The Land Speaks Community Folk Opera

An immersive, interactive exploration of this region’s colonialist history

We will be telling our story as though the land is speaking, telling all that the mountains and trees have witnessed.

Amanda West and Sarah MacEwan will teach us their songs. David Stockhausen will interweave ritual and practices that help us to open and move through all the feelings that may arise. We will take support of each other in compassionate community and we have the land to ground us.

Content warning: we will be talking about ecocide, genocide, violence and harm. We will also be offering space and practices to metabolize the grief and pain which comes with facing these.

Facilitators: Amanda West AMANDA WEST is a song catcher/writer, ritualist, community leader, mother and ever-evolving human. In a lifetime devoted to music and healing, she has brought song to the thresholds of birth and death, life rituals, spiritual centers, community gatherings, album recordings, festivals and performances throughout the West Coast and parts of Europe. She understands our world to be full of both collapse and possibility, and is passionate about cultivating resilience and hope during this time of collective re-birthing on planet earth. www.amandawest.com

Sarah MacEwan:Sarah MacEwan (she/her), aka The Singing Therapist, is on a mission to heal and be healed through creative self-expression. As a psychotherapist, singer, storyteller and grief-tender, Sarah brings her open heart and emotional expertise to every circle she leads, knowing that singing is a therapeutic experience like no other. Sing with her at her Singing Heals Song Circles, or join her for the healing at www.healingishappening.com

David Stockhausen: David Stockhausen is a grief tender, core-shamanic practitioner, trauma-trained coach, and men's leader. www.pdavidstockhausen.com

Narrator: Celia Hursey : Celia has been a lifelong seeker for peace and justice, currently an ally of the Amah Mutsun Tribe, a practitioner in the Thich Nhat Hanh spiritual tradtion, a practioner of Kaza Haga's Fierce Vulnerabilty.