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LXCL:The exchange for this offering is pay what you can. The minimum is $45, the recommended is $65, and continuing support is $85* Once registered, participants will receive a separate email with a Zoom link and recommended preparations for the session. Headphones and a quiet space are recommended, as well as any modalities and mediums for channeling, such as writing, painting, movement, or sonic materials and equipment. There will be no recording of this event. Synchronous attendance only. *Determining Right Exchange Every aspect of this offering has been created in deep collaboration, through years of ritual, research, and reciprocity between the artist and the land. The registration exchange is priced for the sustainability of this relationship and work, which factors in care for both land and artist, and includes behind the scenes work such as local intersectional environmental activism, field work, land communing, research, community building, and artist skill and knowledge development, all of which makes this offering possible. In addition, this offering is born from the lived experiences, and cultural and creative practices of a first-generation, Filipinx queer artist, creating with chronic illness. Please check in with yourself and determine what is truly aligned with your positioning and access to resources when selecting your registration fee.

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Commune with the raptors of Hook Mountain through a guided listening and channeling session, led by nature recordist and medium Zaneta.&nbsp; The feathered folk of Hook Mountain range from Bald Eagles to Eastern Screech Owls to Peregrine Falcons and so many more. In this session, Zaneta shares field recordings of raptors created at Hook Mountain, guiding an expansive listening session into a trance of interconnectedness.&nbsp; In this shared field, participants will commune with the raptors and mountain to channel write, draw, move, and sound, exploring the energies, insights, and messages from the more-than-human world.&nbsp; Created in deep collaboration and reciprocity between artist and land, this offering is part of an ongoing environmental arts residency at Hook Mountain through Marydell Faith and Life Center.&nbsp; About the Mountain At the heart of this offering is Hook Mountain, in the lower Hudson Valley, which rises approximate 730 feet m.s.l in elevation and sits beside the Hudson River. With its sheer cliffs rising above the shoreline to the summit, Hook Mountain contains 646 acres of meadow and wetland areas which are known to be resting and feeding areas for migratory songbirds and hawks. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1775069128/wysiwyg/ocqd0iudwnwmmooyo2sr.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; position: relative; max-width: 100%; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">About the Artist Zaneta is a Filipinx interdisciplinary sound artist, nature recordist, and medium whose work brings communities into close and loving relationship with their local wilderness through listening, sound, and ritual, as sacred expressions of ecological stewardship and care.&nbsp; &nbsp;Drawing from the work of their lola sa tuh&oacute;d (great-grandmother) as a hilot healer in Iloilo, Philippines, and her multi-modal ways of communing with the land, Zaneta weaves local field recordings, environmental studies, intersectional activism, sound art, community art and story gathering, painting, ritual, and vocal channeling, to create experiences of deep communion with the more-than-human world. &nbsp;Experiences that build conscious connection to local lands and wildlife, and support personal stewardship through ongoing community exchanges between land and people. Their work also examines how listening and sounding, as inherently relational and reciprocal experiences, are essential eco-social practices that not only raise awareness of our close connections to non-human kin, but cultivate a unique sense of empathy and interconnectedness that is foundational to stewardship, and ultimately plays a vital role in environmental futures. &nbsp;&nbsp;Zaneta&rsquo;s work has been presented in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, the Climate Imaginarium on Governor&rsquo;s Island, and featured on WKNY Radio Kingston, and Wave Farm Radio.&nbsp; Their past projects Sacred Seasons (2020) and Where Land Meets Sky: Geophonic Transmissions for the Body (2022), were awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council grants, and they were a 2025 Strange Foundation Resident Artist.&nbsp; Zaneta currently serves as the environmental artist-in-residence at Marydell Faith and Life Center at Hook Mountain in Nyack, NY. They also teach field recording, listening, and eco-mmuning workshops in the Hudson Valley.&nbsp; Their upcoming project, Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods (2025), was created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy and in collaboration with the Zena Highwoods, and will be premiering on WGXC Wave Farm Radio December 21, 2025, with the album and book released with a live premiere in Woodstock, September 2026.&nbsp; To learn more about follow them on IG @soundartmagic, or listen to their sound Substack, Moon Pool.

Commune with the raptors of Hook Mountain through a guided listening and channeling session, led by nature recordist and medium Zaneta.  The feathered folk of Hook Mountain range from Bald Eagles to Eastern Screech Owls to Peregrine Falcons and so many more. In this session, Zaneta shares field recordings of raptors created at Hook Mountain, guiding an expansive listening session into a trance of interconnectedness.  In this shared field, participants will commune with the raptors and mountain to channel write, draw, move, and sound, exploring the energies, insights, and messages from the more-than-human world.  Created in deep collaboration and reciprocity between artist and land, this offering is part of an ongoing environmental arts residency at Hook Mountain through Marydell Faith and Life Center.  About the Mountain At the heart of this offering is Hook Mountain, in the lower Hudson Valley, which rises approximate 730 feet m.s.l in elevation and sits beside the Hudson River. With its sheer cliffs rising above the shoreline to the summit, Hook Mountain contains 646 acres of meadow and wetland areas which are known to be resting and feeding areas for migratory songbirds and hawks. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1775069128/wysiwyg/ocqd0iudwnwmmooyo2sr.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;padding:0px 1px;max-width:100%" />About the Artist Zaneta is a Filipinx interdisciplinary sound artist, nature recordist, and medium whose work brings communities into close and loving relationship with their local wilderness through listening, sound, and ritual, as sacred expressions of ecological stewardship and care.   Drawing from the work of their lola sa tuhód (great-grandmother) as a hilot healer in Iloilo, Philippines, and her multi-modal ways of communing with the land, Zaneta weaves local field recordings, environmental studies, intersectional activism, sound art, community art and story gathering, painting, ritual, and vocal channeling, to create experiences of deep communion with the more-than-human world.  Experiences that build conscious connection to local lands and wildlife, and support personal stewardship through ongoing community exchanges between land and people. Their work also examines how listening and sounding, as inherently relational and reciprocal experiences, are essential eco-social practices that not only raise awareness of our close connections to non-human kin, but cultivate a unique sense of empathy and interconnectedness that is foundational to stewardship, and ultimately plays a vital role in environmental futures.   Zaneta’s work has been presented in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island, and featured on WKNY Radio Kingston, and Wave Farm Radio.  Their past projects Sacred Seasons (2020) and Where Land Meets Sky: Geophonic Transmissions for the Body (2022), were awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council grants, and they were a 2025 Strange Foundation Resident Artist.  Zaneta currently serves as the environmental artist-in-residence at Marydell Faith and Life Center at Hook Mountain in Nyack, NY. They also teach field recording, listening, and eco-mmuning workshops in the Hudson Valley.  Their upcoming project, Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods (2025), was created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy and in collaboration with the Zena Highwoods, and will be premiering on WGXC Wave Farm Radio December 21, 2025, with the album and book released with a live premiere in Woodstock, September 2026.  To learn more about follow them on IG @soundartmagic, or listen to their sound Substack, Moon Pool.

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Channeled Flight: Eco~mmuning with the Raptors of Hook Mountain

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