Music and Community Health: A Special Convening

When 

October 26, 2018

About

This initiative aimed to gather foundational information on music and health-centered programs that incorporate active music experiences to impact overall quality of life in our communities, including identifying programs and the health-related outcomes being addressed within these programs, as well as identifying the resources to ensure sustainability outside of structured individual and group experiences, and whether this would be done through the process of trained community musicians, music therapists, and advocates or through technological advances. 

Agenda 

Music and the Brain: The Cerebral Processing of Music with Phillip L. Pearl, MD; Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Boston Children's Hospital; William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Roundtable Discussions: An opportunity for participants to reflect on the presentations shared, exchange ideas, and explore key issues, trends, and practices related to the intersection of community and music. 

Areas of focus included...

  • Impact: the number of individuals served through programs in identified communities; what communities are being served
  • Effectiveness on an individual’s overall health and wellbeing
  • Sustainability: ability to sustain benefits outside of structured experiences for long-term personal and community growth through the use of trained community musicians and/or advances in technology
  • Replication: ability to foster continued problem solving, shared resources, and cross-disciplinary alliances with community partners

Attendees: 

  • Morgan Beckford, Chief Programming Officer, Community Music Center of Boston
  • Derek Beckvold, Cofounder and Director, Teach to Learn
  • Aline Benoit, Music as a Healing Art Initiative Mind/Body and Teaching Artist Programs, Longy School of Music, Bard College
  • Rhoda Bernard, Managing Director, Berklee Institute for Accessible Arts Education
  • Kayla Daly, Founder and Clinical Director, Worcester Center for Expressive Therapies
  • Missy Ducharme, Volunteer, Musicians on Call
  • Carrie Eldridge-Dickson, Managing Director, Shelter Music Boston
  • Maggie Gorrill, Associate Professor of Dance, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
  • Samantha Hale, Music Therapist; Youth Advocate, Center for Teen Empowerment
  • John Hazilla, Professor of Percussion, Berklee College of Music
  • Doug Johnson, Associate Professor of Piano, Berklee College of Music
  • Bob Jordan, Cofounder and Director, Teach to Learn
  • Roberta Kirn, Founder, Be Well Sings
  • Eve Montague, Director of Creative Arts Therapies, South Shore Conservatory
  • Patrice Perez, Assistant Professor of Music Therapy, Berklee College of Music
  • Brenda Ross, Manager, Berklee Music Therapy Institute
  • Jens Rybo, Executive Director, TuneFoolery
  • Kevin Sheehan, Executive Director, Hope Collaborative
  • Kristen Snyder, Assistant Director, Berklee Career Services
  • Moses Fernandez Via, Founding Director, Arts Lab at the Med Campus, Boston University School of Medicine
  • Karen Wacks, Professor of Music Therapy, Berklee College of Music
  • Annette Whitehead-Pleaux, Assistant Professor of Music Therapy, Berklee College of Music
  • Basel Zayed, Director of Expressive Therapies, Sherrill House