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THE WELLBEING SUMMIT ARRIVES TO BILBAO THE WELLBEING SUMMIT ARRIVES TO BILBAO

More than 85 artists across 10 venues, including the Guggenheim Bilbao, will bring exhibits, newly commissioned works and a vibrant performing arts program open to Bilbao residents

BILBAO – BISCAY, SPAIN (May 26, 2022) – The Wellbeing Project presents its inaugural Wellbeing Summit for Social Change from 1 to 3 June 2022: a global event bringing together social change, governmental, arts and business leaders working at the intersection of individual and collective wellbeing. The three-day summit will consist of ground-breaking talks, conversations and panel discussions highlighting the connections between individual, organisational and societal wellbeing. BBVA supports the inaugural wellbeing summit for social change in Bilbao-Biscay.

BBVA joins the event as a leading supporter allowing the summit to bring social change leaders and artists from more than 60 countries and five continents to the region and experience the local culture. Because of this partnership, attendees as well as the citizens of Bilbao-Biscay and surrounding communities will have access to an extensive array of exhibits, newly commissioned works of art and vibrant performing arts. The full list of over 85 artists that will have their work on display can be found here.

BBVA is creating its own exhibit entitled “Art and Spirituality. Imagining the Extraordinary,” curated by Alfonso de la Torre. The show brings together a carefully selected group of works from the historical and contemporary holdings in the BBVA Collection in Spain. Arranged in four different chapters, around forty classic and modern artworks are seamlessly displayed alongside one another, acknowledging the wealth and diversity of the BBVA Collection in a variety of media and techniques: painting, sculpture, photography and installation as well as videos on loan courtesy of other collections. .The show wishes to highlight the influence that spirituality, understood as a universal phenomenon, has exerted on art creation throughout time and in addition the impact of both Art and Spirituality in human wellbeing. It will be open to the public from 31 March to 5 June 2022.

Moreover, BBVA will be offering several activities around the show in the Palacio de San Nicolás: a unique musical ecosystem performed by the string quartet Brooklyn Rider; Birdheart a chamber piece of animated theatre which speaks about man’s relationship to the world; an encounter with Bach by cellist Maciej Kulakowsk followed by a mindfulness creative lab with Corinna da Fonseca; projection of Mar Soli’s performance as well as guided tours in English to the exhibition “Art and Spirituality. Imagining the extraordinary.

In addition to their own collection, BBVA’s support will allow the Bilbao community to celebrate local artists as well. Acclaimed artist who lives and works in Bilbao – Biscay, June Crespo will have her “CORE22” work open to the public from 20 of May to 15 2022 of June at Museo de Bellas Artes. Crespo will also produce three, new, related works to be placed in a public space. Another artist, Alicia Framis, originally from Barcelona, Spain, will have her work “Taking flight” open to the public at Bizkaia Aretoa – Axular from 31 May to 3 June 2022.

“We are thankful to have thoughtful partners like BBVA to help expand the footprint of wellbeing during our summit,” said Sandrine Woitrin and Aaron Pereira, Project Co-Leads of The Wellbeing Project. “Their exhibit, along with the dozens of other pieces, will allow participants and residents alike to experience the outcome of centering wellbeing in all aspects of society for improved outcomes.”

“For BBVA, promoting culture and art in Bilbao is part of our commitment to this city. Both elements are essential to address the challenges of the future and position Bilbao as a capital of reference,” said Carlos Gorría, director of BBVA’s Northern Territory in Spain.

The Wellbeing Summit chose the location of Bilbao, Biscay because it is an international hub for art and culture. It is a place in the process of deepening its transformation by focusing on a Charter of Values that centres on improving the wellbeing of its citizens and the Sustainable Development Goals. BBVA and summit organisers hope to give participants and residents of Bilbao the opportunity to take an interactive journey exploring what social change can look like when municipal leaders are guided by wellbeing principles.

