From the Same Tree: A Performance Marking Gustav Adolfi Gümnaasium’s 395th Anniversary

“From the Same Tree” is a moment of pause and celebration in the endlessly long journey of Gustav Adolfi Gümnaasium, in its 395th year of operation. If something has grown and matured through 395 circuits around the sun, it is a living witness to the passage of time. It is memory. Beneath its bark, in 395 rings tightly gathered around one another, live nearly four centuries’ worth of storms, sunlight, harsher winters and warmer springs. We gently touch these layers to understand how on earth we got here—we who are made from the same tree. From the same tree. The performance offers a chance to look both around us and within ourselves, and to sense our place and role in this great community and in the story of time. There is something that binds us forever, because we are that 395-year-old tree.