HR!Day655 - Feast of Losses: Poetry and Music in Honor of Grief - Kim Rosen & Jami Sieber
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- Jami Sieber (composer, cellist) and Kim Rosen (spoken word artist) have created a transformative convergence of music and poems that emerge from the heartbreak, gratitude and wake-up call of this moment in our lives and in the life of our world. The words of Langston Hughes, Stanley Kunitz, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Lucille Clifton, W.S. Merwin, Deena Metzger, Mark Nepo, Yehuda Amichai, and Mary Oliver, spoken by Kim, rise and fall in the evocative waves of Jami’s original music. This unique creation, born of 21 years of collaboration between Jami and Kim, masterfully merges the power of music to melt the heart with the medicine of poetry to open the mind. The spoken voice moves through multiple layers of music to create an immersive soundscape that moves from heartbreak to humor, from contemplation to foot-stomping celebration. Jami and Kim have been facilitating explorations of the difficult, necessary themes of aging, death and waking up for many years. This offering is a culmination of their shared love of the realness, rawness and intimacy that arises when we turn towards all levels of letting go. In this moment in history, every one of us has been touched and changed by the personal, societal, and planetary changes we are undergoing. Feast of Losses is a balm and a challenge to the growing population of those consciously turning towards aging, death and letting go. In the last few years there has been a burgeoning of lively conversations, conferences and publications on the themes of aging, letting go and death - accelerated by the multitude of Baby Boomers approaching their later years and wanting to create a new way of meeting the challenges and blessings in the final chapters of life. The magic of Jami's immersive, layered, evocative, and at times, orchestral music in resonance with the poems offer a portal of healing, inspiration and awakening.
- Kim Rosen, M.F.A., has awakened listeners around the world to the power of poetry to heal, connect and disarm individuals and communities. She is a poet, spoken word artist, ritualist, and guide of inner exploration. Her current passion is weaving poetry, music, teaching and self-inquiry to invite us to turn towards aging, death and letting go. Her recent audio release, Feast of Losses, is a collaboration on the same theme with cellist Jami Sieber, with whom Kim has co-created several previous albums. She is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words (Hay House, 2009) and her writing has been published in The Sun Magazine, O Magazine,The Texas Review and Spirituality and Health Magazine among others. In 2007, she spoke a poem to a group of Maasai girls who had fled FGM and Early Childhood Marriage, and that moment became the seed of the Safe House Education (S.H.E.) Fund, (www.shecollegefund.org), which sends rescued Maasai girls in Kenya to college.
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
75 Participants
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