The Nightingale's Song – A Conversation with Sam Lee

This month we released the first film in our new four-part Shifting
Landscapes documentary film series exploring the role of art and
the storyteller in our age of ecological crisis. The inspiration
for The Nightingales Song, which spends time with British folk
singer Sam Lee during nightingale season as he joins the bird in
mutual song, grew from a special interview we held with Sam in
2021. To accompany the film, we’re returning to this conversation
with Sam, where he shares the story of how the call of the
nightingale opened him to a kinship with the more-than-human.
Reflecting on how this bird has served as a “wisdom keeper” and
“unlocker” of hearts for generations of poets, musicians, and
storytellers, he also speaks more about his process of leading
audiences into this magical space of communion with the nightingale
each spring. Read the transcript. Watch the film The Nightingale's
Song, by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, the first in our
four-part Shifting Landscapes documentary film series. Photo by
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