COMPASSION ARTS FESTIVAL 2023

November 8th—12th

 

Linnea Ryshke “Cleaved”

 
 

Join us for a virtual mini- festival of creative programs presented by participating artists from Compassion Arts’ all-volunteer collective.

This year’s festival will include highlighted presentations with established artists in the visual arts and literary arts, as well as newly launching Compassion Arts partnered programs in the storytelling arts, healing arts, and music/performing arts, as a sampling of projects in development for the coming year, with a focus on the lives of animals as individuals and their relationships with humans.

Programs are free but require advance sign-up

REGISTRATION OPEN!

 

Schedule of LIVE-STREAMed Events

 
 

PAST EVENTS

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Thanks-Giving Compassion for Animals
Nov 25
Thanks-Giving Compassion for Animals

Join us for the final event of the festival, the day before Thanksgiving holiday, to meet the animals at Unity Farm Sanctuary with humane educator Marla Andrews and learn about their stories and experience them from a different perspective – here with us, not for us.

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Finding Healing and Creating Peace in a Violent World
Nov 24
Finding Healing and Creating Peace in a Violent World

This roundtable discussion with animal advocate and therapist April Lang, animal activist Lisa Levinson and animal caregiver and humane educator Marla Andrews, delves into creative ways for developing internal resources for preventing burn-out by the magnitude of suffering in the world for animals.

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Climate Healers and the One Thing We Can Do
Nov 22
Climate Healers and the One Thing We Can Do

Climate Healers founder Sailesh Rao speaks with Marlene Narrow of Vegan Nation, about our deep and intrinsic interconnection with animals and nature, the realities of climate change and functional extinction for other species and ourselves, and the one thing we can do.

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TMI Project True Storytelling Workshop
Nov 21
TMI Project True Storytelling Workshop

Join us in this true storytelling writing workshop from TMI Project, for discovering tools for giving expression to our personal experiences and untold stories.

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Invisible Vegan Roundtable Interview of Jasmine Leyva
Nov 20
Invisible Vegan Roundtable Interview of Jasmine Leyva

Co-hosted by Unity of Central Massachusetts, for their program Friday Night Spiritual Practice, this roundtable event features an in-depth interview with filmmaker Jasmine Leyva about her documentary “The Invisible Vegan”.

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Poetry Roundtable
Nov 19
Poetry Roundtable

An evening of poetry and discussion by writers Donald Vincent, author of the recently released Convenient Amnesia, and Gretchen Primack, author of Visiting Days and KIND, on the power of words for giving voice to stories unheard. This event reveals the importance of bearing witness through the narrative of poetry, in seeding empathy and transforming ourselves and our world.

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The Invisible Vegan
Nov 18
The Invisible Vegan

Filmmaker Jasmine Leyva explores the intersections of race, food empowerment, history, African-American and vegan culture, and plant based living, in her thought-provoking documentary “The Invisible Vegan. “

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Seeing Animals More Deeply Through The Arts
Nov 17
Seeing Animals More Deeply Through The Arts

Award-winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur and artists Jane O’Hara and Janell O’Rourke gather in a roundtable discussion to talk about their work and advocacy for animals through art.

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Catskill Animal Sanctuary Virtual Tour and Talk
Nov 15
Catskill Animal Sanctuary Virtual Tour and Talk

Join us in this opening program of Compassion Arts Festival in meeting our special guest - sanctuary founder, educator, writer, and vegan animal advocate Kathy Stevens, to celebrate the animals of Catskill Animal Sanctuary in this heart- inspiring, joyful, educational, and illuminating free zoom event.

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