Make the PMA one of your stops during November’s First Friday Art Walk!

Free Program

Join us this Free Friday in the Selma Wolf Black Great Hall for two performances of Halcyon’s Realized: a 30-minute multimedia performance that combines live string quartet music synchronized to a stop-motion film.

5:30 p.m. | First Performance

6:30 p.m. | Second Performance

About Realized

Halcyon’s latest performance project, Realized, combines stop-motion animation with live string quartet music to imagine our collective future in the face of climate change. Inspired by a series of participatory workshops with high school students, Realized amplifies the artwork and voices of young people as they reflect on the present and imagine what a resilient, sustainable, and equitable future on this planet could look like 50 years from now.

About Halycon

Halycon is a Maine-based artist collective and string quartet that designs and presents multimedia performances that combine live music with science, film, art, and spoken word. While Halcyon's performances are localized in Maine and New England, Halcyon's musicians have taught and performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and at festivals in Europe, Australia, Panama,

India, Jordan, and Samoa. Halcyon's performances celebrate Maine's ecosystems and reflect on the challenges and opportunities we face in a climate-changed world. They draw attention to the difficult choices, rewards, and realities facing our communities—acknowledging the need for creative and diverse communication that harnesses the power of cultural traditions, storytelling, music, and visual art to translate numbers and facts into something tangible and human. Halcyon partners with scientists, musicians, artists, and composers to present 4–5 multi-show performance projects throughout Maine each year.

Learn more about Halycon here.