THE BOND OF LIVE THINGS EVERYWHERE
presented in partnership with the New York Botanical Garden

September 17–November 6, 2022
10 a.m.–6 p.m. | At the New York Botanical Garden

Visit: https://www.nybg.org/event/the-bond-of-live-things-everywhere/

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Curated by poet and scholar Joshua Bennett, The Bond of Live Things Everywhere stages Black poetry and performance in the open air, in close proximity to the water and the trees, as well as the live things that evade such proper names.

Inspired in part by “The Clearing”—a green space cut deep in the woods where a free Black community finds grace in Toni Morrison’s Beloved—this installation explores the bond between Black freedom dreams and stewardship of the Earth. We share this combination of poetry and music in pursuit of a collective vision, an electric conviviality, rooted in the Black environmental imagination.

This is a call to The Clearing. An invitation to encounter the planet we call home on new, and more liberating, terms.

Twelve poems will be installed along the Mitsubishi Wetland Trail, accompanied by an immersive soundscape featuring audio recordings of the poems and music by Black performing artists.