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2021 Mental Filmness Awards: Orchestrating Change, a runaway leader in audience votes, is a perfect fit for the Stigma Breaker Award given that the very mission statement of the Me/2 Orchestra is to break the stigma surrounding mental illness. This powerful documentary paints an intimate portrait of Ronald Braunstein, a world-renowned conductor who lost his …
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NAMI Ask the Expert: The Me2/Orchestra: Using Music as Part of the Recovery Journey Oct. 21, 2021, 4–5:30 p.m. ET NAMI Ask the Expert welcomes the Me2/Orchestra, an orchestra of people with and without mental illness working side-by-side in a supportive atmosphere. Their mission is to erase mental health stigma one concert at a …
Stockbridge, MA–July 27, 2021–The Austen Riggs Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media: Executive Producers/Directors Margie Friedman and Barbara Multer-Wellin for their documentary Orchestrating Change, a film about Me2/Orchestra the world’s only orchestra created by and for people living with mental illness and those who …
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Starting in September, 2020, ORCHESTRATING CHANGE, will begin broadcasting on more than 250 public television channels. Check your local stations for dates and times. As independent filmmakers we ask you to please consider supporting this important film on our final journey to TV. Your contribution is tax-deductive and will help fund final post, publicity costs …
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What are you doing next Friday? How about something uplifting for a change?Reminder: One week left to register for this special “Orchestrating Change” Live Zoom EventHosted by Mass Humanities Friday, June 26 from 7:00-8:15pm (ET) /4:00-5:15(PT) “Orchestrating Change” is the feature documentary that tells the inspiring story of Me2/Orchestra, the only orchestra in the world …
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