Music and Experimental Theater Music, Words and Feelings designed by Erik Lawrence with invited artist guests, including Carolina Loyola Garcia and Jeff Berman and celebrating Freedom, Peace and Gabriela Mistral.
Erik Lawrence : Saxophonist and Flutist: 2 Grammys as founding member of the Levon Helm Band, multi-platinum record with the Spin Doctors, has appeared on most major stages and festivals, tv shows, hundreds of recordings, thousands of appearances, millions of miles traveled) Sound and Vibrational Healer: Utilizing traditional and original techniques including toning, tuning forks, Tibetan bowls and especially the deep vibrational tones of his personal sound on saxophones and flutes.
Carolina Loyola-Garcia: Carolina Loyola-Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and performer and flamenco dancer. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the 10th Havana Biennial; Bangkok Experimental Film Festival; Chicago International Latino Film Festival; Biennial of Video and New Media in Santiago, Chile; Biennial Arte Nuevo InteractivA in Merida, Mexico; Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; among others.
Jeff Berman: Jeff Berman is a multi-instrumentalist, improvising artist, and composer whose work reflects his global musical vision. A native of New York City who now lives in Pittsburgh, he has developed a genre-extending concept on mountain dulcimer, vibraphone, and percussion, that has allowed him to collaborate across stylistic boundaries with a diverse group of artists from across the globe.
Gabriela Mistral was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. Her portrait also appears on the 5,000 Chilean peso bank note.
