BorderLine Crisis Help Center
I reconnected with friends from Border Church who have opened a new migrant community center in Tijuana and spent a week in organizing efforts with them. If you have interest in volunteering or sending funds or donations to support their work there, please contact them through the Facebook page.
Currently they offer support to vulnerable families who are waiting for their immigration appointments. They provide supplies, food, coffee, clothes, medical needs, internet, international phone calls, a place to rest, classes in English and art, connecting people to housing and shelters, accompaniments to court dates and check ins, sessions with social workers and therapists, toys, games and books for children.
Although there are other groups that offer legal support and housing, this space is unique in how humanizing it is, how it offers space for people to rest and be together with dignity, outside the constant processing mechanisms. During times of crisis, we must remember our humanity. I hope you can support.
Lunar Release
Our retreat in Jalisco, Mexico was so much more than I could have expected. We held lunar rituals every night, were treated to a Temezcal ceremony by a local medicine woman, we celebrated the Virgen de Guadalupe out in the streets with dancing and towers of fire crackers, yoga, creative movement, tango dancing, fire, delicious food, massage and healing every day by an ancient lake surrounded by mountains. Longing for the next one already.
Arctic Circle Artist Residency
Way up in the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Circle, I am working with a team of international artists on developing a play about regaining your strength and spirit after sexual assault. It is an object theater show about one woman's story of survival from an attempted rape by a group of powerful men. In a dramatic landscape where the sun appears, if it does, only from 10:30am to 2pm, and blizzards often rain down upon us with driving snow the likes I have never witnessed, any light is precious and revered. It is a fitting, if not challenging, place to reflect on the current catastrophes in the world.
The Night The Earth Shook
-Collaboration with Husam Abed and Reka Deak at Brunnenpassage, an immigrant cultural center in Vienna and several arts spaces in Prague, with dancers, performers, artists and others co-devising a piece in public spaces about climate change and mass migration through investigating the myth of the Rainbow Bridge.