Join our ritual on Feb. 28, {Fertile Land, Fertile Body} 🌱 Spotlight on Layale Chaker 🎻 🎟️ /openartsjenshyu
Composer and violinist Layale Chaker shapes a sound world of crossings, bridging contemporary classical music, jazz, Arabic traditions, and improvisation. A USA Artist Fellow and Jerome Hill Fellow, she creates large-scale works exploring myth, displacement, and memory, with premieres at Venice Biennale, Spoleto Festival, and beyond. 📸Anna Rakhvalova
{Fertile Land, Fertile Body} is dedicated to my mother, Ana Lay Shyu, and all mothers, mothers-to-be, and mothers-not-to-be
This work-in-progress explores the loss of mother nature, of mother, of motherhood, and genocide’s effects on our earth and our fertility.
Feb. 28, 2026 @ 8pm ET
Work-in-Progress performance of Fertile Land, Fertile Body - on series curated by
@soomdawg @jenshyu (composition, voice, gayageum, Taiwanese moon lute, piano, movement)
@layalechaker (violin, voice, movement)
@alexandria_dewalt (flute, voice, movement)
@melaniedyer.viola (viola, lo voice, movement)
@elizabethkatehk (cello, voice, movement)
@l.esley (drums, voice, movement)
At
@lpchoreography ‘s amazing Open Arts Studio
68 Jay Street, Studio 605A, 6th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Thank you Laura and Soomi!!
The development of Fertile Land, Fertile Body was made possible, in part, by funds provided by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) crsny.org
@crsnyorg as well as by Shifting Foundation. Special thanks to
@christopher_pelham &
@yasukokasaki ; and to
@mutualmentorshipformusicians for introducing me to Layale (Cohort 3!) ❤️ #fertility #fertilityjourney #stopwar #climatejustice
