Wise Fruit 12.0: Ocean Ma

Wise Fruit is a seasonal live arts showcase curated and produced by Brinda Guha. After a three-year hiatus, the celebrated event returns with an all-new lineup.

This year's theme is Ocean Ma.

Ocean Ma is dedicated to water as mother: forgiving and unforgiving, cleansing and dangerous, nourishing and accountable. Water sustains life, carries memory, shapes landscapes, and connects us across generations, geographies, and histories.

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At its heart, Ocean Ma is an exploration of the feminine divine; not as gender, but as a force. The force that creates, nurtures, protects, transforms, grieves, remembers, and endures. Across cultures, water has long been revered as a source of life and wisdom, a keeper of stories, a vessel of healing, and a reminder that we belong to something larger than ourselves.

This year's gathering invites us to consider what it means to beheld by the tide: to move with cycles of abundance and…