Friday 2/22/08
Meet our composers!
Ferguson Hall 280
Friday 2/22/08
Ted Mann Concert Hall
Saturday 2/23/08
Target Performance Hall at Open Book
The Alchemy Project: Empowering the Arts to Transform our Community
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WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT:
The Alchemy Project relies on donations from generous supporters like you. Donations of time, funding, and materials in-kind are always appreciated. Tax-deductible donations (with checks made payable to the Minnesota Chorale) can be mailed to 3409 26th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406.
Now accepting donations online through the Network For Good! Please indicate that your donation should be earmarked for The Alchemy Project in the designation box.
We are especially grateful for the following in-kind donations:
Fiscal Agency from The Minnesota Chorale, Minneapolis, MN, Rehearsal and performance space from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Rehearsal and performance space from The Loft Literary Center at Open Book, Minneapolis, MN
If you are interested in becoming involved with current or future projects, please contact Laura Krider at info@alchemyproject.org. We are grateful for your support.
The Alchemy Project launched its inaugural project in 2008. We invite you to continue exploring the special relationship between creativity and mental health in a our program book, documenting a series of stimulating and provocative conversation events and concert programs benefitting the Bloomington, MN- based suicide awareness non-profit, SAVE.
We engaged in a special collaboration for this project between singers from the choral department at the University of Minnesota and a group of eighteen professional choral singers from around the country. This collaboration provided a forum for an important conversation between student musicians and professionals.
The Alchemy Project’s publications, interdisciplinary performances and discussion events open a dialogue that has never before had the chance to flourish in our community. Through this dialogue we hope to build relationships and discover what can grow when art is given the opportunity to be a vehicle for change.
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During the fall and winter, The Alchemy Project held five extraordinary conversation events on the campus of the University of Minnesota in order to consider the topic of mental health and creativity in greater depth. During these events, we invited a diverse group of scholars, artists, health-care professionals, and distinguished members of our community to join us as we investigated the relationship between mental health and the composer’s creative process, the history of mental illness, society’s relationship with the mentally ill, madness as metaphor, and the dynamic between healing and narrative. We are especially grateful to the following panelists for their generous contributions to these conversation events:
9/21 The History of Mental Illness
Dan Reidenberg
Michael Silverman
Cynthia Fuller
10/12 Society’s Relationship with the Mentally Ill
Mark Anderson
Robin Brown
Susan Hawthorn
11/9 Madness as Metaphor
Matt Jenson
Paula Rabinowitz
Lora Stoyanova-Madjar
Julia Winkels
12/14 The Dynamic between Healing and Narrative
MaryAnn Goldstein
Jon Hallberg
Mary Faith Marshall
1/25 Mental Illness and the Creation of Music
Sumanth Gopinath
Alex Lubet
Midge McCloy