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Mindful Music Moments

Imagine an entire school – students, teachers, and administrators – taking time each morning to turn inward together, and listen to a brief mindfulness prompt and world-class music.

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The Well's programs combine best practices in arts and wellness and are designed in partnership with those they serve. How do we create our programs? In partnership with others and especially those we serve.

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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.

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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.

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Ongoing & Past Commissions and Collaborations

 

The Hope Commission - New Music

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.

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Sound Intersections - New music

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.

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Neighborhood Songlines: new music

2022-23

Composer Jennifer Howd (collaborator on the very popular Field Recordings including 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.

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2022 COLLABORATION

Mindfulness of Sound, Space and Place. Creative Co-LAB at the Contemporary Arts Center

Zac Greenberg (Musicians for Health) and Stacy Sims (The Well) will bring 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.

 

2022 COLLABORATION

Creative Connections/Sound Explorations for Individuals with Dementia and their Caregivers

This spring, The Well and Musicians for Health will team 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.  

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2022 COLLABORATION

Sound Explorations/Deep Learning at Woodford Academy and AWL

Over the course of 14-weeks, Stacy Sims and Sonya Verma will work with 2nd grade students, once a week, at Woodford Academy in partnership with Kennedy Heights Arts Center. Stacy and Sonya will lead mindful listening and movement activities, as well as lead students in creating their own Field Recordings for Mindful Music Moments.

Rowe Schnure will support True Body teacher Kami Lerma at the Academy of World Languages in a similar project for after-school. Many Mindful Music schools will be creating their own new music. 

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2022 COLLABORATION

Mindful Music for the Workday

In 2022, The Well partners with the Columbus Symphony to support workplace well-being with a custom Mindful Music playlist for use throughout 2022. Each week, participating workplaces receive a new mindful meditation paired with a gorgeous musical selection. 

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2021-22 COLLABORATION

Mindful Education at Imagine Bella Academy

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, Kara Pierson, a Mindful Music Moments voice and founding Wellspring Fellow, is in the school 3-days a week working with students in Mindful Specials to deepen their Social-Emotional Learning. 

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2021-22 COLLABORATION

Field Recordings/New Music

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 sort of aural symphony.

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2021 COLLABORATION

Mindful Sound Healing Moments

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.

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2021 COLLABORATION

Mindful Poetry Book: 2nd Edition

In April 2021, poetry lovers from all over the world celebrated National Poetry Month with Mindful Poetry Moments, a collaboration of The Well and The On Being Project, supported by The Hive, The Mercantile Library, and WordPlay Cincy. At the end, we created a 6"x9", 80+ page compilation of poems as our Mindful Poetry Book: 2nd Edition. 

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2021 COLLABORATION

The Land Acknowledgement

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, the Executive Director of the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition (GCNAC), to write a poem about the land acknowledgment, shared below. 

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2021 COLLABORATION

"Home" an All Ohio Commission

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.

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2020-21 COLLABORATION

Three Sisters Podcast

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. 

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2020 COLLABORATION

Mindful Poetry Book: The Pandemic Collection (2020)

In April 2020 we had the unique opportunity to gather poetry lovers from all over the world, virtually, to contemplate, respond and celebrate Mindful Poetry Moments, a collaboration between The Well and The On Being Project, with support from The Hive, WordPlay and The Mercantile Library. In the end we published a 6"x9", 75+ page compilation as our "Pandemic Collection."

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2020 COLLABORATION

Camp cARTwheel (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. 

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2020 COLLABORATIONS (ONGOING)

UC Health/WLNS 102

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. 

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2018 COLLABORATION

Calm Corner at Schiff Wellness Center

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. 

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2017 Collaboration

The Light in Me: New Music Commission for BLINK Festival

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.

HEAR THEIR SONG

 
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