Host a Community Program

Inspire a Sense of Place and Belonging through Creative, Engaging Experiences

Recharge your sense of place, belonging, and well-being.

  • Host a community-building sense of place concert or workshop.

  • Provide a mission-aligned community engagement program.

Inspire Your Community

If you're looking for a program that's more than a lecture or entertainment—something that truly helps people connect, especially in challenging times—you've landed in the right place.

Through Erica's customized sense of place concerts, communities experience a curated journey of song, story, and conversation that unites them through deeper appreciation for the nature, culture, and history they share—creating moments of meaningful celebration and belonging.

Through her nourishing creative workshops, people find the pause they need to recharge and reconnect—grounded in the places, stories, and connections that give life meaning.

With decades of experience working with parks, museums, libraries, land trusts, and community organizations, Erica knows how to craft experiences that are professional and deeply meaningful.

These programs restore connections to the nature and history around us and inspire engagement and participation.

The result?

Your community is strengthened, and the work you strive to do becomes more visible and valued.

1. Offer a Concert or Keynote

Create an experience your community will remember.

Erica's sense of place concerts are curated journeys through song, story, and conversation—researched and crafted specifically for your location and occasion. These are more than entertainment. They're opportunities that help people slow down, connect, and feel part of something meaningful.

With six albums, features on NPR's All Things Considered, and recognition from Yankee Magazine to the Washington Post, these performances bring professional artistry to community-centered gatherings.

Concert formats:

  • Sense of Place Concert - Seasonal, location-specific journeys celebrating where you are

  • Milestones & Celebrations - Curated programs honoring your organization's story

  • Campfire-Style Concerts - Warm, participatory experiences with even a few sing-alongs

Let’s work together!

Whether you’re hosting a seasonal event, a celebration or a milestone anniversary, or simply bringing people together, these concerts create the warmth and belonging we all need more of these days.

For event organizers:
Programs typically run 60-90 minutes. Investment starts at $1,250. Package rates available for multiple events or concert series.

"Erica's music takes the audience on a trip through space and time. When she paints a landscape with song, she strikes a chord that resonates at a deep emotional level. This powerful food for the soul moves people to question the conventions we use to value property—and to value themselves as stewards."
— Baltimore Woods Nature Center, NY

2. Offer a Creative Workshop or Sense of Place Saunter

Give your community space to pause, reflect, and discover. These hands-on workshops guide participants through writing, creative reflection, and sensory awareness—helping them uncover their own stories of place and meaning.

Participants leave recharged and with fresh insights, writings, and renewed connection to what matters.

Workshop formats:

  • Touchstone Story Workshop - Guided writing and sensory awareness practices to uncover personal sense of place stories and connections.

  • Vision Board in a Box™ - Creative reflection for goal-setting and visioning to nourish our inner self so we can do our best work in the outer world.

  • Sense of Place Saunters - Facilitated walks with pauses for reflection and conversation, revealing local nature and history with fresh eyes and new connections with others.

Erica has facilitated workshops for community organizations, wellness retreats and events for all ages. Her approach combines her professional work and creative experience to create the kind of nourishing pause that we all need more of these days.

For program coordinators:
Programs run 90 minutes to half-day or longer. Investment starts at $750. Package rates available for workshop series or multiple sessions.

"At the end of the 3-part writing prompt, I had enough material to write several powerful essays as well as a new idea for an inspirational card deck. If that wasn't enough, Erica listened to what I wrote and, as a demonstration, in less than a minute had whipped up a terrific song."
 — Giulietta "Julie" Nardone, Upton State Forest, MA

3. Increase Community Engagement through a sense of place Program

Helping mission-based organizations inspire more engagement with the work you're doing.

These customized programs help communities rediscover their shared sense of identity and belonging—finding deeper meaning in local history, the natural world, and the heritage that binds them together.

This work goes beyond conveying information to create the kind of emotional and cultural bonds that tie people to each other and to the places you are working to celebrate and protect.

Working collaboratively, Erica designs place-specific programs that fit your goals, your community, and your context—nurturing your community and fostering genuine care and stewardship.

Let’s Collaborate!

Erica has worked with youth leadership initiatives, as well as community-wide conservation and history events.

“We invited Erica out for a week to help celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Big Sur Land Trust with a variety of events. Her positive impact reverberated throughout our community and continues to this day. Erica’s ability to connect people and place beautifully aligned with our mission to strengthen communities and inspire stewardship.”
— Bill Leahy, Executive Director, Big Sur Land Trust, CA"

Partnerships and Collaborations

Erica's approach easily aligns with grant-funded and mission-driven initiatives that focus on building stronger, more connected communities.

Whether your organization works in heritage preservation, conservation, education, or community well-being, these programs support key funding priorities:

  • Place-based storytelling and cultural preservation

  • Community-driven stewardship and engagement

  • Intergenerational programs promoting belonging

  • Youth leadership development tied to place and identity

Programs can be fully customized based on your organizational goals and timeline. Past collaboration packages have included keynote performances, community writing workshops, and youth leadership programs.

Prior Partners Include:
National Endowment for the Arts- Community workshops, concerts, and participatory events, including "Where We Live" NEA Big Read

Smithsonian Affiliate Programs - Place-based storytelling workshops and keynotes, including "Crossroads—Change in Rural America"

National Park Service Sites - Community engagement, public sense of place programs, and celebrations

National and Regional Land Trusts - Trust for Public Land, Big Sur Land Trust, Land Trust Alliance

Learning and Retreat Centers - Writing workshops, creativity programs, concerts (Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, women's wellness retreats)

Youth Programs - Wyoming Youth Congress on Children and Nature, New Bedford Youth Leadership Academy, The Trustees

Interested in Bringing a Program to Your Community?

Host a concert, workshop, or custom program for your organization.


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