Walk on the Wild Side: An Exploratory Workshop for Families

Walk on the Wild Side: An Exploratory Workshop for Families
1 session Sunday, April 18 1:00-3:30pm
This workshop is free of charge. Registration is required.

Every human being is an artist who creates their own world. Join us for an innovative parent/child (ages 6-10) workshop connecting creativity and nature through walking, drawing and play. Led by multimedia artist and performer, Eleonor Sandresky, this multi-sensory workshop will introduce you to new ways of looking, listening and creating. This experiential afternoon will culminate by sharing and playing our creations playfully. Suggested materials list will be sent upon registration. Space is limited to 10 participants (one child per parent or caregiver, please).

About Eleonor Sandresky:

Working at the juncture of multiple disciplines, Eleonor Sandresky is a composer/performer, visual artist, inventor of the Wonder Suit, co-founder of the MATA Festival, concert producer and performing member of the Philip Glass Ensemble family since 1991.

A composer of open-form, graphic and through-composed scores, Eleonor’s music is heard around the world, from the Venice Biennale, Cannes Film Festival to the Philadelphia Fringe and the Knitting Factory NYC. She has received numerous grants and commissions from NYSCA, ASCAP, Jerome Foundation, New Music USA, Meet the Composer and American Music Center, as well as from individuals and ensembles. She has been composer-in-residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Yaddo, STEIM and MacDowell. Working at the forefront of avant-garde concert-as-theater, Eleonor reinvented herself in 1999 as the Choreographic Pianist with her groundbreaking composition, A Sleeper’s Notebook. From this work, she invented The Wonder Suit, a remote set of wireless sensors worn and used to trigger sonic events through movement during live performance. She has been a featured performer at The Stone, London’s Café Oto, Morelia Center for Electronic Music, San Francisco’s C4 New Music, SECCA, USC Fullerton New Music Festival, Diverse Works Houston, The Cutting Room, Rockland Center for the Arts and Gallery MC.

Eleonor is a graduate of the Yale School of Music, Eastman School of Music, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and North Carolina School of the Arts. Her music is available on Sony Classics, Koch International, Orange Mountain Music, Supertrain Records, ERM Media, Albany Records and all major streaming platforms. For more information, please visit https://www.esandresky.com

About Rockland Center for the Arts:

The mission of Rockland Center for the Arts is to inspire, educate and enrich the community through creating, teaching and presenting the arts, and to provide opportunities for all people to experience and participate in the cultural life of our region. RoCA is committed to the process of experiencing, responding to, creating, and presenting art. By providing a range of relevant, thought-provoking programs, RoCA engages the individual and the community through quality art experiences, while cultivating new audiences in personally meaningful ways.

For more information call 845-358-0877, or visit www.rocklandartcenter.org.

RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from the Leonard Merrill Kurz Foundation, The Rea Charitable Trust, Sarah and Stephen Thomas, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Walter Cain & Paulo Ribeiro, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc., the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.

This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by the County of Rockland.