Festival Stage Program
Act I
00’ 19” Planetudes—Dawn of the Fawn, 2023 Remix
Instrumental avant-pop music and video by Portland-based composer Duncan Neilson (Planetudes).
Dream differently. Awaken wonder. When we are moved by wonder, our deeper capacities of intelligence and empathy activate, which can lead to positive change. When we are awakened to wonder, the world is full of possibility.
By exploring new creative worlds, new ideas, and entering into new musical conversations, Planetudes not only aims to expand our imaginations, but also introduce cultural conversations which can transform.
The Planetudes sound is crafted from a fusion of analog electronica, experimental rock, and soaring orchestration, interwoven with an abundance of samples recorded directly from nature, offering relief from the chaos in our lives.
In response to the ever-growing climate crisis, Planetudes is passionately dedicated to raising ecological awareness and inspiring engagement with the natural world through music.
2’ 11” Andrea Love— Tulip
Animated short film by Seattle-based fiber artist Andrea Love and collaborators.
Andrea Love is an independent animator and director based in Port Townsend, WA. A life long lover of movies, Andrea received a BA from Hampshire College in 2010, with a concentration in video production and film studies. She is a self taught animator, specializing in stop motion with needle felted wool.
Andrea runs a full service animation studio from her basement, creating iconic work for commercials, short films and social media. Her work has been screened at film festivals around the country including the Tribeca Film Festival and the LA Shorts Fest.
11’ 18” Imogen Heap & Dan O’Neill—A Final Call?
Music video collaboration between English electropop artist, Imogen Heap and biologist filmmaker, Dan O’Neill, from their Chordata Bytes project.
Self-produced British composer and recording artist for 25 years, Imogen Heap has released five solo albums, another as one half of Frou Frou and collaborated with countless and varied artists including Taylor Swift, Nitin Sawhney, Deadmau5, Eric Whitacre, Jeff Beck and Jon Hopkins. Her compositions and songs pop up in blockbuster and indie films as well as countless TV shows, are featured in underground rap and dance music and covered by the likes of Ariana Grande. As composer and arranger for one of the biggest hits in theatrical history, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, Imogen won the Drama Desk Outstanding Music in a Play award. As a sought-after speaker and performer, Heap hosted 2020’s Grammys Premiere Ceremony. Heap’s collaborative and multi-dimensional workflow attracts companies for commissioned works, leading to songs such as Tiny Human, the first song to distribute payments via a Smart Contract, and The Happy Song, a highly successful song for children in their early-years. Heap, recognised as an artist's artist, has won two Grammys and an Ivor Novello award. In recognition of her pioneering work at the intersection of music and tech, Heap has a hat trick of three honorary doctorates for the gestural music-ware 'MI.MU gloves' system and recently for ’The Creative Passport’, an integrated digital ID solution, empowering music makers to be the change toward a fair and flourishing music ecosystem. Between projects a constant for the past year is every Thursday afternoon, Imogen Q&A chats with her fans via The Listening Chair with those who subscribe to Imogenheap.app to collaborate together on Augmented Imogen, Imogen's in dev AI.
Dan O'Neill is a wildlife television presenter, documentary filmmaker, zoologist, and LGBTQIA+ activist. He has produced and presented various documentaries, high-profile fashion features, musical collaborations and digital campaigns engaging new audiences in conversations around exploration, conservation and climate change. His background as a field biologist has equipped him with an extensive knowledge of rainforest biodiversity and survival skills, particularly in the Neotropics. He has organised numerous remote expeditions in search of rare animals. In 2021 he planned a 7-person expedition to the headwaters of one of Guyana’s most remote rivers – the Rewa - in search of jaguars with his indigenous friends. Dan directed and presented ‘Last Eden: Guyana’ which documented their journey. Since then, the documentary has been distributed across Europe by Viasat Nature.
13’ 44” Planetudes featuring Laura Cherry— Underwater Gardens
Video premiere of collaboration between avant-pop band Planetudes and London-based movement artist Laura Cherry. Video, special effects, and music by Duncan Neilson.
Laura is a London based creative dance artist, choreographer and dance teacher with a BA Hons degree in Contemporary Dance and Choreography. She also has a coaching qualification from The British School of Coaching. Laura co-founded The Meyer Dancers - a vintage Go-Go Dance Company in 2010, and has performed and taught 60s and 70s dance extensively in the UK and Europe with the company.
