Event 

Trees of Hope performance

Monday 5 October, 2020
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

This performance will be delivered virtually.

In rural Zimbabwe there is no separation between community, music and landscape. This embodied perspective is fundamental to the thriving of a healthy ecosystem in which human beings are held together in community by music, dance, song and ceremony, and understand themselves as part of a living Earth.

Kennedy Chinyere and Denise Rowe are creative practitioners whose performances centre around traditional mbira music from rural Zimbabwe and include dialogue about how this music relates to health, land and community through ceremony and celebration. In 2019 they founded the Trees of Hope eco-educational project in the village where Kennedy grew up.

Kennedy is a musician, artist and craftsman; Denise is an internationally recognised artist with 20 years’ experience working with dance, movement, rhythm, spoken word and film. Both are passionate about the power of music and dance to bring us into authentic alignment with ourselves, the earth and each other. Their unique collaboration through performance, workshop and ceremonial space facilitates personal transformation and intercultural dialogue through music, dance and prayer.