Immersive Evening: Making Life From The Dark

What a time to be alive.

Each day we face the news of climate chaos, political warfare, species extinction, and ecological and social suffering, and we are asked to reconcile these collective traumas with all that is breaking in our hearts.

It is natural in our time to experience despair, overwhelm, and grief. To want better for our world and our children.

In such dark times, the world will teach us how to love her, how to make life of her aching body, to collaborate with the great powers that are still alive. And to learn, as Joanna Macy has asked us for five decades, to practice becoming unafraid of our pain for the world, for that pain might itself be integrity trying to come back into living systems.

To abandon private salvation and take refuge in the ecosystems of healing still alive in our world.

Immersive Evening: Making Life From The Dark with Lydia Violet

Friday, October 18th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

20 S West Temple, SLC, UT 84101

Opening Poet: TBA

Live Music: TBA

Featured Artist: Linda Dalton Walker

Schedule:

6:30 – 7:00 pm: Live Music & Art Mingle

7:00 – 8:30 pm: Immersive Talk with Lydia Violet

8:30 – 9:00 pm: Community Social

TICKETS: $15 Advance Tickets | $20 Same Day, if available (Free for Members)

1.5 CEUs available for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)

Connect within an open community as we explore the cultivation of spirit and soul. We hope to see you there!

Interested in this topic? Join us for the companion Depth Workshop on Saturday!

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About Lydia Violet:

Lydia Violet Harutoonian is an Iranian-Armenian-American facilitator-scholar, grief-worker, and folk multi-instrumentalist who has studied dedicatedly and worked with deep ecology elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 15 years, learning how we can metabolize planetary despair, anxiety, and community traumas into energy for resilience, action, and community healing.

She founded and runs The School for The Great Turning, which creates access to an education that will empower humanity's life-sustaining legacy. In her music she weaves together her songwriting, folk standards, Iranian ballads, 3-part harmonies, fiddle, banjo, and collective singing into an altar of music to lay at our feet.

She is the creator behind Singing the Bones, a course with Leah Song of Rising Appalachia, and a music project that brings American artists together to explore and share folk music from their ancestries, encouraging cultural revitalization and diasporic healing. She has engaged in vibrant collaborations with world-renowned artists Climbing PoeTree, Rising Appalachia, MaMuse, and Lyla June.

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Generously supported by our season sponsors: Goldenbraid Books, The Nomad Literary Magazine, Vivia Baldwin, and Amanda Butler

Thank you to our in-kind partners: Kings Peak Coffee Roasters & Full Circle Yoga & Therapy

Host or Publisher Jung Society of Utah