Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost Introduction
Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost Introduction
Intention setting Performance and Land Acknowledgment
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha offers us (after leading us in a Land Acknowledgment) a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A portal for our salt water honey rose bitter tears, wails and loss. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost- and for ourselves.
As guide and gift to this solstice convening, Leah joins us again in the wake of when we last gathered in 2019. Their altar will open up space for asynchronous emotions and intimate practices of mourning, space to not be alone anymore with our loss, space to get curious about our grief. Leah will be with us throughout the day, reeling in prophetic poems and prose beyond the isolation visited upon us, against all odds and healing into the evening, finding our loves never lost. Later in the evening there will be fire and a little bit of smoke. Maybe a mirror, most definitely magic.
Those with RSVPs are welcome to bring small offerings including pictures of beloveds for placing on the altar.
If you are in the UK the time for this event is 20:00-20:30 GMT +1
If you have any questions or access requests please email boxoffice@PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org.
About the Artist
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Worcester femme, their grandma’s grandfemme, almost an illder, a couch witch and a traveller. A nonbinary femme disabled writer and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma ascent, they are the author or co-editor of ten books, including The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon) Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement, Tonguebreaker, and Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. A 2020-2021 Disability Futures Fellow, Lambda Award winner and longtime disabled BIPOC space maker, they are currently building The Stacey Park Milbern Liberation Arts Center, an accessible residency space for disabled 2QTBIPOC writers. They still believe in the disabled future.
Access
ASL Interpretation
Interpretation provided in American Sign Language.
Their role is to facilitate effective communication by simultaneously interpreting spoken English into a signed language and vice-versa to ensure all Deaf and hearing parties can understand each other.
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