PORT TOWNSEND — Presentations on healing through art and music are slated in the coming week at Fort Worden State Park in celebration of Goddard College’s Master of Fine Arts programs.
Saturday night, visiting artist Lily Yeh will present “The Rwanda Healing Project: Building Community through Art and Creative Action” at 7:30 p.m. in the USO Hall — Building 324 — on the Fort Worden campus at 200 Battery Way.
Yeh, working with the people of Gisenyi, a rural Rwandan community, helped build an enormous art installation in 2004, in memory of those who died in the genocide of 1994.
Yeh’s presentation is a dynamic one in which she discusses how the act of creating art together can help a community heal, said Erin Fristad, Goddard’s Port Townsend campus director.
Yeh is the founder of Barefoot Artists Inc., an organization that coordinates art projects in impoverished communities around the globe.
Admission to her presentation Saturday is free.
On Thursday, Goddard and the Madrona MindBody Institute at Fort Worden will host the Olimpias, a duo presenting “A Journey to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin,” a participatory performance and discussion.
The “Journey” score focuses on the Peter Eisenman memorial in Germany, and the lawsuits brought on by the disabled people of Germany who sued for access to the site and lost.
Admission to “Journey” is by donation, and space is limited, so participants must register at www. MadronaMindBody.com or phone 360-344-4475.
Goddard is marking its fifth anniversary in Port Townsend this summer.
While the college is based in Plainfield, Vt., it offers two degree programs at Fort Worden State Park: a master of fine arts in interdisciplinary arts and an MFA in creative writing, with courses in poetry, fiction, screenwriting, playwriting, memoir and creative nonfiction.
Information is available at www.goddard.edu.
