A fundraising/benefit show with live music, selected scenes, and special guests from “Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera”.

Join us for an intimate live music and performance art event at The Lace Mill in mid town Kingston. This is a fundraiser and benefit for our upcoming August 2023 performances of “Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera”, which will happen in The Widow Jane Mine on August 26-27th 2023.

With a cast of over 25 Hudson Valley performance artists, musicians, dancers, actors, and choreographers, the Earth Opera recreates dreams and spiritual visions through live world and sacred music, performance art, storytelling, and light experiments.

Our Lace Mill benefit show includes a partial cast with music and performances by Mamalama, Andes Manta, Lisa Barnard Kelley, Henry Lowengard, Elwin Cuevas, Annie Roland, William Cochrane, Antonin Fajt, Philip x Levine, Cornelia Logan, Rusty Boris, AnneMarie Tedeschi, Amy Recchia, and other surprise guests.

Following the show, join us for dessert and chats!

The Lace Mill is located at 165 Cornell Street in Kingston. The show will be held in the East Gallery space.

Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera is a recreation of spiritual visions, dreams, and stories through world and sacred music, moving visual art, dance, storytelling, and light experiments, shared within an immersive and multi-sensory community experience.

The Earth Opera takes place in a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, and centers around rebirth, finding light and beauty in the darkest times, and our deep connection with all living things, our planet, and with each other.  Orchestrated for harps, ethereal choral voices, South American/Andean instruments, Indonesian gamelan, chamber strings, droning harmoniums, dulcimer, bells, piano, and an occasional tuba, the ‘Earth Opera’ steps into otherworldly realms and unfolds upon a non-linear and timeless path, similar to the way we dream.

“Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera” is a recreation of spiritual visions, dreams, and stories through world and sacred music, moving visual art, dance, storytelling, and light experiments, shared within an immersive and multi-sensory community experience.

The Earth Opera takes place in a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, and centers around rebirth, finding light and beauty in the darkest times, and our deep connection with all living things, our planet, and with each other.  Orchestrated for harps, ethereal choral voices, South American/Andean instruments, Indonesian gamelan, chamber strings, droning harmoniums, dulcimer, bells, piano, and an occasional tuba, the ‘Earth Opera’ steps into otherworldly realms and unfolds upon a non-linear and timeless path, similar to the way we dream.

Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera is a recreation of spiritual visions, dreams, and stories through world and sacred music, moving visual art, dance, storytelling, and light experiments, shared within an immersive and multi-sensory community experience.

The Earth Opera takes place in a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, and centers around rebirth, finding light and beauty in the darkest times, and our deep connection with all living things, our planet, and with each other.  Orchestrated for harps, ethereal choral voices, South American/Andean instruments, Indonesian gamelan, chamber strings, droning harmoniums, dulcimer, bells, piano, and an occasional tuba, the ‘Earth Opera’ steps into otherworldly realms and unfolds upon a non-linear and timeless path, similar to the way we dream.

Learn the stories of Holocaust survivors through original songs written in collaboration with singer-songwriters.

About this event

“When Holocaust Memories Result in Deep Friendships and Beautiful Music”

“We Remember: Songs of Survivors,” is a recent PBS Documentary that shares the stories of Holocaust survivors through songs written in collaboration with singer-songwriters. These songs, filled with joy and healing, celebrate the extraordinary lives of this resilient generation.

On September 22nd, we welcome the four musicians who participated in this project to the Caffe Lena stage to perform their original music along with the music from the film. Featuring Elizabeth Clark, Jude Roberts, Kelleigh McKenzie, and Michael Veitch, performances will include clips and stories from their life-changing collaborations with the Holocaust Survivors.

About the songwriters:

Composer, harpist/pianist, vocalist, and performance artist Elizabeth Clark’s major works include her interdisciplinary project "Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera" which premiered in 2021, and the 2015 live-recorded album “Live at the Old Dutch Church.” She has performed with her world music ensemble 'Mamalama' at retreat centers and sanctuaries including the Omega Institute, Kripalu, and Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

Jude Roberts has combined contemporary music with roots of English, Irish and Appalachian folk music and touches of baroque and Romantic-era classical pieces and European folk/pop. He’s performed at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, and has toured throughout Europe.

Kelleigh McKenzie is a winner of NPR’s Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, her song "Gin" won the Independent Music Award for Best Americana Song in 2009 and was featured on her critically acclaimed album "Chances."

Michael Veitch’s song “Veteran’s Day” has been covered by Judy Collins. His latest album, “Wachtraum” (“wake dream” in German) broke the top 20 on the Folk Radio Charts with “Valentine’s Day” hitting number one. Previously his song, “Pledging Allegiance” reached #10 on the 2017 Folk/Americana charts. He’s played the Newport Folk Music Festival and Kerrville.

Stream this show live at caffelena.tv. Enjoy one week of access with your $5 live stream ticket.

This film honors the lives of four elderly Holocaust survivors who collaborated with songwriters to create original pieces of music reflecting upon each elders life experience. A project of Sagearts in partnership with JFS, the live concert of the created songs was performed for a live audience on May 5th, 2019 at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY.

‘We Remember’: Songs of Survivors on PBS 4/26/22