The third and final part of the Institute consists of a Community Gathering, at which all fellows will convene in person at the Dartmouth campus. Highlights of the Gathering will include performances by Barak adé Soleil, Katia Tirado. and Josefina Baez (in collaboration with Dartmouth student fellows). Institute fellows (Patrick Anderson, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Una Chaudhuri, Misty De Berry, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs) will lead Q&As after each performance as well as participate in a roundtable on Promiscuous Care. Dartmouth fellows Iyabo Kwayana and Alisa Swindell will facilitate a film screening and a visit to the Hood Museum. Below is the full schedule but please check back since it will be regularly updated!
SCHEDULE FOR THE COMMUNITY GATHERING
Events on May 7 and May 8 serve as a prelude to the main cluster of events that begin on May 9.
TUESDAY MAY 7
5-6pm: Performance meditation with Katia Tirado (all students welcome!)
Renowned performance artist Katia Tirado invites all students to explore how they might intervene in and/or alter clothing with the Dartmouth logo as part of a durational piece that she'll be performing on the Dartmouth Green on May 10. The interventions will center around a set of questions that deal with the history of the college and its relationship to the individual self, considering issues of gender, race, and class as triggering factors within the power relations that have defined their academic and work dynamics within this space.
Location: The LINK (Berry 180)
6-8pm: Care & Craft workshop with Jill E. Baron (pizza provided, everyone welcome!)
We invite students, staff, faculty, and community members to join us for a community craft workshop. We will create art with fabric, thread, and other materials as we experiment with the ways to care for ourselves and others. You do not need to have any experience with textiles or crafts, and we will provide the materials. You simply need to have the desire to create and rest–as best you’re able. Feel free to come for however long you wish! Special guest artist Katia Tirado will be in attendance to participate and co-create our community artifacts.
Location: The LINK (Berry 180), register here
WEDNESDAY MAY 8
5-6pm: Performance meditation with Katia Tirado (all students welcome!)
See description for this same event on May 7.
Location: The LINK (Berry 180)
THURSDAY MAY 9
12-1pm: Welcome lunch for Institute participants
Location: Leslie Center
1:30-2:30pm: Welcome ceremony with remarks by Alexis Pauline Gumbs*
Location: Dartmouth 105
2:30-5pm: Break
5-6:30pm: markings by Barak adé Soleil*
Resisting pervasive notions that erase BIPOC disabled and Deaf bodies from conceptions of the future, Barak seeks to reflect how these communities can and will occupy space as we evolve as a society. In markings, this occupation will emerge through performative abstract markings softly reflected on painted cardboard material, signing, large scale video projections and access aesthetics. The videos will feature disabled theater artist
Terri Lynne Hudson taking up space as a masked entity, and Deaf artist Nur Abdulle signing as a linguistic expression of mark-making. Video, audio and visuals will occur within the presentation, with access elements available including audio description, ASL and captioning. Participation will be asked of those in attendance.
All attending should be aware of the care practices Barak is requesting (masking, social distancing, and staggering of entry) as well as the participatory element (recitation of a poetic text + making a physical impression onto a cardboard material). Masks will be provided.
Location: Dartmouth 105 (please gather outside of Dartmouth 105 at 5pm for staggered entry and to witness and engage with video)
7:15pm Dinner for Institute participants Leslie Center
FRIDAY MAY 10
12-1pm Lunch/discussion for Institute participants.
Joshua Chambers-Letson will lead a discussion on Barak adé Soleil's markings.
Location: Leslie Center
1:30-3pm Tour and discussion of An Instant Out of Time Hood Museum, facilitated by Alisa Swindell*
Join us at the Hood Museum for an introduction to Alisa's curatorial practices of care.
Location: Hood Museum
3-5pm Break
5-7pm Banner by Katia Tirado,
followed by a Q&A with Una Chaudhuri*
With collected materials from students, Katia will quilt a “flag” on the Dartmouth Green throughout the day. At around 5pm, the artist will walk around the perimeter of the Green square bearing the new flag, accompanied by students and all who want to participate. The procession will conclude in the Baker-Berry library, where the new emblem will be hung on Berry Main Street.
Location: Meet in front of Dartmouth Hall, followed by a procession around the Green to Berry Main Street. The Q&A will take place in The LINK (Berry 180)
7:15pm Dinner for Institute participants Leslie Center
SATURDAY MAY 11
Note that these events on 5/11 are concurrent with Dartmouth's 52nd Annual Powwow on the Green.
12-1pm Lunch/discussion for Institute participants Leslie Center
Discussion will include open reflections on the events of the past two days.
1:15-2:30 Screening of short films by Iyabo Kwayana (By Water, Practice, and Liberation), followed by Q&A with Patrick Anderson*
Join us for a screening of Iyabo's short films, followed by a discussion of her ethics of care as a filmmaker.
Location: Dartmouth 105
3-4:30pm Promiscuous Reflections: A Roundtable with Patrick Anderson, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Una Chaudhuri, Misty De Berry, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs*
Join our Institute fellows for an extended reflection on the theme of promiscuous care and performance.
Location: Dartmouth 105
5-7pm Me/We: Sharing by Josefina Baez & student fellows,
followed by Q&A with Alexis Pauline Gumbs*
Following her workshops during the Institute's Teach-In, Josefina returns to campus to continue her exploration of performance autology with the student fellows.
Location: Dartmouth 105
7:30pm Closing dinner for Institute participants
Location: The Birch Room at the Hanover Inn
*ASL interpretation provided.