Friday, 2/13/2026 7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall Guest Recital: Rebecca Hass: The Song Blanket Free, open to the public

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Blankets are familiar to us all, no matter our cultural background. We understand how their threads weave together warmth and protection from the cold. But blankets hold so much more. Traditionally, they have been created by matriarchs, whose artistry in quilting, weaving, crocheting, and knitting has preserved ancestral knowledge through generations. These Matriarchs stitched their dreams, care, and vision into every thread, crafting blankets for future generations to carry. Rebecca Hass (Nitaawe Giizhigok – Singing Sky Woman), a Georgian Bay Métis artist and Citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, carries the legacy of her Métis grandmother’s quilts. In The Song Blanket, Rebecca gives voice to an old woman searching for what has been forgotten — the traditional teachings and cultural wisdom whispered through the quilts.

Rebecca calls forward the matriarchs who travel with us, wrapping all in the transformative vibration of music. Joined by IC faculty and students Charis Demaris, Patrice Pastor, Alexei Aceto, Lusi Halaifonua, Sabina Jungkeit, Lucy Montgomery, and Michael Scamacca, audiences will journey through stories and songs — both new and old, as the old woman seeks to remember and reclaim. Through The Song Blanket, the journey with the old woman seeks to stitch us together once more, awakening the ancestral wisdom, love, and care of the matriarchs — those known and unknown — who continue to walk beside us today. She will give a workshop performance of this new piece here at IC before giving its world premiere in New York City’s Symphony Space as part of Sparks and Wiry Cries’s sparksLIVE festival later this month. Arrive early to view beautiful quilts made and displayed by the Tompkins County Quilters Guild in the lobby.