sweet auburn | 2023 volume i
Carolyn Oliver
Carolyn is the author of The Alcestis Machine ( Acre Books , forthcoming 2024 ) and Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble ( University of Utah Press , 2022 ; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry ), as well as three chapbooks . Her award-winning poems have appeared in more than 20 journals and anthologies . For her residency , Carolyn will write and recite a polyphonic poem ( aka a long lyric poem ) about Mount Auburn . www . carolynoliver . net
Eden Rayz
Eden is a Boston-based composer , cellist , and vocalist . Her debut solo album , Corpus Vice , self-released in May 2022 , was written in response to climate grief . She is the front person for death metal bands Angel Grinder and Scaphism , and has recorded and performed with the bands Moon Tooth and Third Eye Blind . For her residency , Eden will reconstruct the recently removed Bigelow Chapel organ pipes into a new instrument which will be played like a gamelan . She will write a set of original compositions for the new organ-like instrument , similar to Buddhist death awareness meditations .
Debra Wise & Eliza Fichter
Debra is a theater artist with over 40 years of experience as an actor , director , playwright , educator , producer , and puppeteer . She co-founded Underground Railway Theater in 1979 and toured a socially engaged repertoire for three decades . In 2007 , she co-founded Central Square Theater , helming award-winning productions as Artistic Director . Eliza is a theater maker and visual artist . She has taught theater workshops across the country in museum galleries , public schools , performing arts centers , prisons , assisted living facilities , and military bases . For their residency , this mother-daughter duo will create a series of audio stories crafted from interviews with people connected to Mount Auburn . The audio stories will explore how and why we talk with each other about death and with whom we have those conversations . www . elizafichter . com
Artists pictured left to right :
Swati Biswas Resa Blatman Billy Hickey Carolyn Oliver Eden Rayz Debra Wise Eliza Fichter
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