CREATION Song Ceremony

I’ve had the privilege to work with Deborah Kelly’s CREATION project again, this time in Song Ceremony, a commissioned by Inner West Council, as part of the 2024 EDGE Inner West X, Biennale of Sydney.

With an expanded choir, with 62 angelic voices, we gathered and performed in April. The CREATIONS project of sacred music, and I was blessed to have them perform the World Premier of my song, Urgently and Gently, co-written with Lex Lindsay, whose musical genius brought our words to life. I don’t have adequate words to encapsulate all the levels and types of experiences the weekend gave me, everyone of the CREATION project, not only magnificently talented but enormously welcoming and generously spirited.

I have left the performance not just a better person, but more healed person.

Lead Artist: Deborah Kelly, Production Manager: Sue Goldfish, Musical Director & Composer: Lex Lindsay, Choir Captain: Kit Spencer, Soloist for Urgently and Gently: Zaya Barroso.

Lead Artist Deborah Kelly, invited me to hang out with the CREATION Project again, which provided me the incredible opportunity to have worked with Lex to create the song Urgently and Gently, which was composed for the magnificent voice of Zaya Barroso and work with all the beautiful talented and generous voices of CREATION. The incredible Song Ceremony included some of CREATION’S most powerful sacred music, including Bee Song, written by @cartellista and composed by Lex Lindsay, commissioned by @Courtsnovak for The Lockup Artspace and New Annual, and performed by the immaculate voice of Natasha Rusterholz Schaad.

I have so much gratitude for this opportunity and all the generous spirits of everyone who make CREATION, a place of real belonging. I was able to evolve my character in a response to our song, Urgently and Gently. Although the character at this point remains nameless, she is premised upon the idea that past, present and future co-exist simultaneously and eternally, and also upon notions that everything truly is, everything.

Please enjoy some of the portraits from this, the most recent iteration of CREATION.

Image credits: Deborah Kelly, 2024, creationtheproject.com.