SALT, Brain Pickings, Universe in Verse, and "Singularity" by Marie Howe

“Singularity (After Stephen Hawking)” by Marie Howe

We’ve been excited about this AH-mazing project for weeks - and now, at last, we can go public! 

SALT has teamed up with Maria Popova (she of Brain Pickings fame) and Universe in Verse, the annual festival celebrating science and nature through poetry.  It's the largest event of its kind in the country, and this year's version - which will be online, for obvious reasons - will go live at 4:30pm on Saturday, April 25.  The lineup is truly amazing: readers will include Grammy-winning musicians, Pulitzer-winning writers, a Nobel laureate and even an astronaut!

Most of it will be live performances, but they're taking three "greatest hits" from last year’s festival and turning them into short animated films - one of which SALT had the honor and joy to create!  It’s a lovely, moving, mind-bending bringing-to-life of one of the most popular poems the festival has ever had: Marie Howe's masterpiece, “Singularity,” which premiered at the Universe in Verse and has since been on NPR, TED, and all over the internet.  Our visual interpretation of Howe's poem features Elena Skoreyko Wagner’s brilliant illustration, Mariana López’s breathtaking animation, and Zoë Keating’s haunting beautiful score.

We are thrilled - beyond thrilled - about all of this!  The film will debut today, as a promo for the festival as a whole.  Check it out here (or click through on the Vimeo link below!) - and be sure to experience the festival on Saturday, too!

Love,
The SALT Team

p.s. We're so grateful for your support!  You may not know this but without YOU none of these little glimmers of light and hope and beauty could be made...  When you support SALT (through donations, purchases, referrals, etc.), we're able to invest those funds into making short films like "Singularity" and "Nightsongs" gratis!  So, thank you, thank you, thank you - we want you to feel our love and our gratitude today and every day!