“Bilbao is pleased to host this first edition of the Wellbeing Summit for Social Change, which, I am sure, will help to set the road map for this new revolution in the making,” said Juan Mari Aburto, Mayor of Bilbao. “Over the years, Bilbao has been committed to a model of urban and human development that guarantees the possibility of realizing full and dignified life projects for all the people who live and work in this city. Our commitment to human wellbeing has become an international model that will help us to build hope for the future.”

The participants of this event will attend largely by invitation to ensure a diverse, representative, and pluralistic community of attendees. This will be the first of two global summits The Wellbeing Project will convene with the second to be announced for 2024.

Following the in-person summit, there will be virtual elements available to the public hosted by Parker J. Palmer, Author, Educator and Activist; Founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage and Renewal (USA) and Sharon Salzberg, NY Times Bestselling Author and Meditation Teacher (USA).

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The Wellbeing Project

The Wellbeing Project is a global initiative focused on catalysing a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers and structured in four pillars – model programs; research and evaluation; learning, convening, and enabling; and storytelling and connecting. The organisation is inspired by love, care, and compassion for all the people who work to build a better world, as well as to support the many causes and movements for which we all work. The Wellbeing Project is co-created with Ashoka, Georgetown University, Impact Hub, Porticus, the Skoll Foundation, and the Synergos Institute.

Partners include: BBVA; Bizkaia – Government of Biscay; BMW; City of Bilbao; Latham & Watkins; Azkuna Zentroa; Canadian Embassy of Madrid; Community Arts Network; Draiflessen Collection; Fundación Universidad-Empresa; Greater Good Science Center; Guggenheim Bilbao; India Development Review; JCDecaux; MIT Media Labs; Museo De Bellas Artes de Bilbao; Panta Rhea Foundation; Reinoo de los Países Bajos; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Schoepflin Foundation; Science Gallery; Steelcase; Stanford Social Innovation Review; Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary; The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global; The Rubin Museum of Art; Science Gallery; and Ursula Hauser Collection.

Speakers include: Rajni Bakshi, Briggs Bomba, Mbarka Bouaida, Kate Byrne, Laura Calderon de la Barca, Aneel Chima, Chantharavady Choulamany, Gary Cohen, Andrea Coleman, Dr. Richard J. Davidson, Suparna Diwakar, Peggy Dulany, Mallika Dutt, Gabriela Gandel, Russ Gaskin, Rosemary Gathara, David Germano, Sennay Ghebreab, PhD, Jay Coen Gilbert, Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Ramsés Gómez, Edgard Gouveia Jr, Vanessa Haigh, Zarlasht Halaimzai, Reggie Hubbard, Lorea Bilbao Ibarra, Luzette Jaimes, Shruti Jayaraman, John Kania, Nadine Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, Dr. Barry Kerzin, Dr. Julia Kim, Dr. Sará King, Satish Kumar, Edwin Macharia, Juan Mari Aburto, Aikatarini Makrogamuraki, Katherine Milligan, Wanja Muguongo, Rukudzo Mwamuka, Kumi Naidoo, Haifa Najjar, Dr. Deepa Narayan, Wellington Nogueira, Clara Oyuela, Cristiane Ferraz Prade, Father Timothy Radcliffe, Monira Rahman, Imam Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi, Rabbi David Rosen, Sharon Rosen, Zainab Salbi, Carolin Schmee, Jessamyn Shams-Lau, Laureline Simon, Vanee Surendranathan, Chris Underhill, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Justin Michael Williams, Louisa Zondo.

Artists and Arts Projects include: Grimanesa Amoros, Yazmany Arboleda, Loreto Aramendi, Miroslaw Balka, BBVA Art Collection, Birdheart, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kenyatta Emmanuel, Brooklyn Rider, Janet Cardiff, Nikhil Chopra, June Crespo, Alicia Framis, Carlos Garaicoa, Aaron Huey, Eva Lee, Madalitso Band, Hope Masike, Emeline Michel, Mohau Modisakeng, Aakash Odedra, David Strathairn, Maciej Kulakowsk, Daan Roosegaarde, The Rubin Museum – Mandala Lab, Sonja Schenkel, Falu Shah, and Karyshma, Himali Singh Soin, Daniel Steegmann Mangrane, Science Gallery Bengaluru, Shirley Tse, Silkroad, Ursula Hauser Collection, Jazmine Williams, Gerald Wirth, Bishop Chantel Wright and Songs of Solomon, Vocalia Taldea, Thomas Cabaniss, Josu Elberdin, Zirkozaurre.

