THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silkroad Ensemble

This event will be held at UW Communications Building, Room 120 Lecture Hall. Registration required. Reserve your spot

Join us for the Grammy-nominated documentary The Music of Strangers, which follows members of the Ensemble as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution.

Blending performance footage, personal interviews, and archival film, Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville and producer Caitrin Rogers focus on the personal journeys of a small group of Silkroad Ensemble mainstays — Kinan Azmeh (Syria), Kayhan Kalhor (Iran), Yo-Yo Ma (France/United States), Wu Man (China), and Cristina Pato (Spain) — to chronicle passion, talent, and sacrifice.

Through these moving individual stories, the filmmakers paint a vivid portrait of a bold musical experiment and a global search for the ties that bind. Curriculum guide

This film screening part of the Moving Life Film Series, presented in partnership with the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities and the UW Department of Dance.