40,000 Trees

Sunday, May 4
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30pm
reservations are recommended

40,000 Trees - A Postcard from the Tsunami is a multimedia performance that employs video, audio, dance and theater in an attempt to share an important piece of personal history, part trauma and part love story.

On December 26th of 2004 I was sleeping on the beach of Unawatuna, Sri Lanka when the Tsunami hit. With the use of projections and sounds, props and choreography, recorded media and live acts, this performance narrates a developing love story, the murderous and the nourishing side of Nature, while asserting the power of meditation and the indisputability of Karma and mortality.

This performance inaugurates a series of works that will culminate with the planting of 40.000 trees along the coasts of Sri Lanka, in remembrance of the 40.000 lives lost on the island. The trees will also help the reforestation of the affected areas and will constitute a small natural barrier against future rages of Nature.

Performed and created by Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis, directed by Chiara Loriga, with the beautiful voice of Lesley Flanigan and effects by R. Luke DuBois.

www.40000trees.org