2018- Adi Blaustein Rejtö

Emma Rothman and Adi (formerly Adam) Blaustein Rejtö are emerging musicians and artists from the North East. Together, Adi and Emma collaborate to make improvised music and visual art, and most recently collaborated on a site-specific performance piece in the woods of Hadley, Massachusetts.

Adi and Emma arrived at Habitable Spaces to build an outdoor community gathering space. The Singing Square is inspired by the American Shape-Note singing tradition, which happens in a square formation and is fully participatory, not presentational. We invited the Kingsbury community to help build this square, create the murals surrounding it, and set the intentions and foundations of the space. In addition to building and painting parties, we held various skill-sharing workshops in the space as it materializes. Workshops will be given on the Shape-Note singing tradition, as well as other song circles, guitar lessons, painting and visual art workshops, and more.

This project is about building space that shapes community, and community that shapes space. The purpose of this space is to inspire folks to meet and sing regularly, be it shape-note, other music, or other types of gatherings!

Adi’s Artist Statement

Hi, I’m [Adi]! Whether it’s with a canvas, with a guitar, or inside a chemistry laboratory- I can’t keep from creating and experimenting. The intention of all my creative practices is to create space where people can show up and practice caring for one another and themselves- where folks can be supported in growing personally, politically, and spiritually. I’m passionate about relationships, and how art making and music sharing can create healing, caring, and generative relationships-with ourselves, the earth, and others.