Whitman on Walls! New Mexico
Join Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Academy for the Love of Learning and Chatter for a dynamic multidisciplinary performance, featuring an intergenerational group of poets and musicians in a “conversation across time” with the great American poet and provocateur, Walt Whitman, about community, democracy, and interdependence.
The Chatter performance features members of the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra in original musical settings to Whitman’s verses, and original poems and performances created in response to Whitman’s Song of Myself. Participating poets include New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, Manuel Gonzalez, Santana Shorty, and the Exodus Ensemble theatre company in collaboration with United World College students. Stage direction by Acushla Bastible.
Colin Jacobsen, Stephen Redfield violin
Yuko Shimokawa viola
James Holland cello
Jesse Tatum flute
Gregg Koyle percussion
About Whitman on Walls (WoW!)
Devised by Compagnia de’ Colombari Director Karin Coonrod, Whitman on Walls! (WoW!) is a touring event that invites local poets and artists to “talk back to Whitman” in their own words, challenging or quarreling with him, and expanding on Whitman’s vision of democratic interdependence. Participating artists all create poems in responses to a series of short films created by Colombari and featuring 50 performers from around the world, which bring Whitman’s iconic poem, Song of Myself, from the page to the screen!
This event is presented in collaboration with Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Academy for the Love of Learning.