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Saturday, February 3, 10-4pm
From Sophie:
My Here and Now Mandalas 2024 project centers on themes of peace and transformation. In partnership with the City of Keene’s Parks and Recreation Department’s Annual Winter Festival in Robinhood Park, I will create a series of vibrant sand mandalas on the frozen earth to celebrate the sacred in nature and respond to the park’s wildlife. I will also perform with Peterborough-based Weathermakers Dance Co and local musicians Ezra and Owen Landis to activate the drawing installation for a 15-minute performance at 3PM. I have designed more than 30 wooden stencils for community members to use in contributing to my mandala drawings and there will be accessible hands-on art activities at the pavilion. Here and Now Mandalas 2024 invites visitors to witness the transformation of Robinhood Park’s unique environment and amphitheater, celebrating the winter landscape and demonstrating how mandalas can help us focus on the “now.”
Schedule of Events
10-1:30pm
Downtown Keene, Rail Trail
Hands-on Drawing Community Sand Mandalas –
Behind the Co-Op and along the Bike path in Downtown Keene
Accessible Family Mandala creating
3pm
Robin Hood Park at the Amphitheater
Live Dance & Music performance by the Weather Makers Dance Co. & Ezra & Owen Landis
Here and Now Mandalas is presented by Friends of Public Art, Arts Alive, and the City of Keene, and is supported by grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the Putnam Foundation, and the Kingsbury Foundation in New Hampshire. MaXT Makerspace in Peterborough, NH is hosting me as an artist-in-residence in the creation of this project.