How the Arts Improve Health & Wellbeing: A mini-conference
Monday, October 21 from 3 – 6:30 PM
Tuesday, October 22 from 10 AM – 2 PM
2024 Annual Torrance Lecture: Nigel Osborne
Tuesday, October 22 at 4 PM
The Chapel
Join us for an exciting two-day event featuring a diverse lineup of speakers from UGA and the Athens community, exploring the theme “How the Arts Improve Health & Wellbeing.” Registration is FREE and open to everyone!
This engaging mini-conference is organized by Anna Abraham, Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity, and precedes the center’s 2024 Annual Torrance Lecture featuring Nigel Osborne.
How the Arts Improve Health & Wellbeing: A mini-conference
Monday, October 21 from 3 – 6:30 PM
Tuesday, October 22 from 10 AM – 2 PM
Aderhold Hall, Room 206
http://tinyurl.com/tcminiconf24
DAY 1
Monday, October 21
3:00 – 3:15 Opening Remarks
3:15 – 3:45 Peter Van Zandt Lane (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)
Translating Coastal Ecology into Sound
3:45 – 4:15 Rachelle Ellis (UGA Health Center)
Do It Until You Feel Better: Simple Sublimation Using Art Materials and Processes
4:15 – 5:15 Panel Discussion by the UGA Student Composer Association: Mia Hill, Mateo Wojtczack, Nkululenko Zungu, Peter Underhill, Jake Schoenle, William Emde
What is it like to be a composer?
5:15 – 5:45 Naomi Graber (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)
Music and Alternative Medicine in the 1940s Horror Film
5:45 – 6:15 Montu Miller (Hip-Hop Educator & Cultural Ambassador, ATHfactor-Liberty Entertainment)
Hip-Hop Saved My Life: Breaking Cycles and Healing Communities
6:15 – 6:30 Closing Remarks
DAY 2
Tuesday, October 22
10:00 – 10:15 Opening Remarks
10:15 – 11:00 Sally Ann Nichols, Ellyn Evans, Jennifer Stull (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)
Improving Community and Individual Wellness through Music Therapy
11:00 – 11:45 Amy Baldwin, Jennifer Marks, Gabrielle Sinclair Compton (AU/UGA Medical Partnership + UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies)
Malady Mystery Project
11:45 – 12:15 Richie Arndofer (Hugh Hodgson School of Music)
Deep Listening and Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros
12:15 – 12:45 (break)
12:45 – 1:15 Caulfield (Hip Hop creative artist in Athens, GA)
A Season of Isolation
1:15 – 1:45 Kate Morrissey Stahl (UGA School of Social Work)
Connecting with self and community through music
1:45 – 2:00 Closing Remarks
2024 Annual Torrance Lecture: Nigel Osborne
Tuesday, October 22 at 4 PM
The Chapel
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/tclecture24
A new era for music and art in service of community healing
Music and art have been in a state of turbulent change for well over a century, largely because of the effects of new technologies. We may now be at the beginning of a much deeper change, taking place at the margins of our culture rather than in the mainstream, and driven by biology, psychology, and social forces as well as technology. I shall show examples of work with children in flashpoints in Ukraine and the Middle East, and report on new technologies being developed to offer disabled artists the chance to co-create and share states of body and mind remotely. The unique power of the music and other creative arts in countering human adversity and enabling the strengthening of communities will be illustrated in this lecture.
Nigel Osborne MBE is a British composer, teacher and aid worker. Known for his extensive charity work supporting war-traumatised children using music and creative arts therapy techniques, especially in the Balkans during the Bosnian War, the Syrian conflict, and currently in Ukraine. He has pioneered the development of new treatments in music-medicine for epilepsy, sleep disorders and PTSD, and the first functioning computational model of the musical brain — X-System. He is Emeritus Professor of Music and Human Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and has received many awards for his work, including the Koussevitzky Award of the Library of Congress Washington, the British Academy of Songwriters and Composers Award (BASCA) for Inspiration, the Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute, Sarajevo and the Doubleday Medal for contributions to medicine.