![]() ![]() A visual language is created that transcends linguistic barriers. Old and young watch and listen together, and all is in harmony, because they all share the same emotions. The moving sand creates continuously fluid and poetic figures with original storytelling. Creating images conjured seemingly effortless, like an oracle or a magician, Charlene's hands skate on glass like a kind of dance. Live sand art is a magical art form that charms. Audience members are uncontrollably drawn into Charlene’s seemingly real world made up of sand characters, trees, mountains and seas. Watching sand animation come to life, in real time, has an extraordinary effect on the audience. This causes monarchs to forgo migration, and that is a very big problem for the species. Many gardeners are planting an exotic tropical species that grows year-round, when they should actually be planting the native species (Asclepias incarnata) that dies off each season. Unfortunately, well-intentioned gardeners are putting more stress on declining monarch populations by planting the wrong species of milkweed, the plant that monarchs lay their eggs on. People have been coming together to protect this butterfly and its habitat. Humans are largely to blame for the monarch’s decline. Their offspring reach southern Canada, where they then begin the long trip back to Mexico at summer’s end. After wintering in Mexico they head north, breeding along the way. ![]() In North America, millions of monarchs tackle the longest migration of any insect species. The western population is at greatest risk, having declined by about 99.9% since the 1980’s. Monarchs are threatened by pesticides and herbicides, as well as urban development, deforestation and climate change, which are killing off the native milkweed plants that monarch larvae need to survive. On July 21st, 2022 the migratory Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) was added to the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species, as Endangered. Original Soundscape by Charlene Lanzel and Barrett Cobb (flute & vocals) Metamorphosis by Sand Artist | Charlene Lanzel Stories tap into our existing knowledge, create cultural bridges and motivate toward solutions. It can be used as a method to teach ethics, values, and to discuss cultural norms, as well as differences. Through art, song, poetry, chanting & dance, storytelling can bridge cultural, language and age barriers. Storytellers are regarded as healers, leaders, spiritual guides, teachers, secret keepers & entertainers. A therapeutic or cathartic sequence of events, unfolding through time. They have something important to share with the world. Good storytellers say what they know and how they feel from a unique perspective, and get the audience to have that same feeling. Storytelling connects with people on an emotional level. Throughout history, images were carved, scratched, painted, printed and inked onto pottery, sand tablets, stones, leaves, skins, cloth, paper, silk, canvas, film… and eventually created using today’s modern technologies. Tree trunks, sand, rocks and leaves were also utilized. Symbols were painted on cave walls, to help the storyteller remember what happened. Early stories were usually oral, with gestures and expressions. It seems that human needs, in order of importance, are: nourishment, storytelling, love, then shelter. What’s Your Story? How do you feel? We are all storytellers… ![]()
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