Maurice Stevens and Lucille Toth

Distance, climate, access, and contact are four key themes in Climate Changing. In this workshop, Stevens and Toth will create intersectional readings, using each theme as a node for interactive engagement, conversation, and reflection about embodied knowing. The workshop will be an exploration of how people can create and tap into interrelation, collective purpose, and the vibrancy of their aliveness in this moment of isolation and contestation.

With each theme there will be discussion that focuses on thinking, feeling, embodying, and reflecting inwardly. For the reflection component, attendees will be invited to explore their orientation to each theme with one practice (movement, drawing, writing, and finally, attendees’ choice). The final portion will use breakout rooms and allow people to choose a practice that amplifies themes of the conversation and what is alive in them at that moment as part of an invitation to feel a thing, to notice it, and to share it. Breakout room participants will be invited to discuss collective purpose and share contact info with their fellow members, should they desire, to encourage contact and connection after the workshop and sustain a new “pod” of relation.

Participants may want paper and a pen or pencil, any other art-making supplies, and a space to move. For questions, please contact education@wexarts.org.