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Activating the Decolonization Rider: A powerful tool toward equitable practices and futures, for artists, organizers, and institutions at the National Performance Network Annual Conference


  • The Royal Sonesta New Orleans 300 Bourbon St New Orleans, LA 70130 United States (map)

Leomary Rodriguez and Emily Johnson join the October 2025 NPN Annual Conference (Stormshaping: Adaptation, Resistance, Reimagination) as presenters for the session Activating the Decolonization Rider: A powerful tool toward equitable practices and futures, for artists, organizers, and institutions. We're excited to join NPN in celebration of their 40th anniversary and are looking forward to sharing space with those attending.

Earlier Event: October 2
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
Later Event: November 6
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
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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