Celebration of Zena: An Immersive Forest Experience
About this Event
Join us for a celebration of our beloved Zena Highwoods through an evening of immersive sounds and sights from our local forest. Featuring the premiere of interdisciplinary sound artist Zaneta Sykes’ Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods, an eco-ritual of reciprocity based on the artist’s Filipinx traditions of singing to land in offering. Community members will be immersed in a year of forest soundscapes recorded on the solstices and equinoxes in the Zena Highwoods, interwoven with projections of wildlife illustrations by Zoe Keller, documented during the same time period in the very same forest. Soundscapes and sightings will blend into the autumnal night chorus, as the community gathers under the full moon to sing back to the land in a full circle exchange of listening and sound between human and more-than-human kin.
As a focal point of connection to the forest, there will be an art altar space. Community members are welcome to bring items to place on the altar, such as flowers, art, and poetry - offerings of beauty and gratitude for our local wilderness.
A panel discussion on the Power of Community Art and Science in Local Stewardship will begin the evening, with Miranda Javid of the Woodstock Land Conservancy, local artist and Woodstock native Zoe Keller, and interdisciplinary sound artist and nature recordist Zaneta Sykes.
This evening also marks the release of Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods, an album and book documenting the Zena Highwoods in a year of seasonal recordings and writings by Zaneta Sykes and featuring illustrations by Zoe Keller, created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy. Signed copies of the work will be available.
Enoki Catskills will be offering cozy fare, inspired by Filipinx cuisine and locally foraged.
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