RENEWING HUMANITY'S PLACE IN THE WEB OF LIFE
Praising Earth explores the natural interrelation of the creative arts with land caretaking.
On paper, Santa Fean Madi Sato’s expansive life history reads as a meditation on mourning, embracing Indigenous heritage, and survival.
Set to music, those powerful ingredients swirl into an other-wordly mashup of narration, pieces of familiar songs, and haunting chants aimed at evoking emotions mere words cannot.
Sato will share her story via voice and motion as part of Hummingbird Rising: The Life & Music of Madi Sato. -Excerpt from Pasatiempo by Brian Sandford
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Co-Founder
MADI SATO
Madi Sato is a singer and mentor of Japanese Ainu and Irish roots. From a young age, she was immersed in indigenous ceremony and began creating songs in communication with nature.
Madi has been a performing artist for three decades and recorded three albums: Soul in Love, Madi Sato, and Return to the River. She is also a lifelong actress and dancer.
Co-Founder
TIMOTHY P. MCLAUGHLIN
Timothy P. McLaughlin is a spoken word poet and earth-based celebrant. He served many years in native education and has followed an indigenous spiritual path since early manhood. His poetry chronicles an inspired intimacy with wild places and presences.
Timothy facilitates the GREEN MAN programs, guiding men into their essential wildness through word, chant, drumming, and movement.
“If we will have the wisdom to survive,
to stand like slow growing trees
on a ruined place, renewing it, enriching it…
then a long time after we are dead
the lives our lives prepare will live here.”
—Wendell Berry