REIMAGINE: SPRING SPEAKER SERIES | MAY 2025

Reimagine Social Connection

Breaking Barriers and Building Bonds through the Arts

To honor Mental Health Awareness Month, this May MyT brings you three visionary conversations with local Maine experts on how to foster youth well-being.

MyT’s Reimagine Speaker Series invites you to join us in reimagining what is possible for youth, their families, and their futures. Now more than ever, we need voices that move us beyond what has been. This series intends to mobilize us to use our resilience today toward building the tomorrow that we need. While holding the multifaceted challenges and uncertainty that young people and caring adults face, this series is meant to help flip the script and embolden us to imagine the future we are longing for so that we can bring it into being.

Thursday May 29th

11-12:30pm

Zoom link will sent before the event

Reimagine Social Connection

Breaking Barriers and Building Bonds through the Arts

Youth report wanting to be more socially connected in ways that increase rather than detract from their mental health. How might the arts be used to increase connection across differences and improve our collective well-being? Join community-based educational leader and Maine-based founder of Spark Inclusive Arts, Michaela Knox in reimagining how youth with and without disabilities can break barriers and build bonds together. This talk will invite participants to engage in core concepts of the DanceAbility method that can be applied to a variety of contexts and situations to foster positive childhood experiences and social connection for young people of all bodies and minds. 

Michaela Knox is passionate about supporting others in the discovery and research of their creative expression. Drawing on her work as a performer, choreographer, and teacher, Michaela will guide us in exploring how we can all take steps to dissolve barriers between people. Her belief that the arts can change the world is contagious - join her in discovering how artistic expression can create a more inclusive and socially connected society.