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Shared Earth Flowing Water: Seed
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Family
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Celebrate spring with music, dance, and native prairie planting at Set in Stone Gathering Space in the Burnham Wildlife Corridor
Gather
in community to celebrate spring awakening and new growth with music,
dance, and native prairie planting in this free, all-ages performance
and stewardship event by Irene Hsiao and collaborators in partnership
with Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Chinese Fine Arts Society, the
Field Museum, and Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks.
Dress comfortably for the outdoors. Gloves, native prairie plants, and planting tools will be provided.
Shared Earth Flowing Water: Seed
2:00-3:00PM Performance
3:00-4:00PM Planting
Set in Stone Gathering Space in the Burnham Wildlife Corridor
FREE
How to find Set in Stone Gathering Space
By car: Enter the parking lot at 641 E. 31st Street and proceed to the south end of the lot. Parking is free with RSVP.
By
public transit: Take the #3 bus to King Drive and 31st Street, then
walk half a mile east to the parking lot at 641 E. 31st St. Enter the
lot and walk south.
By bicycle: Set in Stone is near the lake
front trail at 31st St beach, walk west over DuSable Lake Shore Drive to
find the lot to your left. A Divvy station is located on the bridge
above DuSable Lake Shore Drive at 31st St.
Set in Stone is one of three Gathering Spaces in the Burnham Wildlife Corridor (BWC),
a 100-acre ribbon of urban wilderness running through one of Chicago’s
premier lakefront properties, Burnham Park. The BWC is one of the
Chicago Park District’s largest natural areas and is representative of
the native prairie, savanna and woodland ecosystems of this region.
About the Artists
Irene Hsiao
is a dancer, writer, and multidisciplinary artist. She creates
site-specific participatory performance installations, a practice that
experiments with place and environment, created and found objects,
projections, community art, dance, and other live performance.
Currently, she is working on Shared Earth Flowing Water,
a performance series dedicated to peace, community, and the natural
world. She is the 2026 Artist in Residence at the Chinese Fine Arts
Society, inaugural Artist in Residence at the Smart Museum, first Artist
in Residence at 21c Museum Hotel Chicago, first Resident Artist at
Heritage Museum of Asian Art, 2022-23 Fellow at High Concept Labs, and a
2025 Radicle Resident at Hyde Park Art Center.
Antonius-Tín Bui
is a polydisciplinary artist and shapeshifter invested in the
transformative potential of improvisation, portraiture, craft, and
ritual. A monsoon in a past life, they see themself most in movement—in
wind, in the shifting blues of the sky, in the quiet sway between
presence and disappearance. The child of Paul and Van Bui, two
Vietnamese refugees who carved futures from grief and grit, Antonius-Tín
carries their legacy in every gesture. Their work honors the spectral,
the tender, and the unruly—crafting portals for what cannot be named,
only felt, only danced with ancestral shadow.
Hunter Diamond
is a creative woodwind and sound artist based in Chicago. Though he is
most at home in the improvised music scene, a mixture of conceptual,
composed, and improvised performance keeps him perpetually present in
the interdisciplinary Chicago creative arts community. In 2021 Diamond
founded Curio Records, which serves as the primary outlet for his
recorded work. 2026 will see the release of several new recordings
including the debut album from Public Sentiment, the fifth album from
Black Diamond, and a string quintet about Israel/Palestine.
Amanda Maraist
is a dancemaker and performance community advocate making performance
work and arts programming in Chicago. Her work synthesizes mutualism,
play, world-building, and ethnographic research into practical somatic
strategies for thriving. She simultaneously produces her own artistic
performance work while also co-directing bim bom studios; an accessible,
sliding scale hourly movement rehearsal + performance space in Belmont
Cragin. These two efforts exist in symbiotic tandem: creating
performance that is collaborative and accessible – as well as creating
physical spaces within the dance ecosystem that fill gaps left by
evaporating institutions. Her commitment to support the community, and
the strategies employed to arrive at something that both survives and
thrives, show up in the aesthetics and actions of her performance and
the spaces she imagines.
