TITLE: Lifesongs Project
SPEAKERS: Molly Sturges, Acushla Bastible and Zevin Polzin
LOCATION: Wed, Oct 20, 12:30p Santa Fe Complex
ABSTRACT: Lifesongs began in 2007 and is founded on the belief that
art-making with people in times of transition has the power to inspire
a sense of human dignity and create a strong experience of shared
humanity.
Founding Artistic Director: Molly Sturges
Project Director/Artist: Andrea Walters
Stage Director/Artist: Acushla Bastible
Additional Lifesongs Artists: Valerie Martinez, Jason Jaacks, Zevin
Polzin, Henry Shukman, Ilana Kirschbaum, Jeff Brown, Frederick Friahm,
Charles Gamble
A project of Littleglobe and The Santa Fe Opera Community Engagement
Program, Lifesongs is an arts-in-community project facilitating the
creation of original musical works by people in nursing homes and
hospice care. Participants work with NM composers, musicians, visual
artists, and writers to create new pieces to be performed by local
musicians and choirs including Young Voices of The Santa Fe Opera,
Dolce Suono of the University of New Mexico; and Your Song, a
threshold choir.
Lifesongs specializes in the capacity to meet people where they feel
comfortable and seeks to provide a safe environment in which each
person is truly witnessed. Each piece is created from an in-depth
collaborative process in which participants are able to identify and
express something of meaning in their lives. Most of the participants
begin by stating they are not Òmusical.Ó Through gentle writing,
drawing and craft exercises, emotional stimulation through music--midi
keyboard, sonic computer programs, and acoustic instruments--
facilitating artists are able to draw authentic, meaningful responses
from the participant artists that, over time, take shape in musical
pieces. Lifesongs have included songs of love, homages to family and
friends, contemplations, and simple prayers for freedom and peace.
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