Deep Cabaret’s new project is an invitation to engage with the climate emergency by falling in love!
beWILDer is a site-specific, immersive, outdoor performance about the place it’s happening in. An intimate and transformative, music-led, walk combing deep ecology songs and eco-centric stories that aim to deepen your experience of your place in the inter-connected ecosystem we are all a part of.
beWILDer is a site-specific, immersive, outdoor performance about the place it’s happening in. An intimate and transformative, music-led, walk combing deep ecology songs and eco-centric stories that aim to deepen your experience of your place in the inter-connected ecosystem we are all a part of.
Audiences are guided through the woods in small groups by ecologist Dr Emma Sayer. Emma uses her expertise to illuminate what’s goes on unseen in front of our noses and under our eyes. So, moving slowly, touching and being touched by beckoning rowan leaves and cushions of sphagnum moss you might hear David Abram’s words about the reciprocity of touch set to Deep Cabaret’s involving music and find yourself irreversibly beWILDered!
“We believe people are more likely to do act sustainably around environmental issues from a place of love and grief rather than from self-righteousness or guilt.” says Steve “ beWILDer looks to draw people into engaging with the climate emergency using a set of songs, adapted from the likes of David Abram and Merlin Sheldrake, that illuminate human/other-than-human relationships by pointing to ways of paying attention to the reciprocal nature of the land.”
The first performances, funded by Arts Council England, took place at Middlewood Trust land on Backsbottom Farm in Roeburndale, Lancashire in Summer 2021. The feedback suggests it made an impact; “A powerful enabler”, “Intimate, involving and immersive”, ”makes me determined to do more”, “truly loved it and felt ripples since”.
“We believe people are more likely to do act sustainably around environmental issues from a place of love and grief rather than from self-righteousness or guilt.” says Steve “ beWILDer looks to draw people into engaging with the climate emergency using a set of songs, adapted from the likes of David Abram and Merlin Sheldrake, that illuminate human/other-than-human relationships by pointing to ways of paying attention to the reciprocal nature of the land.”
The first performances, funded by Arts Council England, took place at Middlewood Trust land on Backsbottom Farm in Roeburndale, Lancashire in Summer 2021. The feedback suggests it made an impact; “A powerful enabler”, “Intimate, involving and immersive”, ”makes me determined to do more”, “truly loved it and felt ripples since”.
The idea was always for beWILDer to be both site-specific and transferable.
We aim to take it to other parts of Lancashire, Cumbria and beyond in 2022.
We’d love to hear from you if you have any interest in partnering us in making beWILDer happen or have any ideas about places where the show might fit. Contact steve@deepcabaret.co.uk.
See the Gigs page for updates
We aim to take it to other parts of Lancashire, Cumbria and beyond in 2022.
We’d love to hear from you if you have any interest in partnering us in making beWILDer happen or have any ideas about places where the show might fit. Contact steve@deepcabaret.co.uk.
See the Gigs page for updates
