vital oxygen for our tissues

(iii) mitochondria (the ‘power-generators’ of human cells) supplying energy to the body

(iv) chemicals, such as neurotransmitters and hormones helping us to function.

Whilst biochemical movement is essential for a healthy body, slight changes to the movement, affecting function, can cause disease. That is, when certain chemical components of our body change their shape and structure to something it is not meant to be, they also effectively change their normal function or lack of any function. Such movements and alterations, or mutations, within a balanced system can cause minor or severe disruption to our bodies and even initiate disease.

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What Will You Say?

Our question to you: What will you say to someone recently diagnosed with the same neurological disease or disorder you, a family member or friend have?? You never know whose life you can touch…

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