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EJF is donation-based & takes place at 18th & Union theater | 1406 18th Ave Seattle WA
11 am music
Bach & Pancakes with Erin Jorgensen Listen to a Bach cello suite performed on 5-octave marimba & eat pancakes made on-site. Today we'll listen to Suite No. 4 in Eb Major. All-ages welcome! |
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12pm mini-class
live from Bloomington Illinois! Body Basics for Musicians & Other Humans with Ian Jorgensen join via zoom! zoom registration (free) required In this experiential class we’ll explore principles of the Alexander Technique and meditation in order to: · connect to your body · refine your sense of yourself · open possibilities of movement and being · release stress · get grounded · improve your playing Ian Jorgensen (any pronoun) is a mental/emotional/spiritual/physical mover. Ian works with fellow humans to help them develop joyful movement, body love and self-realization through principles of the Alexander Technique, dance and meditation. Ian has sometimes been called or self-applied the labels: white, queer, dancer, neurodivergent, body nerd, man and woman (among many others). Connect with him and take free classes at happybodyclearmind.com |
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1pm record listening
Intentional Record Listening | record chosen by Eve Beglarian Let's listen to a record together – no cell phones allowed! Each artist has written a short blurb on why they chose a particular record. We'll read this together, and then hit play. Reduce your screen time while expanding your musical knowledge. Win-win. According to the Los Angeles Times, composer and performer Eve Beglarian is a “humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” A 2023 winner of the Arts and Letters Award, she is also a 2017 winner of the Alpert Award in the Arts for her “prolific, engaging and surprising body of work,” as well as numerous other prestigious awards. Current projects include a solo piano piece about Emily Dickinson responding to Ives’ Concord Sonata for the pianist Donald Berman, a piece for 24 basses in a grove of trees, composed for Robert Black and friends, and more. Since 2001, she has been creating A Book of Days, “a grand and gradually manifesting work in progress…an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements.” evbvd.com |
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4pm record listening
Intentional Record Listening | record chosen by Noah Geller Let's listen to a record together – no cell phones allowed! Each artist has written a short blurb on why they chose a particular record. We'll read this together, and then hit play. Reduce your screen time while expanding your musical knowledge. Win-win. Noah Geller is the Concertmaster at the Seattle Symphony.. He attended The Juilliard School for both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees and has also performed with many chamber and festival organizations around the U.S. including the Marlboro Music Festival, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, and here in the Pacific Northwest at the Olympic Music Festival in Port Townsend, Washington. Geller and his wife, percussionist Mari Yoshinaga, and their dog, Monkey, reside in Seattle. He performs on a violin by Justin Hess made in 2020. |
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5pm music
Marimba Happy Hour with Erin Jorgensen An hour of acoustic/electric marimba, vocals, layers, loops, and whatever else Erin feels like doing. Spend the 5pm hour getting in some good vibes. Join anytime. |
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6pm performance + mini-class
Mapping Paraspaces with Rachel Kessler Rachel Kessler shares her comics about psychedelics followed by a short workshop guiding participants through their own interior geographies - no drawing or writing experience necessary! Rachel Kessler is a writer, cartoonist, multi-disciplinary collaborator and educator who explores landscape and community. As a mother of young children with limited resources she experimented with boundary-breaking performance art and video, co-founding interactive poetry collaborations Typing Explosion and Vis-à-Vis Society. She co-founded the collective Wa Na Wari, a residential reclamation project centering Black art and media in Seattle’s Central District. Her latest publication Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, features her illustrations of the Pacific Northwest urban shore. Currently, she is working on a children’s book about abortion. |
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7pm music
Cello & AMA with Lori Goldston Lori Goldston will perform a solo cello set and take questions and/or give a short talk. Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer from Seattle. Her work drifts widely across borders. Her voice on cello is deeply textured and original, drawing on a restless curiosity and long history of collaborations with bands, orchestras, composers, film makers and choreographers, including Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Mirah, Jherek Bischoff, Senga Nengudi, Eddie Prevost, Jessika Kenney, Vanessa Renwick, Lynn Shelton, David Byrne, Natacha Atlas, Jim Fletcher, Matana Roberts, O Paon, Ivan Volkov, Maya Dunietz, Eyvind Kang, Chris Icasaiano, somesurprises, Peg, and many, many others. LoriGoldston.com |
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8pm music
Drone City with Aaron Michael Butler, Lori Goldston, & Erin Jorgensen Sound explorations and repetitions with Aaron Michael Butler (percussion, electronics), Lori Goldston (cello), and Erin Jorgensen (amplified marimba & vocals). Perception enhancers recommended but not required. Anything could happen at any time, and that's how we like it. Aaron Michael Butler is a composer and percussionist currently living in Seattle WA. Catch him in a percussion set on Saturday, August 5th at 7pm. Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer living in Seattle. Catch her in a solo set and AMA right before this session. Erin Jorgensen is a composer and marimbist living in Seattle. She created this festival and will be here every day. |
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