From producing events, to choreographing and leading festival sessions at Isle of Wight, Samsung Kx, Jimi Hendrix Museum, Lovebox, Latitude, Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party, Laura has a deep passion for working with people creatively.
18’ 29” Laetitia Sadier & Tanya Small— New Moon, Director’s Cut
Immersive, Dream Pop video by French indie pioneer Laetitia Sadier and filmmaker Tanya Small.
Lætitia Sadier is a French musician, best known as a founding member of the London-based band Stereolab, who since 2009 (when Stereolab ended) has performed solo work under her own name alongside frequently performing guest vocals and working on collaborations with other artists.
23’ 00” Andrea Love—Water animation
Animated short film by Seattle-based fiber artist Andrea Love.
Andrea Love is an independent animator and director based in Port Townsend, WA. A life long lover of movies, Andrea received a BA from Hampshire College in 2010, with a concentration in video production and film studies. She is a self taught animator, specializing in stop motion with needle felted wool.
Andrea runs a full service animation studio from her basement, creating iconic work for commercials, short films and social media. Her work has been screened at film festivals around the country including the Tribeca Film Festival and the LA Shorts Fest.
24’ 54” Alexander Leibermann—Birdsong Translations
Compositions translated directly from birdsong, by New York-based composer, Alexander Liebermann.
From birdsong-inspired compositions to political monodramas, the wide-ranging music of composer Alexander Liebermann is sought after across the United States and Europe. His recent compositions include a climate-change reflecting monodrama commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, a birdsong-inspired string trio commissioned by members of the Staatskapelle Dresden, and a soundtrack for the documentary film Frozen Corpses Golden Treasures.
As a nature enthusiast, Liebermann devotes much of his time to the sounds of wildlife; his original and accurate transcriptions of animal vocalizations are viral on social media and featured in the world-renowned magazine National Geographic. His first book Birdsong: A Musical Field Guide, is published by Just A Theory Press.
Liebermann graduated from Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Juilliard, and Manhattan School of Music. For his dissertation on Erwin Schulhoff, Liebermann received the Saul Braverman Award in Music Theory. Liebermann resides in New York, where he is a music theory and ear training faculty member at Juilliard’s preparatory division Music Advancement Program.
27’ 43” John Frame & Johnny Coffeen —Excerpt from The Swan Girl
Stop-motion animated film by California-based sculptor John Frame and filmmaker Johnny Coffeen.
John Fayette Frame is an American sculptor, photographer, composer and filmmaker. He has been working as an artist in California since the early 1980s. Frame has been given Grants and Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has participated in group exhibitions around the world and has had major solo exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. After five years of preparation, Part One of "The Tale of the Crippled Boy", a sweeping project incorporating sculpture, photography, installation, music and film, premiered at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California in March 2011.
Johnny Coffeen is a Cuban-American filmmaker who began as the Assistant Editor of SXSW Grand Jury Prize-winner Short Term 12. His master's thesis film The Swan Girl ultimately premiered at David Lynch's Festival Of Disruption and received a Student Academy Award in 2016. Coffeen has since directed short films The Circle Game and The False Mirror along with serving as a trophy presenter at the 2017 Oscars. That Moonlight one.
28’ 46” Holly Andres — Agnes
Cinematic short film by Portland-based photographer & director, Holly Andres with collaborators. Based on an adaptation of Kirstin Valdez Quade’s haunting coming-of-age short story, "The Pond."
Holly Andres is a photographer and director known for her stylized cinematic scenarios. Her work has appeared in galleries and museums from Barcelona, Istanbul and Bogota, to New York, San Fransisco and Atlanta with viewers drawn to her often dark and mysterious or bright and witty imagery.
37’ 21” John Frame— La Guerre
Stop-motion animated short interlude by California-based sculptor John Frame.
38’ 30” Lankow / Mukdad / Rothenberg —Beauty in a Time of War
A collaborative performance in Berlin between musicians, Volker Lankow (Berlin), Wassim Mukdad (Syrian emigree in Berlin) and David Rothenberg (New York).
David Rothenberg has written and performed on the relationship between humanity and nature for many years. He is a composer and jazz clarinetist, author and podcaster.
48’ 22” John Frame — Three Fragments of a Lost Tale
Stop-motion animated short film by California-based sculptor and animator, John Frame.
1 hr 00’ 52” Sylvette— Borrowed Time
Music video by Manchester-based Art Rock band, Sylvette.
1 hr 5’ 54” The Bearing — Lockdown Blues — 2023 Festival Remix
Music video by UK-based avant-pop band, The Bearing.
