Panel Discussion & Festival

Resonant Spaces: Finding Well-Being through Parks and Music

Thu, Nov 12, 2020

1:35 PM–2:35 PM

This event will be online and livestreamed. See below for the link to the livestream.

Please join us for this upcoming panel discussion “Resonant Spaces: Finding Well-Being through Parks and Music” which will include a short film screening and discussion between Ellen Reid, Mitchell Silver and Adedayo Perkovich about music and mental health in New York’s parks, part of Wellcome’s Mindscapes. The panel will be held at 1:35 PM EST on Thursday, November 12th as part of the 2020 Hamwe Festival, a virtual event on social justice and mental health, hosted by the The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Kigali, Rwanda. Watch the livestream for this panel here on UGHE’s YouTube channel which will be livestreaming the festival. Click here for the full scheduleand registration for the 2020 Hamwe Festival, including Soundwalk panel discussion.

This panel will explore how parks can improve mental health and well-being, bringing together Pulitzer Prize winning composer Ellen Reid, the creator of SOUNDWALK, a new work of public sound art for Central Park, one of her collaborators, Adedayo Perkovich of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, and Mitchell Silver, Commissioner of the New York City Parks Department.

Read more about SOUNDWALK here, an app-based audio experience for people visiting Central Park.

Mitchell Silver, Commissioner of the New York City Parks Department, will join them to share stories and insights about Central Park, the Community Parks Initiative, as well as information about an ongoing public health study that the New York City Parks Department is partnering on with CUNY researchers to better understand the public health benefits of parks.

The panel will be moderated by Rebecca Hayes Jacobs, the Wellcome Trust Mental Health Curatorial Research Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY’s Center for the Humanities, who served as Curatorial Advisor for the Central Park SOUNDWALK.

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is made possible in part by the support of Mindscapes, a new international cultural program about mental health, developed by Wellcome. Mindscapes aims to support a transformation in how we understand, address and talk about mental health by inspiring relevant and meaningful conversations that seek out a diversity of experience and place. Major collaborations are staged in New York, Bengaluru, Berlin and Tokyo with satellite partnerships in other locations. By telling different stories and building shared narratives, we believe a cultural approach can contribute to a better and broader understanding of mental health.

Click here for the full scheduleand registration for the 2020 Hamwe Festival, including Soundwalk panel discussion.