In the arts,聽listen to the Chamber Singers and University聽Chorale perform music from the Baltic state in their winter quarter concert, join poet Shin Yu Pai in a creative writing workshop, engage in a discussion on art, education, and the restoration of the Elwha Rivier, and聽watch the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan perform “Formosa” (“beautiful island”)
Chamber Singers and University Chorale
7:30 p.m., March 2聽|聽Meany Theater
The Chamber Singers and University Chorale perform music from the Baltic states in their winter quarter concert, presented in collaboration with the 91探花Baltic Studies Program. Highlights include Jaakko Mantyjarvi鈥檚聽Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae聽and other works.
Writing Workshop: The Moment Before the Image
1:00 p.m., March 4聽|聽Henry Art Gallery
Join us for an afternoon of creative writing at the Henry led by poet Shin Yu Pai. Explore the ways that text can help navigate, capture, and create new experiences with visual and multi-sensory works of art. Participants will conduct poetic investigations in the galleries and take home drafts of new poems inspired by works of art from The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection.
Un-dammed: Reflections on Art, Education, and Restoration of the Elwha River with Jamie Valadez, Eirik Johnson, and Langdon Cook
1:00 p.m.,聽March 10 |聽Henry Art Gallery
In 2011, the removal of the Elwha River Dam began after decades of tribal activism and an act of Congress. Forover a century, the dam, constructed in 1910 wreaked havoc on the ecosystem and violated the treaty rights of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. Since the removal of the Elwha River Dam and the nearby Glines Canyon Dam, the waters and land of this region have come back to life, salmon numbers have been steadily increasing, and important cultural sites of the Klallam people have been unearthed. What is there to learn from this historical moment of change? What led to this moment and what has followed?
Experts will share their experiences as they relate to each of their fields in art, writing, food, and education. Together,聽we will investigate the successes and lessons learned from this historic project.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
8:00 p.m.,聽March 22 – 24 | Meany Theater
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is renowned for transforming ancient aesthetic traditions into stunning modern celebrations of movement. Founder Lin Hwai Min, widely considered the most important choreographer in Asia, returns to Seattle with his company to perform his newest work,聽贵辞谤尘辞蝉补听(鈥渂eautiful island鈥�). Using gesture, script, song and other elements from the landscape and history of his native Taiwan, Lin and his dancers create a lustrous, transfigured realm of abstract beauty born of land and lore.