𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗠 (𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄) 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟬 「 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 」 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 • 𝟰:𝟬𝟬 - 𝟲:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝗞𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘇𝗮 (𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘆) 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝘁 UCSC Music Department McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz Featuring 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗮 @rod_barriga 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗵𝗹 @_sshhanna_ 𝗠𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗲 @mm.maybee 𝗧𝗶𝗻 𝗬𝗶 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗴 @chelsea.killer_queen 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 MOTM presents Episode 0: Music with the Meadow that invites the audience to “listen with the meadow,” asks what it feels/sounds/looks like, and considers how the meadow reciprocally influences our listening. Episode 0 features various outdoor engagements. The audience will be invited to experience “Piano Liberado“ (Liberated Piano) by pianist and sound artist Tin Yi Chelsea Wong, a dispersed performance “Spaces I” by composer Rodrigo Barriga, meadow-tracing listening walk “Imprints and Echoes” by composer, performer, and sound artist Shanna Sordahl, listening-to-the-sky multisensory meditation “Blue Magic in the Air: DEEP SKY EMBRACE” by geographer, writer, and multimedia player Maven Maybee, and hundreds of audience-activated bells “Bell Bringers,” presented by Burrow of Investigation. Event and accessibility info: tinyurl.com/motm-eps-0 Episode 0 is curated by Marc Perez, Lukáš Janata, Kev Young (Guest Curators), Ben Leeds Carson (Co-director of April in Santa Cruz (AiSC) Creative Music Festival 2026), and Jay Afrisando (Lead Curator). Organized in partnerships with the AiSC Creative Music Festival 2026 and UC Climate Action Arts Network (UC CAAN). Music on the Meadow (MOTM) is an ecosystem beyond a festival. A site for low-key (but not low-quality or low-impact) celebration, gathering, mourning, remembering, rethinking, unlearning. Image description: MOTM Episode 0 event poster with white and dark texts on a background of the UCSC Great Meadow with a glimpse of the sea under the clear blue sky.

Meet our collaborators from UC San Diego, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman! (@ucsdvisarts ) (@ucsdcgj ) Teddy Cruz is a Professor of Public Culture and Spatial Practice in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is known internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana/San Diego border, advancing border neighborhoods as sites of cultural production from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing, and public space. Recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture in 1991, his honors include the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in 2011, the 2013 Architecture Award from the US Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2018 Vilcek Prize in Architecture. Cruz is a principal in Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego investigating borders, informal urbanization, civic infrastructure and public culture. Fonna Forman (JD, PhD Chicago) is a Professor of Political Theory and Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego.Trained as a political theorist, Forman’s research focuses on climate justice, borders, migration and informal urbanization. Forman is co-chair of the University of California President’s Global Climate Leadership Council, and until 2019 served on the Global Citizenship Commission, advising United Nations policy on human rights in the 21st century. Forman is a principal in Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego investigating borders, informal urbanization, civic infrastructure and public culture. With UCSD climate scientist Ram Ramanathan, she also leads the University of California’s climate education initiative, Bending the Curve: Climate Solutions, adopted by universities and agencies across California and the world.

Meet our collaborator from UC Santa Barbara, Sarah Rosalena! (@sarah_rosalena ) Sarah Rosalena is a weaver and Associate Professor of Art at UC Santa Barbara in Computational Craft and Haptic Media. Throughout her career, she has built a reputation for breaking boundaries through traditional handicraft practices rooted in Indigenous cosmologies, shaped by the convergence of machine processes, natural materials, and her hand. She has received the United States Artists Award, Creative Capital Award, the LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant, the Artadia Award, and the Steve Wilson Award from Leonardo, the International Society for Art, Sciences, and Technology. She has had solo museum exhibitions with LACMA, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, and was featured in six exhibitions for Getty PST: Art Science Collide.

Meet our collaborator from UC Merced, Patricia Vergara! (@vergaraps ) Patricia Vergara is a musician, music producer, and ethnomusicologist who focuses on the linkages between musical practices, the politics of place, mobility, and memory in contexts of class, race, and gender struggles, and political violence. She is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, and her current book project examines processes of musical migrations between Mexico and Colombia, musical meaning, belonging, and political conflict. Focused on Merced County and its diverse communities, Vergara’s ongoing community-engaged research project the Soundscapes of Merced highlights how we can learn about a place and its peoples through their musical practices, sonic environments, and memories of sound and music. It is set to launch in Spring 2026 as a permanent collection at Calisphere, the University of California’s digital archive. She performs regularly on piano with various local groups, and most recently recorded for the album Canciones del San Joaquin (2025) as a member of the Latin Jazz group Rumba 32, a project by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts.

