Artists Susan Bickford, Certified Forest Therapy Guide, and Rachel Alexandrou, Botanist, Forager and Kitchen Alchemist, will lead you in exploration and sharing in a local wood. We will slow down, open our senses, do some drawing, writing and embodiment as a part of the experience. We will cover a short physical distance on the walk, (a mile) and include several meditative invitations to drop you into a liminal zone of noticing in a heightened way. A meal of small bites of foraged food will be prepared for you in the wild. By eating this food we become this place. 

This walk is currently full! Please email Susan Bickford, below, to put your name on the wait list.

REGISTRATION: Attendance for this walk is limited; please register by emailing Susan at sbickford@tidewater.net

Susan Bickford is the founding artist of “the (stillness) project" a collaborative interdisciplinary retreat which results in a place based public performance. Working within the tenants of deep ecology, radical hospitality and the transcendentalists, this work fosters a spiritual connection in nature recognizing ourselves within it. Bickford has shown this work as public performance, and video installation at the Maine International Film Festival and traditional galleries. Recently she lead a walk at the The Picnic Pavillion during the Venice Biennale and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. BFA/BID RISD1986 and MFA MECA 2001, Forest Therapy Guide 2017, Shamanic Practitioner 1995. ;

Rachel Alexandrou is an interdisciplinary artist and botanist who blends plant science, food, and visual art together to create informative and intriguing events. Her project Foraged Feast focuses on Maine’s edible flora and accessibility to education around local plants. She is inspired by place based radical hospitality and collaboration with artists from Maine and around the world. Support for the Foraged Feast is provided, in part, by the Kindling Fund, a grant program administered by SPACE as part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program. 

Additional supporting artists: Chip Barchilon, Gabrielle Brown, Juliette Sutherland