Name: The Chapel in the Hive
Start: 2025-04-05T18:00:00
Location: Rice University Moody Center for the Arts

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Experience The Chapel in the Hive, a live performance by poet and scholar Joseph Campana and composer and performer Kurt Stallmann. Inspired by a multidisciplinary exploration of environmental issues with a specific focus on biodiversity and multispecies worlds, Campana and Stallmann consider the sacred character of nature through the powerful but diminutive figure of the honeybee. This collaborative work draws on stories, proverbs, and parables from different traditions to ask: if a chapel can really fit in a hive what would it sound like? What does Orpheus have to do with bees? Is anger like a honey-coated knife? And, in an age of environmental turmoil, can nature still be miraculous?