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Join us at Graveside Variety for a mixed media collage workshop from Sophie Chambers at 5PM, followed by an evening of music from Seth Glier at 7PM. Ticket is valid for both events.
SETH GLIER
The earth speaks to us in a myriad of ways, through ice cores, through uplift and erosion, through tree rings, languages we have the potential to restore our literacy in. Reconnecting with these quiet messages has set Seth Glier, an avid mushroom forager and a Grammy-nominated artist from Western Massachusetts, on a path of channeling natures longing for communion with humanity into song. His new album Everything is a collection of eight songs inviting us to imagine a future in which humans and the planet are re-aligned into mutual restoration.
Each song presents a practical climate solution with concrete optimism.What if this is the beginning, not the beginning of the end, the album opens with bristling energy and hope on Rise, an anthem about rewilding. Finally Home is a celebration of regenerative farming with driving doo wop vocal harmony. Mammoth, written from the perspective of a wooly mammoth being brought back to life from frozen DNA, invites us to consider the blip of human history against billions of years of evolution. The albums guest stars Crys Matthews, Hayley Reardon, and Windborne elevate the record with surprise from the stark choir arrangement of Birches recorded a capella in an old church to My Body Remembers, a flowing meditation on the transmission of healing, EMDR & The Language of Trees. The albums title track was inspired by an experience Seth had while foraging. When I picked up the chantarelle mushroom and brought it towards my nose I first smelled sweet apricot and then my spine straightened suddenly. The feeling was like déjà vu. It was a first time, yet somewhere inside of me I had done this once before. I was reconnecting to a knowledge I had already known. The album is an acknowledgement of the sacred connections that exist between all living things and is an active questioning of what might be possible collectively. Everything is a reminder that the future is something we always have an influence over.
Seths gifts are an innate curiosity and a fierce desire to connect with other people. His musical acumen provides him with a vehicle for both. He has worked as a cultural diplomat for the US State Department and collaborated with musicians in Ukraine, Mongolia, China, and Mexico. Seth has shared the bill with a diverse list of artists ranging from the likes of Ronnie Spector, James Taylor, Ani DiFranco, & Glen Campbell. As a producer, music director, or studio musician he has collaborated with Sophie B. Hawkins, Tom Rush, Antje Duvekot, Richard Shindell, Doctora Qingona, Dar Williams, Nick Carter, & Cyndi Lauper. Seth is a five-time Independent Music Award winner and received a Grammy nomination for his album The Next Right Thing. With a commitment to using songwriting as a tool for positive change, he has written with the students in Parkland, FL for the Parkland Project, cowritten with soldiers at Walter Reed, and is an advocate for autism awareness citing his autistic brother Jamie as his greatest non-musical-musical influence.
SOPHIE CHAMBERS
Sophie Chambers is a mixed media collage artist living in Holyoke, Massachusetts on the unceded territory of the Nipmuc and Pocumtuc nations. A native New Englander, Sophies creative locus is the forest in all its many layers. Art has been an important companion and outlet throughout Sophies life, but it was in the summer of 2022 that she gave herself permission to invest more intentionally in her creative practice. When she sits down to collage, it is always a process of discovering what will emerge from the materials. These days, it is the climate crisis and accompanying anxiety that finds its way onto her page with increasing regularity. Sophies work is not always autobiographical, but it is rooted in truth.
In this workshop, Sophie will demonstrate methods to layer and weave found materials (mostly magazines and other forms of paper)* to create poetic compositions that speak to sociopolitical issues, especially climate anxiety. Most importantly, she will provide an invitation for the participant to explore whatever it is that needs to come out. Sophie finds that through the process of making art, we can often shift from a place of despair and overwhelm to a place of hope and generativity. Sophie believes this is an important piece of building a larger movement that is transformational, regenerative, and strategic in its resistance of the status quo. In the words of Toni Cade Bambara, the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.
*Note: participants are encouraged to bring any magazines, pieces of paper, photographs, or other collaging materials that they are interested in using.
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LocationGraveside Variety (View)
33 Rock City Road
Woodstock , NY 12498
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: Yes! |
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| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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