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After our second concert examining the human relationship to/as nature, it was important to me to bring these elements together, and explore the world as new.  Rain, Anna Thorvaldsdottir  washes away what came before, Out of Lemon Flowers, Sarah Gibson brings us new growth, and we end with How Forests Think, Liza Lim  to slow down time for all of us, and have us experience time as trees. 

“We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.” -Naomi Klein

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This concert focuses on the human aspect of nature, for humanity is certainly a part of and connected to nature. We belong within it, but also actively try to stand apart from it.  We hold a piece of nature when we hold fruit in our hands {In Manus Tuas, Caroline Shaw} and it is our hands that hold it. We even have relationships with each other that seem very rooted in “natural” relationships; those between lovers {Only the Words Themselves, Kate Soper} and in relation to parenting {Knights of the Strange, Chaya Czernowin}. Even the creative act, something that sometimes feels particularly human {Singing in the Dead of Night, Julia Wolfe} is something that is deeply natural.

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This concert focuses on both the catastrophic and the mundane aspects of nature. Both through resisting nature {Fighting the Fire Elizabeth Kowalski} and feeling its presence {Drip Music,Katherine Balch}. The birds of the air show up {Terrestre, Kaija Saariaho}, but we are brought back to oceans and slow time {Water and Memory Annea Lockwood}. Requiem (for all the animals that came before), Gabriella Smith, uses text that is a compilation of Latin names for all the animals that have gone extinct in the last 100 years. 

7PM • FRIDAY • JULY 27 After Everything, featuring Nikola Printz & Eugéne Theriault, will perform at BAMPFA– the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, as part of the program series FULL presented by Sarah Cahill. Seating is limited. Tickets for the concert are included in the cost of admission to the museum.

2/24/18• 8PM A concert from After Everything, featuring works by Anton Bruckner, Angelica Negron, Reza Vali, Julia Wolfe, and the world premiere of a new work by Preben Antonsen. Unity Church of San Francisco

12/2 • AFTER EVERYTHING AT UNITY CHURCH 8 PM.

11/19 • SUNDAY • 3-5PM A world premiere performance of What Wondrous Love, a new orchestral piece by Preben Antonsen. Written this summer, it includes a rendition of the classic hymn tune in full brass regalia. Taube Atrium Theater, Veterans Building, TICKETS & INFO HERE.

11/12 • SUNDAY • 3PM "Lots of noisy virtuosity on this concert."  Join NIKO DURR and PREBEN ANTONSEN for a world premier of ADVENTURE by Niko Durr (for Preben Antonsen) and ROUGE PROSE by Preben Antonsen (for Niko Durr), plus two pieces by Charles Ives. For FREE.

Featuring a guest appearance by: THE TOY PIANO!!! Not to be missed! At the studio of Chip Brimhall. 2539 Milvia Street, Berkeley. 

11./5 • SUNDAY • 3PM Soprano RITA LILLY,  and MATTHEW CMIEL on piano, present an afternoon of Schubert songs, long overdue since their Schumann concert last year. A fine free Sunday event. St. Jerome's Catholic Church, El Cerrito.