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The “Listening with Water” initiative is intended to facilitate exchanges of knowledges about water in Wyoming to replenish understandings of our planet’s lifeblood. In concert with the international Dear Body of Water project and facilitated by Neltje Interdisciplinary Arts Fellow Gretchen Ernster Henderson, this initiative will engage arts-based methods to grow conversations toward collaborative care for watersheds and the unique role water plays in all aspects of Western life.
”Listening with Water” brings Wyomingites together to reflect on our relationship with water and the ways it flows through Wyoming’s collective histories, shapes present practices, and offers a wellspring of future possibilities.
This event is free - registration is closed.
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A musician by training, Gretchen is interested in acoustic ecologies and communal practices of listening, meditation, and processes that sound the gaps of cultural and institutional histories, to facilitate participatory spaces for exchanging knowledges and renewing ways of knowing to collectively support our human and more-than-human world.
Michaele Shapiro (MA) is grateful to her kindred water allies: Piney Creek, Goose Creek, Clear Creek, Meadowlark Lake, Lake Union, Quartermaster Harbor, Lake Washington, Mud Bay, the Elwha, the Pacific, Lake Casitas, the Mississippi, Lake Pontchartrain, il Tevere, and the Giudecca canal.
Listen to snippets of an interview Trosper gave to the Matheson trust covering many different topics related to the Native American spirituality and worldview.