The symbol * marks ongoing performances
Canyon Meadow
* Welcome Station – Information Booth
11:00 AM Opening Ceremony with Maracatu Pacifico – Brazilian Music and Dance
11:30 AM International Human Color Wheel – Dance 4 Positivity / participatory
12:45 PM Maracatu Pacifico – Northeastern Brazilian Music and Dance
2:00 PM On 3 Dance Company – Harm Me Not / dance, poetry, and music
3:30 PM Christopher Allen & Friends – A Family Friendly Improv / participatory
5:00 PM Closing Ceremony with Wolfthump – Samba Drumline Music & Dance
Redwood Gallery
* Bret Arenson / visual art installation
* Carter Brooks – Ice Sculpture / installation #1
* Lisa Schenkelberg – LifeForms Ceramic Art
* Marybeth Tereszkiewicz – Tiens, 天 Tian! / visual art installation
* Sabrina Mammarella / visual art installation
* Takako Matoba / visual art installation
* Victoria Chong Der, Jennifer Ling, Della Watson – Famous Works of Nature
* Zach Pine – ‘Create with Nature’ Zone / interactive, participatory
11:30 AM Charming Hostess: Book of J – Radical Jewish Culture / music
11:50 AM Women With Options and Chinese Melodrama – Whole Body Listening Experience
12:00 PM Bonnie Wailee Kwong, Marybeth Tereszkiewicz / visual art, dance, music, and poetry
1:30 PM Cornelius Shinzen Boots – The Texture of Suchness: Zen shakuhachi flute
2:00 PM Sweet Medicine: Emily Lewis & Naia Jess Graham / Sacred Music
3:00 PM Eve Chosak with Interfaith Group Song – Community Song and Meditation
3:20 PM Bonnie Wailee Kwong, Marybeth Tereszkiewicz / visual art, dance, music, and poetry
X-Stream
* Raheleh Minoosh Zomorodinia Intervene in Nature
11:00 AM Heather Magic! – Living in the Miraculous!
12:00 PM Bret Arenson – Live Ecstatic Drawing Demonstration
12:30 PM Bret Arenson / Solo Acoustic Jazz Guitar Performance
1:00 PM Heather Magic! – Living in the Miraculous!
3:00 PM Heather Magic! – Living in the Miraculous!
Orchard Meadow
* Ecological Expressive Arts – Ecological Awareness Through The Arts / Workshop
* John Coveney – Arch-itecture / visual art installation
11:30 AM Deena Levy – Circle Singing in Nature / participatory
12:00 PM Athletic Playground – AcroYoga, Slackline, Hooping / participatory
12:30 PM Evelie Posch & Friends – Circle Chanting and Dancing / participatory
1:15 PM Xochipilli & Associates – Papalotl Garden II / Metamorphosis
2:00 PM Wolfthump – Samba Drumline Dance Music from Chico
2:30 PM Quantum Martial Arts / participatory
2:45 PM Scarlet Crow – ReWeaving The Mythos / interactive, participatory
3:45 PM Hiroko & Koichi Tamano’s EarthChild Butoh Dance – 4 Directions Life Dance
4:20 PM Dancers from Soul Sanctuary Dance – Dance Flow with Self, Others, and Spirit/Nature
Wholly H2O
* Carter Brooks – Ice Sculpture / installation #2
* Christina Bertea, Elizabeth Dougherty – Vortex magic
* James Wheaton “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
* Lauren Elder – Fish Mask Making / participatory
* Leo Madrid, Elizabeth Dougherty, John Macher – Quantum Entanglement Fountain and Water Altar
* Lisa Schenkelberg – LifeForms Ceramic Art / visual art installation
* Michelle Wilson – Cast Paper Sculptures of Rainbow Trout / installation
* Promise Flags / interactive, participatory visual art
* Venessa “Agna” Espinoza – Painting Water / participatory
11:00 AM Fermenting Citizens – The Wild What / cardboard operetta with cantastoria
12:00 PM Medicine Theater with Alegra Pullen – Anima Cosma
1:00 PM EarthCapades Environmental Theater sponsored by EBMUD – H2O Show
1:45 PM Oakland Improv Collective / dance
2:00 PM Dark Mouth Productions – The Procession of Rainbow Trout
2:30 PM Eric Cetnarski, Samana, Danielle Hall, Soundembrace – The Waveforms of Love
3:30 PM Lucia Lilikoi – Vessel: Our connection with Water / music, dance
Kinder Garden
* Berkeley Rose School – Birds & Bugs Making from Natural Materials
* Dante Mancini / Balloon Art Making and Installation
* East Bay Regional Park District – Mobile Visitor Center / Nature Journals Making