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Chris Underhill – Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs

David Germano – Contemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia

Kathy Reich – Ford Foundation

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Who is coming to The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change? – Kathy Reich – Ford Foundation

Who is coming to The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change? – Aneel Chima – Stanford University

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Art and Spirituality. Imagining the Extraordinary in the BBVA Collection

Art and Spirituality. Imagining the Extraordinary is an exhibition organized by BBVA and curated by Alfonso de la Torre. It brings together a carefully selected group of works from the historical and contemporary holdings in the BBVA Collection in Spain.

Location: Palacio de San Nicolás, Plaza de San Nicolás 4
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Date: March 31 – June 5

Time: 11am – 7pm

Arranged in four different chapters, around forty classic and modern artworks are seamlessly displayed alongside one another, acknowledging the wealth and diversity of the BBVA Collection in a variety of media and techniques: painting, sculpture, photography and installation as well as videos on loan courtesy of other collections.

The show wishes to highlight the influence that spirituality, understood as a universal phenomenon, has exerted on art creation throughout time.

Leveraging a variety of different resources—like religion, light, energy, emptiness, sublimity, metaphors or symbols—artists from different times have pondered on the purpose of creation and have tried to materialize in their works that essential aspect of the human being, that inner and transcendental element that gives meaning to our lives. Through the encounter with the artwork and appealing to concepts that are hard to express through words, they attempt to conjure a supernatural experience, inviting the beholder to “imagine the extraordinary.”

In the courtyard of the palace, the visitors will also be able to enjoy the recording of the performance Ripple. Expansive Wave by the artist Mar Solis, performed on the occasion of the exhibition opening.

WALKTHROUGH

The Origin – The Centre

The starting point for this journey is the beginning, the origin, symbolized by the presence of centres in art images. With its mysterious concealed, thinking and energetic centre, Oteiza’s metaphysical box exemplifies the birth of the image of the invisible. This chapter includes works whose exploration of the origin is rendered through a variety of representations, like spirals, maelstroms, circles or shafts of light. Gardens and Deserts. The Garden of Earthly Delights versus the Desert and Spaces.

The second chapter includes works related to images of heaven and its symbolic equivalents (paradise, Eden or the garden) and also illustrations of the opposite, death and desolation (deserts and graveyards). The former are represented with works by David Teniers, Ouka Leele and Esteban Vicente, and the latter with pieces by Yves Tanguy or Lucio Muñoz.

Between Pain and Ecstasy. Miracles and Healing

The third chapter is “Between Pain and Ecstasy,” with a special section devoted to “Miracle and Healing”. Extraordinary manifestations of the supernatural like miracles, ecstasy and apparitions are reflected in works by Bill Viola or Luis Vélez. Next to them are pieces that comment on a more everyday and closer connection with divinity, like the small private altarpiece attributed to Juan de Soreda or the sculpture by Mar Solís that seeks to challenge the very boundaries of matter.

The fourth and final chapter revolves around the notion of the fleetingness of life, most poignantly captured in the vanitas, illustrated here in several exceptional works like an anonymous painting of Saint Jerome, or vanitas by Joaquín Sorolla and Marina Abramović, arranged in dialogue with works by Miquel Barceló and Manuel Franquelo, and offset by the ghostly landscapes by Karl Eugen Körner and Juan Carlos Savater.

In the words of the curator, the exhibition “threads together images posed as apparitions, as transpicuous, passionate presences which, although anchored in the history of art, seem to have risen anew in this new moment of time, as if they were giving us a chance to be eye-witnesses to the unfolding of an event.”

