Please join us for a multidimensional collaborative event facilitated by artists Ashley Browne and Jacklyn Brickman that will be held virtually at Mozilla Hubs on May 16, 2020 from 6-8pm. 

We have been working on a collaborative installation, Fructify: Reclaiming the Present and Forming a Fruitful Future,  that we had planned to share with you at the Fuse Factory on May 16. Since we continue to be in isolation from each other, for all of our safety, we have found a way to continue our collaboration AND to share a virtual, 3D, interactive space with you all! 

Informed by community input, the artists have built an other-worldly, multimedia virtual space that incorporates thoughts and imagery shared by several community members. 

You are invited to collaborate with us! For the event, please have ready an online link to a video, image, gif, 3D model or sound clip to share that acknowledges the past with a sentimentality that you feel should inform the future. Please make sure 3D models are .glb or send any non .glb 3D models to FructifyFuture@gmail.com by Wednesday, May 13 to the email provided below to ensure they are formatted correctly. (Links work well from youtube, sound cloud, vimeo, and google images, etc. by copying the "image location" or clicking on the item “share link” and then pasting it directly into the space)

Mozilla Hubs works similarly to zoom, in that you are able to share your mic to converse with others in the space, as well as your video (if you choose). You can navigate the space and are represented by the avatar and screen name of your choice. It’s easy, and fun and we hope you will jump right in. 

We’re so glad to have found a way to gather virtually! 

To get started, visit this link :  https://hub.link/2bHQjS7 on Saturday May 16th between 6-8 pm for our virtual art opening. Feel free to email us questions to FructifyFuture@gmail.com

Fructify is generously supported by the Livable Futures Discovery Theme and Fuse Factory.

This virtual workshop will help you create a plantable zine.

We will create ink together and Marie will answer any questions you may have.

Please RSVP by April 15 for zoom link and guide to follow along: https://go.osu.edu/inkandzineworkshoplf

June 22 IRL Demo and show-case, if condition permit

THIS IS A THREE DAY INTENSIVE
APRIL 10-12 from 12-3pm each day + supplemental affinity space breakout groups!***

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PARCON RESILIENCE is an anti-racist, site specific movement practice that challenges isolationism and social conformity through inclusive, cooperative, investigation or our nonverbal relationship to bodies, objects and environment.

The roots of the form were inspired by PARkour and CONtact Improvisation. As well as a desire to find resilience for all people to fully move in their bodies and psyches into brave spaces while in collective- critically thinking about reality and experimenting with utopias.

No experience is needed; but acquaintance with anti-racist theory is highly recommended - because we layer our embodied exploration onto work like this -

Heteropatriarchy and The Three Pillars of White Supremacy by Andrea Smith

Our practice is trauma-informed, and the aim for sessions is to clearly state our community agreements and hold a container for open communication & feedback from the collective.

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Orientations to Parcon Resilience and Tech Tutorials in ZOOM will happen the week before. We will contact folks who register to coordinate dates and times.

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This event is co-produced by Livable Futures, a project of Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme." and the Ohio State University department of dance.

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here is a testimony from our last Parcon Resilience in person workshop:

This was the most an extraordinary experience. There was the sense of playing a small, exploratory part together in the making of a new "language"—not only verbal and moral but, inseparably, embodied—and a new world, a piece of a huge work in progress, like a quilting bee of the future. The movement was fun, playful, searching, creative, homing our attention on the bodily location and sensation of an emotion or memory. The depth and genuineness of contact with others was what I did not expect. It was so moving.

I was changed by those two hours. As I walked home I realized I was centered not in my head, not even in my heart, but deeper, in my hara. It was a completely new feeling. I have felt centered in my hara gravitationally, but this was emotional.

- Annie Gottlieb

Activities: We start in Columbus by thinking about the settler logics of the land grant university on OSU’s campus, then travel to Greenville, Cincinnati, and the Wayne National Forest for hands-on learning about settler colonialism and its ongoing relation to crucial social and political issues affecting the area.

Cost: This field school includes full funding for student travel, meals, and lodging. Students can enroll in a one credit course for May term, but it is not required.

Capacity: 10 students

Possibility for student to enroll in 1 credit (not required)

Description

Drs. Jennifer Suchland and Mary Thomas, both associate professors in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, will lead a feminist field school in Ohio in May 2020 to better understand where “we” are situated within the legacies and contemporary manifestations of settler colonialism in Ohio. This second Livable Futures Field School will take 10 undergraduate students around campus and then to Greenville, Cincinnati, and the Wayne National Forest, to consider the significance of settler colonialism for our everyday on this land and for our academic lives as feminist scholars and people in the world.  

