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We love collaborating with local, national and international community partners and peoples in a variety of arts programming and mindfulness practices.
Think of a time when you and a friend or colleague pondered "what if we ...?" That place of possibility excites us.
We love collaborating with local, national and international community partners and peoples in a variety of arts programming and mindfulness practices. Some of these collaborations and partnerships created one time or short term projects, others led to lasting programs of The Well.
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Ongoing & Past Commissions and Collaborations
The Wonder COMMISSION - NEW MUSIC COMMISSION
2024 (ONGOING)
The Wonder Commission is a new music commission of The Well, composed by Dr. Brian Raphael Nabors and performed by the Antigone Music Collective. Inspiration for the new music emerges from Nabors' conversation with writer, physicist, and professor at MIT, Alan Lightman. The new music–and accompanying documentary by Asa Featherstone IV–will premiere in Fall 2024 online and in The Well's Mindful Music Moments program now in over 300 schools nationwide.
The Hope Commission - New Music commission
2023
In partnership with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and Cincinnati-based composer and music educator Sonia Morales-Matos, The Well commissioned a new piece of music for Mindful Music Moments called The Hope Commission to celebrate the arrival of Little Amal to the United States in the Fall of 2023!
Sonia's music was inspired by asking local refugee families and folks about their journeys, what gives them hope, and what reminds them of home.
Sound Intersections - New music commission
2023
Sound Intersections is a collaborative musical commission, composed by contemporary composer Nate May, with storytellers Omope Carter Daboiku and Talon Silverhorn.
This project will uplift the history and the intersection of Appalachian, African American, and Native American musical traditions within the Ohio River Valley region, ultimately creating compositions of new music for Mindful Music Moments, premiering in Fall 2023.
Neighborhood Songlines - new music commission
2022-23
Composer Jenn Howd (collaborator on the very popular Fiona's Lullaby), returns to The Well to work on a special commission for Mindful Music Moments inspired by the favorite sounds of local households and businesses.
Mindfulness of sound, space, and place -
creative co-lab at the contemporary arts center
summer 2022
Zac Greenberg (Musicians for Health) and Stacy Sims (The Well) brought their creative community practice to the Contemporary Arts Center in early June, 2022 to engage families, teens, staff and museum guests with sound and movement play to experientially remap and explore Zaha Hadid's building. This residency will result in multiple guided architectural journeys with music, co-created by the guests who experience the Co-LAB.
Creative connections -
collaboration with musicians for health & Giving voice fnd
summer 2022
The Well and Musicians for Health teamed up to bring Mindfulness, Music and Sound Healing to individuals with dementia and, on select days, to caregivers for 10 weeks. This work is part of the Giving Voice Collaboratives' ongoing Creative Connections program. During the weekly sessions, Stacy Sims and Sonya Verma from The Well will provide a consistent rhythm of music listening, easy movement, and sharing as appropriate/available from the participants. The last two or three sessions Zac Greenberg, of Musicians for Health, will perform live music for the group.
mindful music for the work day - new program
2022-ongoing
Spearheaded in partnership with the Columbus Symphony, we created a weekly version of Mindful Music Moments geared towards adults in a busy work setting.
More information available soon.
My True SELF - Collaboration with Imagine Bella Academy (Cleveland)
2021-ongoing
In 2021, The Well partnered with Imagine Bella Academy of Excellence staff in Cleveland, Ohio to provide a Mindful Educator for their 2021/22 school year. Thanks to Imagine Bella’s Wellness Fund and support from the Ohio Arts Council toward our My True SELF (social-emotional learning fun) program, we have continued to provide a dedicated mindfulness educator in the school 3-days a week working with students in Mindful Specials to deepen their Social-Emotional Learning, and working with staff to integrate mindfulness into the larger school ecosystem.
Field Recordings - new music commission
2021-22
The Field Recording Project is a 2021 commission for four contemporary musicians, Jennifer Howd & Ben Sloan, Christa Ebert/Uno Lady and Liz Wu, to create six short pieces of new music, with accompanying videos, that feature Field Recordings (audio from sounds of real spaces and places) and music to evoke a sense of place and to re-contextualize sound as an aural symphony.
Facilitators from The Well, Stacy Sims and Rowe Schnure, also brought in True Body teachers Sonya Verma and Kami Lerma to Woodford Elementary and the Academy of World Languages for 2nd-grade students to create their own Field Recordings that you can listen to now!
mindful sound healing moment - wellspring fellowship project
2021
As part of Sarah Yeung's 2021 Wellspring Fellowship, she collaborated with The Well to create Mindful Sound Healing Moments for students and teachers who participate in Mindful Music Moments.
"The Land acknowledgement" by jheri neri - poetry commission
2021
At The Well, we became curious about what a land acknowledgment means through the perspective of a Native American poet. So we commissioned Jheri Neri, former Executive Director of the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition (GCNAC), to write a poem about the land acknowledgment, shared below.
"Home": All-Ohio - new music commission & collaboration
with Cincinnati symphony orchestra, Columbus symphony, & The Cleveland orchestra
2021
In the Spring of 2021, thanks to the support of Dr. John and Susan Tew, Mindful Music Moments commissioned Dr. Brian Raphael Nabors to create four new selections, inspired by students feedback. This inspiring new work, the first collaborative performance of all three Ohio orchestras: The Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Columbus Symphony.
Three Sisters Podcast
2020-21
Three Sisters, a Podcast from The Well, shares the stories of sisters Devona, Rana, and DeAndra. The maternal sister, the rebel sister, and the baby girl explore their familial foundations in faith and music to speak on themes such as change, suffering, celebration, love, and the meaning of life, together. Season 1 available now!
Camp CARTwheel - collaboration
2020
In 2020, The Well invited ArtWorks and Wave Pool to team up to create Camp cARTwheel, a virtual arts and culture camp, presented by ArtsWave. At the heart of Camp cARTwheel were cARTwheel Camp Kits that came with art-making activities and supplies, along with an additional “channel” with videos and supporting documents. Additionally, we hosted a live virtual camp experience that brought together campers, artists and art organizations in a delightful virtual camp.
uc health wlns 102 - collaboration
2020-2022
In early 2020, The Well began a collaboration with UC Health's Integrative Medicine Center to bring Mindful Music, Poetry and Guided Meditations to patients, caregivers and staff across multiple buildings. In addition to audio offerings, The Well and UC Health piloted a Patient Wellness Channel, WLNS 102, on in-room televisions or tablets.
Mindful Poetry Moments - incubated with the On being Project
2019
The Well's sister program to Mindful Music Moments was incubated in partnership with The On Being Project in 2019. This ongoing project began as a way to center poems in a mindfulness context, allowing students and adults to contemplate four poems deeply over the course of a week each during April, National Poetry Month, and to write to prompts inspired by featured poems. In 2020, The Well and On Being published their first volume of poems written by Mindful Poetry participants.
Calm Corner at Schiff Wellness Center - collaboration
2018
In 2018, The Well created a special Calm Corner at the Schiff Wellness Center at the Academy of World Languages. This space was designed in partnership with ArtWorks, inspired by the Cincinnati Art Museum's Rosenthal Education Center, for children and families to stretch, breathe and create while waiting to see the doctor.
the light in me - our 1st new music commission
for cincinnati's blink Festival
2017
In the summer of 2017, children from Cincinnati’s UpSpring summer camp for homeless youth wrote poems about how they find the light, even during dark times. Cincinnati-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Peter Adams put their poems to music for BLINK Festival 2017.
