EarthFest '26

For this year’s Earth Day Reforesters is teaming up with New Ear:: SPATIAL to present a program of sound works that listen closely to and with the living world. The festival brings together artists exploring various ways of interconnectivity, field recordings, open systems and eco-logical thinking. Across the program, voices emerge in dialogue with local ecologies, revealing both their expressive vulnerability and the fragility of the ecosystems they inhabit. Works delve into altered environments, from the shifting ecologies of a vast coastal lagoon to compositions shaped directly by climate-change data. Listeners are invited into attentive encounters with place: an exploration of presence within the soundscape of the Cairngorms, grounded practices of field recording and aural mapping, and speculative reconstructions of the lost vocal worlds of extinct birds. EarthFest offers a space to hear, reflect, and reimagine our relationship to the planet—through sound, memory, and the fragile act of listening. Festival Day 1:: Apr 21 7:00 pm Steve Ashby | Mason Youngblood | Tim Feeney | Merve Ünsal Festival Day 2:: Apr 22 6:00 pm Foliage | Domenico De Simone [Long Form] 7:00 pm Mike Bullok | Jeesoo Hong | Sara Bouchard