The Yerkes Future Foundation on March 13 announced a crowdfunding initiative on Kickstarter in support of its development of its proposed Play/Scape playground on the campus of Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay. Donations up to $500,000 will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Blair Family …
Blackbird Creative Lab participants rehearse a newly-created work on May 30 at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, part of a collaboration between Yerkes and four-time Grammy winner Eighth Blackbird at the inspirational intersection of art and science. The 2024 Blackbird Creative Lab at Yerkes Observatory has welcomed a variety of composers, along with ensembles AREPO, Sputter Box and Versa. Lab faculty and performers include musicians Lisa Kaplan, Matthew Duvall, Maiani da Silva, Aaron Wolff, Lina Andonovska, and Zachary Good, along with composers Viet Cuong and Jonathan Bailey Holland. Additionally, internationally-acclaimed artist Ann Hamilton and legendary puppeteer Blair Thomas are part of the Blackbird Creative Lab performances and programs this year.
Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab Director Garrett Obycki (left) and Lisa Kaplan, founder and executive director, are among the creative folks behind Blackbird Creative Lab, being held May 28-June 11 at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay. Limited seating is available for three upcoming weekend performances, new music world premier performances in Yerkes’ Great Dome on Friday, June 7 and Sunday, June 9, and two music and puppetry barn shows at Tiny Tempest Farm in Lake Geneva on Saturday, June 8.
Yerkes Observatory (pictured), 373 W. Geneva St. (State Hwy. 67) in Williams Bay, has collaborated with four-time Grammy winner Eighth Blackbird to host the May 28-June 11 Blackbird Creative Lab in Williams Bay at the cutting-edge intersection of art and science. Ticketed world premier public performances of works created out of the immersive, inspirational 2-week music lab are scheduled for this weekend, with Friday and Sunday evening concerts inside Yerkes’ Great Dome, and two off-site Saturday night performances at Tiny Tempest Farm, W4355 Mohawk Rd. in Lake Geneva.
LEFT: A total of six public new music concerts were scheduled in conjunction with the May 28-June 11 Blackbird Creative Lab, an arts-meets-science collaboration by Williams Bay-based Yerkes Observatory and four-time Grammy winner Eighth Blackbird. Here Blackbird Creative Lab participant Chris Salvito, a New Jersey native now living in Verona, Italy, decorates Yerkes’ Great Dome with balloons for a concert under Yerkes’ famed Great Refractor, the world’s largest refracting telescope. Ticketed public new music concerts in the Great Dome are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, June 7 and Sunday, June 9. ABOVE: Blackbird Creative Lab participants rehearse a newly-created work on May 30 at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, part of a collaboration between Yerkes and four-time Grammy winner Eighth Blackbird at the inspirational intersection of art and science. The 2024 Blackbird Creative Lab at Yerkes Observatory has welcomed a variety of composers, along with ensembles AREPO, Sputter Box and Versa. Lab faculty and performers include musicians Lisa Kaplan, Matthew Duvall, Maiani da Silva, Aaron Wolff, Lina Andonovska, and Zachary Good, along with composers Viet Cuong and Jonathan Bailey Holland. Additionally, internationally-acclaimed artist Ann Hamilton and legendary puppeteer Blair Thomas are part of the Blackbird Creative Lab performances and programs this year.
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Yerkes Observatory (pictured), 373 W. Geneva St. (State Hwy. 67) in Williams Bay, has collaborated with four-time Grammy winner Eighth Blackbird to host the May 28-June 11 Blackbird Creative Lab in Williams Bay at the cutting-edge intersection of art and science. Ticketed world premier public performances of works created out of the immersive, inspirational 2-week music lab are scheduled for this weekend, with Friday and Sunday evening concerts inside Yerkes’ Great Dome, and two off-site Saturday night performances at Tiny Tempest Farm, W4355 Mohawk Rd. in Lake Geneva.
LEFT: A total of six public new music concerts were scheduled in conjunction with the May 28-June 11 Blackbird Creative Lab, an arts-meets-science collaboration by Williams Bay-based Yerkes Observatory and four-time Grammy winner Eighth Blackbird. Here Blackbird Creative Lab participant Chris Salvito, a New Jersey native now living in Verona, Italy, decorates Yerkes’ Great Dome with balloons for a concert under Yerkes’ famed Great Refractor, the world’s largest refracting telescope. Ticketed public new music concerts in the Great Dome are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, June 7 and Sunday, June 9. ABOVE: Blackbird Creative Lab participants rehearse a newly-created work on May 30 at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, part of a collaboration between Yerkes and four-time Grammy winner Eighth Blackbird at the inspirational intersection of art and science. The 2024 Blackbird Creative Lab at Yerkes Observatory has welcomed a variety of composers, along with ensembles AREPO, Sputter Box and Versa. Lab faculty and performers include musicians Lisa Kaplan, Matthew Duvall, Maiani da Silva, Aaron Wolff, Lina Andonovska, and Zachary Good, along with composers Viet Cuong and Jonathan Bailey Holland. Additionally, internationally-acclaimed artist Ann Hamilton and legendary puppeteer Blair Thomas are part of the Blackbird Creative Lab performances and programs this year.
Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab Director Garrett Obycki (left) and Lisa Kaplan, founder and executive director, are among the creative folks behind Blackbird Creative Lab, being held May 28-June 11 at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay. Limited seating is available for three upcoming weekend performances, new music world premier performances in Yerkes’ Great Dome on Friday, June 7 and Sunday, June 9, and two music and puppetry barn shows at Tiny Tempest Farm in Lake Geneva on Saturday, June 8.
Blackbird Creative Lab participants rehearse a newly-created work on May 30 at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, part of a collaboration between Yerkes and four-time Grammy winner Eighth Blackbird at the inspirational intersection of art and science. The 2024 Blackbird Creative Lab at Yerkes Observatory has welcomed a variety of composers, along with ensembles AREPO, Sputter Box and Versa. Lab faculty and performers include musicians Lisa Kaplan, Matthew Duvall, Maiani da Silva, Aaron Wolff, Lina Andonovska, and Zachary Good, along with composers Viet Cuong and Jonathan Bailey Holland. Additionally, internationally-acclaimed artist Ann Hamilton and legendary puppeteer Blair Thomas are part of the Blackbird Creative Lab performances and programs this year.
