TLI Presents: Changing States — An Arts and Ecology Symposium
Concert Admission
Admission to the symposium is free but requires reserving a ticket. Upon clicking the ticket reservation link, you will also have the option to add on a boxed lunch, the 7pm postWinterreise concert, or both the boxed lunch and 7pm postWinterreise concert to your ticket.
TLI Presents: Changing States — An Arts and Ecology Symposium
Free and open to the public, Changing States is a symposium that will bring together members of the public, artists, scientists, local leaders, thinkers, and those who do not fit cleanly into categories to explore what's possible when artistic and scientific processes combine to confront a changing climate.
Sat, Apr 25
Attendees Arrive
Attendees Arrive
Welcome and Keynote (Anne Therese Gennari, "The Climate Optimist")
Welcome and Keynote (Anne Therese Gennari, "The Climate Optimist")
Facilitated session on the grounds of Tanglewood (weather permitting).
Facilitated session on the grounds of Tanglewood (weather permitting).
Workshop Session 1: Observing Phenomena
Workshop Session 1: Observing Phenomena
Lunch
Lunch
Walking Ecology of Sound Session (Nicaela Haig, Mass Audubon)
Walking Ecology of Sound Session (Nicaela Haig, Mass Audubon)
Workshop Session 2: Engaging Creative Process
Workshop Session 2: Engaging Creative Process
Workshop Session 3: Taking Action
Workshop Session 3: Taking Action
Closing Reflections
Closing Reflections
World Premiere of "postWinterreise"
World Premiere of "postWinterreise"
About
The symposium features an opening keynote by Anne Therese Gennari, author of The Climate Optimist, whose work and words endeavor to transform climate anxiety into actionable optimism. Gennari’s keynote will be followed by a series of workshops offered over the course of the day which strive to facilitate participants through the stages of Observation, Creative Process, and Taking Action. Throughout, participants will have ample opportunity to connect with one another and with the grounds of Tanglewood (through a series of grounding sessions that connect the symposium’s concepts with the natural landscape, weather permitting).
Curated by Andrew Munn, RR Sigel, and Laura Sheinkopf, Changing States has been planned and will be presented in collaboration with Mass Audubon, with sessions led by Jennifer Tafe (Museum of American Bird Art, Mass Audubon), Will Conklin (Greenagers), Paula Matthusen (composer, Wesleyan College), Sarah Moon (Write Your Roots, Roger Williams College), and many more.
The symposium day culminates in the world premiere of postWinterreise, which unfolds with(in) a cyclical sound environment — a sculptural sound installation in which melting ice, flowing water, found objects, metal, and wood bodies resonate and transform the sound of live voice and piano as they navigate the fragmentation of Schubert’s score. In postWinterreise, music, sound, ice, and water are cyclically linked in a dramaturgy of environmental and physical transformation — asking who we will become in a world where winter itself is becoming a memory.
