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Ceremonial Fire & Hear Me Presentation

  • Abrons Arts Center Outdoor Amphitheater 466 Grand Street New York (Lenapehoking) US (map)

Presented by Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter and
the New York AIDS Memorial

DATE: Thursday, February 18, 2021

TIME: 7-9 pm EST

LOCATION: In the outdoor amphitheater at the Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Lenapehoking (NYC)

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

We invite you to join us for a community fire.

Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter (a project of Emily Johnson/Catalyst Dance and Karyn Recollet) and the New York AIDS Memorial invite you to gather around a fire in the outdoor amphitheater at Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement for a re-presentation of our December program HEAR ME: VOICES OF THE EPIDEMIC, an open-space sound installation composed of historical texts, poetry, speeches, music, and more that capture the history and ongoing story of HIV and AIDS in NYC. This event is also in support of Love Positive Women and will feature a number of special guests!

This event is free and everyone is welcome. No prior experience with fire or HIV is required. Hot beverages will be on hand.

By attending you are required to respect our Community Agreements to wear a mask over your mouth and nose at all times and maintain 6 feet of physical distance from others at all times.

#nycamhearme #nycaidsmemorial #kinstillatory #lovepositivewomen

Source:: https://www.abronsartscenter.org/program/kinstillatory-mappings-in-light-and-dark-matter-2/
Earlier Event: February 17
Emily Johnson Performance Documentary Premiere
Later Event: February 27
Screening and responsive witnessing with Emily Johnson and collaborators
Office, Minneapolis, MN, US612.597.7400emily@catalystdance.com

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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