* Sticky Art Lab – Making Mobiles of Natural Materials Found in Nature
* Xochipilli and Associates – Papalotl Garden II – Metamorphosis
11:00 AM Very Fairy Events – Becoming Art in Nature with the Fairies! / body-hair decor
11:30 AM Smokey Bear – ‘Only You Can Prevent Wildfires‘
12:00 PM EBRPD Naturalists – Nature Walks / Bridle Trail
12:10 PM Very Fairy Events – Becoming Art in Nature with the Fairies! / body-hair decor
12:30 PM Emmy Elk – Music for Kids of All Ages
1:00 PM EBRPD Naturalists – Nature Walks / Bridle Trail
1:50 PM Xochipilli and associates – Papalotl Garden II / Metamorphosis
2:00 PM EBRPD Naturalists – Nature Walks / Bridle Trail
2:10 PM Very Fairy Events – Becoming Art in Nature with the Fairies! / body-hair decor
2:30 PM Carter Brooks – Story Teller for all Ages
3:00 PM EBRPD Naturalists – Nature Walks / Bridle Trail
3:10 PM Nancy Hall – Forest Life: Mytri & Her Faerie Wagon
4:00 PM EBRPD Naturalists – Nature Walks / Bridle Trail
Fern Dell
* Carolin Rechberg – Art of Nature / interactive live painting
* Carter Brooks – Ice Sculptures Station
* Chabot Space & Science Center – The Science of Music
* Collaborative Mural: Interactive Visual Art Mural / participatory
* Fred Garvey / visual art installation
11:00 AM Kismat-Mahal Kirtan Ensemble – Antiphonal Chanting and Sound Healing
12:00 PM The DulciMates – The Dulcimer Free-For-All / hands-on-learning
12:15 PM Chabot Space & Science Center – The Science of Music / demonstration
12:45 PM Nazanin Arastoozadeh / puppet show
1:15 PM Rusty Stringfield / bluegrass-americana
2:15 PM Conspiracy of Venus – Women’s Vocal Ensemble
3:00 PM The Elements – Vocal Improvisation Quintet
3:45 PM Aharon Wheels Bolsta & The Magi – International Geographic / music & stories
4:30 PM Aharon Wheels Bolsta & Cornelius Shinzen Boots – World Flute Summit
Ancient Oak
* Carter Brooks – Ice Sculpture / installation #3
11:45 AM Cornelius Shinzen Boots – The Texture of Suchness: Zen shakuhachi flute
12:20 PM Charming Hostess: Book of J – Radical Jewish Culture / music
1:50 PM Kathryn Roszak’s Danse Lumière – “You know how to vanish deep into your own greenwood” – Tomas Tranströmer
2:40 PM Conspiracy of Venus – Women’s Vocal Ensemble
3:20 PM Fermenting Citizens – The Wild What: cardboard operetta with cantastoria
After the Fork
* Nature Poetry Open Space / participatory
11:15 AM Presentation of Nature Poetry Open Space by Kirk Lumpkin
11:30 AM Life is Like a River / All Ages poetry Writing Workshop
12:00 PM Open Poetry Stage hosted by Kirk Lumpkin / participatory
12:45 PM Patricia Bulitt & Chris Olander / dance, poetry
1:15 PM Presentation of Nature Poetry Open Space by Kirk Lumpkin
1:30 PM Life is Like a River – All Ages Poetry Writing Workshop
2:00 PM Open Poetry Stage hosted by Chris Olander / participatory
2:20 PM Blake More / poetry
2:45 PM Castileya & Isis with Chris Olander / belly dance, poetry
3:10 PM Open Mic & Collaborations with Poets, Musicians, and Dancers
Old Church
* Ami DeAvilla – Photo booth: Lapse Back in the Future / participatory
* Bret Arenson / visual art installation
* Bar Shacterman / clay sculptures installations
* Carter Brooks – Ice Sculpture / installation #4
* James Wheaton “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” – Loren Eisley
* Juliet Mevi – Painting California in Plein Air
* Richard K Bacon: Eco Art Therapy – Flower of Life / interactive
11:00 AM Evangel King & collaborators – Ancestors Speak Ceremonies
11:30 AM The Silk Road Ramblers – Living Traditions of Natural Music and Dance
12:15 PM Leah Lamb – The Lady In The Tree / storytelling
12:40 PM On 3 Dance Company – Harm Me Not / dance, poetry, and music
1:00 PM Holly Shaw & the Eve’s Elixir Project – See Your Life Onstage / interactive
1:40 PM Laura Inserra with Barbara Eramo, Pejman Tadayon, Eugenia Park, Christine Beggs – The Language of Improv / multidisciplinary
