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Join us for a special performance and closing event for Botanical Entanglements: a site-specific ecological art exhibition that explores embedded histories in plant form (exhibit open March 12-18). With this work, artist and ecologist Dr. Juniper Harrower explores the ethnobotanical histories and localized ecologies of specific plants at the Botanical Garden and in her Berkeley neighborhood. She asks, how have colonialism and development fractured these human-plant relationships? What are the roles that plants play in constructing our identities and how do we in turn influence their ways of living?
This in-person event, held in the Garden's historic Julia Morgan Hall, includes an introduction by Dr. Benjamin Blonder, an artist talk by Harrower, and a featured concert performance by South Side Symphony, presenting the world premiere of a cello concerto composed by internationally-recognized composer Marcus Norris. The concerto explores themes of resilience in human communities via inspiration from plants.