“Orchestrating Change” Virtual Screening and Discussion for the Friends of the Semel Institute, February 17, 2021 – 5:00 PM PST

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Please join UCLA’s Friends of the Semel institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital Board of Advisors for an Open Mind/#WOW screening and discussion of the new documentary film, Me2/Orchestra.  This powerful film tells the story of the Me2/Orchestra, the only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental illness and those who support them. The Me2/Orchestra creates a stigma-free environment of compassion and acceptance for musicians and audiences and performs exhilarating, beautiful, professional level classical concerts for mainstream audiences.

Our program will feature clips from this groundbreaking documentary interspersed with conversations featuring: 

Ronald Braunstein, Music Director and Maestro of the Me2/Orchestra
Caroline Whiddon, Executive Director of the Me2/Orchestra
Sandy Bartlett,  flutist with Me2/Boston
Mark Jude Tramo, M.D., Ph.D. , Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Associate Adjunct Professor of Integrative Biology & Physiology, UCLA College of Letters & Science; Lecturer, Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music; Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science; Co-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI)
Margie Friedman, Filmmaker, Orchestrating Change,
Barbara Multer-Wellin, Filmmaker, Orchestrating Change

Wednesday, February 17
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM PT

Registration is required for this free live private Zoom event.
To watch videos of our past Open Mind programs, please visit www.friendsofnpi.org/open-mind-videos or our YouTube Channel.