Ləléʔnəŋ Listening-With

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Lyssa Pearson, “Shores of Salish Sea,” 2023

(courtesy of the Gallery)

Ləléʔnəŋ Listening-With is a six-week series of workshops, conversations, and outdoor events that give space and time for asking how our personal, ancestral, and professional experiences and realities affect how we listen, and how we sound, specifically within the territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples. Ləléʔnəŋ Listening-With recognizes that artists and all community members have work to do with respect to the climate emergency, social justice, and a meaningful commitment to respectful relations with the original peoples of these lands.

Immersed in the overwhelming sounds of machines echoing within paved environments, those of us who have come from other places might not be aware of the traces, memories, echoes, and stories that still vibrate through these lands, skies, and waters.

Is it possible to come together over a series of gatherings to begin a process of change, reconnection and to strengthen relationships through listening and soundmaking?

Some of the questions we are asking in Ləléʔnəŋ Listening-With:

• What unique ways do the land, rocks, and waters of this place resonate, vibrate, and sound within themselves? How might they influence how we listen and how we sound? Are we eavesdropping? How can listening, sounding, and artmaking benefit the people and other beings of this place?
• How do people from different backgrounds, orientations, and cultures listen and sound within their respective positions?
• What techniques of listening and attention do sonic practitioners already use in their daily lives and practices? How do these inform their relation to these questions?

Saturday, April 20, 2024 Online launch of Listening Practices, audio and video files;

• Featuring xwe'í [arrive, arriving, come here, have come, get here, get back], an audio offering from Dylan Robinson that asks participants to listen on the land, made for Listening-With, an invitation to make sounds with Hayalthkin’geme Carey Newman's Earth Drum, and scores for independent listening.
• Links to the associated audio and video files will be provided on April 20, 2024.