Come see and hear the emergent seeds of new Regenerative Arts performances in the making by the 2025 Hogfish artists-in-residence!

During the Hogfish regenerative arts residency, each Hogfish artist-in-residence is invited to develop the seed of an idea that is regenerative to them personally, their community, and their neck of the woods. They are provided with time, space, and support to help cultivate the seed of their idea and to replenish the soil of their mind, body, and spirit so that their creative seed may be planted in fertile soil. Support modalities offered include nature baths, energy healing, Alexander Technique, performance enhancement hypnosis, shamanic healing, improvisation, play, voice-work, and group processing and response work.

At the end of their residency, artists are invited to present a short excerpt of their work-in-progress, on this evening titled the "Regenerative Arts Seed Project". They will share a seed of their idea to the public, followed by a facilitated Q&A with you the audience. Join us and cross-pollinate with your own viewpoint to help bring the next generation of Regenerative Arts seeds to germination!

About The Artists

Mary Johnston Letellier

Personal Regenerative Arts Project - Rainbow Art Song Project

There has been an acknowledged lack of vocal music written for trans singers. Looking at the current state of art songs, there is a noted absence of music written specifically to address the needs and challenges of trans singers, music written with trans singers as the intended performers, and contemporary music that is financially accessible to a wide audience. The Rainbow Art Song Project is aimed to help rectify these issues. This project was the unification of work done by teacher and student. It unified original and the most up-to-date research on transgender vocal pedagogy done by Mary Letellier, and a guide on compositional tools to write for trans voices based on this material by her student, Ocean Robbins. Using this guide, commissioned trans composers wrote art songs for trans performers. The  composed songs  were then recorded in multiple voice types to represent the vast scope of trans voices. All materials were uploaded to the project’s website to ensure public accessibility.

The purpose of the project is to provide a starting point for future contributions to the repertoire for trans voices. The intent is for the guide to expand and change as more research comes to light about the needs and experiences of trans singers. The project's ultimate goal is to create a standard practice of considering trans voices in the compositional process. 

Michele Kennedy

Personal Regenerative Arts Project - Finding Home: Sun, Moon, & Stars

This project will explore a visceral sense of belonging in our collective space and in relationship to the natural world. It will interweave psychosomatic healing practices from Black and Indigenous traditions - rituals designed to heal intergenerational trauma over time - alongside selected chants and art songs celebrating our personal longing for home, and the sacredness, breadth, and great expansiveness that we find in the natural world.

Audrey Luna

Personal Regenerative Arts Project - Let’s Sing!

My experience has shown me that using my singing voice connects me to something greater than my speaking voice. It connects me to my spirit. Singing allows that part of me that knows that I am connected to something larger to expand, thereby  inspiring my creativity, calming my mind, and releasing blocked energy. 

Most of us use our voices to define our experience, to communicate our ideas, to ask for what we want, for cognition. We don’t spend time singing. Using our singing voices is less familiar and for some taboo. Even those of us who do sing a lot, don’t often spend time simply allowing the experience to expand beyond our ego. I would like to invite anyone that would enjoy having a guided singing exploration to participate.

Hailey McAvoy

Personal Regenerative Arts Project - Wholly Unwinding

Wholly Unwinding is a multimedia concert work which combines my original music and lyrics with drawings and movement that explore my experiences growing up with cerebral palsy, the disconnect I felt from my own body, and the way I have been able to rediscover and come to love my physical incarnation through Alexander Technique. Training to teach Alexander Technique has been a profoundly beautiful and challenging experience, and these songs have been pouring out of me since beginning the training. I hope that in sharing them, they will also bring other people into a more compassionate relationship with their own bodies.

Kim Mendez

Personal Regenerative Arts Project - Breaking Cycles, Cultivating Futures

This regenerative arts project explores the terrain of otherness and the transformative power of breaking harmful family cycles. Centering the experiences of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive (TNBGE) people, the work reclaims and reimagines the "rules" passed down through generations—rules that often enforce silence, shame, and conformity. As inevitable cycle-breakers, TNBGE individuals disrupt patterns of harm not only for ourselves, but for our chosen families and families of origin.

Through the collaborative development of choral music and art song, the project weaves personal and ancestral narratives into collective expression—honoring rupture, resilience, and the regenerative possibilities of sound. By voicing what was once unspoken, we seed new pathways for healing, belonging, and shared liberation.

Shelby Rhoades

Pianist for all Regenerative Arts Projects
on July 14th at 317 Main Community Music Center

Keith Wehmeier

ersonal Regenerative Arts Project - 50 mile an hour lemonade and other life lessons from childhood

An exploration into the art of comedic songs, generated from life lessons from childhood.

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Three Regenerative Arts Works-in-Progress

Three artists present a short excerpt (10 minutes or under) of their own Regenerative Arts project, followed by a brief facilitated Q&A with the audience (15 minutes).

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Break

Enjoy a drink and snack at the Fox & Fiddle cafe and chat further with friends and artists the Regenerative Arts!

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Three Regenerative Arts Works-in-Progress

A final three artists present a short excerpt (10 minutes or under) of their own Regenerative Arts project, followed by a brief facilitated Q&A with the audience (15 minutes).

About Hogfish

Hogfish heals the division of our times by cultivating a new genre of Regenerative Arts - stories and artistic experiences that restore the connections between mind and body, individual and community, people and planet. The 501(c)(3) non-profit production company and residency works both from the top-down and bottom-up. From the top-down, the production company adapts classics and creates new works that center traditionally under-represented voices. From the bottom-up, the residency supports artists-in-residence to create Regenerative Arts projects from their own perspectives.

We are named after the fish with a snout like a pig that lives its life as both sexes. It surpasses our pre-conceived notions and invites us into a lived experience of the world that is authentic, bigger, and better. That is Hogfish.

About 317 Main Community Music Center

For more than two decades, 317 Main Community Music Center has created spaces where self-confidence grows, friendships form, and music serves as a bridge between generations and cultures. From lessons, ensembles, and concerts, to community outreach, access, and events, 317 Main is more than a music school, venue, and intergenerational gathering place. It is a cultural hub for musical discovery and personal growth, both onsite at our downtown Yarmouth campus and throughout Maine.