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 will soon be bringing the show to the following locations shortly
17/19 Sept 2022 at The Wigan Flashes
Another partnership with Lancashire Wildlife Trust, following on from May’s show at their New Moss Woods site in Salford
The Wigan Flashes is essentially a long-standing project to rewild the old coalfields there. The guides will be ecologists and artists from LWT’s staff, people who know The Flashes intimately. https://www.lancswt.org.uk/nature-reserves/wigan-flashes-local-nature-reserve Show times Sat Sept 17th (1pm and 4pm) and Sun Sept 18th (1pm and 4pm). https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bewilder-join-us-on-an-immersive-music-led-woodland-walk-tickets-390408380977
23/24 Sept 2002 at The Rewilding, Cockerham. Part of the multifaceted Patty’s Barn Farm on the edge of the Lune Estuary. Our guides there will be human geographer Beccy Whittle of Lancaster University Environmental Centre and Michelle Parry who grew up there and whose family has farmed that land for several generations. https://www.the-rewilding.com/ Show times Fri Sept 23rd (1pm and 5pm) and Sat Sept 24th (10am and 1pm). https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bewilder-at-the-rewilding-tickets-389818105447?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
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 [email protected].
See the Gigs page for updates
We will soon be bringing the show to the following locations shortly
17/19 Sept 2022 at The Wigan Flashes
Another partnership with Lancashire Wildlife Trust, following on from May’s show at their New Moss Woods site in Salford
The Wigan Flashes is essentially a long-standing project to rewild the old coalfields there. The guides will be ecologists and artists from LWT’s staff, people who know The Flashes intimately. https://www.lancswt.org.uk/nature-reserves/wigan-flashes-local-nature-reserve Show times Sat Sept 17th (1pm and 4pm) and Sun Sept 18th (1pm and 4pm). https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bewilder-join-us-on-an-immersive-music-led-woodland-walk-tickets-390408380977
23/24 Sept 2002 at The Rewilding, Cockerham. Part of the multifaceted Patty’s Barn Farm on the edge of the Lune Estuary. Our guides there will be human geographer Beccy Whittle of Lancaster University Environmental Centre and Michelle Parry who grew up there and whose family has farmed that land for several generations. https://www.the-rewilding.com/ Show times Fri Sept 23rd (1pm and 5pm) and Sat Sept 24th (10am and 1pm). https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bewilder-at-the-rewilding-tickets-389818105447?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
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 [email protected].
See the Gigs page for updates