Ceasefire Choir at the Audubon Center
The birds are singing, the skies are blue, and we’ll see you in the shade of our magical peppercorn tree friend within the Audubon Center at Debs Park for a donation-based afternoon of art and ecological attunement featuring friends from all over the planet.
haana lee is in town from Bogotá and will be sharing a longform performance of synthetic textures to ripple through our spirits with the wind. Alex Rita of NTS’ Calm Roots is dropping in from London to start her LA journey with an afternoon DJ set in more-than-human community. Our local I Ching Ensemble of Kenny Zhao, Young Tseng, and angel lin will close us out with a performance of electronics, acoustic percussion, and movement that draws from the I CHING.
The energies will be high,
the hearts will be calm,
and the friends will be in abundance.
Bring a blanket, a picnic, and pull up with us.
All ages & donation based!
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a gentle reminder: please leave your adorable pups at home this afternoon as to not disrupt the Audubon Center’s ongoing habitat restoration efforts.
I Ching Ensemble is a series of live experiments that playfully combines divination, electronic music, and collective ritual. Performances draw on the I Ching – an ancient Chinese divination system based on elemental relationships observed in the natural world. Each reading begins with a randomly generated six-note melody, which is then translated into an I Ching hexagram and ideogram for the audience to interpret. The subsequent performance is a convergence of calligraphy, sound, melody, and movement, inviting audiences to feel the presence of the performance as it unfolds in real-time.
Musician Kenny Zhao, movement artist Young Tseng, and percussionist angel lin channel these fluid elemental relationships through their improvisation, inviting the audience to take part in a collective daydream.
Bogotá-based haana lee explores the introspective and corporeal possibilities of music, sound, texture, and time as a self-taught musician and undisciplinary artist. Through an intuitive and improvisatory approach to their creative process, they incorporate themes of ephemerality, vulnerability, and connectedness in a variety of formats.
For 20+ years the Audubon Center at Debs Park has been a beacon for how conservation organizations can work within our cities to cultivate a deeper relationship between people and place. Through monthly hikes, restoration days, bird walks, field trips, movie nights, community festivals, and hosting gatherings like these each and every month, the Audubon Center at Debs Park has played an essential role in building a more diverse and inclusive conservation movement here in Los Angeles.
We’re so grateful for the humans of the Audubon Center, the advocacy that they champion in dialogue with local culture and native ecology, and it is an absolute honor to gather here together on the 3rd Saturday of (almost) every month.