Listening Ear session (Social Justice in the Arts and Media series)
Christian McEwen’s “The Listening Ear” is a joyous and subversive antidote to a world increasingly dominated by cell phones and other entrancing devices, reminding us of the special pleasure to be found in long, meandering, face-to-face conversation, most especially with friends and family. It gives everyone a real chance to be heard and serves as a metaphor for the entire series, as we invite ourselves and our audiences to practice radical listening.
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More details:
Christian McEwen will offer open listening sessions with us. Please do stop by. You can talk about anything that happens to be on your mind—or pick a question from the basket if you’d prefer.
Most sessions will be fairly brief: a memory, an anecdote, an observation. Conversations will not be recorded, but if you’d like to get in touch later on, you should feel free to do so.
In a world increasingly dominated by cell-phones and computers and other entrancing devices, the LISTENING EAR is intended as a joyous and subversive antidote, reminding us of the special pleasure to be found in long, meandering, face-to-face conversation, most especially with friends and family.
But there is more to it than that, especially now. Many of us have felt lonely and isolated in the long months since the pandemic began, and at the same time, woefully at odds with one another. We may be ready to explore a braver, more generous, more incisive kind of listening, not just with friends and allies, but with strangers too, and those with whom we disagree.
The LISTENING EAR helps initiate that conversation, and encourages all of us to keep on listening -- through the challenges, and out the other side. It gives everyone a real chance to be heard.
The EAR was inspired by the work of Bread & Puppet Theater, based in Glover, VT, and the BOOTH by peace activist Fran Peavey, who traveled the world with a small cloth sign reading “American Willing to Listen.”
Listening Ear session (Social Justice...
Date and Time
Saturday Mar 5, 2022
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM EST
Location
The LAVA Center
324 Main Street, Greenfield MA 01301
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