Regenerate!
May 17 @ 3:30pm | Coastal Roots Farm
The third, and newly expanded Regenerate! Eco‑Performance Fest —co‑produced with Coastal Roots Farm. Immersive outdoor Jewish-climate art performances on a beautiful farm Food, drink, music, community, and four original performances by Jewish Climate Artists for CA Incubator.
Experience the premiers of a new play At Rise with live music by Dan Schifrin unpacking Jewish mysticism; an earthy, vibrant dance piece about Eden and exile, Keepers of the Slow World by choreographer Livya Howard‑Yashar, a communal, ecological ritual happening in our food forest created by Michelle Shofet, and a fully improvised set of songs for and from the earth by mountain bard Heavy Meadow.
About the Jewish Climate Artists for CA Incubator
Regenerate! marks the culmination of the Farm’s nine‑month pilot program, the Jewish Climate Artists for California Incubator, with support from the Covenant Foundation. This initiative has nurtured performing artists from across our great state as they create work at the intersection of Judaism and the ecological crisis. The Incubator is the first fellowship of its kind promoting bold new art at the intersection of Jewish and climate wisdom.
Michelle Farang Shofet
Climate Ritual Happening & Group Experience Curator
Bio: Michelle is a multidisciplinary artist, landscape architect, and educator working at the intersection of nature, culture, and the spiritual realm. She is Co-Founding Director of Nocturnal Medicine, a nonprofit studio weaving together collective ritual, installation, and emotional choreography to tap into the shadows of the cultural soul. She has led courses on sustainable design, climate consciousness and eco-spirituality at The New School and Columbia University.
At Regenerate!: Landscape architect and "ritual happenings" creator Michelle Shofet reveals an immersive group experience in the middle of the Food Forest where you journey from climate grief to healing.
Heavy Meadow
Singer/Songwriter
Bio: Eco-spiritual bard Heavy Meadow has been singing the song of The Mountains since his years living in West Virginia. He’s released two studio albums (The Fool and The Magician, with 20 more on the way…) and is working on a folk opera. By day, he runs Groupmuse, a classical, jazz, and roots music house concert network he founded in 2012. They’ve organized more than 10,000 groupmuses since then.
At Regenerate!: Mountain Bard Singer Heavy Meadow, together with collaborator Jake Chapman, forms the band Brother Man, and will present "Hear This Hereness"—a mostly improvised show of songs and stories.
Livya Howard-Yashar
Choreographer
Bio: Livya is a dancer, choreographer, educator and musician born and raised in Los Angeles. Her work explores the deep inseparability between music and dance from various cultural perspectives. Livya’s work has centered around movement and music as a means of understanding and expressing cultural identity, enhancing relationship skills, and engaging in social action.
At Regenerate!: Choreographer Livya Howard-Yashar offers an earthy, vibrant group dance piece exploring exile and the Garden of Eden.
Dan Schifrin
Playwright
Bio: Dan is a playwright, fiction writer, and conversation designer working at the intersection of creativity and community. Through his classes at Stanford University; his podcast “Art & Other People”; and theater experiences like “Sweet & Sour” and “Marie Kondo and Martin Buber Walk Into a Bar,” Dan creates space for people to plant their next crop of new ideas.
At Regenerate!: Playwright Dan Schifrin shares a selection from At Rise, his funny new play unpacking Jewish mysticism, complete with live music