Title: Cairns

Venue and Format: Soundwalk at Green-Wood Cemetery

Innovation: Socially distanced walk in which participants download audio tracks on a mobile device and listen to them while walking in-person or simply listen at home and let the audio transport them there.

Photo by Joseph White

Cairns is a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery that leads the listener on a solitary poetic journey. Written and narrated by HARP Artist Gelsey Bell with music by Bell and composer Joseph White, Cairns is being created for the social-distancing New Yorker to meditate on the land we inhabit, sink into an arboreal temporality, and unearth the stories of a few historic trailblazers.

THEATRE/COMPANY: HERE

ARTISTS: Writer: Gelsey Bell

Music: Gelsey Bell and Joseph White

DATE OF PREMIERE: July 31, 2020

COUNTRY: USA

LANGUAGE: English

CATEGORY: Soundwalk, Site-Specific

SHOW WEBSITE

REVIEWS:

Soloski, Alex. “For These Shows, Take a Hike.” The New York Times. September 11, 2020.

W eil, Abigail. “Gelsey Bell’s Cairns: Sanctuary and Renewal in the Cemetery.” The Theatre Times. August 15, 2020.

Shaw, Helen. “These Two New Theater Works Need You to Listen.” Vulture, August 5, 2020.

delarue. “Meet Some People in a Legendary Brooklyn Graveyard this Month with Singer Gelsey Bell.” New York Music Daily. August 2, 2020.

McCall, Tulis. “Cairns, a Self-Guided Soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery.” Front Row Center, July 31, 2020.

CAIRNS Trailer from HERE on Vimeo.