Peace and Harmony through Poetry and Music is a cross-disciplinary collaboration uniting poets and musicians to explore language, sound, and cultural expression. Through compositions, performances, and filming, the project weaves poetry and music into a unified experience, fostering cross-cultural dialogue, creative exchange, and a shared vision of peace and harmony.
Poet Anna Yin will lead this project and collaborate with three to four musicians from diverse cultural and musical backgrounds. The creative process will include:
- Selecting poems for musical adaptation or composing new poetry inspired by the musicians’ work.
- Developing and refining 5–7 poetry-music pieces about peace and harmony for digital or live presentation. （Some samples to work on...)
- (Incorporating both Eastern and Western traditional instruments, such as the Morin Khuur, violin, piano, guitar, and drums, to create rich, multicultural presentation)
The project will unfold over five months (May to Oct 2025) and involve:
- Selection & Concept Development – Choosing poems and musical styles (May).
- Creation & Rehearsals – Collaborative composition and refinement (June–July).
- Public Presentation – Launching a YouTube channel for showcasing recordings and organizing live performances (September).
Five local artists and musicians agreed to join Anna for this project: Mark Harry (guitarist), Li Ming (morin khuur player/painter), Sarah Hei (filmmaker, team member of my previous poetry film project), and Wendy (composer, violinist, singer, and dancer). Li Jin (composer). Here are their biographies. More might join us as the project unfolds. Here artists are not seek perfection but rather aims to foster and inspire new creativity.
We are very happy that this project won a Matchmaker Microgrant from MAC in 2025 and sponsorship from local business and artists, this project has been planned to start on May 1, 2025. We want to thank the following sponsors:
