a night in the trees

“A night in the trees” is an extra-ordinary 

overnight experience inviting you to spend the 

night softly hanging in a hammock between old large trees. 

A guided do-it-yourself/do-it-together experience inviting you to enter into another biological and geological time. 

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When nighttime falls, you pick up your overnight kit and equipped with a comfortable hammock, a small number of items and a set of instructions to carry out your own night time ritual “A night in the trees” begin. You can venture out alone or together in a small group. The only things you have to bring is your sleeping bag and an open mind. 

 

The instructions will take you to a specific tree which will be your companion and source for an immersive journey on becoming part of natural systems. Reframing our humanness while relating to the more than human, the explorations lead you through the night, touching upon notions of collectivity, entanglement and spirit.

 

The special presence of the old trees are brought to live and we enter into a felt and sensuous dialogue with their behavioural patterns of forming communities, ways of connecting with their surroundings, their communication systems and collective emergence.  

The night is approached as a ritualistic space for surrendering to the unknown. The immensity of the night and the action of sleeping and dreaming underline the intimacy and transformational potential of the journey. Making us receptive for visions for what is to come and we could create- to be taken with us into the day, and shared with others.

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The Team: 

Jacob Langaa Sennek and Vera Maeder 

Developed in collaboration with biologist Fin Jordao, Center for Alternative Technology Wales and Eero-Tapio Vuori, Reality Research Center (Helsinki, Finland)

Produced by hello!earth and Copenhagen International Theatre