{"id":53541,"date":"2022-01-01T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T00:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?p=53541"},"modified":"2024-02-29T07:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:59:46","slug":"artist-in-residence-gretchen-yanover-mid-residency-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/artist-in-residence-gretchen-yanover-mid-residency-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist-in-Residence Gretchen Yanover: Mid-residency Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this winter, Town Hall\u2019s Artist-in-Residence, cellist Gretchen Yanover, reflected on the midpoint of her residency and shared some thoughts about finding inspiration at Town Hall. <\/span>In an excerpt from her blog at <\/span>gretchenyanover.com<\/span><\/a>, she writes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSince last year, I\u2019ve been feeling this almost desperate desire to do more with my (musical?) voice, to say more, to be less ambiguous with the few words I do use. I\u2019m so inspired by people like Julian Saporiti\/No-No Boy<\/a>, who share so much through stories and history. (What a great podcast talk he had with Tomo Nakayama<\/a>!) I\u2019m inspired by all of the people taking on the huge issues of our times. I was particularly struck by Howard Frumkin\u2019s talk<\/a> on Planetary Health <\/span>(with all of the intersections\u2026).\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gretchen goes on to describe a back-and-forth that most artists will find familiar: the dichotomy of feeling insignificant, yet knowing the worth of creative gifts; the desire to speak up, and the fear of causing harm; the discomfort and pain of the process, and the creative energy that can come from intersecting ideas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s such acts of questioning, connection, and expression that make Town Hall residencies a joy to watch unfold. We hope you\u2019ll join us this month for <\/span>Gretchen Yanover\u2019s Findings Night<\/b><\/a> (1\/21) as she shares her residency explorations in a program of musical collaboration, interlaced with poetry and dance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this winter, Town Hall\u2019s Artist-in-Residence, cellist Gretchen Yanover, reflected on the midpoint of her residency and shared some thoughts about finding inspiration at Town Hall. <\/span>In an excerpt from her blog at <\/span>gretchenyanover.com<\/span><\/a>, she writes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSince last year, I\u2019ve been feeling this almost desperate desire to do more with my (musical?) voice, to say more, to be less ambiguous with the few words I do use. I\u2019m so inspired by people like Julian Saporiti\/No-No Boy<\/a>, who share so much through stories and history. (What a great podcast talk he had with Tomo Nakayama<\/a>!) I\u2019m inspired by all of the people taking on the huge issues of our times. I was particularly struck by Howard Frumkin\u2019s talk<\/a> on Planetary Health <\/span>(with all of the intersections\u2026).\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gretchen goes on to describe a back-and-forth that most artists will find familiar: the dichotomy of feeling insignificant, yet knowing the worth of creative gifts; the desire to speak up, and the fear of causing harm; the discomfort and pain of the process, and the creative energy that can come from intersecting ideas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s such acts of questioning, connection, and expression that make Town Hall residencies a joy to watch unfold. We hope you\u2019ll join us this month for <\/span>Gretchen Yanover\u2019s Findings Night<\/b><\/a> (1\/21) as she shares her residency explorations in a program of musical collaboration, interlaced with poetry and dance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-53541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-town-crier","category-town-hall-news","tag-in-residence","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}