CENTER FOR ARTS & NATURE
Praising Earth works to enliven humanity’s relationship with nature through the creative arts and land stewardship.
ARTS
HER WE SERVE
Poems & Stories by Timothy P. McLaughlin
BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION
SATURDAY May 10 | 7:00 PM
Scottish Rite Temple Theatre | Santa Fe, NM
TICKETS & BOOK PRESALES
ADVANCE PRAISE for Her We Serve
“McLaughlin is always working to heal humans back into the wider tangle of the land, to entwine the many-voiced eloquence of the forest with his human tongue…The poetic sparks given off by his strivings carry clues and hints for those who seek to remain true to what matters.”
from the foreword by David Abram, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
“McLaughlin crafts a breathtaking tapestry of nature and its vital connection to body and soul, weaving the raw and the reverent into verses that pulse with life. This collection is a lyrical anatomy of the wild, where rivers become veins, forests breathe, and the earth’s ancient bones whisper stories of resilience and reverence. A truly magnificent work from a rare bard—this is a book to cherish and visit with often.”
Joan Borysenko, NY Times bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
HUMMINGBIRD RISING Theater Production
On paper, Santa Fean Madi Sato’s expansive life history reads as a meditation on mourning, embracing Indigenous heritage, and survival.
Set to music, those powerful ingredients swirl into an other-wordly mashup of narration, pieces of familiar songs, and haunting chants aimed at evoking emotions mere words cannot.
Sato will share her story via voice and motion as part of Hummingbird Rising: The Life & Music of Madi Sato.
(Excerpt from Pasatiempo article by Brian Sandford)
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PROGRAMS
Co-Founder
MADI SATO
Madi Sato is a singer of Japanese Ainu & Irish heritages who gathers and shares traditional chants from diverse cultures and creates original songs in nature. She had a twenty-year career as a songwriter and performer and recorded three albums: Soul in Love, Madi Sato, and Return to the River. She is a lifelong dancer versed in an array of traditions and styles.
Madi leads the SONG CARRIERS programs and is devoted to empowering the voices and bodies of women through communal singing and dance.
Co-Founder
TIMOTHY P. MCLAUGHLIN
Timothy P. McLaughlin is a spoken word poet and earth-based celebrant. He served many years in native education and has followed an indigenous spiritual path since early manhood. He has created the poetry collections: Rooted & Risen, Seeds Under the Tongue, and the forthcoming Her We Serve.
Timothy facilitates the GREEN MAN programs, guiding men into a deepened conversation with life through the language of poetry and myth.
“If we will have the wisdom to survive,
to stand like slow growing trees
on a ruined place, renewing it, enriching it…
then a long time after we are dead
the lives our lives prepare will live here.”
—Wendell Berry