Kedgrick Pullums, Jr.
(he/they) is a Chicago-based woodwind specialist,
multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, and educator whose primary
instrument is the flute. His artistry spans classical, jazz,
contemporary, and cross-cultural traditions, and he is recognized for
his versatility across the full woodwind family while bringing a
distinctive, lyrical voice to the flute. As both a performer and
composer/arranger, Kedgrick is deeply drawn to musical improvisation as a
form of communication—a way of listening, responding, and building
connection that transcends boundaries of style or genre. Alongside
performance, Kedgrick maintains a thriving private teaching studio in
Chicago, where he instructs woodwinds, piano, and voice. His work as an
educator emphasizes accessibility, creativity, and representation for
students of diverse backgrounds.
Darling “Shear” Squire
is a Chicago native with Atlanta roots and trained in Ballet, Modern,
Jazz and African. After high school, Darling began dancing
professionally with Bubba Carr, Cher’s choreographer, Rhonda Henriksen,
Twyla Tharp, Tracy Vogt, Hinton Battle, and Lauri Stallings. As a
freelance dancer/ choreographer, Darling has worked with The Fly Honeys,
Soho House Chicago, EXPO Chicago, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, MCA,
Salonathon, Open TV and many others. Awards include: Impulstanz Between
Gestures scholarship (Vienna, Austria), Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab
Artist, CDF 10X10 Choreographer, Links Hall CoMission Fellowship, 3Arts
nominee (2019, 2022). Darling’s career has been one with a strong
spiritual center and allowance of universal well-being.
About the Partnering Organizations
Roots & Routes
is an initiative aimed at co-creating and sustaining the BWC, in order
to support native plants, wildlife and nearby communities. Project
partners collaborate based upon a shared commitment to improving the
quality of life for residents through strengthening their culturally
relevant connections to vital green spaces. The Roots & Routes
collective includes large institutions such as the Park District, Field
Museum and The Nature Conservancy, as well as artists and many
community-based organizations serving the predominantly Black, Latinx,
and Chinese-American neighborhoods close to the BWC.
The Chinese-American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC)
exists to steward the stories and histories of Chinese Americans
through exhibitions, education, art, and research, particularly in the
Midwest. In collaboration with artists, scholars, and organizations
across the country, CAMOC is building a community that broadens the
dialogue around the varied and evolving Chinese American experience,
culture, and contributions.
Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks program
presents cultural events year-round in neighborhood parks throughout
the city. The Chicago Park District in partnership with 100 local
artists and organizations, presents engaging events and performances
that enhance quality of life across Chicago and amplify the artistic and
cultural vibrancy in every neighborhood. Through multiple disciplines,
which include theater, music, movies, dance, site-specific work, nature
programs, and community festivals, the series aims to support
Chicago-based artists, facilitate community-based partnerships and
programs, cultivate civic engagement, and ensure equity in access to the
arts for all Chicagoans.
The Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center
strives to transform threatened landscapes into resilient conservation
corridors, supporting community-driven conservation stewardship, with
connectivity, nature, and human well-being at the forefront of our
priorities. Grounded in people-centered, action-oriented science, we
collaborate with local communities and a wide range of partners to
support conservation areas that are both equitable and enduring. Through
the Museum’s science, resources, training, and on-the-ground mentoring,
we strengthen local stewardship and co-develop inclusive networks that
align culturally relevant knowledge with nature-based solutions.
Together, these efforts build lasting, connected conservation mosaics
across regions and generations.
The Chinese Fine Arts Society
is an organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of
Chinese and AAPI arts. For the past four decades, CFAS has introduced
the cultural wealth of China and the Asian diaspora to Chicago and the
Midwest through our performances, community engagement, and educational
programming. By hosting events at major venues such as Millennium Park,
the Art Institute, the Chicago Cultural Center, and Navy Pier, CFAS has
reached thousands of people and increased awareness of Chinese and Asian
diasporic cultures across generations. From concert halls to libraries,
nursing homes, parks, and community centers, CFAS aims to engage
diverse audiences and foster cultural understanding.
