Outreach
Community Events
Since 2022, Creatives Care has hosted concerts, benefits, and gatherings that bring artists, clinicians, and supporters together for the mental health of the arts community.
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2025 World Doctors' Orchestra benefit at Carnegie Hall
On November 16, 2025, the World Doctors’ Orchestra performed a benefit concert for Creatives Care in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, with remarks from co-founder Dr. Alana Mendelsohn. Our first large benefit concert, it raised meaningful proceeds for artists’ care.
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2025 Benefit concert at St. Bartholomew's Church
The World Doctors’ Orchestra performed the first of its two 2025 benefit concerts in our name at St. Bart’s in Midtown Manhattan — part of the season that brought clinicians, supporters, and friends of Creatives Care together.
- 2024
In Tune with Mental Health — The Bitter End
For Mental Health Awareness Month in May 2024, we hosted the In Tune with Mental Health concert at The Bitter End, the beloved Greenwich Village venue — an intimate evening of music and conversation.
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2023 Concert at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
A concert in the gallery space of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, followed by a panel discussion on the arts and mental health.
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2023 SEE MEMORY — a film screening with Viviane Silvera
In September 2023, we hosted painter and filmmaker Viviane Silvera for a screening of SEE MEMORY — a 15-minute film built from some 30,000 hand-painted stills, exploring how memory hurts and heals — followed by a panel discussion.
- 2023
House concert with The King's Singers at the Dakota
A special house concert with the Grammy Award–winning vocal ensemble The King’s Singers at the Dakota in New York — bringing world-class artists together with the mental health community.
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2023 An evening of Schubert’s Winterreise
In January 2023, Philip Stoddard and Dr. Allen Steere generously donated the proceeds of their performance of Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise to Creatives Care — an early act of support that helped fund care for artists.
- 2022
Fall House Concert — Michael Stephen Brown
At The Ned NoMad on September 6, 2022, Avery Fisher Career Grant–winning pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown performed, followed by a panel on performance and injury with physical therapist Karen Litzy and co-founder Dr. Alana Mendelsohn, moderated by trombonist Dan Dunford.
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Inaugural House Concert
Our very first event, on May 9, 2022 — performances by composer Nico Muhly, Met Opera baritone Will Liverman, and pianist Adam Tendler, followed by a panel on the arts and mental health with artist ambassadors Sarah Kirkland Snider and Allison Walsh, moderated by composer Aaron Helgeson.
Our flagship house concert series brings leading artists into intimate spaces to perform and talk openly about mental health. More events are always in the works — get involved to hear about the next one.
Keep the arts well.
Our events raise the awareness and support that make care possible. Join us.