Support Catalyst

 

Help us make a world where performance is part of life—part of an integral connection
to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.

via our fiscal sponsor Foundation for Independent Artists.

Receive a limited edition, GATHER HERE print!

If you are able to make a gift of $2,500 or more, we greatly appreciate you
and, would be happy to send you a signed original, limited edition print, until they are gone!

On the prints:

GATHER HERE is an invitation. A call. A sign held above our heads in performance, in protest. Once my nibling Ben gathered an audience together on the shore of Tuggeght beach. My Grandma was there, James Luna too. I can’t remember, but I hope I introduced them. It was stolen once, this sign. Or, taken? An audience member saw it on display and returned it, mailed it back from Duwamish land. It’s crinkled and old, this sign. It hangs on my fridge at the moment. I love it. It has power and history. It’s an archive and an action. It’s sharpie and poster board. In 2020 Kristy Edmunds and UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance commissioned it as part of The Choreographers’ Scores: 2020. Lapis Press made a beautiful print. It’s not quite like holding the crinkled worn original, but it’s a pretty good ode to everyone who has gathered here and I love it too. I have five prints left!


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Thank You to Our Generous Funders!


FOUNDATIONS and ORGANIZATIONS

Dance/NYC
Howard Gilman Foundation
Justice Outside
Mellon Foundation
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
National Performance Network
New England Foundation for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
Soul Fire Farm Institute in collaboration with
the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund
Windrose Fund


INDIVIDUALS

Daniel Buzaid
Marcella Durand
Joelly Dundorf
Andrew Fader
Samantha Green
Jennie Hahn
Carolyn Halliday
Brooke Hayes
George Lugg
Sharon Mansur
Stephanie Pacheco
Morgan von Prelle Pecelli
Jane Preston
Davison Scandrett
Jenny Schlenzka
Lisa Semmens
Sandy Spieler
Amy Smith
Sasha Smith

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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