Weaving Stories
Sharing Creativity
Gathering Community
Seeing one another.
Storytelling is the art of public remembering. Sharing stories in community is a ritual act of connecting to something deep inside each of us. It’s a way to honor our shared belonging to one another and the Earth.
I am a storytelling convener.
I bring people together to share life through story,
song, collective creation, and relationship building.
A collective of ecologists, storytellers, and artists
We gather for festivals of storytelling, ecological teaching, learning traditional ritual practices, connecting with local volunteer opportunities with conservation organizations. As an organization built on relationships, we seek to reveal the web of life that is already interconnecting the human community and the rest of the natural world.
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Storytelling and Song in the Skagit Valley
Burlington Lutheran Church
October 19, 2024
Grace Alexander and I will collaborate with friends from the Upper Skagit tribe to share an afternoon of story, song, and conversation. The gathering will include the premiere of part of my new work, Onagracea, for violin and piano.
Plan a storytelling festival in your own community!
EarthStory is looking for communities interested in creating their own storytelling festivals to connect with the Earth. We want to hear your story!
Collaborating Artists
Robert Hasselblad, poet
tsi sq́ʷalʔalq́ʷal, storyteller, Upper Skagit Elder
Charis Weathers, Pastor, Burlington Lutheran Church
Image courtesy of Unsplash.
Previous Storytelling Gatherings
EarthStory Inaugural Festival
Mountain View, CA
September 14, 2024
I am leading a team that is working to co-create a community open-house and storytelling festival to honor the land of the midpeninsula. We will have artists and storytellers from around the Bay Area sharing about their connection with the land and inviting the community to remember their own shared belonging to the Earth.
We Speak, We Listen, We Receive
a collaboration between Spiritus Novus and the St. Olaf Lutheran Center
A partnership between an interfaith organization and a creative choral arts community engendered a storytelling space. Storytellers, singers, poets, spiritual leaders, and chamber musicians gathered to share life in community.
Cottage Lake Interfaith Partners Choral Festival
Coming together from across the Cottage Lake Community, neighbors from different faiths gathered to sing for one another, share stories, and join as one voice in an all-community sing.
Storytelling and Song
with Tesfa Wondemagegnehu
Repair work is brave, honest, and slow. It requires storytelling that challenges our minds and opens our hearts. The stories are found in the eyes, faces, and hands of every beloved human being. Our shared brokenness is emblematic of our inseparability from one another. We begin to heal when we share the Love that moves through us and binds our wounds. This work happens in word and song.
Photo by Steve Garcia.
Spiritus Novus: a community of composers, singers, poets, and dreamers
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We Speak, We Listen, We Receive: A Storytelling Festival
A partnership between an interfaith organization and a creative choral arts community engendered a storytelling space. Storytellers, singers, poets, spiritual leaders, and chamber musicians gathered to share life in community.
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Where Life is Found: A COVID Response
This music video was produced in collaboration with composers, visual artists, film makers, and singers as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The journey of the video was reflective of the human journey that we shared throughout the perilous moments of the pandemic.
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The Music of the Void: Expressions of Wonder, Fear, and Light
Artists gathered to celebrate the first image captured of the Powhei Black Hole. Composers, dancers, singers, actors, digital artists, and poets gathered to offer their creative expressions of wonder, awe, fear, tenderness, and light in an act of creative power.