Harvesting the Music Tree: A Sacred Sites International Benefit Lecture-Performance
Brenda Schuman Post Playing Oboe for Tree Harvesters
Harvesting the Music Tree: Sustainable African Blackwood is a Lecture-Performance and Raffle being given on Saturday, November 12 at 8 PM in North Berkeley. The event with benefit the Preservation Fund of Sacred Sites International. Brenda Schuman Post, a renown oboist, will show video, slides and perform on her oboe, while sharing her remarkable journey to follow the creation of an oboe from the African Blackwood tree. Ms Post received a Ford Foundation grant to travel to Africa in search of the wood that is used to make oboes. In the process she played her oboe for tree harvesters who had never seen or heard the instrument played. In the process she created an original piece of music with African musicians.
Brenda Schuman Post with African Musicians
The November 12th presentation will explore topics of ethno-botany, forest preservation and sustainability and world music. The event will be held in a private North Berkeley home amidst an expansive collection of African art and artifacts. Following the lecture-performance there will be a raffle of books and DVD’s about sacred places, and original etchings and photographs of sacred sites.
The benefit is $25 per person in advance and $30 at the door. Seating is limited and advance reservations are recommended. Reservations can be made by sending a tax-deductible check made out to Sacred Sites International, 1442A Walnut St. #330, Berkeley, CA 94709. Enclose an email address or phone number for directions to the event. For questions or additional information you may call: 510-525-1304 or email Sacred Sites International: sacredsite1@gmail.com.