Cardboard Mutations: A multigenerational puppetry workshop

“We cannot create what we cannot imagine” says Lucille Clifton. Eli Nixon adds, “through creation what we imagine can be revealed.” Come create puppets with us as we imagine more just futures. 

HIVES is hosting a hands-on workshop of puppet-making and conversation on the future in an all-ages workshop on April 6. In this workshop, we’ll be using recycled materials to create non-representative puppets as a way to envision queer/crip futures that make space for a variety of ways of being.

The HIVES Research Workshop and Speaker series invites you to be a part of imagining disability in the future with puppets! Join transqueer puppeteer Eli Nixon as they help us create and mutate our dreams. On April 6, we are gathering a community of all ages to make puppets from 10 AM to 12 PM, eat free lunch, and then figure out how to merge and move these puppets from 1 PM to 3PM.

Lunch will be provided for registrants thanks to the Creativity in the Time of COVID-19 Mellon Just Futures Grant. Materials for the workshop were provided generously by the MSU Recycling Center.

Details:

Saturday, April 6
10 AM – 12 PM & 1 PM – 3 PM ET 
UU Church of Greater Lansing
5509 S Pennsylvania Ave, Lansing, MI 48823

2nd Edition of BLOODTIDE is out!

The 3rd Thing Press sold out of the first edition of BLOODTIDE and has now released a second edition (with a more portable format and some updated illustrations!). Available here or from me in human form. Thanks to all those who’ve been exploring and activating the first edition!

Residency at Subcircle!

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I’m honored and delighted to be headed to Subcircle in Maine, for a week in May, to workshop horseshoe crab and Red Knot dancing and keep figuring out how to write and draw this proposal for Bloodtide, a new holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs.

A Whaling Descendent Performs in 4 Acts

Thursday, May 14th at 8pm- screening and discussion.

I’ve had the pleasure and challenge of being the dramaturg on this project that started as a live performance in New Bedford and moved over to film (and Singapore) due to Covid 19.

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Assembly of Light Choir Sings to the Wedding Cake House

On the hottest day of last summer, a crew of brave and sweaty volunteers came together to create this music video. We made it to celebrate the hard work of so many folks busting their humps to breathe life back into this structure. I choreographed it, in the moment/ with a megaphone. Big props to The Dirt Palace Feminist Art Collective, Chrissy Wolpert and the Assembly of Light choir, and Kia Davis & Jonah David for filming & editing.