On the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species", Singing Darwin will culminate in a 24-hour live performance and new media event at Virginia Tech.  The 24-hour piece will begin on November 23 at 7 p.m. EST.  It will be a layered combination of original music, improvisation, dance, visual imagery, performance, and reading.   The entire text of On the Origin of Species will be included in the event.

Singing Darwin will be open to the public and web-streamed from the Armory Gallery.  Dr. Alton Dooley, Jr., associate curator of paleontology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, will take part in the show at 11 a.m. with a fossil whale skull found in Caroline County, Virginia.

Singing Darwin is directed by Prof. Carol Burch-Brown, in the School of Visual Arts.  A wide network of artists, musicians, scholars, students, dancers, designers, performers, computer scientists, and life scientists have participated in creating this unique event.

Click here to go to the web-stream.