2025 Poetry- Inspired by the Season
Poet, Santa Cruzan, and longtime Cabrillo Festival friend, Joan Zimmerman will be sharing poetry inspired by the sounds of the season. She will create new
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From Ashes to Liberation
In response to The Violins of Hope, Guest Blogger Kendall Grady asks: How can we heal a wound without reducing its significance or ceding power to its source? How can we protect the future from a repetition of the past without falling backwards?
Moons Over Miami
Guest Blogger Kendall Grady considers the intertextuality of Moonlight: Second Oboe Concerto, composed by Kevin Puts and the film ‘Moonlight,’ directed by Barry Jenkins.
Music is a Heart Opener
Guest Blogger Kendall Grady speaks with Valerie Joi ahead of her Cabrillo Festival debut as narrator in The Battle for the Ballot.
Recasting Self and Other
Guest Blogger Kendall Grady reflects on Cabrillo Festival’s 2022 In the Works composers, drawing connections between their respective world premiere works.
The Muse Visits Santa Cruz
This essay is part of Marilyn DuHamel’s Wayfinder Series about people, art works, and events that can help us find our way in these lost times.
The Festival Through My Eyes: An Interview with In the Works Composer Maya Miro Johnson
It was a great treat to sit down with Maya and get an idea of where her work sprung from, as well as how the concepts she explained before the performance of her work manifested within the composition.
The Festival Through My Eyes: The Student Staff Program
If you attended any of the concerts this season, you likely received a program book from a person wearing a blue Cabrillo shirt. Chances are, this person was a member of the Festival’s Student Staff Program.
The Festival Through My Eyes: Expressions of Community
In the 21st century, we often become aware of the universality of our experience and feelings through artistic conversations happening online and in the media.
The Festival Through My Eyes: Works in Process
From Open Rehearsals to Student Staff projects, Megan Levad’s poetry workshop, and the astounding In the Works concert, this Festival is brimming with personal and collective creative growth.
The Festival Through My Eyes: The Place of the Civic Auditorium and the Space of the Listening Body
We’re just one day away from the first Open Rehearsal, meaning, the Festival season is upon us!
The Festival Through My Eyes: An Introduction
Sienna Ballou blogs about working alongside the Festival Staff, assisting them in a myriad of ways before, during, and after the Festival—witnessing and being a part of Festival processes.