The Chapel in the HIve

Come March 1 as we build a hive in Marquand Chapel with The Chapel in the Hive.

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Performers:

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Joseph Campana, poetry

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Kurt Stallmann, music

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Experience The Chapel in the Hive, a forty-minute live performance by poet/scholar Joseph Campana and composer/performer Kurt Stallmann, who draw from history and natural history and reflecting on them through literary and electro-eco-acoustic techniques. The audience will be immersed in sound, words, and images that evoke and render palpable the long history of human devotion to bees. Inspired by a multidisciplinary exploration of environmental issues with a specific focus on biodiversity and multispecies worlds, Campana and Stallmann consider the sacred character of nature through the powerful but diminutive figure of the honeybee. This collaborative work draws on stories, proverbs, and parables from different traditions to ask: if a chapel can really fit in a hive what would it sound like? What does Orpheus have to do with bees? Is anger like a honey-coated knife? And, in an age of environmental turmoil, can nature still be miraculous?

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A post-concert panel discussion will follow the event.

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Free and open to the public.

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Sponsored by the ISM’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.

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