Deep Listening Workshop. Environmental Dialogues: Cultivating a human-nature connection through Deep Listening®

Sunday 1 March / 11am – 1pm /  Our Lady & St. Nicholas Church Gardens / RSVP

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You are warmly invited to a two-hour Deep Listening® Workshop to explore listening, sounding, dreaming and moving in the beautiful surroundings of Our Lady & St Nicholas’ Church Gardens, an oasis of calm between Liverpool’s waterfront and business district.

In this session, Knowsley based artist Clare Brumby will lead a Deep Listening® Circle in this beautiful space, aimed at cultivating and deepening the human connection to nature, through a collective exploration of Deep Listening® practices, as developed by composer-performer Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) with Heloise Gold and IONE.

Deep Listening® offers ways to explore and expand our individual and community listening, awareness, attention and consciousness, with a particular focus on the interplay between the involuntary nature of hearing and the intentional nature of listening. Participants will be invited to join in a series of specially curated improvisational exercises with a focus on nature, including sonic meditations, listening through moving, listening through dreaming, and performing and creating text scores, to cultivate a heightened awareness of listening deeply and expansively. Through these playful, collaborative and community building practices, we’ll create our own environmental dialogues whilst considering care for ourselves and the climate, through deeply listening to the land.

This workshop is open to anyone (18+) wishing to explore listening and sounding inspired by the sounds of daily life, nature, the environment, our own thoughts, imagination, and dreams. Everyone is welcome and no previous experience or ability is necessary. 

Clare Brumby is an undisciplined artist and ‘Eartified’ Deep Listening®  Workshop Facilitator, and is supported by The Center for Deep Listening® at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. She currently runs Deep Listening® events under the name Sonic Peace.

This event is part of LOOK Climate Lab 2026, a biennial programme by Open Eye Gallery.

We encourage you to use public transport or carpooling when getting to the events.

Open Eye Gallery is a short walk from the Liverpool ONE shopping centre and the Albert Dock.

By train. We are 20 minutes walk from Lime Street station. James Street station, served by Wirral Line trains, is a two minute walk. Moorfields station, served by the Northern and Wirral Lines, is a five minute walk. Visit Merseytravel for details of local train services.

By bus. The nearest bus and coach station is at Liverpool ONE, served by National Express coaches. Merseytravel has details of  local bus services.

By ferry. The gallery is two minutes walk from the Pier Head Ferry Terminal, from which Mersey Ferries run regular services to the Wirral.

By bicycle. There are bicycle bays close to the gallery.

If you wish to offset the carbon footprint of your travel, you can do it with Carbon Neutral Britain, Carbon Footprint, Forest Carbon, My Carbon Plan or any other project that you trust.