The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come is an invitation to reimagine our place along the Jones Falls River and the Chesapeake Bay in a distant future beyond our fossil-fueled present. Consider what local landscapes and cultures might look like in a time far beyond the Baltimore we know now. What artifacts might people of that future time produce, and how might they make creative use of the many things we leave behind?

Artists and exhibition curators are thrilled to lead, Tunes from Trash, Making Music from What We Leave Behind: Crafting instruments and thinking about music with Jordan Tierney and the International Arts & Mind Lab. Participants will consider the many natural and human-made sounds reverberating across the Jones Falls watershed. What does it sound like? How can we listen better in order to understand our environment better? How might we translate what we are hearing to engage our community? Using materials found in stream beds and river banks, participants will play with sound, motion, and material to build a sound vocabulary based on the unique flotsam and jetsam of this place.