2:20 PM Bar Shacterman – Live Sculpture Accompanied by Dance and Music
3:00 PM Rafael Jesús González & Xochipili – Flor y Canto – Flowers and Song
3:40 PM Bandelion: Dance of Changes – preparation / workshop
4:10 PM Bandelion: Dance of Changes – performance
Big Bend Meadow
11:00 AM Lucia Lilikoi – Vessel: Our Connection with Water / music, dance
12:00 PM MC Eucalips: Beatbox Without Borders / beatbox music
12:30 PM Hiroko & Koichi Tamano’s EarthChild Butoh Dance – A Dance of Earth and Sky
1:10 PM Ragged Wing – The Music Tree / theater
1:40 PM Ragged Wing – The Music Tree / theater
2:00 PM Dance for Positivity – International Human Color Wheel / interactive
2:50 PM Dancers from Soul Sanctuary Dance – Flow with Self, Others, & Spirit~Nature
3:00 PM The Incidentalists – Improvised & Participatory Theatre Focused on Storytelling
Stream-Side
* Carter Brooks – Ice Sculpture / installation #5
* Eben Dodd – Eben’s Portrait Booth / live painting
11:00 AM Laura Inserra – Piano in the Redwoods / interactivE, participatory
11:30 AM Sarah Cahill – Redwood Shrine
12:10 PM Adey / singer-songwriter
12:50 PM Rebecca Boblak – Forest Dreams at the Piano / participatory for all ages
1:30 PM Sarah Cahill – Redwood Shrine
2:10 PM Motoko Honda & Maureen Whiting – Kodama: Spirited Woods
2:50 PM Luciano Chessa – Myricae
3:20 PM Doug Machiz & Max Stoffregen – Cañon Song
3:45 PM Elektra Schmidt – Baroque and Romantic Music by Scarlatti, Bach and Schumann
4:20 PM Ben Jacobs – Unprepared Piano
4:40 PM Lucia Lilikoi – Water Songs
Sound Garden
* Francesca Borgatta – The Green Gnome: a guided improv with puppets
* Michelle Wilson – Upstream / visual art installation
* Takako Matoba / visual art installation
11:00 AM MC Eucalips – Find and Release Your Inner Sound: Beatbox Prana-Yoga
11:45 AM LifeForms Ceramic Art – Connecting With Nature through Clay
12:00 PM Eve Chosak with Interfaith Group Song – Community Song and Meditation
1:00 PM Bay Area Handpan Players – Bay Area Handpan Jam
1:15 PM LifeForms Ceramic Art – Connecting With Nature Through Clay
2:00 PM VibeTherapy: René Jenkins & Janay Cipriani – Ceremonial Sound Healing with Ancient Indigenous Instruments
2:45 PM Women With Options & Chinese Melodrama – Whole Body Listening Experience
3:30 PM Yellow Dot Music: Ata Toth-Fejel & David Molina – Musical Meditation Journey
Post-Art
* Carter Brooks – Ice Sculpture / installation #6 & photography
* Filippo Anfuso – photography
* James Wheaton – photography
* Minoosh Zomorodinia – photography
Trail’s End
* PalmisTree by Claudia Anfuso & Friends / interactive, participatory
* Sacred Fire – Visit the Guardian of the Fire
11:00 AM Gautam Tejas Ganeshan – New Directions in Indian Classical Music
12:00 PM Fermenting Citizens – The Wild What: cardboard operetta with cantastoria
12:30 PM Miriam Raziel / reggae, jazz, spiritual music
1:00 PM Aharon Wheels Bolsta & the Magi – International Geographic / music & stories
2:00 PM The Dulcimates – The dulcimer free-for-all / hands-on-learning
2:11 PM Mariposa Blanca – Reunion: A Body Landscape, direction by Adrian Arias
3:10 PM Rusty Stringfield / bluegrass/americana
3:20 PM Gautam Tejas Ganeshan – New Directions in Indian Classical Music
3:40 PM The Silk Road Ramblers – Living Traditions of Natural Music and Dance
4:00 PM Quantum Martial Arts / participatory
4:20 PM Wolfthump – Samba Drumline Dance & Music & Music Parade along the Trail
Roving Minstrels
* Bret Arenson – The Serenader / improvisational ecstatic movements & music
* David Schiller – Monologues of Jaques from Shakespeare’s As You Like It
* Karma Smart / dance
* Lady Lilic / photography
* Oakland Improv Collective / dance
* Nancy Hall – Forest Life: Mytri and Her Faerie Wagon
* Splintered: Rachel Austiin, Dan Gottwald, Kim Ip / color, sound, motion
* Zochi Alonzo Young – Tai Chi & Qigon / participatory
Art in Nature Festival is about exploring so keep your eyes and ears open for art experience all around you.
