Y3K Awakening - Celebrating spring with 4 earth-inspired music, dance, talk events
4:30– Waking Up The Five Agents Jazz Ensemble and Dance performance by UMass Amherst jazz dancers with Lauren Cox
5:30– Elements: Ripple Effects with Evan MacCarthy and Marjorie Rubright
6:00– Landscape of Fear with saxophonists Jonathan Hulting-Cohen and Pantelis Lykoudis
6:30– Ghost Ensemble performs Plant Life Recounted Here (Miya Masaoka) & In Consideration of the Earth (Pauline Oliveros)
Eric Hofbauer and The Five Agents Jazz Ensemble performs their new recording, Waking Up, which is inspired by the young climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a speech at the UN Summit for Climate Action, in which she declared, “How dare you!” This will be accompanied by a dance performance by UMass Amherst jazz dancers with Lauren Cox.
At 5:30 Evan MacCarthy and Marjorie Rubright from The Renaissance of the Earth will present Ripple Effects: Reflections on Water in Story and Sound. Part of the multi-year arts and humanities project, Elements.
Close to 6, there will be a saxophone performance with Jonathan Hulting-Cohen and Pantelis Lykoudis called Landscape of Fear, by Marcos Balter.
The evening will end with the atmospheric performance of Ghost Ensemble, who will present– Plant Life Recounted Here (Miya Masaoka), and In Consideration of the Earth (Pauline Oliveros).
Refreshments served at 5:30.
SPONSORS + PARTNERS:SPONSORS: UMass Faculty Research Grant, School of Earth and Sustainability, Renaissance of the Earth, Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies