Projects

Inventing Earth is an educational organization and also serves as an umbrella for the development of collaborative projects combining art, science, and culture. Many of these projects need collaborators, project managers, and instigators. Please contact us if you are interested.

• World Vocal Traditions – The open workshop series that originated in Prescott, Arizona in 2010 is continued in 2012 in Denver and Boulder, Colorado. We invite vocal practitioners from the Front Range area, from all of North America, and around the world to participate. We can help to facilitate travel and lodging for vocalists joining us from other regions. >>READ MORE 
• The Greenest Branch (Viridissima Virga) – Collaboration: Mary Lin and Ben Sargent. This project is a collaborative performance project centered around the poem, book, and opera under development by Lin and Sargent, and performances of same based loosely on the life of Hildegard von Bingen, which demonstrates the processes of personal/spiritual integration/Integralism and presents an updated vision of Hildegard’s cosmology of unity and collaborative creation. >> READ MORE
• Oma Dance Theatre – Throughout human history, grandmothers and elders of the family and tribe, have preserved and passed on stories of the family and cultural group; taught traditions, food preparation, crafts, ceremonies, and rituals; assisted in childrearing; and shared the rich treasures of perspective, counsel, and the wisdom earned through decades of experience. Through Oma Dance Theatre and the Oma Stories Project, Inventing Earth seeks to “crowd source” stories and traditions from ordinary people that deserve to be told and remembered, preserved and passed on. It is hoped that Oma Dance Theatre and Oma Stories Project can contribute to the Collective Grandmother Wisdom of Humanity; can become, in a way, a grandmother. >>READ MORE
• Puppets Picasso -- this dysfunctional family of Abstract-Irreverent puppets has nothing good to say about anyone, or anything, with a few exceptions. Enjoy pointed if free-floating political and cultural satire with a haute-arts flair. Slated to begin performing at cabarets and open-air venues this summer. If you're a dancer, puppeteer, or a puppet, costume or prop maker in Colorado and you'd love to help bring Puppets Picasso to life, contact us at mary@inventingearth.org . Also view our Pinterest mood board at http://pinterest.com/greenefyre/puppet-picasso/
• Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders – Collaboration: Mary Lin and Ben Sargent. 19th century Gilbert and Sullivan-style operetta with pirates and mermaids, examining themes of colonialism and “subjectification” of human and nature. >>READ MORE
• The Flying Body Choir – In late spring 2010, Inventing Earth hosted Dr. Mary Larew for a month. She offered four workshops in vocal music of the world and medieval vocal technique. The group has continued meeting once a week at the beautiful Prescott College Chapel, renowned in some circles for its extraordinary acoustics. We learned original works by composers Meg Borhman, Ben Sargent, Jonathan Best, members of the group; exploring somatic singing in warmups led by Mary Lin, M.Ed. M.F.A.); and continuing to explore the amazing shape note, Balkan, and medieval musical literature that Mary Larew introduced us to. 
• Labyrinth of Stars – Imagine a forty foot labyrinth traced in gently flickering stars and heavenly bodies 1 to 2 inches in size. In total darkness, the stars glow, providing the only light and guiding participants in a walking meditation to the Center of the labyrinth that takes ten -20 minutes in, ten or so minutes out. Even absolute non-meditators report profound experiences of healing and revelation. It's been described as walking a galaxy in deep space as the stars appear to be in the sky below, at various depths. While people are walking it we sing and chant sacred music of many traditions, with a focus on medieval chant, specifically Hildegard von Bingen, as she wrote in the sacred scale used by Pythagoras which is closest to the overtone sequence in nature. Her music embodies the Viriditas, the greening power of Nature, the deep down freshness in things, which comes to still point at the Solstice before surging again through the earth. >>SEE PHOTOS
• Myszalta and Cabaret Flambé – stay tuned. >>SEE VIDEOS