Cultivating Community
in the heart of Delaware County, NY
Upcoming Events
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BIRDSONG FARM GALLERY
AUGUST EVENTS
SALON D’AMOUR
Margret Wibmer
Saturday Aug 2nd, 12PM NOON
Friday Aug 8th, 7:30PM ET
Saturday Aug 9th, 7:30PM ET
Join artist Margret Wibmer for an afternoon and two special evenings of moving and immersive performance, engaging the public as participants to reimagine love as a force of transformation.
Sat Aug 2 | 12PM Noon
Opening Event: Art For Impact
Margret Wibmer (Amsterdam, NL). Focusing on her recent Salon d’Amour shown worldwide since 2016, and her cinematic intervention for Aug. 8th & 9th, Margret presents her artistic practice spanning sculpture, video, photography, and participatory performance.
Fri/Sat Aug 8 & 9 | 7:30pm
Ticketed Event; Please RSVP
Salon d’Amour invites participants to experience a simultaneity of spaces and narratives through voiced readings and intimate listening. Participants don unique masks created by the artist, which serve as conduits to other worlds. Love letters from writers & artists: James Baldwin, Frida Kahlo, John Cage, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Marianna Maruyama, Ingeborg Bachmann, Banana Yoshimoto and others will be read aloud.
Together with soundscape developed with composer Robert Poss, Salon d’Amour - mise en scene, becomes a poetic, cinematic ritual—claiming a pause in time, evoking a sensual experience of love’s complex layers and its transformative powers.
To RSVP: john@studioicai.org / 917.991.9279
Sat Aug 9 | Noon-2pm
Opening Event
Fritz Horstman and Meredith M. Andrews, aka. Spacelover, perform a concert with new and experimental sounds developed with local singers ending with a set of original songs. Playing folk, blues and bluegrass-inflected acoustic music, the duo infuses their inventive original compositions and carefully chosen covers with harmonies sung over intricate banjo and guitar. This event marks the occasion of placing Fritz Horstman’s sculpture on the grounds of Birdsong Community Garden.
HALCYON READING SERIES
Friday, August 22, 5:30-8pm
Daria Faïn, Robert Kocik and Brenda Ijima Feeding Off Each Other
Curated by Alana Siegel
ALL EVENTS LOCATED AT or NEAR Birdsong Community Garden Gallery 38718 NY-10, Hamden, NY 13782
Full schedule www.studioicai.org. Contact: john@studioicai.org
Institute for Cultural Activism International is a 501(c)3 public arts organization
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