The Chapel in the Hive

Experience The Chapel in the Hive, a live performance by poet and scholar Joseph Campana and composer and performer Kurt Stallmann. Inspired by a multidisciplinary exploration of environmental issues with a specific focus on biodiversity and multispecies worlds, Campana and Stallmann consider the sacred character of nature through the powerful but diminutive figure of the honeybee. This collaborative work draws on stories, proverbs, and parables from different traditions to ask: if a chapel can really fit in a hive what would it sound like? What does Orpheus have to do with bees? Is anger like a honey-coated knife? And, in an age of environmental turmoil, can nature still be miraculous?

Organized in conjunction with the Moody's spring exhibition, Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, this free and public performance underscores the potent exchange of science and art within desperate branches of environmental research. Presented in the round at the Moody's Lois Chiles Studio Theater, The Chapel in the Hive will be followed by a Q&A discussion with the audience, see schedule below.

6:00 - 6:45: Performance
6:45 - 7:15: Panel discussion with creators poet Joseph Campana and composer Kurt Stallman, in dialogue with exhibiting artist and fourth-generation beekeeper Garnett Puett
7:15 - 8:00: Reception with light refreshments

Host or Publisher Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University