OUR COMMON NATURE

THE OFFICE collaborates with Yo-Yo Ma and Sound Postings, his creative team, to produce Our Common Nature, which explores the ways culture connects us to one another and to the natural world. Together with local partners, THE OFFICE, Yo-Yo, and Sound Postings develop collaborative acts of art and culture that strengthen our relationship to nature and to each other, and ask how these relationships can bring us hope and wisdom as we imagine and build our future.

Since 2022, THE OFFICE has also produced the local cultural activities associated with Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach Project, a 36-community tour of Bach’s suites for solo cello.

Past project locations: 

• Tunis, Tunisia

• Paris, France 

• New River Gorge, West Virginia

• Hawaiian Islands   

• The Smoky Mountains

Select Press:

• The New York Times: Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music

• National Geographic: Why Yo-Yo Ma thinks culture and music can help protect the planet

• International Storytelling Center: Keeping Things Whole