Mindful Campus Program: Speaker Series with Filmmaker Donagh Coleman

What: Intimate conversation with Donagh Coleman: limited to 45 participants. Please email Donna Mejia ([email protected]) for waitlist.

When: Friday, March 10th, 2023, 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Where: The Renée Crown Wellness Institute, Aspen Conference Room

1135 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80302

Contact us: [email protected] and [email protected]

The Renée Crown Wellness Institute’s Mindful Campus Program is excited and honored to announce the offering of a Speaker Series for the 22-23 academic year. We invite both local and national mindfulness leaders to engage with our communities through intimate conversations and interviews.

Please join us for our Mindful Campus Program Speaker Series with Film Director Donagh Coleman, in his talk A Good Death, where he will discuss his recent film and experience documenting Tibetan life. In what Tibetans call "tukdam", deceased meditators show no signs of decay for days or weeks. Coleman explores this phenomenon in the documentary Tukdam: Between Worlds. Juxtaposing ground-breaking scientific research and Tibetan perspectives, this creative documentary challenges our notions of life and death, and where we draw the line between them.

Donagh Coleman Biography

Finnish-Irish-American filmmaker Donagh Coleman holds degrees in Philosophy and Psychology and Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin, and a MA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley. Previous award-winning films with wide international festival and TV exposure include A Gesar Bard's Tale (2013) and Stone Pastures (2008). Donagh's films have also been shown at museums such as MoMA and the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, and by the European Commission. Besides films and TV-docs, Donagh directs radio documentaries for the Finnish and Irish national broadcasters. His Radio Feature Gesar! was Finland’s entry for the 2012 Prix Italia competition, and his feature Do I Exist? was Finland’s entry for the 2015 Prix Europa competition. Donagh has also worked as a TV journalist and presenter for the Finnish broadcaster YLE News. He is currently doing a PhD in medical anthropology at UC Berkeley, continuing the research conducted for his 2022 feature documentary on meditative Tibetan Buddhist tukdam deaths.

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