The four chapters offer a contemporary and educational reading of “Art and Spirituality” grounded in the holdings of the BBVA Collection, inviting us to visit it and embark on a journey through a selection of extraordinary images.

Music and Spirituality. Listening to the Extraordinary

The mysticism of experience is further explored in Music and Spirituality. Listening to the Extraordinary, a playlist selected by Joan Gómez Alemany accessible to the public by scanning a QR code: an eclectic compilation that transports us to different ways of understanding spirituality around the world.

EXHIBIT INFORMATION

➜ Dates: 31 March – 5 June 2022
➜ Curated by: Alfonso de la Torre
➜ Publication: catalogue with an essay by the curator. Trilingual edition (Spanish, English, Basque). On sale at exhibition venue

Information for visitors:

➜ Free admission
➜ Venue: Palacio de San Nicolás, 4 – 48005 Bilbao
➜ Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 11 am – 7 pm
➜ Guided tours in Spanish free-of-charge, booking in advance:
exposiciones@lafabrica.com / Tel: +34 913 601 324
➜ Audio guide (Spanish, English, Basque), free-of-charge, scanning QR code
➜ Music and Spirituality. Listening to the Extraordinary. Playlist downloadable from Spotify

ESPAÑOL

Arte y espiritualidad. Imaginar lo extraordinario es una exposición organizada por BBVA y comisariada por Alfonso de la Torre que recoge una cuidada selección de los fondos históricos y contemporáneos de la Colección BBVA en España.

Alrededor de cuarenta piezas distribuidas en cuatro secciones, proponen un encuentro entre la colección de arte antiguo y la de los siglos XX y XXI, reflejando la riqueza y variedad de la Colección BBVA en diversos soportes y técnicas: pintura, escultura, fotografía e instalación; también alguna obra de videoarte, prestada por cortesía de otras colecciones.
La muestra pretende poner de manifiesto la importancia que la espiritualidad, entendida como un fenómeno universal, ha ejercido en la creación artística a lo largo del tiempo.

Sirviéndose de muy diversos recursos, como la religión, la luz, la energía, el vacío, el silencio, lo sublime, la metáfora o el símbolo, artistas de distintas épocas han reflexionado acerca de los propósitos de la creación y han tratado de plasmar en su trabajo ese aspecto esencial del ser humano, esa parte interior y trascendental que da sentido a nuestras vidas. Son intentos de evocar −a través del encuentro con la obra de arte y apelando a conceptos difícilmente expresables mediante la palabra− la experiencia de lo sobrenatural, que invita al espectador a “imaginar lo extraordinario”.

En el patio del palacio, los visitantes tendrán la oportunidad de disfrutar de la grabación de la performance Ripple. Onda Expansiva de la artista Mar Solís, realizada para la inauguración de la exhibición.

RECORRIDO

El origen – El centro

El punto de partida de este viaje es el principio, el origen, simbolizado por la presencia de centros en las imágenes de arte. Con su misterioso centro oculto, pensante y energético, la caja metafísica de Oteiza ejemplifica el nacimiento de la imagen de lo invisible. Este capítulo incluye trabajos cuya explicación del origen se realiza a través de una variedad de representaciones, como espirales, vorágines, círculos y haces de luz.

Jardines y Desiertos. El Jardín de las Delicias versus el desierto y los espacios.

La segunda sección acoge creaciones relativas a imágenes del cielo y sus equivalentes simbólicos −paraísos, jardines o edenes−, y también las que ilustran lo contrario, la muerte y la desolación –desiertos y camposantos−. Temáticas representadas con obras de David Teniers, Ouka Leele, Yves Tanguy o César Manrique.

Entre el dolor y el éxtasis. Milagro y sanación.

El tercer capítulo es “Entre el dolor y el éxtasis”, con una sección especial dedicada a “Milagro y sanación”. Manifestaciones extraordinarias de lo sobrenatural como lo milagros, éxtasis y apariciones reflejadas en obras de Bill Viola o Luis Vélez. Junto a ellas, piezas que comentan una conexión más cotidiana y cercana con la divinidad, como el pequeño retablo privado atribuido a Juan de Soreda o la escultura de Mar Solís que busca desafiar los propios límites de la materia.