Help protect endangered species habitat. Please keep out of creek bed. This is a ‘leave no trace’ event!
Last shuttle departs at 6 pm. Merritt College Parking Lot locks at 7pm!
FESTIVAL COMMITTEE & VOLUNTEER CREW
AhbiVernon, AksanaVasilyeva, Alec Maloney, Ami DeAvilla, Amy Popovich, Ann-Marie Benz, AtaToth-Fejel, BretArenson, Bryan Mazzarello, Bryson Cwick, Caitlin Malley, Carter Brooks, Claudia Anfuso, David Pepper, Ed Collins, Edriene Velasco, Elizabeth Johnson, Evelie Delfino, Faride Khalaf, Francesca Aspromonte, Fred Garvey, Gary Lapow, Gordon Fair, Gustavo Porras, Hank Obermayer, Ilona Koren-Deutsch, Jeannie Whalen, Jennifer Hathaway, Jeremy Pfiefer, Jeremy Tejirian, Jerry Cambra, John Coveney, John Steere, Joshua Fricke, Joy Newman, Justin Anfuso, Kathleen Farrell, Kathryn Hirt, Kelsey Clausing, Lakshmi Kerner, Laura Inserra, Leonard Page, Linda deSantis, Lori Hines, Simon Lang, Lucy Mattingly, Madhavi Rathod, Madison Alan-Lee, Mara Chitayat, Marcia Livingston, Mary Green, Matthew Alan Kane, Michael Zhai, Mike Rogers, N. Neely Kazerouni, Naishuan Tsau, Nicole Huguenin, Rachael Evans, Rachel Michaelsen, Randy Thieben, Rebecca Ward, Russell Ives, Ruth Mankin, Sandra Edwards, Sara Edge, Sarah Laraway, Segue Fischlin, Stacy Vogan and Eliana, Stephanie Mazzarello, Steve Freedkin, Sujey Ruiz, Summer Meyer, Thorvald Soldahl, Unmani Sarasvati, Valeria Harris, Vanessa Castañeda, Wendy Botwin, Zach Pine, and more…
IN-KIND FOOD DONATIONS
Andy & Cindy Thai Food, Avalos Organic Farm, Bariani Olive Oil, Baja Taqueria, Berkeley Bowl, Blossom Bluff Orchards, Blue Heron, Frog Hollow, Gabriel Farm, Greg Massa, Happy Boy Farm, Kashiwase Farms, La Tercera Farm – Annabella,The Cheese Board Collective,The Phoenix Pastifico, Quetzal Farm, Riverdog Farm, Smit Farms,Weirauch Farm Creamery, and more…
CREDITS
Founder & Artistic Director: Laura Inserra
Co-founder & Event Production: Claudia Anfuso
Co-founder: John Coveney
Event Coordinator: Festival Productions
Community Development Director: Zach Pine
Green Room Manager: Joshua Fricke
Wecome Station Manager: Gustavo Porras
Hand-drawn Map: Mariah Howard
Logo & Banner Design: AriannaTondo
Program Design: Laura Inserra & Mazzarello Media and Arts
Special thanks to Elan & Jonah, Summer & Scott Meyer, Boccongelli Family, Johnny & the Berkeley Buena Vista Social Club, and all those people that have supported this event. Our deep gratitude to all of you!
We are profoundly grateful to all the artists and the generous, talented people who have donated time, resources, and creativity to manifesting this one of a kind event.
Join the Art in Nature Core Organizers & Crew
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