Songs of Arboreal Kin: An Eco Musical Theater Workshop with Gelsey Bell
Join us at the Broadway Climate Summit for a musical theater workshop with Gelsey Bell, author and composer of the experimental opera mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning].
Songs of Arboreal Kin: An Eco Musical Theater Workshop with Gelsey Bell
Dive into the music of mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] with a workshop to sing a group version of "Bristlecone Pines," a song about trees with long lifespans. The song imagines a thriving possible future for some of the planet's most ancient beings, illustrating the power of stories with non-human protagonists. The acapella five-part song includes harmony singing, vocal soundscape, and a round. We will then sing the song in the culminating evening performance a couple hours later.
Capacity for workshop is capped at 15 people.
This workshop is part of the inaugural Broadway Climate Summit, a one-day summit in NYC, bringing together theater professionals and climate advocates to reimagine an industry that prioritizes sustainability, climate storytelling, and theater as a cultural movement for our planet.
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Schedule: Monday, September 22nd
4:00 - 5:00pm Workshop - learn the song
If you choose to sing in the evening's culminating performance:
6:45pm Call Time
7 - 8:30pm Culmination Performance - a roughly 5-minute performance together with the group, sharing the song you just learned!
Gelsey Bell is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary performance creator, composer, and vocalist. Her recent works include the experimental opera mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] (2023), commissioned by the HERE Arts Center and presented in the Prototype Festival; Cairns (2020), a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery; the musical one-act “Archaeopteris” (2025), commissioned by Wet Ink; and thingNY’s collaboratively written opera Mouthful (2024). She has released multiple albums, including the recent mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning], Skylighght, and Heads Together. Performance highlights include Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway) and Ghost Quartet, Robert Ashley’s Celestial Excursions and Improvement, Darius Jones’s Samesoul Maker, Alaina Ferris’s The Lydian Gale Parr, and Aaron Siegel’s Rainbird. www.gelseybell.com
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