El cuarto y final capítulo gira en torno la noción de la fugacidad de la vida, plasmada de forma más conmovedora en las vanitas, ilustrada en varias obras excepcionales como un cuadro anónimo de San Jerónimo, o vanitas de Joaquín Sorolla y Marina Abramović, dispuestas en diálogo con obras de Miquel Barceló y Manuel Franquelo, y compensadas por los paisajes fantasmales de Karl Eugen Körner y Juan Carlos Savater.

En palabras del comisario, la exposición “enhebra imágenes planteadas como apariciones, como presencias transpicuas y apasionadas que, aunque ancladas en la historia del arte, parecen haber resurgido en este nuevo momento del tiempo, como si nos dieran la oportunidad de ser testigos presenciales del desarrollo de un acontecimiento.”

Los cuatro capítulos ofrecen una lectura contemporánea y pedagógica de “Arte y Espiritualidad” a partir de los fondos de la Colección BBVA, invitándonos a visitarla y a emprender un viaje a través de una selección de imágenes extraordinarias.

Música y espiritualidad. Oír lo extraordinario

La misticidad de la experiencia se ve reforzada por una selección musical realizada por Joan Gómez Alemany, titulada ‘Música y espiritualidad. Oír lo extraordinario’. Una ecléctica recopilación que nos transporta a diversas formas de entender la espiritualidad alrededor del mundo y a la que el público podrá acceder a través de un código QR.

INFORMACIÓN DE LA EXPOSICIÓN:

➜ Fechas: del 31 de marzo al 5 junio de 2022
➜ Comisariada por: Alfonso de la Torre
➜ Publicaciones: catálogo con texto del comisario. Edición trilingüe (castellano, inglés, euskera). En venta en la exposición

Información a visitantes:

➜ Entrada libre y gratuita
➜ Lugar: Palacio de San Nicolás, 4 – 48005 Bilbao
➜ Horario: De lunes a domingo, de 11.00 a 19.00 h.
➜ Visitas guiadas gratuitas miércoles a las 18.00 y sábados a las 12.00 h. Información e inscripción previa en: exposiciones@lafabrica.com / +34 913 601 324 (9.30 a 14.00 h.)
➜ Grupos con guía propio: necesaria reserva previa. Acceso con silla de ruedas por calle Fueros
➜ Audioguías (Español, inglés y euskera) gratuitas al escanear código QR.
➜ Música y espiritualidad. Oír lo extraordinario. Selección de música descargable en Spotify.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INAUGURAL WELLBEING SUMMIT FOR SOCIAL CHANGE HIGHLIGHTS THE INTEGRAL ROLE OF ART IN DEVELOPING A NEW LANGUAGE FOR WELLBEING AND SOCIAL CHANGE

- - Involving more than 85 artists across 10 venues, the Summit will bring exhibits, newly commissioned works and a vibrant performing arts program to Bilbao
- - Participating artists include: Yazmany Arboleda, Miroslaw Balka, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Janet Cardiff, Nikhil Chopra, Himali Singh Soin, Daan Roosegaarde
- - Cultural partners include: Guggenheim Bilbao, Rubin Museum of Art, Science Gallery Bengaluru, Ursula Hauser Collection, and others

BILBAO – BISCAY, SPAIN (May 11, 2022) – The Wellbeing Project presents its inaugural Wellbeing Summit for Social Change from 1st to 3rd June 2022: a global event bringing together social change, governmental, arts and business leaders working at the intersection of individual and collective wellbeing.

The three-day summit will consist of ground-breaking talks, conversations and panel discussions highlighting the connections between individual, organisational and societal wellbeing. Speakers will discuss the notion of how a deeply embedded culture of wellbeing can alter and inform our approach to driving positive systemic change.

