Currents: Summer Solstice Gathering on Oceans, Art & Regenerative Investing

Join us for an immersive summer solstice evening at Montcalm exploring the intersection of ocean regeneration, art, and impact investing.

Through conversation, visual art, music, and light, we will gather to reflect on some of the most important questions of our time: how do we restore our relationship with the living systems that sustain us and what role can capital, creativity, and community play in that future?

The evening will feature the Reef Revival collection by internationally acclaimed artist Layla Love, designed to raise awareness about the urgent need to protect coral reefs while supporting the vital marine ecosystem regeneration work of The Global Coralition. We will also hear from leaders in ocean-focused impact investing, including Superorganism, exploring emerging opportunities at the frontier of ocean innovation and regenerative finance. We'll end the evening with an immersive projection art show by Android Jones.

Designed as both a celebration and a conversation, this intimate summer solstice gathering brings together investors, artists, founders, and visionaries around the beauty, fragility, and future of our oceans.

FEATURING:

• Inspiring discussion of the Global Coralition's marine ecosystem regeneration work
• Curated collection of Layla Love's Reef Revival artwork highlighting 'Re-Wilding - Love Letters to the Sea'
• Live music/violinist
• Live light-mapping showcase by Android Jones (7:45pm light show)
• Light hors d'oeuvres' and beverages

About The Global Coralition

The Global Coralition combines art, science, and community to regenerate our precious marine ecosystems. Their underwater sculptures installations create coral restoration and ecotourism sites, catalyzing ecosystem regrowth and local and international awareness. Their holistic ridge-to-reef approach recognizes the interconnection between ecosystems; from river headwaters, wetlands, and lagoons to coral reefs and marine areas. This science-based strategy integrates marine protection, coral farming, mangrove restoration, ecotourism, and community development.

About Layla Love

Layla Love is an internationally acclaimed artist with more than 100 global exhibitions, including Paris Photo, Art Basel, and AIPAD, and has shown her work alongside masters such as Picasso, Warhol, and Basquiat. Love uses precious metals like 24K gold and pure Voltarra silver amongst other avant materials like ancient woods or mycelium as to portray the intricacies of our existence, with many critical layering details, going beyond what meets the eye. She has traversed all walks of life, beginning as a photojournalist working in conflict zones across Africa and beyond, touring the world, and voicing the voiceless. Her 'Art Paired With Purpose' bridges documentary, abstraction, and material experimentation, creating an inspiring art language and practice. Find more insight about her Global Coralition reef work here and her extraordinary techniques here.

About Light Mapping

Light mapping is an immersive projection technique where large-scale imagery and light are cast across surfaces — buildings, landscapes, even ocean environments — transforming them into living, breathing works of art that stop people in their tracks and make the invisible visible. Through the Reef Revival Arts & Cultural Showcase, Layla Love harnesses this medium to project the hidden beauty and fragility of our ocean ecosystems onto the world stage, using art as the entry point that moves hearts first, so minds and action follow.

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