1 hr 10’ 22” Sylvette— Hyperballad by Björk
Manchester-based Art Rock band, Sylvette, performed live.
Act 2 (flows immediately from Act 1)
1hr 16' 10" Cavern of Anti-Matter and Sally Sibbet — I'm the Unknown
Music video by Scottish director Sally Sibbet, for Stereolab-member founded electronic trio Cavern of Anti-Matter.
1hr 22' 23" Gated Estates — A Letter
Agitated art rock from the Brecon Beacons.
Gated Estates is a love affair with the expansive, sonorous qualities of cinematic and ambient music. When you have a juxtaposition of melodies sitting in a space, versus a driving impellent beat, you get a sense of traveling somewhere, and with each build up and break down a new episode of narrative comes into play - like an evolving storyline.
1hr 26' 44" Gran Capitals — No lo merezco
Santiago, Chile-based rock quartet performs their song No lo merezco in a live recording.
Gran Capitals es una atrevida apuesta rockera de Santiago, Chile.
1hr 30' 08" Sophie Wylie and Pleistocene Megafauna
Experimental soundscape composition created by Folkestone, UK, musicians Pleistocene Megafauna and artist, Sophie Wylie.
1rh 39' 23" Emily Doolittle — Crochet Tidepool Animation
Stop-motion animation of crocheted sea life by Scottish composer, textile artist and researcher, Emily Doolittle.
Emily has an ongoing research and musical interest in zoomusicology, the study of music-like aspects of animal songs. She has explored this in a compositions as well as in her doctoral dissertation at Princeton and in collaborative research with biologists and ornithologists.
1hr 40' 10" Lunatraktors — The Madness That Soothes
Music video by UK broken folk duo, Lunatraktors.
‘Broken folk’ duo LUNATRAKTORS (GB) fuse body percussion, harmonic singing, tap-dance and live looping to create dark, playful re-workings of the archive. Weaving traditional ballads with influences from contemporary music and theatre, Lunatraktors strip folk back to its raw elements to discover complex, polyrhythmic landscapes. We make installations and performances in galleries and elsewhere, knot together things and stories, and host workshops and events. Combining materials from folk music, performance art, experimental theatre, literature and philosophy, assemblage and drawing, LUNATRAKTORS search for new solutions to old problems, and old solutions to new ones.
1hr 42' 14" Red Clover. Bracken. Black Cohosh.
Film collaboration between UK-based Kay Elizabeth, Serena Bobowski and Catherine Maffioletti.
1hr 55' 03" Neha Misra — Sacred Tree Chants
Poetry by Washington DC-based eco-folk artist and poet, Neha Misra.
Neha Misra is a contemporary visual eco-folk artist, poet, and an award winning Climate Justice advocate with a deep belief in the power of human (re) imagination to create new realities.
Neha was born and raised in New Delhi, India. As an immigrant to the United States, the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area is her adopted home. Neha’s Earth Stewardship centered multi-disciplinary creative studio builds intertwined bridges between individual, collective, planetary healing. Her regenerative art practice has roots in the diverse eco-folk traditions, mythology, ancient knowledge, and colorful vibrancy of her Indian heritage. Her immigrant experience has been a catalyst for rediscovering and re-claiming this sacred tapestry. Neha’s education in Physics is the foundation for the mosaic of her work that explores the intersection of worlds - physical and metaphysical, complex and simple, old and new.
1hr 57' 37" Alexander Thomas — Symphony of Trees
Short live performance film by Portland-based musician and visual artist, Alexander Thomas.
Alexander Thomas is a musician and visual artist currently living in Portland, Oregon. He has been playing music, drawing, painting, and making short films since he was a wee lad growing up in Kansas City, MO. Since his move to Oregon in 2016, he has branched out in both music making and his approach to visual art. He is currently pursuing music production at Portland State University within the Sonic Arts and Music Production program, and is using his time outside of school to express himself creatively as much as possible. Alexander is in love with the world (Period. Full stop. All of it. He insists), and only hopes to spread that love and appreciation for life through his creative expression, whatever sound or shape it takes.
2hr 03' 12" Radiance Ensemble—O viridissima virga (O branch of freshest green), Shall We Gather at the River
O viridissima virga: Hildegard of Bingen (12th century), Shall We Gather at the River: traditional, arr. Lauren Kastanas. Radiance Ensemble is based in Seattle.
