NeuroArts Festival & Sound Garden at Olbrich Gardens | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

NeuroArts Festival & Sound Garden at Olbrich Gardens

Experience four days of interactive, immersive, and multisensory events at Olbrich Botanical Gardens from Wednesday, August 12 through Saturday August 15, including a two-day spatially composed Sound Garden installation by composer and NeuroArtist JG Everest. The NeuroArts Festival will have a variety of programming centered on deepening audiences’ connection with the natural environment and with their Madison community, including participatory art workshops, sound installations within the Gardens, and collaborations with local performance groups. All events are free and open to the public; workshops will require advance registration. No prior experience necessary. This event was organized by the community curation project, LAB^4.


Sound Garden with JG Everest:
•Friday, August 14, 1:00-8:00pm
•Saturday, August 15, 10:00am-6:00pm


Workshops:
•Wednesday, August 12, 5:00–7:00pm: Poems in Place | a poetry in nature workshop with Aurora Shimshak | requires free registration (12 spots)

•Thursday, August 13, 5:00–7:00pm: Spatial Sound & Music Workshop with Human Wind Chimes | requires free registration (20 spots)

•Saturday August 15, 10:00am-12:00pm: Woven Moments: An Embodied Practice | a weaving & meditation workshop with Mo Oberman | requires free registration (10 spots)

Composer / Director / Historian JG Everest is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersections of engagement, ecology, history, and the emerging field of NeuroArts through a variety of collaborative place-making practices. He creates site-specific performance installations that connect the histories, ecology, and cultures of places and communities, using spatial sound design as an integral compositional element. He has worked as music director and sound designer, as well as performer for many projects and performing ensembles, including over a decade each with Catalyst Dance and Roma di Luna. He regularly designs and leads integrative workshops and classes that connect participants to community, their own creativity, and the natural world, through a variety of disciplines and practices. He has brought his... Read More

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