The arts play an integral role in the development of a new language for inner wellbeing and can provide a greater understanding and expression of the human experience. During the summit, visitors will encounter different artistic experiences through a selection of exhibits, artworks and a vibrant performing arts program. Involving more than 85 artists at 10 venues, the event offers participants and residents of Bilbao the opportunity to take an interactive journey exploring what social change becomes with inner wellbeing at its heart.

“The arts have a unique power to express ideas and emotions in new ways, to create experiences that have a profound impact on our lives, and to help us make sense of the world around us. The Arts Program at the Summit invites us all to embark on a creative journey together; a journey that I hope will activate our whole selves and continue to resonate in our hearts and minds long after the event ends.” – Manuel Bagorro, Arts Curator, The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change

Inspiring and creative Immersive Talks and Workshops will pair artists and speakers to examine wide-ranging topics that include neuroscience; intergenerational trauma; spirituality and rituals; diversity, equity, and inclusion; economics; business; climate; and technology.

The summit’s Artist Track program has commissioned 12 international artists to create a major new work exploring the idea of inner wellbeing, either for themselves, the community, or the world. Through the Artist Track, the Wellbeing Summit offers creative residencies in Bilbao-Biscay to support the creation of risk-taking new work that challenges assumptions and builds community. Vicente Todoli, Artistic Director of Pirelli HangarBicocca, has acted as advisor on the selection of artists.

Highlights include, Indian artist, Nikhil Chopra who will stage a 24-hour durational solo performance, placing his body at the centre of the artwork; while as part of her installation Himali Singh Soin collaborates with drummer, composer, and performance artist David Soin Tappeser to offer daily rituals that include a gong bath, readings and communal tea.

Artist and architect, Yazmany Arboleda creates a site-specific installation, Hospital for the Soul in the centre of Casilda Iturrizar Park. For 11 days, visitors will be able to see the reflection of Magnolia Tree #5, the Biscay Sky, themselves, and anyone else present in a specially created room. The temporary mirrored interior, created in response to the generational trauma caused by the Spanish Civil War, invites participants to reflect on our place on earth.

Bilbao-based artist, June Crespo has produced 3 new works related to her concrete sculpture series Core. Sculpted with materials such as fabric, concrete, fiberglass, plaster, and wax, her works are designed to be used by the public as a playground, a place to rest and contemplate, or a place to ‘dance’ with the pieces that act as a reminder of the interplay in our lives between what is absolute and grounded with the ephemeral and elusive.

Across the three-day summit, performances and community workshops will be offered by groups including the Harlem-based Bishop Chantel Wright and Songs of Solomon Gospel Choir and Silkroad Ensemble.

Artist Daan Roosegarde will debut SPARK Bilbao, a poetic performance of thousands of biodegradable light sparks which will organically float through the air, offering an innovative solution for sustainable community celebrations.

Other highlights include the Rubin Museum of Art’s Mandala Lab an interactive space that uses artists’ creativity and Buddhist principles to help visitors imagine how to transform disruptive emotions such as anger, jealousy, and pride. Located in Parque de Doña Casilda de Iturrizar, the Mandala Lab features a pulsating light sculpture to encourage synchronized breathing, scent stimuli and videos to help unpack memories, and eight musician-curated gongs that the visitor can strike and dip into water.

Notes to Editors

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The Wellbeing Project

Partners include: – BBVA; Bizkaia – Government of Biscay; City of Bilbao; Latham & Watkins; Azkuna Zentroa; Canadian Embassy of Madrid; Community Arts Network; Draiflessen Collection; Guggenheim Bilbao; MIT Media Labs; Museo De Bellas Artes de Bilbao; Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary; The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global; The Rubin Museum of Art; Science Gallery; and Ursula Hauser.

