CENTER FOR ARTS & NATURE
Praising Earth works to enliven humanity’s relationship with nature through the creative arts and land stewardship.
ARTS
THE GREEN MAN
Voice of the Forest
Spoken Word Theater Production
THURSDAY May 21 | 7:30 PM
Paradiso | Santa Fe, NM
TICKETS
A journey into the voice and messages of the Green Man, the embodiment of wild nature. Moving through his incantatory praise anthems of earth, his didactic admonitions of humanity, his cryptic myths and tender verses, the listener is brought on a voyage out of the city and down into the dark soil of the forest, the realm of soul and mystery and awe.
An opening set will warm the evening as musician Nick Davidson shares his earthy acoustic fingerpicking and slide guitar tunes rooted in folk music.
NATOK ROK: Trance Dance Healing
An immersive trance dance journey for people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds.
Singer Madi Sato weaves her ancestral chants and original melodies with her brother DJ Sato’s earth-tones and fresh beats in a progressive sonic experience designed to wash over and enliven the body. Enriched by the nature poetry of Timothy McLaughlin, Natok Rok draws you into a unique encounter with sound healing and creative movement.
Be held by earth’s rhythms.
Move all that is in you.
Remember, release, and replenish.
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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