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In Flower Community: Poems and Musical Improvisations for Native Plants
In Flower Community is a celebration of community and ecological restoration that took place along Missouri Flat Creek near Downtown Pullman on September 18, 2022, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in a landscape transformed by native plants, music, and poetry. Hosted by EcoArts on the Palouse and WSU’s School of Music and Department of English and with support from Humanities Washington, “In Flower Community: Poems and Musical Improvisations for Native Plants” featured musical works by faculty and students inspired by native plant species focal to the creek restoration. All were invited to move freely about the site and lend their voices to reading the poems featured on botanical signage during the two-hour performance. This event corresponded with the 2022 WSU Common Reading Program selection, Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants and took place on the Grand Avenue Greenway near the footbridge opposite NW Ritchie Street.
Bandana Map of Plant Poem Locations and Instrumentalists
Listen to plant songs below
follow the flower and click the play buttons to hear music
Black Hawthorn
Golden Currant
Idaho Fescue
Red osier Dogwood
Common Yarrow
Nootka Rose
Jessica's Aster
Snowberry
Ponderosa Pine
Quaking Aspen
Choke Cherry
Common Camas
Sophia Tegart
Ruth Boden
Chris Wilson
César Haas
Keri McCarthy
Yii Kah Hoe
Darryl Singleton
Shannon Scott
Austin Cebuelske
Chris Dickey
Sarah Miller
AJ Miller
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