A Whole Bunch of AWE-some Events

It’s been a busy spring season for our American Wild Ensemble team, and we thought we’d share some of our latest happenings and upcoming events with you.

We recently participated in a panel with University of Maryland-Baltimore County’s Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) on Alternative Venues in the Visual and Performing Arts and had the opportunity to connect with fellow panelists Shelter in Place Gallery, Orange Grove Dance, and The Acme Corporation - so much interesting, moving, and inspiring work to check out!

Our performance of Chris Chandler’s Audubon Sketches at the 2021 Earth Day Art Model Telematic Festival is now archived on the festival site and available to view anytime. (You can find us in the April 22, 2021, 5:47 AM ET slot!) We’re looking forward to the next time we’re able to perform Chris’s beautiful music live and outdoors, but in the meantime we had a blast recording it in a virtual space and hope you enjoy it, too.

Composer Ingrid Stölzel’s wonderful Livid Loneliness of Fear, which we premiered in December as part of our American Aviatrix program, is slated to be performed on both the National Association of Composers USA 2021 Virtual Festival and the Society of Composers 2021 Online National Conference. The NACUSA event is coming up on Sunday, April 25!

On Monday, April 26, we’ll be taking part in a workshop with Missouri Humanities about how organizations can incorporate land acknowledgment language into their programming. We are so grateful to be invited to take part in this learning opportunity with MO Humanities’ Native American Heritage Program and are looking forward to sharing what we learn as we develop future programming.

We have some really exciting events coming up for the summer, which we’ll be sharing more about soon. Outdoor performances, recordings, commissions, conferences, and workshops are all on the horizon, and we’re looking forward to connecting with audiences and collaborators in physical and virtual spaces over the next few months!