The Jung Society of Utah invites the community to take part in an immersive exploration of soul, water, and our inner nature, featuring Nan Seymour and Kelly Hannah.
Immersive Evening: Soul Tending & The Great Salt Lake
Friday, February 9th
6:30-9:00 pm
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Opening Poet: Rodrigo Fernandez-Esquivias
Live Music: Abdal Aşık
Visual Artist: Kelly Hannah
Tickets: SOLD OUT!
1.5 CEUs available for Utah Mental Health Professionals ($5 or free for Professional Members)
Book Signing! Limited copies of Nan Seymour’s book, prayers not meant for heaven, will be available with a signing after the program.
Generously Sponsored by Susen Sawatzki, Soul Muse
Schedule:
6:30-7:00 pm – Live Music & Art Mingle
7:00-8:30 pm – Immersive Talk
8:30-9:00 pm – Community Social
The Great Salt Lake is in peril and the life of the lake is inseparable from our own. We find ourselves together at a threshold, in a crisis of relationship with our great neighbor, wise ancestor, and fierce protector. In the face of this crisis, who will we become?
While our first impulse may be to save the lake, it is possible that the lake is inviting us to save ourselves. What if she is actively helping us repair the rift between humans and the rest of the sentient and singing earth? What if she is imploring us to do less harm?
Join us as beloved lake-facing poet Nan Seymour and master storyteller and photographer Kelly Hannah invite us to soulfully explore our relationship to water. Together, let us carry these questions: What of our tenderness for life? What happens when we consider the lake’s perspective? What will we hear when we turn our heart and face in the lake’s direction and deeply listen?
About Nan Seymour
Nan was our opening poet for Season 14 and contributed her gorgeous words to both our Immersive Evening and Depth Workshop with Erin Geesaman Rabke. We are ecstatic to share her work with you again. Nan’s debut poetry collection, prayers not meant for heaven, was published by Toad Hall Editions in the summer of 2021. Nan’s story lake woman leaving, a modern myth, was awarded the 2022 Alfred Lambourne prize by Friends of Great Salt Lake. She is currently making waves by leading the Great Salt Lake daily vigil at the Capitol, every Monday- Friday at 8 am and 5 pm throughout the Utah State legislative session. You are warmly invited to help her carry a wave, fly a blackbird, or become a brine shrimp with her on the lake’s behalf. Find Nan on Instagram.
Get involved right away. Learn about the Great Salt Lake Vigil, from January 16th- March 1st.
About Kelly Hannah
Kelly was a speaker and photographer featured at our Season 14 Frames of Reference evening. He has been exploring and advocating for renewed perspectives on Great Salt Lake and its surrounding watershed over the past decade. A real estate broker by profession, he was awarded the 2022 Salt Lake Board of Realtors Good Neighbor Award for his related advocacy work. Kelly has volunteered on the Board of Directors for Friends of Great Salt Lake since 2019. His photographic exhibit, Moments at The Great Salt Lake, was hanging in the State Capitol throughout 2023 and will be showing this August in the lower urban room of the Salt Lake City Main Library. Find Kelly on Instagram.
About our musician, Abdal Aşık
Abdal is living in Salt Lake City as a bard from Anatolia. Alongside his poetry, he plays an Anatolian stringed instrument called bağlama. He learned from his grandparents that everything on earth carries a soul, including water.
About our opening poet, Rodrigo Fernandez-Esquivias
Rodrigo Fernandez-Esquivias was born in Madrid, Spain, and his family has lived in Utah for the past fourteen years. His is currently a freshman at the University of Utah studying Political Science. In his free time he likes to read everything he can about current events, listen to reggaeton music, and write articles for his local newspaper.
Thank you to our sponsor, Susen Sawatzki, Soul Muse
