May 30: Nuit de l’Imagination in Paris

Discussion & Piano Recital: A conversation moderated by Magdalena Stern Baczewska and Jordan Stern, followed by a musical performance of lullabies by Magdalena Stern Baczewska.

7 PM; Reid Hall | 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris More information and event registration.

Dreams can be understood as the images and narratives we experience during sleep, as personal or collective aspirations, and as a space for creative experimentation. They shape artistic practices, inform storytelling, and influence how we imagine possible futures.

This year’s Nuit de l’Imagination brings together artists and thinkers to approach dreams through performance, discussion, and participatory activities. The event invites audiences of all ages to consider how dreams function in both individual experience and collective life. The program centers on a conversation and performance led by Magdalena Stern Baczewska, a current Fellow of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. She will perform a selection of lullabies at the piano, drawing on this research and her recordings. A discussion with Jordan Stern of BLUESLEEP™ will follow, examining the bridges between music, sleep science, and wellbeing.

Performers

Magdalena Stern Baczewska is an internationally recognized concert pianist, harpsichordist, and educator, currently Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of the Music Performance Program at Columbia University. Alongside her illustrious performance career, she has developed a body of work focused on music and sleep, including her Music for Dreams album series created in collaboration with BLUESLEEP™ researchers.

Dr. Jordan Stern is a New York Times best selling author and award winning Head and Neck Surgeon double Board Certified in Otolaryngology and Sleep Medicine. He has been recognized as one of America’s Top Doctors every year since 2008. He is the Founder and CEO of BlueSleep - a tech-enabled healthcare company offering same-day telemedicine visits for diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea and other sleep disorders, currently available to patients in the US and the UK.

Together with concert pianist Magdalena Baczewska, Dr. Stern has produced a series of albums “Music for Dreams,” designed to help patients with sleep apnea and insomnia improve the quality of their sleep.

Co-sponsored by the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.