The Religion, Ecology and Expressive Cultures Initiative at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music is sponsoring a series of events over the coming year. All are free and open to the public. Launched in January 2023, the initiative’s aim is to amplify cross-disciplinary and integrative work at the intersection of religion, ecology, and expressive culture.
Religion, Ecology and Expressive Culture Initiative: 2023-24 events
2023-24 Events
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Past Event: Black Sacred Arts Conference on Ecology and Environmental Issues
ISM’s third conference on the Black Sacred Arts will convene scholars and artists toto explore connections between the Black Sacred Arts and ecology.
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Past Event: Biophilia: In Excelsis - Closing Webinar
A dialogical webinar to celebrate the closing of the art exhibition, Biophilia: In Excelsis.
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Past Event: Exhibition opening reception for Biophilia: In Excelsis
All are invited to the opening reception and speaker panel for Biophilia: In Excelsis. All are welcome!
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Past Event: Biophilia; In Excelsis art exhibition
Opening reception and panel discussion. ISM, Miller Hall, 406 Prospect St., New Haven
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Past Event: Biodegradable Blessings: Making Prayer Flags, Relatedness, and Himalayan Futures
The panel features prayer flag making activists and scholars who will discuss the debates over synthetic prayer flags and projects.
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Past Event: When Wajcha Meets Pachamama
A play that wrestles with issues about the future of our planet by exposing our current climate disasters in a way that would be received by people.
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Past Event: Feral Theatre's "Last Dance" Workshop
This workshop that invites participants to play with fabric bodies, filled with different materials: cotton wool, yarn, shredded paper to create etc.
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Past Event: Feral Theatre's "Last Dance" Performance
Last Dance is a semi-improvised performance centered around a suspended sculpture.
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Past Event: Art Exhibition: Sacred Biodiversity: Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species
This exhibit features artworks by artist and iconographer Angela Manno from her series Contemporary Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species.
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Past Event: Remembering Lost Species: Rituals for the Anthropocene
Part of a series of webinar talks focused on the theme of “Mass Extinction: Art, Ritual, Story, and the Sacred”.
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Past Event: Yale Schola Cantorum "Breath of Earth"
“Breath of Earth” performed by Yale Schola Cantorum and conducted by David Hill.
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Past Event: Aesthetics of Extinction
Part of a series of webinar talks focused on the theme of “Mass Extinction: Art, Ritual, Story, and the Sacred”.
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Past Event: Narrating Extinction in History and Myth
Part of a series of webinar talks focused on the theme of “Mass Extinction: Art, Ritual, Story, and the Sacred”.
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Past Event: Sacred Lands, Sacred Ecologies: Poetic and Photographic Engagements
Part of a series of webinar talks focused on the theme of “Mass Extinction: Art, Ritual, Story, and the Sacred”.
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Past Event: Exhibition: Making Sense of Religion
Making Sense of Religion in the Yale Archive: Themes and Contexts in American Christianity, Nineteenth Century-Present.