Speakers include: – Rajni Bakshi, Briggs Bomba, Kate Byrne, Laura Calderon de la Barca, Aneel Chima, Gary Cohen, Dr. Richard J. Davidson, Suparna Diwakar, Peggy Dulany, Mallika Dutt, David Germano, Sennay Ghebreab, PhD, Jay Coen Gilbert, Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Ramsés Gómez, Edgard Gouveia Jr, Vanessa Haigh, Zarlasht Halaimzai, Reggie Hubbard, Nadine Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, Dr. Barry Kerzin, Dr. Julia Kim, Dr. Sará King, Satish Kumar, Juan Mari Aburto, Wanja Muguongo, Deepa Narayan, Wellington Nogueira, Clara Oyuela, Cristiane Ferraz Prade, Aaron Pereira, Father Timothy Radcliffe, Imam Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi, Rabbi David Rosen, Sharon Rosen, Zainab Salbi, Carolin Schmee, Jessamyn Shams-Lau, Laureline Simon, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Justin Michael Williams, Sandrine Woitrin

Artists and Arts Projects include: – Grimanesa Amoros, Yazmany Arboleda, Loreto Aramendi, Miroslaw Balka, BBVA Art Collection, Birdheart, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kenyatta Emmanuel, Brooklyn Rider, Janet Cardiff, Nikhil Chopra, June Crespo, Alicia Framis, Carlos Garaicoa, Aaron Huey, Eva Lee, Madalitso Band, Hope Masike, Emeline Michel, Mohau Modisakeng, Aakash Odedra, David Strathairn, Joshua Roman, Daan Roosegaarde, The Rubin Museum – Mandala Lab, Sonja Schenkel, Falu Shah and Karyshma, Himali Singh Soin, Daniel Steegmann Mangrane, Science Gallery Bengaluru, Shirley Tse, Silkroad, Ursula Hauser Collection, Jazmine Williams, Gerald Wirth, Bishop Chantel Wright and Songs of Solomon, Vocalia Taldea, Thomas Cabaniss, Josu Elberdin, Zirkozaurre.

Sonja Schenkel’s work for The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change is called “The Chrysalis Force Field.” The Chrysalis meditation pods invite guests to build a contemplative force field near the conference center. Five people at once can meditate in a circle; separate but together. The intention is to increase support and positive mindsets that are being shared at The Wellbeing Summit and beyond.

Location: Euskalduna
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Visits available upon pre-registration only.
Date: May 31 – June 3

“The force field is a reference to the constellation work, so vital for the wellbeing project. May it be of benefit for everyone and everything.” – Sonja Schenkel

The force field consists of 5 meditation pods that are hung from a structure within a tent. Each pod weighs about 5kg and sits on a round carpet. Materials used are reopened after the Summit. The carpets may be given as a present to people chosen by the Wellbeing Project. All components are handmade, fully sustainable, using natural dyes. Illumination at night is done with small solar lights.

Hidden in a separate, round tent vis-a-vis the conference center, the Chrysalis force field offer a place of silence amidst the rumble of talks and networking.

ESPAÑOL

El trabajo de Sonja Schenkel para la Cumbre The Wellbeing para el Cambio Social se llama “El campo de fuerza Chrysalis”. Las cápsulas de meditación Chrysalis invitan a los invitados a construir un campo de fuerza contemplativo cerca del centro de conferencias. Cinco personas a la vez pueden meditar en círculo; separadas pero juntas. La intención es aumentar el apoyo y la mentalidad positiva que se comparte en The Wellbeing Summit y más allá.

“El campo de fuerza es una referencia al trabajo de la constelación, tan vital para el proyecto de bienestar. Que sea beneficioso para todos y para todo”. – Sonja Schenkel

El campo de fuerza consta de 5 módulos de meditación que se cuelgan de una estructura dentro de una carpa. Cada módulo pesa unos 5 kg y se asienta sobre una alfombra redonda. Los materiales utilizados se vuelven a abrir después de la Cumbre. Las alfombras se pueden regalar a las personas elegidas por The Wellbeing Project. Todos los componentes están hechos a mano, son totalmente sostenibles y utilizan tintes naturales. La iluminación nocturna se realiza con pequeñas luces solares.

Escondidas en una carpa redonda separada del centro de conferencias, el campo de fuerza Chrysalis ofrece un lugar de silencio en medio del estruendo de las charlas y el trabajo en red.