Our learning will focus on site specific engagement to learn about and examine how the histories of contact between indigenous peoples and settlers are represented in public memorials and museums, how settler colonialism persisted through narratives of Ohio as a transit zone for escaped slaves during Antebellum times, and on how contemporary resource extraction continues the logics of settler colonial formations of land use today. 

Application Requirements

Applications to the field school should include:

1. Application

2. Resume/CV

3. Personal Statement (350-500 words double spaced) that: 

   • Explains your interest in the field school.

   • Explains how your particular skills and/or expertise will benefit the larger group.

   • Explains how you think the field school relates to your personal, professional, and/or creative development.

Application Deadline: March 16, 2020

All applications should be emailed to Professor Mary Thomas (thomas.1672 [at] osu.edu) by March 16, 2020. You will receive an email notifying you that your application has been submitted. 

Timeline of Events

Week of March 9
Interviews

March 20
Notification 

March 27
Group Meeting

May 11-15
Field School

Our Ohio Field School will visit four sites over fives days, with three nights on the road:

Monday May 11 - Columbus, Ohio, OSU Archives and OSU Farm

Tuesday May 12 morning departure - Greenville, Ohio, The Greenville Treaty Line

The site of the signing of the “Treaty of Greene Ville” in 1795, which was a major turning point in the expansion of settler America, the displacement, forced removal, and death of indigenous people from the Northwest Territory, and the settling of Ohio by colonists. The treaty initiated what is called the Ohio trail of tears. 

Lodging overnight in Greenville

May 13 morning departure - Cincinnati, Ohio, The Ohio River. 

The Ohio River is significant in many ways, and Cincinnati is an important location along that river.  The Ohio River was once the border that marked the British-protected “Indian Country” (Ohio Territory) and which was undermined by the creation of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.  With that ordinance, the pathway to statehood for Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Minnesota was created. That path both undermined indigenous claims to their land and ways of life (including water) and established the antebellum divide between slave and non-slave states. 

Lodging overnight in Cincinnati

May 14 Morning Departure - Wayne National Forest

The forest was federally created in 1934 and named after Anthony Wayne, a key figure in the American Revolution and the white settler incursion into the Northwest Territory. It is a site to consider the confluence of settler history (as with the creation of “public lands”) and contemporary battles over access and protection of land/forest, fracking, public health, and economic and racial justice. 

Lodging overnight in Athens or at state park lodge

May 15 afternoon departure for Columbus - Wayne National Forest

We will meet with someone from Keep Wayne Wild (link)

Return to Columbus by 6pm

A movement laboratory investigating joy, ritual, and freedom in contemporary Latin rhythms and forms. Latinx Movement Lab will explore horizontal and vertical weight, isolations, and hip articulations in a community-based environment of radical tenderness. No experience in Latin movement necessary to participate.

This is a donation base class, the proceed will support Flux+Flow as a space.

LROD is a Chicana from El Paso and the Tex-Mex borderlands who actively create inclusive installations, surreal dance-works, and integrates emerging technology with care. Recognized as an interdisciplinary performance artist/choreographer; LROD’s current mediums intersect dance, performance, visual art, mask making, costume design, lighting, and interactive technologies. Her movement research investigates contemporary lineages of Latinidad in dance, alter-egoism, and discovering communal environments of radical tenderness. Her films explore Latinidad in the context of borderland cultural production through the lens of surrealism, futurity, and inter-generational archives.

She brings thirty years of experience as a performer and movement practitioner and has over fifteen years of choreographic, teaching, and visual arts experience. In 2017 she received her B.F.A. from the Professional Dancers Program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle before migrating to Columbus. Laura is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in choreographic research and technology from the Department of Dance, alongside a Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Minor in Latina/o Studies at The Ohio State University. Lrod is currently an awardee of the Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project Graduate Grant (19) for the current production of two films on the Tex-Mex border, and The Graduate School’s Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) Program (19).  Recognized as a multi-disciplinary choreographer she has produced work Seattle for Base Experimental Arts + Space, Center for Contemporary Art (COCA), City Opera Ballet, Men in Dance, Boost Dance Festival, Converge Dance Festival, Men in Dance Choreographers Showcase, and New Moves. She has performed in works by Kyle Abraham, Sidra Bell, Livable Futures: Climate Gathering, Deborah Wolf, Pat Graney, Wade Madsen, Spareworks.Dance, and Erison Dancers. For the past year and a half, LROD has been a collaborator with La Pocha Nostra and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. 

For more information visit: www.lrod.space