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Home Ground: Portic Art Experience

Home Ground is a poetry-sourced, interdisciplinary art experience. The cross-pollination of visual art, poems, dance, music, and spoken word explores qualities found in the natural world and reminds visitors of how their communities are ecosystems that flourish through many perspectives. 

Home Ground stimulates our desire to thrive despite the stresses and isolation of our current culture by inspiring visitors to embrace change through the radical acts of shared joy and awe. Visitors emerge with their curiosity, compassion, and creativity piqued better equipped to engage our world with refreshed hearts and minds. 

Home Ground demonstrates that while into every life a little rain must fall, you already know how to dance and the world is your maker space. So share your vision—you have everything to gain. 

Dance, choreography, and poem by Kari Tai 

Music by September Alexander

Filmed in Idylwood Park, Redmond.

Arboreal Advisor

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Poem by Kari Tai

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Future Dreams by 

Jennifer Oak

Dance, choreography, and poem by Kari Tai 

Filmed in Marymoor Park, Redmond.

The Physics of Beauty-A Sky Proof

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Poem by Kari Tai

In the Dark of Night - Adriana Morales

In the Dark of the Night by 

Adrianna Morales

Dance, choreography, and poem by Kari Tai 

Filmed in Marymoor Park, Redmond.

The Physics of Beauty-A Sky Proof

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Poem by Kari Tai

In the Dark of Night - Adriana Morales

In the Dark of the Night by 

Adrianna Morales

Dance, choreography, and poem by Kari Tai 

Music by September Alexander

Filmed in Bellevue Botanical Garden, Bellevue.

Humming Heart

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Poem by Kari Tai

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Humming Heart by 

Tanvi Patil

Sky Orb

Dance, choreography, and poem by Kari Tai

Music by September Alexander

Filmed in Sammamish Landing, Sammamish.

Compass of My Dreams by 

Kelley Logan Miller

Poem by Kari Tai

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Be Water

Dance, choreography, and poem by Kari Tai

Music by September Alexander

Filmed in Sammamish Landing, Sammamish.

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Poem by Kari Tai

 Surge (The Ebb and Flow Series) by 

Rajani Patil

Dancing with the Angles or Between the Planes

Sandra Penney
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Dance, choreography, and poem by Kari Tai

Music by September Alexander

Filmed in Bellevue Botanical Garden, Bellevue.

Poem by Kari Tai

The Crossing of the First Threshold series by 

Sandra Penney

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