Fall Sound Garden

Minneapolis-based award-winning Composer/Director JG Everest comes to Fridley as Artist In Residence to develop and present a site-specific “Fall Sound Garden,” performance installation at Manomin Park, 6666 E. River Rd, Fridley, as part of a four-part suite of site-specific “sound gardens” composed for each of the four seasons, at four different outdoor locations around Minnesota.  

The Manomin Park/Rice Creek Sound Garden is a family-friendly free outdoor event open to all ages and will take place from Noon-5 pm on Sunday, Sept. 30. The Sound Garden will celebrate the coming of Autumn, and the history, geography, and ecology of Manomin Park, Rice Creek, and the Mississippi River, at the time of year when this sacred place traditionally served as annual hunting and harvest grounds for the wild rice harvest by both Dakota and Ojibwe people for centuries. The Sound Garden will feature a temporary sound installation, combining live musicians and a small choir with 40 small, battery-powered remote speakers distributed throughout the park.

The event will feature other site-specific art elements created by local community members through a series of four free outdoor community Art + Nature workshops held onsite at Manomin Park in the week leading up to the event. Each workshop will consist of a guided nature walk followed by art-making activities led by teaching artists in each discipline: Poetry, Dance, Sculpture, and Sound/Music. Workshops will be free and open to people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. 

Info: waveletscreative.org/sound-garden-art-nature-workshops.