Siegmar Zacharias and Lucy Powell invite you to stay awake and bear witness together through this late summer night. Preparing food and shelter, taking a night walk in the woods and with plenty of time for stillness and quiet reflection around the fire, we will explore ways of expanding our capacity for dwelling in uncertainty, staying with the trouble and sitting with discomfort – using somatic meditation practices, plant wisdom, the superpowers of compassion, curiosity and solidarity – in communion with the other creatures of the night.

We will work with prompts for sensing and reflection throughout the night. We invite you to think about who or what you want to dedicate this vigil to. Collectively we can stay present to it.

As this event will be also an experience founded on trust, we kindly ask participants to drop us an email with a few lines about themselves and why they would like take part.

Please register HERE to participate.

SIEGMAR ZACHARIAS (RO/DE) is a performance artist and researcher, trained death doula and herbalist. She works with performances, immersive installations, discursive encounters and curations that deal with the generative dynamics of transformation. With technologies of artistic and social practice she engages questions around agency, abolition, and metabolic intimacies. Learning from uncontrollable material like smoke, slime, drool, nervous system, death and grieving, she collaborates with humans and non-humans. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in theatres and festivals, in galleries and conferences, in greenhouses, in the forest and up in the sky. https://siegmarzacharias.com/

LUCY POWELL (UK/DE) co-founded HILDEGARD end of 2022 as part of her artistic practice and wider commitment to inner and outer activism in the service of social-ecological transformation. She works outdoors, collaboratively and in participative formats, integrating meditation and mindfulness practices. From 2019–2021 she collaborated with Ally Bisshop on the more-than-human artistic research project HOLOBIOSONICS and from 2011–2017 with Sara Barnes on Satellite Salon for art-science conversations in Berlin and Edinburgh, as well with Ella Ziegler on Salon Universitas at Kassel University and Kunsthochschule.
https://lucy-powell.com/