“To mobilize and foster climate action we are engaging people - UC Merced and high school students, community activists and artists - to collectively write songs that express their feelings and thoughts about the climate crisis and tell the local stories of those most affected by it. We produce audio and video recordings that we hope to share widely.” Patricia Vergara (@vergaraps ) UC Merced

Meet our collaborator from UC Riverside, Latipa! (@memoryandresistance ) Latipa is a media artist, film director, publisher, professor, and the founder and executive director of the Memory and Resistance Laboratory (MEM-RES), a research initiative to advance emergent practices for memory work in the twenty-first century.  For the past 25 years, Latipa has worked across the poetics of cinema, transmedia art installations, books, and grassroots organizing to facilitate intergenerational healing, archival futurisms, and sovereign mediatic forms. Her work with the Memory and Resistance Laboratory understands memory work as interplanetary in scope and transhistorical in dimension, a project of radical poetics and communal reclamation in the wake of racial capitalism, settler colonial warfare, occupation, dispossession, forced assimilation, and genocide.  MEM-RES’ mandate is to develop living archives that attend to the care, nourishment, and well-being of communities across generations. With MEM-RES, Latipa has developed a collective publishing imprint, Communities of Memory, a grassroots initiative to publish uncompromising books that shatter and differently envision the bounds of form, feeling, concept, and politics. Latipa is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

“The Memory and Resistance Laboratory is developing projects that situate Indigenous Land Back as central to all discussions on ecology and climate crisis.” Latipa (@memoryandresistance ) UC Riverside

Please join us this Friday: Climate Action Architecture | Author Roundtable | 1 May 2026, 12-1 pst (on Zoom) Join us for a conversation with Tatjana Schneider, co-author of Architecture Is Climate, and Brett Snyder, author of California Changing: 50 Sites of Climate Change in Augmented Reality. They will share insights from their recent publications and be joined by Karolina Karlic (UC Santa Cruz) and Jadzia Pho (UC Davis) for a moderated discussion. The University of California Climate Action Arts Network (UC CAAN) mobilizes the arts as a vital partner in climate research, public scholarship, and community engagement across the UC system. This event is part of the UC CAAN initiative, led at UC Davis by glenda Drew and Brett Snyder. To attend via Zoom: /3v6bd9uf

Meet our collaborator from UC Santa Cruz, Karolina Karlic! (@karolinakarlic ) Karolina Karlic is a visual artist working with photography and documentary practices to examine the intersections of labor, industry, and the environmental and social impacts of globalization. Her projects investigate how post-industrial systems shape both human lives and ecologies within global production networks. Her research Rubberlands traces the global footprint of the natural rubber industry, examining rubber’s role in the second industrial revolution and its deep connections to photography—as both material and driver of contemporary mobile economies of production and consumption. Karlic has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the founding director of @unseencalifornia Unseen California, an artist-led research initiative engaging the UC Natural Reserve System. She serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz; Faculty Director of Art + Science Initiatives at the @ucscnorriscenter Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History and co-leads the UC Climate Action Arts Network.

Meet our collaborator from UC Irvine, Juli Carson! (@uag_ucirvine ) Juli Carson is Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine, where she directs the Critical and Curatorial Area in the Department of Art. She is also Director of UCI’s University Art Galleries. From 2018-2019 she was Philippe Jabre Professor of Art History and Curating in the Department of Fine Art and Art History at the American University of Beirut, where she curated the exhibition caesura_a moment in time, again rubbed smooth. / Her books on the convergence of psychoanalysis, hermeneutics and conceptual art include: Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love (Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2007), The Limits of Representation: Psychoanalysis and Critical Aesthetics (Buenos Aires: Letra Viva Press, 2011) and The Hermeneutic Impulse: Aesthetics of an Untethered Past (Berlin: PoLyPen, b_books Press, 2019).  Her latest book is Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy. Selected Writings, (UK: Bloomsbury Press, 2024). She is also author of the website https://pharmakon.art/, which hosts the Life Worth Living Series — a rotation of conversations among filmmakers, artists and scholars on contemporary cultural phenomenon – as well as an archive of Carson’s select exhibitions and essays.

“…[given that] the Anthropocene is unliveable, insolvent and unsustainable…it is therefore an Entropocene, which is to say, that it implies a turn, a turning point, a detour that turns into what we call the Neganthropocene.” Bernard Steigler Welcome to the Neganthropocene. Submitted by Juli Carson (@uag_ucirvine ) UC Irvine

Meet our collaborator from UC Berkeley, Jill Miller! (@jill_s_miller ) Jill Miller is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans experimental digital media, social practice, public interventions, and hybrid installations that use humor, play, and embodied participation to examine the infrastructures shaping contemporary life. Her work often engages communities through workshops, performances, and collaborative actions that surface the social, ecological, and technological systems embedded in everyday materials and behaviors. Moving fluidly between public space, gallery contexts, and participatory environments, Miller’s projects investigate themes of gender, technology, and collective agency while inviting audiences into situations that are at once critical, absurd, and generous. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in public collections such as CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She holds an MFA from UCLA and a BA from UC Berkeley. Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media.