U-M Creative Currents

U-M Creative Currents

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U-M Creative Currents episodes

  • Music, Neuroscience, and Mental Health with Sasha Gusikhin

    Today on U-M Creative Currents, we dive into the connection between music and mental health. Our guest, Sasha Gusikhin, is a third-year University of Michigan student double-majoring in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience (BCN) and Voice Performance in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

    Sasha is an arts organizer, vocalist, and multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges science and the arts to promote healing and awareness. She serves as executive director of the Aphasia Community Friendship Center of Michigan, where she integrates neuroscience and creative practice to support people with communication disorders. As a UMS 21st Century Artist Intern, she has collaborated with the Philadelphia Orchestra on arts-and-health programming, and she recently founded NeuroArts Productions, a new organization dedicated to raising mental health awareness and advocating for more precise treatments through the arts.

    • Learn more about Sasha Gusikhin
    • Follow @neuroartsprod on Instagram
    • Checkout the "All in Your Head Project"
    • Learn more about the NeuroArts Productions


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    • Learn more about the Michigan Arts Festival
    20 min
  • Pan African Creative Exchange With Nike Jonah & Erwin Maas

    How might the arts foster intercultural appreciation and understanding? Can the arts serve as a global economic development tool? What can be done to amplify new voices speaking across international boundaries or offering new perspectives on differences, including race and gender? We’ll discuss these questions and more today on U-M Creative Currents, Michigan arts podcast.

    In our very first episode host professor Mark Clague talks with Nike Jonah FRSA and Erwin Maas, our 2024 Visiting Artist Integration Program (VAIP) and U-M School of Social Work Artist Residents. Clague spoke with Jonah and Maas about their groundbreaking work through the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) and what they're doing on campus this spring and fall.


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    • Checkout our website
    • Learn more about the Michigan Arts Festival
    38 min

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