Community healing through expression

Diary Disk Project with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Yale-China Association

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Ming Thompson (Yale College ‘04, YUNA “Old Biscuit,” Yali ‘04-’06, Yale-China Trustee) and the Design Brigade from the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media to create the Diary Disk Project.

Diary Disks are community art installations across New Haven. At the heart of the series is a vital sense of belonging to a community. Throughout the pandemic, lives unravel alone in the absence of both physical and social experience. Yet, when the mental space is shared together, it becomes a place where feelings, memories, and well-being are ultimately amplified. The Disks provide a place for New Haven to come together, reflect, and heal collectively as the city perseveres through the pandemic.

In partnership with the City of New Haven and International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Diary Disks will be co-created by various community partners at their own events. People write and draw their responses to a unique prompt on the Disk, observing their experience among many.