May 9, 2020 - 5pm Bangkok Time
15-minute online concert
Links will be posted prior to the event at: www.eaaflyway.net and www.bowerbird.productions/works
In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day, May 9th 2020, join musicians Simone Slattery (violin) and Anthony Albrecht (cello) for a concert experience like no other: a musical and visual journey from the continental shores and archipelagos of Australasia to the tundra of Siberia and Alaska, tracing the awe-inspiring odyssey of shorebirds as they draw Invisible Connections across the globe.
‘Invisible to the naked eye, above the land and oceans of the world, lie some of the planet’s busiest highways...
...Twice a year, these connecting corridors of activity hum to the endless beats of millions of wings as birds commute between their seasonal homes...
...As they fly and land, and then lift into the clouds again, the flocks weave unseen threads that bind them to the world and its myriad inhabitants in diverse and unexpected ways...beyond our sight...beyond our imaginations…’
Just as migratory birds connect our world, weaving Invisible Connections for thousands of years, so too does music - the universal language that knows no borders.
This 15-minute online performance event, facilitated by the EAAFP and hosted by the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand, is a preview of the Bowerbird Collective’s complete live, multimedia performance piece, based on the story of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. This is a work in development, with plans for extensive international touring from 2021 onward.
Title and quotations used with generous permission from Invisible Connections - Why Migratory Shorebirds Need the Yellow Sea by Jan van de Kam and colleagues, published by CSIRO Publishing, 2010. Special thanks to Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok and Vivian Fu.