16/09/2025
✨ Thank You ✨
Fara Hoprich has nearly returned to its base-state, though is newly enlivened with murmurs and traces of our time shared together there.
It is a challenging task to express the gratitude that we feel for all...
.. the artists, performers and presenters that shared their work, experience and knowledge with us - a remarkably thoughtful and diverse collection of ideas, expressions and explorations of the topic of memory
.. for all the friends and volunteers that gave their time to make it possible for the event to function, and did so joyously and energetically
.. for our collaborators, who gave not only time, but a multitude of other resources as well, without which the festival would not have been able to be what it was
.. for the tech boys who swooped in and enhanced the magic with their light and sound
.. for the land that facilitated our celebration and for the weather that held us gathering
.. and lastly for all the festival-goers who came to support and participate in the incredible program that we were so unbelievably fortunate to see materialize around this simple idea: A Festival of Memory.
The seed of the festival was a simple idea:
a space where art, music and performance could be experienced individually and collectively without the mediating presence of cameras and recorders prioritizing documentation over lived experience, replacing memory with replica. In the end, this part of the experiment was one of the most valuable, vital and appreciated.
The life-process of A Festival of Memory is carried by those who were a part of it. That is why this post isn’t a slideshow.
It’s an invitation —
to recollect,
to remember,
to inquire about,
to share,
to illustrate,
to celebrate a living, collective memory carried by all who were there — in any form, for any moment, in any way.
Thank you.
🌀 A Festival of Memory