Can medicine and art be friends? Of course. To prove it there’s going to be an Evening of Medical Storytelling by health care workers at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 22, at the Parkway Theater, 4814 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis. This Earth Day celebration is presented by The Nocturnists and the University of Minnesota’s Center for the Art of Medicine (CFAM).

The Nocturnists is an award-winning, not-for-profit medical storytelling organization working to humanize health care, transform medical culture, and improve clinician wellbeing. It was founded in 2016 by internal medicine physician Emily Silverman as a way of cultivating creativity and community among her colleagues. What began as an evening of storytelling among a small group of physicians blossomed into a nationally recognized program, which now includes the voices of more than 450 clinicians around the United States and beyond through The Nocturnists’ live performances and award-winning podcast, featured on national TV shows and in the print media. The podcast has been an editor’s pick on Amazon, Stitcher, Podchaser, Podcast Brunch Club, PRX and more.

The Center for the Art of Medicine, part of the University of Minnesota Medical School, is a consortium of medical humanities practitioners, led by physicians Ben Trappey, Maren Olson, Tseganesh Selameab, Anthony Williams and Jon Hallberg. They sponsor a Storytelling in Medicine program as well as Hippocrates Cafe Productions, creators of the two-time Emmy-winning public TV series Art + Medicine. CFAM’s mission is to cultivate creativity and elevate the role of the arts and humanities in medical education and practice.

Saturday’s show will feature music by the Ari Nahum Trio at 7:30 p.m. and between storytelling sets that will include Minnesota physicians Anthony Williams, Susan Wheaton, Tiffany Albrecht and Carson Brown. Tickets are $25 for students and $40 for advance general admission. For ticket information go to thepakwaytheater.com.

— Mary Ann Grossmann mgrossmann@pioneerpress.com