- Tue., February 21 at 2:30 pm
- ASL Interpretation
- Assisted Listening Devices
Location
Schedule and Tickets
Schedule: 02/21
To sign up to participate, please fill out the Google form online. If this is a barrier, please call or email Alejandro Tey at 612-451-4466 or tey@mixedblood.com Every effort will be made to accommodate community members needs, including access supports, transportation assistance, gift cards for essentials available at each event. Please state what you need to participate.
About the Show
Feb. 21, 28, & March 7, 2023
Join artist Alison Bergblom Johnson to make a performance about our lives.
Community Gatherings: Tuesdays, Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28, & March 7, 2:30-4:30pm in-person at Mixed Blood Theatre, remote options via Zoom or phone.
Community Performance: Saturday, March 18, 2-3pm at Powderhorn Park Rec Center.
People with disabilities are invited to gather to tell stories, to connect and to make a short theater piece exploring our experiences during the pandemic, lockdown, uprising and beyond. People who live in or are connected to the Powderhorn neighborhood are particularly invited to participate. The gatherings will explore stories, connections between different experiences, and add in movement, musicality, play, rhythm, props and other technical elements as desired. People with any level of artmaking or theater experience, or who have no theater experience, are welcome to participate.
In 12x12, Mixed Blood partners with 12 artists—from ice skaters and poets to chefs and theater makers—working in and with 12 Twin Cities neighborhoods to create short performances that reflect each community. Partnering with individuals and organizations, the artistic reflections will highlight the stories and diversity of our communities. Each piece is performed twice: once in the community where it is created and again at Mixed Blood, when all 12 communities will come together in a performance festival.
The collaboration in Powderhorn focuses on folks with varying disabilities from across the Metro area. The neighborhood is known for its 66-acre park, as well as events like the Powderhorn Art Fair, the May Day Festival & Parade, and as one of four neighborhoods that abut George Floyd Square, where George Perry Floyd, Jr. was heinously murdered. Powderhorn activists, artivists, organizers and organizations strive to ensure that George Floyd Square is cared for in a manner that meets local and global calls for justice in all forms.
Alison Bergblom Johnson is an artist, writer, performer, artist organizer, consultant, and teaching artist. Her work crosses media and genres such as essays, collage, and storytelling, exploring disability, identity and joy. She collaborates with community care and art organizations from small grassroots endeavors (Fresh Eye Gallery, Strike Theater) to large, established institutions, (Wilder Foundation, Springboard for the Arts, Walker Art Center).
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