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CASTLES Workshop 3: Lu Chen / 陳璐 – How Many Hands
June 1 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT
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Workshop 3 – How Many Hands
CASTLES is a new work written by Kat Purcell over the last six years, with the support of dozens of artistic collaborators. In preparation for the debut of this work, Kat has co-created three workshops where three artists have taken three sections of the work to create offerings for the community.
Lu Chen / 陳璐 – How Many Hands
June 1st, timing: 1-3 p.m.
Location: East Side Freedom LIbrary, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul
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Hands are agents for healing, expression, and labor. This workshop brings awareness to the shapes, forces, and energy hands possess via movement participation and exploration of rhythms. It invites participants to explore the consequences of exploited hands through rhythm and movement. It also engages in the healing power of hands through movement and touch.
About CASTLES:
CASTLES is a new work written by Kat Purcell over the last six years, with the support of dozens of artistic collaborators. CASTLES is a collection of vignettes, in which we proposes to briefly– via performances (narrative, dance, installation, object theatre) that are experiments (questions, games, graspings)– manifest a crucible in which we get to decide: do we attempt to make the castle our own, or do we scramble to find the exit? In Minneapolis we do both. We burn precincts, occupy gas stations (for 3 years 11 months and counting), build living ever-growing unsanctioned memorials, stop youth prisons from being built, build temporary underground queer arts spaces, claim space from the city for urban farms, and support the encampments of transient neighbors living in the streets.
In August 2024, an ensemble of artists will come together to perform the vignettes. More details soon! Here is the Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/
These workshops are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
