FEAST OF LOSSES
A Communion of Grief and Gratitude
A Concert of Poetry and Music with Kim Rosen
at the Linenhall Arts Center, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Mystics, poets and shamans have always known that in the rhythms and sounds of the soul's language, the mind bursts open and levels of being come into alignment.
Join spoken word artist and poet Kim Rosen in a surprisingly uplifting immersion into the music and poetry of grief and gratitude. Kim pioneers a new dimension of the ancient marriage between poetry and music. Music spanning a spectrum of world rhythms, to prayerful stillness is interwoven with spoken poems from around the world and across time. Our communion will include words from Langston Hughes, Ellen Bass, Marie Howe, Lucille Clifton, Mark Nepo, Stanley Kunitz, W.S. Merwin, Yehuda Amichai and Mary Oliver immersed in evocative waves of music by Jami Sieber, Gary Malkin and others.
Kim has been facilitating explorations of these difficult, necessary themes for many years. This offering is a culmination of her love of the realness, rawness and intimacy that arises when we turn towards all levels of letting go.
In this moment in history, every one of us has been touched and changed by the personal, societal and planetary loss we are undergoing. Please join Kim in a transformative convergence of poems & music that emerge from the heartbreak, gratitude and celebration of this moment in our lives and in the life of our world.
Tickets €10.00
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FROM THE RECORDING SESSIONS FOR FEAST OF LOSSES
“ The poems were potent, on target, heart breaking, beautiful, disruptive. This is what alive, vibrant human souls can create together… a riveting experience.”
“Have you ever been deeply moved by a piece of music? Have you ever been captured and compelled by a word, phrase, or poem? Now for a moment imagine those experiences combined in a way that is so powerfully delivered by the artists that it transcends the physical people involved and alchemizes to create a space in which magic and miracles can and do occur.”