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Art = Healing: Meditation and Xanadu

  • Lamb Center 41 Market Street Saugerties, NY (map)

3:00 PM: Laughter/crying meditation led by Linda Mary Montano 

3:45 PM: “Wounded Crow,” performance, Will Nixon 

“I bought a crow mask on a whim as a Christmas gift to myself, then for half-a-dozen years took selfies in this crow mask wherever I went, be it the summit of Mount Katahdin or a shower stall, back alley fire escapes or Chelsea art galleries. But why? Now that I’ve taken what may be my last crow self because the mask has fallen apart, I want to get to the roots of this obsession. Which has to do, I suspect, with the fact that photographs are a stay against death.” – Will Nixon

4:00 PM: “Xanadu” – performance Mikhail Horowitz with Celeste Graves and Gilles Malkine 

"A recent diagnosis of Parkinson's disease initially threatened to put the kibosh on my performing career, which I have sustained for more than 50 years. But embracing my dear friend and occasional collaborator Linda Montano's belief in art as healing, I decided to revive my performance work, in a way that is scaled down. I chose to dramatize, with the assistance of dancer Celeste Graves and Gilles Malkine, Samuel Coleridge's "Xanadu", which was written under the influence of laudanum.”  – Mikhail Horowitz

Earlier Event: November 2
Writers Read: Hallowed Souls