Radiance is a Seattle-based professional vocal ensemble specializing in the performance of American choral music. The group primarily focuses on performing contemporary works by living composers, including local Pacific Northwest composers. Radiance also performs music from the shapenote and Shaker traditions to celebrate and connect the roots of American choral music to contemporary works.
2hr 09' 26" Louis Möckel — Acoustiv Ecology
Dutch sound design and film project focused on the interspecies communication of ants via sound.
Louis Möckel is a designer, working on different ways of sensitizing nature. “I don't have a chosen medium, but focus on one medium per project. My methodology is to research one topic for several months and then translate that research into emotional information. My current project focuses on the interspecific communication of ants via sound. The communication of ants via pheromones is well researched, while their ability to also use sound is just about to gain attention amongst entomologists. One does not know how ants interpret their own auditive language, but it is assumed that the rhythm plays a crucial role in order to differentiate between different bits of information. As a Sound Designer I am translating recorded sounds of an ant-hive into rhythmic music as a speculative form of processing scientific information. One thing that entomology does not do is to emotionalize information about insects. To gain awareness towards ants and their role for ecosystems worldwide, I see an emotional connection to insects as important as the blank information, science gathers. Which role can music play to better understand how ants talk?”
2hr 17' 19" Patrycja Loranc — Fragments of Experience
UK experimental film exploring sensory experiences as a part of identity and a trigger for an altered state.
Inspired by sensory profiles and the neurodiversity paradigm, the film series treats sensory experiences as a part of identity and a trigger for an altered state. Absorption in the present experience, even an ordinary activity, considered a meditative state. Altered states of consciousness as transcendence, supporting cognitive and spiritual transformation and growth, continuous re-emergence in the true self. Learning what it means to be: through explorations of unique neural connections evident in associations of word and image, through thought and language, and the direct experience of Now, which allows to perceive things as they are. The work is created within my Psychedelic Practice - an intuitive practice based on absorption: simultaneous decision and action without a preconceived goal, a tool for mind-revelation. Non-linear, ever-continued Fragments of Experience study my subjective relationships with nature, spaces, and objects, as springboards to transpersonal experiences.
2hr 19' 24" Diana Shepherd — Tumbleweed
Dance performance in the American Southwest inspired by the dance of the tumbleweed.
Tumbleweeds are a plant associated with the Wild West of the United States of America. However, they are listed as a non-native plant to North America and were introduced through contaminated Russian flax seeds in the 1800's. Tumbleweeds are symbols of the desert, cowboys, loneliness and a transient lifestyle. After moving to the U.S. southwest from Europe in 2021, my obsession with tumbleweeds peaked during a 'tumbleweed' storm on the highway in Colorado. Their patterns of growing and movement are mesmerizing as they detach themselves from their only source of survival, their root system, are blown by the wind to old train tracks, fences and even into the occasional desert river. In taking inspiration from this plant, I was motivated to create a series of photos as well as improvisational movement sequences to western-inspired music in the outdoors. The circular shape was largely influential in both still and moving pictures, as well as the idea of a being without a home. This is a project inspired by the dance of the tumbleweed.
2hr 22' 59" Howard Haigh — Red Sands
The music was inspired by a dramatic storm in the Sierra Nevada, Andalucia, Spain.High up in the mountains I stayed in an out of season ski resort. It was hot and beautiful. The dry listless heat gradually took on a crackling intensity, the air pressure increased, the coming storm approached. When it started it was quite sudden. Heavy rain, dark in the early evening, and quickly built up, the wind became wild and soon the storm became ferocious. No one was outside - it wasn’t bearable. Being in a hotel built for harsh winters was the best place to be - it was a bit frightening outside. It was as if the mountain had been engulfed by a boiling sea. The next morning was quiet, still, warm and sunny. Outside, everything was covered in red sand. Buildings, vehicles, the ground. For a little while it was as if the whole place had been transformed into a red desert. The performance took place in Bentham, North Yorkshire. It was filmed by June Roberts. NEW VERSION - Creativity not destructivity! It is clearly a positive thing for practitioners, participants, and audiences in mutually enjoyable and engaging activities. The arts have given me a route through life quite different from that expected of me when I was young. The self-esteem, confidence and sense of community gained through shared artistic experiences has been invaluable.
2hr 25' 52" Katie Spencer — Edge of the Land
Live recorded performance by UK singer songwriter Katie Spencer made for our festival.
Edge of the Land is the title track to an album Katie released in May 2022, within which I explore the landscapes that surround me.
