November 2023 – Winners
Monthly Prompt – Original Music
These Days
These Days states issues that people with poor mental health may face, and brings awareness to common feelings that we all might relate to at times in our life. It’s …
Cookies
My song ‘Cookies’ represents the mindset of someone with an eating disorder. This song is meant to promote awareness towards the emotions people in this situation feel and create more …
Save Me
Our song “Save Me” is a three minute long original song that conveys the challenges of mental health. Using music as a way to relieve stress and to give many …
Christmas Mix
Our entry is a fun song to listen to with your family on Christmas.
Underneath The Mask
The song talks about how a person may seem like they are doing well based on their outside appearance, however, what they are feeling, what they are going through isn’t …
A Walk in the Garden
Writing and playing music allows me to feel at peace. It allows me to connect to my true self and to God. When I play, there is a sense of …
Hope and Justice – Visual Art
Musical Connection
Music can connect people or make us feel connected to others. Music can lift spirits, give us energy, and touch our souls, which in turn improves our mental health. My …
Music and My Mood
Music impacts my mental health positively, especially when I am feeling down. I can relate to lyrics and feel understood when I listen to a song. Music guides me through …
Music and Mental Health
I play the violin and it helps me with my mental health. In my drawing, the girl wears her headphones to listen to music, because she is stressed. […] When …
Safe Space
When things happen in our lives, sometimes we cope by listening to music and tuning out the chaos around us. It’s important to take moments for ourselves to calm down, …
Tone
My piece depicts how music can set the tone for our lives. The girl on the balcony lives in an environment devoid of color and creativity, but the music she’s …
The Sound of Thoughts
Music is abstract, similar to our lives. I think music helps reflect how we feel so we can work through how our emotions are holding us down. It’s also influences …
Monthly Prompt – Film and Written Works
These Days
These Days states issues that people with poor mental health may face, and brings awareness to common feelings that we all might relate to at times in our life. It’s …
My New Headphones
This poem is based on an experience I had last month when my earbuds broke, and I was left without music for a week. I remember how hopeless I felt …
Harmonies of Life
With so much violence and injustice around the world today, I wanted to create something that represents hope in my life and the lives of so many others, music. In …
Escape
I love classical music and it has helped me through a lot of tough times. […] I was very delighted and excited to create a video exploring the ability to …
Hope and Justice
Embrace the Light Within
My entry is a poetic journey through the complex and often challenging landscape of mental health. It begins in the quiet recesses of the mind, acknowledging the intricate and vast …
Kintsugi
Kintsugi (meaning “golden joinery”) is the Japanese method of mending broken pottery with gold. […] I based my piece around the earthquake in March 2011 that I experienced when I …
Innocence
In light of the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, the heartbreaking reality of violence and loss of innocent lives (especially among children) is deeply distressing. Regardless of one’s perspective on the conflict, …
Recreating me
The piece I created called “recreating me” is about living life with a different body image than what is percieved through social media and other social norms. My piece illustrates …