RING WILD //
Concert Series
ARTARCTICA //
Festival and Residency
RingWild Concert Series is an international project exploring the relationship between human beings and the natural environment through music. Alicia organized and performed the first concert in East Troy, WI, USA in 2014. Each concert is uniquely created for the place and people involved Common themes are community, sustainable living and food, indigenous wisdom, and active listening. If you have an idea for a RingWild Concert Experience, please get in touch!
Examples: 'Set me free; Music in the Food Forrest'
(Riverton, New Zealand),
Music, Corn and Community (East Troy WI),
Røtter, en helhetig konsert opplevelse (Oslo, Norway).
For more information: www.facebook.com/ringwild/
artArctica is community of artists with a passion for the Arctic. Alicia co-founded the Finnish organization artArctica ry 2014, and has since served as co-artistic director for artArctica Festival 2016 and artArctica Festival and Residency 2017, artArctica is currently organizing a range of new projects including the 2017 art/science ecology lab, an arctic art CD, and planning for artArctica festival 2019.
For more information: www.artarctica.com
WERBECK //
School of Uncovering the Voice
Music &
Other
Matters
HELSINKI PARK ART //
Concert Series
The projects described below give an overview of current and recent work. Most of them have been developing for a long time, and will continue to grow and transform as inspiration or opportunities develop.
Please take contact for further questions, ideas or collaboration proposals for any one of the projects listed!
"…the human voice needs no training, it is already there, finished and perfect as an entity. What the voice is waiting for is liberation. We should speak of freeing the voice, or better yet uncovering the voice, and not voice-training." ~ Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström
Alicia began her study of the School of Uncovering the Voice under the direction of Christiaan Boele in 2008, and has since studied as an apprentice in Germany, Finland, and the USA, attaining a Werbeck Singer's Diploma from Snellman korkeakoulu (Helsinki, Finland) in 2014. Alicia currently performs internationally, and teaches students in tradition of the School of Uncovering the Voice, and will complete her official teaching certification in November 2017. In Finland, Alicia often performs with her classmate, soprano Heini Ernamo. Please take contact for singing lessons, or performances!
A 2013 article, which tells the story of how Alicia ended up in the School of Uncovering the Voice.
Helsinki Park Art was a summer concert series hosted by the City of Helsinki, and produced by the production company ExClaM! in 2014. Alicia worked as an intern for ExClaM!'s 2013 concert series 'Summer Day Concerts at the Music House', and then as producer for Helsinki Park Art.
MAAVIVA //
Institute for Interconnectedness
MaaViva promotes the education and practice of people to live in integration, interconnection and harmony with the earth, plants, animals, and each other through best practices of agriculture, medicine, water, shelter, energy, and waste cycling. Alicia is on MaaViva's board of directors, and helps facilitate creative projects. 2016 projects included cultural exchange in Kenya, a eco-building celebration with ONG CASA in Edea, Cameroon, and the American Dream Conference in Milwaukee, WI, USA.
More information: www.maaviva.org
ACTIVE REWILDING //
Workshop
Active ReWilding was a workshop developed by Alicia Burns in collaboration with Laonikos Psimikakis Chalkokondylis, and presented at Ecomusicologies 2014. It explores musical collaboration in and with the environment, through improvisation. The focus is on listening, awareness. The aim is to explore means for increasing awareness of/within a natural landscape and how that affects ways in which we connect to our environment and each other.