The Art of Medicine: Intersections // An evening of medical storytelling
Saturday, May 4, 2024
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Show
All Ages
$40 (+taxes/fees) Advance General Admission // $45 (+taxes/fees) At The Door
$25 (+taxes/fees) Students
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Two award-winning medical storytelling organizations, the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (CFAM) and The Nocturnists Satellites, team up to present The Art of Medicine: Intersections – an evening of storytelling and live music by healthcare workers in Minneapolis.
With storytelling direction provided by Story Arts of Minnesota and featuring music from the Ari Nahum Trio.
Presented in partnership with The Nocturnists Satellites and Story Arts of Minnesota.
The Ari Nahum Trio is an eclectic musical trio in its second decade of life, formed when pianist and aspiring doctor Ari Nahum met his medical school professor and bassist, Dr. Jim Pacala in 2009. Clinical psychologist Bill Robiner joined the group on drums a couple of years later, and they have been making music as a side hustle ever since. The group explores a wide range of musical landscapes, including straight-ahead jazz, reworking pop and folk tunes, and original compositions.
The Center for the Art of Medicine (CFAM) is part of the University of Minnesota Medical School. CFAM is a consortium of medical humanities practitioners led by physicians Ben Trappey, Maren Olson, Tseganesh Selameab, Anthony Williams, and Jon Hallberg. CFAM sponsors a robust Storytelling in Medicine Program and also includes Hippocrates Cafe Productions, which creates the two-time Emmy award-winning public television series, Art+Medicine. The CFAM team is also engaged in research on the impact of the humanities in medicine.
CFAM’s work focuses on medical students, resident physicians, and practicing physicians and others in health care. CFAM strives to cultivate creativity and to elevate the role of the arts and humanities in medical education and practice, in order to nurture curiosity and creativity, promote diversity, deepen empathy, develop professionalism, and foster resilience in physicians and physicians-in-training.
The Nocturnists is an award-winning, not-for-profit medical storytelling organization working to humanize healthcare, transform medical culture, and improve clinician wellbeing. UCSF internal medicine physician Emily Silverman founded The Nocturnists in 2016, as a way of cultivating creativity and community among her colleagues. What started as an intimate evening of storytelling among local physicians soon blossomed into a nationally recognized program, which has uplifted the voices of over 420 clinicians around the US and beyond through The Nocturnists’ sold-out live performances and acclaimed podcast, which has been downloaded 1.5 million times by listeners around the world.
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Story Arts of Minnesota is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the art of storytelling in its traditional and contemporary forms and to developing and supporting storytellers at all levels. SAM member-volunteers engage in a range of activities, including: an annual all-day “StoryFest” of performances, workshops, and networking that’s free and open to the public; a monthly storytelling open mic; a monthly Saturday morning story hour for kids and families; and an annual Tellabration! group story concert. SAM’s website points to events around the state, profiles professional tellers, lists classes and workshops, and more. In addition to its own productions, SAM partners with other organizations such as theaters, museums, and businesses to curate and promote storytelling performances. Membership in SAM is open to everyone who imagines a society in which storytellers are recognized for providing a relevant, inspiring, and transformative service through the art and craft of spoken narrative – or, more simply, to everyone who loves a good story!