An arts initiative that invites us to shift our relationship with fire.
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Our Goal
We seek to empower musicians, composers, and artists through immersive learning to develop their relationship with fire. Artists will share their experience with audiences in a participatory concerts designed to invite perspective shift and healing.
Artists working in policy change.
Traditional indigenous land management in California centered around the intentional use of fire. Over a century of agency-led fire suppression policy has left our landscapes neglected and more vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire and climate change.
Most people don’t understand this, or why they should care.
We believe musicians and artists are powerful cultural change makers, and should participate in policy change. Bringing them into a deeper ecological understanding through paid trainings, education, and active participation in fire on the land empowers them to carry this message through their storytelling.
What’s being developed:
Musicians and composers will be put through an intensive curriculum that includes history, fire ecology, site visits, and participation in burns. From that learning, they will create performances and compositions that will be shared in affected places in immersive concert experiences.
Thank you to our supporters!
This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, through the Upstate California Creative Corps program.
