Inner Landscapes: Music for Mental Health Awareness (Crown Heights)

We were lucky enough to experience Dara’s solo cello program presented in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month. And we are thrilled to reprise it as the darker colder winter time sets in.

The program is a deeply personal and reflective journey through the many emotional and psychological states we navigate in our inner lives. Through music, this program traces a path across shifting mental landscapes. Moving through rumination, nostalgia, grief, and solitude, toward grounding, acceptance, hope, and contentment.

Selected works by composers including Jessica Meyer, Caroline Shaw, Philip Glass and J.S Bach, reflect a wide spectrum of the human emotional experience. Each piece serves as a lens into a particular state of mind, inviting listeners to recognize, sit with, and reflect on their own inner worlds.

This performance is both a personal narrative and an open invitation: to listen deeply, to feel without judgment, and to recognize the full spectrum of mental and emotional experience. Music becomes not just an art form, but a practice of awareness; one that holds space for complexity, contradiction, and, ultimately, hope.

P.S. - Feel free to bring a journal if you would like capture any reflections, thoughts or emotions sparked by the music 💜

What's the music?

Dara Hankins Solo Cello

Attendees

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Jenn C.

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Annika G.