Oct. 28 @ 10 a.m. – TEMPEST: Art/Environment Symposium

We will dig into how the arts can engage us with closer listening, historical exploration into the roots of our environmental crisis, and offer us a mirror not only for looking backwards, but inward and toward a transformed future as well. 

Join us for the entire day or individual events. Come and hear… 

• Chilean poet Christian Formoso read from his masterpiece The Most Beautiful Cemetery in Chile and reflect on the legacy of the Strait of Magellan as it shaped 500 years of history.
• Environmental historian Ellen Arnold discuss early European visions of the love of nature, as set against the exploitation of the planet in the 15^th, 16^th, and 17^th centuries and beyond.
• Musician Jim Bates—director of the Early Interval ensemble—look at the music of that time, in light of those same questions.
• Camilla Querin, scholar of Brazilian political art, explore works engaging ecological destruction and contemporary pieces from indigenous artists.
• Sarah Hahn, Visiting Artist at Ohio Wesleyan, discuss the sculpture she is creating for campus around themes of sustainability.
• French-American artist Cadine Navarro involve us with listening to the voices of prairie seeds, as well as her new exploration of “the voices of maize” in Mexico.
• Join in a collaborative game shaping an exploratory map to trace out and experience what those 500 years have meant.
• A closing performance of TEMPEST, with music from Early Interval, played on period instruments (and a wind machine!) with contemporary poems from the Tempest Poets, a group of environmentally-oriented writers based in Central Ohio. Poetry books available for sale after the show.