Releases
FUNDING RECIPIENT: Burning Wild, Burining Free event: a ritual celebration through theater and storytelling. Facilitated by San Francisco Bay Artists + Theatre Makers Deborah Eliezer + Noor Adabachi / Aviva Arts at 13 Moons Ranch, Carbondale, Colorado. November 19, 2022
CO-PRODUCER + FUNDING RECIPIENT: A Call to Rewild event to celebrate + fund local + nonlocal projects + performance artists, including the Oniya Bison Rewilding Project, Ariana "Air" Gradow, Dria Thornton, Jimmy Byrne, Pam Rosenthal / Bonte Lane, Porcupine Singers, Sweet Root + DJ Dustin Eli at 13 Moons Ranch, Carbondale, Colorado. September 17, 2022
PRODUCER + STORY: Introduction trailer to the film Rewild Our Soul with Cinematography + Direction by Anders Carlson about the return of the Bison to the American Plains based on the work of Tara Sheahan of the Oniya Bison Rewilding Project + Oriana Mobieus of 13 Moons Ranch with Music by Dirtwire + Black Lodge Singers of the Blackfeet Nation
PRODUCER, DIRECTOR + CO-WRITER: Staged reading with original music for The Middle World musical reading starring the Marble Charter School Players. Words + Story by Alexandria Basso & Nicole Beinstein, Music by Jessa Young, Co-produced with Oriana Moebius of 13 Moons Ranch + Gina Mile of The Marble Charter School, April 14 + 15, 2023 at the Redstone Inn, Redstone, Colorado.
PRODUCER: Social Media takeover by Wanjiru Caroline Kabue from Nairobi, Kenya (2 months, beginning in December 2022): perspective of youth empowerment + self-expression in her community - with the intention of rolling out similar opportunities in other countries.
PRODUCER: Social Media takeover by Aziz Muhammed from Ghana (1- 2 months, beginning July 2023): perspective of youth empowerment + self-expression, sustainability + storytelling on his communal land, which he calls The Land of Peace
CO-GRANTWRITER: Water Project Curriculum funded by the Pitkin County Healthy Rivers Board for the Marble Charter School
CO-PRODUCER: Development of the Mud Puppets bison puppet as seen at Halloween on Redstone Boulevard as well as the New Year Celebration (12/31/23) at 13 Moons Ranch in support of The Land of Peace
Social Media Takeover from Nairobi, Kenya by Caroline Wanjiru Kabue
Airstream Design for the Oniya Bison Rewilding Project by muralist Elizabeth Arguello
Tara Sheahan at the Oniya Bison Rewilding Project in La Jara, Colorado
A local student as John Osgood in the musical reading of The Middle World
Bison Puppet created by Soozie Lindbloom / Mud Puppets at Redstone Boulvard's Halloween Parade
Marble Charter School students in partnership with Wild Rose Education for the Water Curriculum Grant Project funded by Pitkin County Healthy River Board
Sarah Johnson of Wild Rose Education in Ghana connecting with the Land of Peace sharing knowledge and customs
Social Media Takeover from the Land of Peace on Lake Volta in Ghana with Aziz Muhammed
The first TST website designed + developed by Suventure, Bangalore, India
August 2020 - November 2022
Original designs and logo by Priya Kral (below)
Banner Photo: Marja O'Connor