seeds festival is an interdisciplinary arts and ecology festival gathering artists, community activists, scientists, spiritual leaders, permaculture practitioners, and more for ten days at Earthdance, an artist-run workshop, residency, and retreat center located in the Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts. seeds festival investigated arts and ecological research from a variety of fields of inquiry. It proposes several notions: that the intelligence of embodiment has specific offerings for our understanding of ecology, that artistic practice is a valuable tool and vehicle for this research, that when experiential research is shared, discussed, and archived, it indeed can benefit from and for this interaction, and that socially engaged research can mutually support the arts and the regenerative practices for the earth.
The festival ran from 2008 - 2016, with several years hiatus.
Each iteration of the festival had a component of artistic residencies, tailored to the theme of the festival.
Artistic activists and academics in residence included:
2016: Marbles Jumbo Radio, Isa Leal, John Schade, Lailye Weidman, Melissa Tuckey, mayfield brooks, Cara Judea Alhadeff, Laressa Dickey, JoAnna Mendl Shaw, Bibi Calderaro, Cindy Stevens, Colleen Bartley, Deborah Black, Joe Dumit, Marlon Barrios Solano, Pedro Alejandro, and Paige Tighe.
2010: The BodyCartography Project, Margot Lystra and Margit Galanter, and others...
2009: Camille Renarhd, Chris Peck, Emily Moore, Gabriel Forestieri, Kayoko Nakajima, Kythe Heller, Lailye Weidman, Marissa Perel, Mark “Moti” Zemelman, Sakura Shimada.
2008: Bruce Hooke, Bryce Beverlin, Claudia Wittman, Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Kate Bailey, Marlon Barrios-Solano, Melinda Buckwalter, Tamara Ashley, Terre Unité Parker, and Jill Sigman.
