An immersive sunset poetry concert.

As students of beauty and complexity, we care for a patch of land on Kaurna Country in Myponga. As we attempt to revegetate 107ha of earth, and create a place for collective healing, we are learning about uncertainty. More than that, we are being invited to lean into hope. To witness what isn't yet here.

Come traverse this live landcare project and arrive at a concert under the clouds. Immerse in poetic meditations on the mysterious choreography of the more-than-human world. A performance to invoke the emergence of possibility, and turn towards the unseen. Written by Tessa Leon, with live music from Adam Whiting. Afterwards, return up the hill for a cup of tea together, as the sky moves from light to dark.

The day-blind stars is an orientation towards all the light we cannot see. Are you listening, hope?

Credits:

Poetry by Tessa Leon. Music by Adam Whiting. Cartography by Triton Tunis-Mitchell. Supported by Nature Festival. Event title borrowed from poem: 'The Peace of Wild Things', by Wendell Berry. Image credit: Kyahm Ross

Part love, part compost. Part prayer, part epitaph.

Ephemera is an intimate poetic immersion of sound and storytelling. With words by award-winning writer and performer Tessa Leon, and guitar music from acclaimed musician Adam Whiting, this is a confluence of two lifelong artists returning to their crafts from distant pasts.

Suspended in the spaces between silence and meaning, this exquisite de-composition invites you to ponder mortality and mathematics, mythology and maggots, modern romance and emojis. It is a life-affirming and spellbinding reminder of the piercing beauty of the temporary.

Ephemera premiered at the 2023 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Set inside the Museum of Economic Botany for The Botanic Gardens.