LooseLeaf NoteBook uncovers the connection between creativity and mental health, with a focus on nurturing artistry, emotional intelligence, and self-care. Composer Julia Adolphe shares her creative process, personal experience with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and journey towards mental health alongside guests from across creative fields to provide inspiration, a space for open dialogue, and paths towards healing through artistic self-expression. Julia Adolphe’s music is described as “alive with invention” (The New Yorker), “colorful, mercurial, deftly orchestrated” (The New York Times) displaying a “remarkable gift for sustaining a compelling musical narrative” (Musical America). Her works are performed across the U.S. and abroad by renowned orchestras and ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, and Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, among others. Julia is a native New Yorker living in Los Angeles. .
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Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Singer-Songwriter & Music Educator Julia Jordan Kamanda shares how she works to reclaim her own creative impulses while raising two kids during the pandemic & working from home. Julia talks openly about her 9-year-old's new feelings of anxiety, emerging since the murder of George Floyd, and how she and her husband encourage their kids to find healthy outlets to process big feelings. Julia shares how connecting with our creative selves makes us more engaged parents and how the arts provides a powerful educational tool to the young girls she and her husband, Ali Biko Kamanda, empower through their Creative Arts Initiative in Sierra Leonne.
How do you balance caring for your loved ones and staying connected to your creative self? Questions and comments may be shared on Julia Adolphe's YouTube Channel.
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