The Spring Creek Project

Join us at PRAx on Friday, May 22, as the Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir and Third Angle New Music present "Eras," co-presented by PRAx and Spring Creek Project.

The evening's program will include a piece called "Following Fire." The creative journey for this wildfire oratorio began in April 2025, when students from the ORS Youth Choir and Third Angle Ensemble visited the World Forestry Center to see the exhibition "Following Fire," a powerful collaboration between photographer David Paul Bayles and ecologist Frederick J. Swanson that documented the cycle of wildfire destruction and regrowth in the Cascade Range.

Bayles and Swanson led the group through their exhibition, and then members of the youth choir spread out amongst the photos of skeletal trees and budding fireweed to write poetry. This poetry was then transformed by composers of Third Angle into music set to the children’s own words.

The evening's program also pieces celebrating Third Angle’s 40-year history. Happy hour begins at 6 p.m. and will include presentations and photography exhibits related to "Following Fire."

Use coupon code ANGLE26 for free tickets, which are available at the link in Spring Creek Project's bio.

[Wildfire photography in the collage image by David Paul Bayles.]

Application closes in 3 weeks! PLAYA, PRAx and Spring Creek Project are partnering to offer this new interdisciplinary fellowship: Migration in Changing Climates.

This fellowship invites applicants working in writing, ethics and philosophy, visual art, performing arts, sound, and multidisciplinary genres to propose projects that engage migration as an ecological, cultural, ethical and imaginative force reshaping where and how life can move.

The year-long program will bring eight selected fellows together to explore ecologies of migration in the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin, including human and other-than-human lives. Creative projects will engage with the living dynamics of migration — of birds, mammals, plants, and/or people. Those interested can apply individually or with a collaborator.

Learn more and apply by May 15 at the link in bio.