2hr 31' 07 ForRest
Pacific NW animated short film made in celebration of Earth Day 2022, by Marissa Leitch and Kristin Howe (ForRest) and collaborators.
Forrest is an ongoing collaboration between artists Marissa Leitch and Kristin Howe that explores the interconnectedness and causality in nature through a call-and-response process in which we choose a planetary theme that resonates, write, exchange, and respond to each other’s words visually.
Our work brings together poetry, photography, printmaking, painting, and other mediums to reflect on and celebrate earth’s wildness, and the ecosystems of resilience, beauty, interdependence, and cooperation that we, too, are part of.
Forrest is dedicated to and for rest—the state of being creatures of the earth, and the wellspring of self and connection discovered in the luxury of a quiet moment in nature, unattached to the time or tasks demanded of us by the modern world. We are living in a time where we are seeing our natural resources and spaces threatened, and in many places, dwindling. This is why we created Forrest, to slow down, to remember, to make changes in our lives and to fight towards a future where these natural wonders continue to exist.
2hr 45’ 14” Feminafrika
Florida-based percussion trio Feminafrika shares excerpts from recent performances.
FeminAfrika, an all-female percussion ensemble, invites the listeners to experience a musical journey while playing on the drums fiery rhythms from all around the world.
I’m a generative artist writing algorithms that describe natural phenomena. I study patterns and forms from the natural world and write mathematical equations that recreate them. Each equation accepts a multitude of parameters, and by choosing random parameters, my programs create many variations, ranging from highly abstract versions to impressively chaotic manifestations of the original idea.
All stories start in the forest, these paintings are about the longing for connection to the natural world.
I am graduate artist whose work responds to environmental issues. For the past 11 years my work has considered themes such as climate change, plastics and the loss of biodiversity. I work with a range of mediums and methods. Fundamental to my working practice is haptic material exploration. Research, experimentation and the taking of creative risks are essential components of my creative process. The outcomes result in sculptural pieces, installations, photography and films that consider environmental issues in ways that are intriguing and thought provoking.| These artworks focus on the upward trajectory of climate crisis graphs. Rising sea levels, CO2 emissions and global surface temperatures are all plotted here. My intention is to simplify the mass of scientific information by producing artworks that communicate in ways that arouse curiosity and conversation, conveying both the beauty and the terror of our changing world.
As an artist, Jillian Ballas gathers inspiration from the environment around her as well as the adventures she has had within it. Being lucky enough to grow up in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, her work is generally inspired by the experiences she has had exploring the wild landscapes of the west coast. This early exposure led her down a path that would shape who she would become and the artwork she would create. With the Cascade Mountains, Puget Sound, and the valleys in between as her muse, Ballas recreates the wonders she sees within each of them. Being deeply rooted to the natural landscapes around her, Ballas’ artwork focuses on the complex relationships between humanity and nature. Through her work, she hopes to study and discover the threads that connect us to nearby ecosystems. Her practice has recently evolved to be inquisitive about the notion of wilderness, questioning the definitions and symbolic meanings we place on nature in western culture. She does this by using her own perspectives and experiences as a starting point for reflection.
A branding and interactive designer, printmaker, and painter Liz has degrees from Columbia University in NYC (Visual Arts) and Pacific Northwest College of Art (Communication Design). She collaborates with her husband, composer Duncan Neilson, on their music project, Planetudes.
I make art to celebrate life, to heal, to initiate dialogue and connect with others, to facilitate community, and to honor my ancestors. Art is healing. I do not see my work as truly becoming art until another individual engages with it, bringing their personal experience and spirit to bear. Cherokee traditional values of helping each other, honoring the sacredness of spirit in all fellow beings guide me in life and my work. It is important for me to promote stewardship of the earth, plants and animals. I interface and contrast traditional areas of making with my western academic training. This presents important questions regarding aesthetics, notions of beauty and what is considered art and why. It raises questions about visuality and visibility and generates dialogue. Embracing tradition in my artwork teaches me and gives me a strong foundation to embrace change moving forward.
I intend each artwork I make to operate as a provocative invitation for the viewer to go past their mind’s normal conceptions while still maintaining their own relationship to mindfulness and looking. I have a studied experimental mode of making art; it is not aimed at perfection, but rather discovery. I want to communicate a feeling of extension beyond a plan or formula and paint and create mysteries that seem familiar.The contrasting interfaces that I present in my work provide visibility for my native heritage and culture and promotes an understanding of the multidimensionality of being a contemporary native person.
