Dancers Sarah Baumert, Suzette, Gilreath, Erika Hansen, Megan Mayer and Leslie O’Neill perform in a new Sound Garden at Riverside Park. Composer / Director JG Everest teams up with Artist Organizers and poets Chavonn Shen and Nimo Farah to present a new site-specific temporary sound + performance installation at Riverside Park.
The Riverside Park Sound Garden event is a free, family-friendly, self-guided event that features a sound installation of 50+ small, wireless speakers, distributed throughout a section of the park, with live accompaniment by roving musicians and dancers, and live poetry and site-specific visual art. Each small speaker is playing a different part of the whole piece of music, creating a unique,immersive experience that is described as “Concert You Can Move Through”.
This activity is part of the Peoples Center & Clinics’ “Because Your Health Matters” community wellness initiative in partnership with Wavelets Creative. Funding is provided by The Creative Response Fund, a program of the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy in the City of Minneapolis and also in part by The Kresge Foundation, and by the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization.