How the Arts Improve Health & Wellbeing: A mini-conference (Day 1)

Join arts educators from campus and the community during this local mini-conference featuring presentations and discussions from faculty and students involve across UGA as well as members of the Athens community. Registration for the event is free and open to all. 

Day 1 Agenda

3:00 – 3:15 Opening Remarks

3:15 – 3:45 PETER VAN ZANDT LANE (Hodgson School of Music)
Translating Coastal Ecology into Sound

3:45 – 4:15 RACHELLE ELLIS (UGA Health Center)
Do It Until You Feel Better: Simple Sublimation Using Art Materials and Processes

4:15 – 5:15 PANEL DISCUSSION by the UGA Student Composer Association (SCA): MIA HILL, MATEO WOJTCZACK, NKULULENKO ZUNGU, PETER UNDERHILL, JAKE SCHOENLE, WILLIAM EMDE
What is it like to be a composer?

5:15 – 5:45 NAOMI GRABER (Hodgson School of Music)
Music and Alternative Medicine in the 1940s Horror Film

5:45 – 6:15 MONTU MILLER (Hip-Hop Educator & Cultural Ambassador, ATHfactor-Liberty Entertainment)
Hip-Hop Saved My Life: Breaking Cycles and Healing Communities

6:15 – 6:30 Closing Remarks

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