Emel Çevikcan reflects on the importance of nature and humanity through the symbiotic fluidity of watercolour and their controlled application of it. The harmony of subject and composition in the paintings is very important. The contradictions that people experience and the conversations that are sometimes hidden in their silence inspire the artist's work. Çevikcan also emphasises the hidden experiences within different communities. The artist compares their artwork to the secret garden's of individuals where the flowers are symbolic of their strength; persisting and flowering season after season. The artist actively participates in a variety of art and culture events abroad and within Turkey.
Nino Memanishvili
Lost Song - Nature, true nature, true understanding of nature, which we have long lacked, need to be revived in order to grow endlessly, to fill the atmosphere of the verse. - This is the basis of aesthetics. Not romantic gardens, sculpted faces and nightingales, but the entire planet, its geological history, a cosmos "containing all kinds of diversity and being nature itself." All this, with its moral and spiritual consciousness, is like great poetry, and thus saves itself from corruption, from descent. Poetry has two aspects: one is associated with the inner self, which gives the tone to its spiritual life, and the other with the outer world, cosmic and social existence. With presented project I try to combine and express the inner “poetry” of subjects, where subjects serve as a manifestation of beauty that lies above the visible and invisible world.
After a long period of drought and fires, the first rains cause a change. At that moment, the devastated mountain is enveloped in a transparent atmosphere charged with energy. It is the awakening of the mountain forest and its breath of life. The present project (in development) is concerned with capturing those vital moments and trying to refer the viewer to representative components of outer space.
The World Around Us - I try to showcase the personalities of animals so that when we see that our wildlife needs help we feel connected to them in a way that moves us towards action.
The idea for the Microcollection Museum came to Elisa Bollazzi, now its Director, in May 1990 when she was visiting the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and – almost by chance – picked up a few fragments that had accidentally fallen onto the floor from a fantastic work by Anish Kapoor.
These “micro-particles”, overlooked by everyone else, opened up a whole new world, an intuition of a new form of creation. They triggered a completely fresh approach to meandering in the international art circuits.
From then on the search was for new micro-acquisitions that would otherwise be trodden underfoot and chucked out with the rubbish, re-experiencing each time the magic of that first special moment of intuition, the creative act.
Microcollection now boasts hundreds fragments of contemporary artworks that Elisa Bollazzi and her spontaneous accomplices have saved from oblivion. The fragments are mounted on ordinary laboratory slides, and can be viewed under a microscope.
The collection constitutes a patrimony of considerable artistic and cultural worth, and the public seems to be showing increasing curiosity and appreciation of this new artistic experience.
I am a contemporary eco-folk artist, an immigrant poet, and an award winning climate justice advocate based in the Washington, DC metro region. My Earth stewardship centered multi-disciplinary studio uses the power of diverse art forms to foster private, collective, planetary healing. I am a 2022 Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis - an initiative of the OpEd project and Yale Climate Change Communication Program. I am also a part of the Design Science Studio - an initiative of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and habRitual for leading planet conscious artists. Above all, I am an ardent Natural Resonance Festival fan!I am a contemporary eco-folk artist, an immigrant poet, and an award winning climate justice advocate based in the Washington, DC metro region. My Earth stewardship centered multi-disciplinary studio uses the power of diverse art forms to foster private, collective, planetary healing. I am a 2022 Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis - an initiative of the OpEd project and Yale Climate Change Communication Program. I am also a part of the Design Science Studio - an initiative of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and habRitual for leading planet conscious artists. Above all, I am an ardent Natural Resonance Festival fan!
Sophie Stone is a sound artist and composer of experimental music based in Folkestone, UK. Her interests include: open notation, drone and ambient music, quiet music, improvisation, modes of listening, experiences of silence, environmental sound, longform music and collaboration.
Last Summer II (2022) is an audiovisual composition as part of a series of post-summer reflections which started in 2021. Last Summer II explores the emotions, memories, sounds and visuals from my soundwalks in the summer of 2022 in Folkestone, Kent.
Vincenzo Cohen is an Italian nature painter and photographer. He graduated in Painting at Fine Arts Academy and then he achieved the master degree in Archeology from La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. The path of the artist is mostly focused on the theme of nature and related environmental issues, since childhood. The artist is in fact involved in nature conservation and collaborates with different art galleries and Associations committed in the fight against climate change. Over the years his art has opened up to new experimental languages through an eclectic production with different media and styles.