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Community Sewing Bee at Art-A-Whirl


Emily Johnson's Then a Voice and a Night We Spend Gazing at Stars Residency at MANCC. Photo by Chris Cameron

Emily Johnson's Then a Voice and a Night We Spend Gazing at Stars Residency at MANCC. Photo by Chris Cameron

Join us with Textile Artist Maggie Thompson for a weekend-long sewing bee during Art-A-Whirl! 

Emily Johnson/Catalyst is creating a series of hand sewn quilts. When completed, the quilts will be laid outdoors for an all night performance filled with dance, storytelling and stargazing! 

ALL ARE WELCOME NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!

We provide all materials. Feel free to bring drinks or snacks to share.

Join us at the Northrop King Building, Studio 375:
Friday, May 20th from 5:00-10:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 21st from Noon-8:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 22nd from Noon-5:00 p.m

We look forward to seeing you there!

FABRIC DONATIONS WELCOME!
 

Earlier Event: October 11
SHORE in Dᶻidᶻelaľic̆/ Dkhw'Duw'Absh (Seattle)
Later Event: June 11
Then a Cunning Voice and a Night We Spend Gazing at Stars at Northern Spark
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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