Dear beloved newsletter subscribers, (there are almost 100 of you now!)
If you are around my millieu i.e. Netherlands, I warmly invite you on June 28th to come hear the results of an artist residency with Intro in Situ, alongside my colleague Sachit Ajmani.
I will present a short film about bones, dinosaurs, and saints, with puppets and a live soundtrack. Then after Sachit’s performance, we will do a little listening party to the WIP album.
All proceeds from this performance go to UNRWA .
You can read some of my process notes for the residency here.
If you can’t make it, you can catch Selim Aydin (low brass avatar) and I improvising on some gregorian chants from the Heuvelland on June 15th at Bankastudios (link for details).
And if you are from far away, perhaps you will enjoy my little publication in Cantemus, a canadian amateur gregorian chant journal.
French (link) – Page 3
English (link) – Page 3
What I didn’t mention in that journal is the link of St. Hubert between Maastricht (where I live now) and Québecoise fried chicken…. if you are curious then don’t be shy.
And a note on curiosity: if any major tragedy occurs in this world and you are surprised about it, perhaps it is time you ask why your curiosity hasn’t led you to at least trying to understand the situation long before the catalyst of said tragedy.
We are taught in the West that the Middle East is “too complicated to understand” but honestly, if somebody tells you something is “too complicated” wouldn’t our curious human nature be trying to understand?
You don’t have to be an expert in geopolitics to be curious.
If your curiosity is unaffected by almost 80 years of occupation but only awakened by genocide, I am sorry but that is part of the problem.
Ignoring things that are “too complicated” to understand, instead of working to understand them, is violent and dangerous.
SO BE CURIOUS.
With love,
J
J(ulia) Warren 