Name: Community Day
Start: 2020-10-24T12:30:00-04:00
End: 2020-10-24T15:00:00-04:00
Location: The Watermill Center

Community Day

Founded in 1992 by avant-garde visionary and theater director Robert Wilson, The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities located on Long Island’s East End. With an emphasis on creativity and collaboration, Watermill ​integrates performing arts practice with resources from the humanities, research from the sciences and inspiration from the visual arts. ​The Center is unique within the global landscape of experimental artistic practice and regularly convenes the brightest minds from across disciplines to do, in Wilson’s words, “what no one else is doing.”

The Watermill Center

Join The Watermill Center for an afternoon of workshops, live music, and scavenger hunts!

Join The Watermill Center in celebrating our reopening during our autumn Community Day! Explore our ten-acre property while searching for 26 items curated amongst our collection of over 100 art works in our gardens during the “Watermill Art Quest”. Join Watermill Alum Katie Down for a Sound Painting movement workshop while enjoying light refreshments, including free coffee and hot chocolate from Hampton Coffee, free cider and donuts from The Milk Pail, and live music by Native American flutist, Eric LaPointe, of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.Watermill Alum Katie Down has taught music workshops in opera, songwriting, protest songs, instrument building, and improvisation in schools throughout New York. She is a teaching artist at Orchestra of St. Luke&#x27;s, BAM, City Lore, and Arts Connection, and was the Education Director at Amas Musical Theatre, and Curriculum Director for the Boston Music Education Collaborative. Down is part of an Arts in Residency program at a private school in Manhattan where she has led Sound Painting workshops, facilitated an after-school ukulele club. She has taught improvisation workshops throughout Europe, including Kosovo, Macedonia, and Croatia, as well as in South Africa and Ecuador. Sound Painting is a workshop and conducting language devised by composer and musician, Walter Thompson. Artist Katie Down will introduce participants to this gestural language used to direct group improvisations. Together participants will experiment with movement, sound and imagery in a safe and socially-distant space on The Watermill Center’s South Lawn. Sound Painting is fun, easy to learn, and has been taught all over the world with refugees, differently abled populations, seniors, and children of all ages.Admission is free. Advanced registration is required to limit the number of guests on-site. Space is limited.The Sound Painting Workshop is recommended for children ages six and up, who must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. PLEASE NOTE: The event takes place outdoors, so we strongly encourage proper footwear and attire. Dogs are not allowed. Masks are mandatory and we ask that all guests adhere to strict social distancing guidelines. Refreshments will be provided, but it is encouraged for guests to bring their own water bottles.

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