Event

MPR News Ground Level: Creativity and Mental Health

Join us to share your thoughts on the connections between mental well-being and creativity, the arts as a form of communication, coping, and therapy, and musical expression as healing. We invite you to a community conversation to share your experiences with mental health, and how the arts and creative self-expression have helped you.

Has creative expression changed your experience of your own anxiety or depression? Whether you listen to music, perform on stage, or write short stories, were curious to hear how creativity has affected your mental well-being. What works? How is the health care system using creativity the arts in treating mental health? Whether you work in mental health treatment, or experience your own struggles for wellness, join us over a hot bowl of soup and a beverage at the Duluth Folk School to share your thoughts and experiences. MPR News will be recording this event for possible broadcast.

Jazz guitarist Sam Miltich, who has publicly shared his struggles with mental illness, will share his music and join the conversation.

MPR News Ground Level goes behind the headlines and beyond the politics to expand understanding of our communities and our state. Ground Level seeks to reintroduce us to each other and rebuild common ground. And in Duluth, we are partnering with Call to Mind, our new initiative on mental health. All of us experience various levels of mental wellbeing at different points in our life and half of us will personally experience at least one mental health condition in our lifetime. Call to Mind aims to inform and mobilize new conversations about mental health.