public art birdsong summer 2025
JUNE - OCTOBER, 2025
Gallery Hours: Fridays: 2-5pm; Sat/Sun(s): 10am-3:30pm
Birdsong Farm Gallery 38718 NY-10, Hamden, NY 13782
Regional & International Artists for Public Art & Dialogue
JUNE
BREATHING ROOM, Fresh Air Sculpture by DiLeva Halpern, Hamden, NY, June 6-29, 2025
Breathing Room,
John DiLeva Halpern
Installation and Meditation Events
Exhibition: June 6 - 29, 2025
Exchanging life giving carbon dioxide for plants in return for oxygen. An experiential sculpture demonstrating of our interconnection with the natural world.
JUNE Events: 1st & last weekend of the month
June 6, 6-8pm (Artist Present) Wine Reception & Air Initiation
June 7 & 8, 10am-3:30pm (Artist Present) First of Four Exhibitions. I.C.A.I. Program Launch
June 28, 10am-2pm (Artist Present) During the Green Market at Birdsong Farm, John DiLeva Halpern will greet visitors and lead them through the FRESH AIR history and interactivity with the art.
June 29
2-3:30pm (Artist Present) Join us for a Cultural Activism Empowerment by DiLeva Halpern
4-5:30pm 5 Elements Breathing Workshop, lead by Carolyn Christie Iyengar Yoga Master.
HALCYON READING SERIES, Alana Siegel
Friday, June 13, 5:30-8pm
First of Four Readings. Poetry Talk & Walk. On the Reciprocity of Harmony, a 7-part summer series. Discourse on the nature and vision of HALCYON.
JULY
Print by Victoria Vesna, Hamden, NY, July 5-30, 2025
[SUN]Flower Plasma & [Alien] Star Dust - Cosmic Encounters in Two Acts
Victoria Vesna
Installation and Meditation Events
Exhibition: July 5-30, 2025
Experience cosmic resonance through Augmented Reality, projection, and meditation, blending [SUN]Flower Plasma and [Alien] Star Dust.
JULY 5 & 12 Events
Noon-2pm | Daytime Launch & Farmer’s Market
Experience AR-enhanced prints activated by your mobile device. Visitors can download the app to reveal shimmery micrometeorites in their surroundings, take it home, and disperse pollution particles - a poetic gesture toward planetary healing.
Presented alongside the farmer’s market, this midday event invites you to explore both earthly abundance and cosmic presence. Includes sunflower snacks and live blackboard drawings by the artist.
7-9pm | Evening Projection & Solar Meditation
As night falls, return for a meditative sunset journey with sound and visuals drawn from both works. Led by Victoria Vesna, this immersive experience invites collective reflection on solar rhythms, interstellar dust, and shared stillness. (Repeats on July 12)
JULY 6 | Special Event, 11-2pm
Hox Zodiac Brunch & REFUGE film screening honoring the 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday.
Please RSVP john@studioicai.org
HALCYON READING SERIES
Friday, July 11, 5:30-8pm
Deirdre Larkin & Tom Groves Antiphon/Schmantiphon
AUGUST & SEPTEMBER
Salon d’Amour performance by Margret Wibmer, Kanazawa, Japan, 2024, Photo: Nik van der Giesen
SALON D’AMOUR
Margret Wibmer
Join artist Margret Wibmer for two special evenings of moving and immersive performance, engaging the public as participants to reimagine love as a force of transformation.
To reserve your place please make a $20 donation that will go towards the artist or RSVP to john@studioicai.org / 917.991.9279 and bring cash the day of the event.
Fri/Sat, Aug 8 & 9 | 7:30PM
Ticketed Event; Please RSVP
Salon d’Amour invites participants to experience a simultaneity of spaces and narratives through voiced readings and intimate listening. Participants don unique masks created by the artist, which serve as conduits to other worlds. Love letters from writers & artists: James Baldwin, Frida Kahlo, John Cage, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Marianna Maruyama, Ingeborg Bachmann, Banana Yoshimoto and others will be read aloud.
Together with soundscape developed with composer Robert Poss, Salon d’Amour - mise en scene, becomes a poetic, cinematic ritual - claiming a pause in time, evoking a sensual experience of love’s complex layers and its transformative powers.
You can find more info about Salon d’Amour on Margret’s website:
https://margretwibmer.eu/performances/salon-damour/
And in the recent video document of Salon d’Amour at The Merchant House Amsterdam, Netherlands. (July 4th and 5th 2025) by Anastasia Nefedova
https://vimeo.com/1101204318
Sat Aug 9 | Noon-2PM
Shingle Valley & Spacelover Concert
Opening Event
Fritz Horstman and Meredith M. Andrews, aka. Spacelover, perform a concert with new and experimental sounds developed with local singers ending with a set of original songs. Playing folk, blues and bluegrass-inflected acoustic music, the duo infuses their inventive original compositions and carefully chosen covers with harmonies sung over intricate banjo and guitar. This event marks the occasion of placing Fritz Horstman’s sculpture on the grounds of Birdsong.
HALCYON READING SERIES
Friday, August 22, 5:30-8PM
Daria Fain, Robert Kocik and Brenda Ijima
Feeding Off Each Other
Curated by Alana Siegel
OCTOBER
WE DO: SURFING THE APOCALYPSE KARAOKE!
Friday, October 3rd, 7-9PM ET
The ICAI Summer 2025 season at Birdsong will end with the 3rd edition of WE DO: SURFING THE APOCALYPSE KARAOKE, an audience participation cinema experience featuring live music with BobCats band members, 5 screen video collage of dystopian and utopian films, workshop and song. Event sponsored by a grant from the Roxbury Arts Group. For info. contact : Emily and John, john@studioicai.org / 917.991.9279.
“Your interest and engagement are what completes the making of this art.”
Location: Birdsong Farm Event Hall 38718 NY-10, Hamden, NY 13782, USA
(location of the Hamden Farmer’s Market)
Refreshments will be served.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Tri-County Glass, Snyder’s Greenhouse,