Isabel Mareş

Dragă, sunt aici cu tine

Isabel Mareş

dragă, sunt aici cu tine

dear one, I am here with you

Have you ever sung a lullaby to yourself? Playing with time and space and memory. During a moment of global anticipation and reckoning, I turned to a melody from an old, Romanian folk song. On top of it, I layered textures and tones that can still be heard in villages across the Balkans. Longing to sing with others, I resorted to singing with myself, conjuring elders and ancestors through a language I’ve nearly lost in the United States. Through something old, I created something completely new.

This clip is part of a series called, “Election Medicine,” meant to serve as a musical balm for a moment of turmoil and unveiling.

Isabel Mareş
Writer / Musician

Isabel Mareş is a queer Balkan-American artist, facilitator, and arts administrator based in Brooklyn. A classically trained singer turned scholar of world religions turned cultural arts professional, she continues her lifelong commitments to interfaith dialogue through the arts and cultural preservation as an editor of multiple journals and as a consultant and programmer for Jewish Community Centers across North America. She holds a Master of Theology and the Arts degree from Union Theological Seminary and identifies as an eco-feminist. 

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Madison Swart
Photographer

Madison Swart (who also goes by Teddy, she/they pronouns) is a nonbinary photographer living in Manhattan, fighting for Black Trans Liberation, abolition, and against white supremacy.

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Contributing Writers & Artists

Dragă, Sunt Aici Cu Tine

Isabel Mareş

I Voted
Laura Parker Roerden
Selected Poems
Zoe Korte
Absolutely Fucked & Selected Works
Yasmeen Mir
Why Nursing?
Sara Luster
My Pandemic Reality
Reyna Amaya
Barren or Fruitless
Zoë Barnstone-Clark
This is What Democracy Looks Like:
Sacred, Hard Won, and Fragile

Contributing Artists
American Omens
Lynn Mitchell
R.B. Kitaj
Alan Loehle
Education in the Age of COVID
Bonnie Culver
Theater of Cruelty
Cody Marsh
Selected Talisman Poems
Aliki Barnstone & Corina Dross
Selected Poems
Jacob Griffin Hall
Lacuna
Julia Fleming-Dresser
ObScott
Adam Sobsey
Anthropocine Series
Alan Loehle
Ernest Burden
Trans World Airlines
Human Decency: A Priority
Michael Matos
Phoenician Morphosis & Selected Works
Ma’Moon
Knocking for the Future
Pauline Allen
Meet Them Where They Live (Part 1)
Paxton Farrar
Outspired
Deb Luster
Consider This
Akiya Henry
Selected Works
Ewurakua Dawson-Amoah
A View of Black Lives Matter
Contributing Artists
True Form Films
Yeniffer Behrens-Mendoza & Mauricio Mendoza
PFAs Contamination
Tonya Chandler
The Dirt on Clean Wine
Tom Mills & Adrienne Voboril
Reinvent & Reconsider
Holly Arbuckle
One Health by Design
Jessi Flynn
Kweza Craft Brewery
Jessi Flynn
A New Resistance
Ed Brown
Beyond Rorschach
John Fleming
Journey to Her Roots
Kat Donnelly
Drink Different
Jason Dibble
The Frontier in my Fridge
Chien-Kang Chen
Coniunctio
Kyung Me
When BeDeviled
Sara Jolena Wolcott
10 Years in the U.S.
Yee Eun Nam
Diatribe Diaries
D.S. Legters
The Bucky Ball
Contributing Writers & Artists
DRAGĂ, SUNT AICI CU TINE
Isabel Mareş
Infinity + 1
David Zung
The Jingle Dress Project
Eugene Tapahe
Flowers Everywhere
Deependra Bajracharya
Desire Lines
Gui Marcondes
Planetary Health and the Great Transition
Marie Studer

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