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Upcoming 2024 Events
November
Mad Flora & Fauna: Writing Emotions [virtual}
Just Buffalo Writing Center
Saturday, November 23, 2024
1-2:30pm Eastern, info and registration here
Let’s dive into the rich world of emotions to explore how our own feelings can inspire writing. What is the rhythm of sadness? The shape of joy? What animal or plant represents boredom? We’ll experiment with embodying emotion through writing, movement, drawing, or whatever mediums you choose, in an atmosphere of care and support.
Public Poetry Announcements
Detroit Public Radio WDET 101.9FM
hosted by Stephanie GlazierFriday, November, 15, 2024 RESCHEDULED tba
12:00pm Eastern, tune in for this half hour show of poetry hosted by Stephanie Glazier
2024 Schedule Archive
January
Poetry Reading with Naomi Ortiz, Petra Kuppers, Stephanie Heit [in person]
Friday, January 26, 2024
7:00pm Mountain, hosted by Sonorous Anchorite, free with suggested $5 donation
Spark Project Collective Event Center (wheelchair accessible space)
4349 E. Broadway Blvd.
Tucson, Arizona
Recording available here.
February
Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments
co-curated by moira williams and Jeremiah Barber [virtual & in person]
Exhibition dates: February 1 – March 10, 2024
Root Division
1131 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
For info on events and programming, visit here
Work by disabled artists, including from Stephanie’s PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State UP, 2022), with pieces from the “Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog” activated in the joy stim tent, and the video movement poem, “Mad Flora and Fauna” by Stephanie Heit and Charli Brissey as part of the exhibition
Mad Conductors Workshop [in person]
Thursday, February 8, 2024
10:00am -11:50am
Guest artists in Tzveta Kassabova’s Movement II class in the theater department at University of Michigan
a collaborative performance project by Stephanie Heit and Alexis Riley that arises from our lived psych experiences and explores electricity, shock, connection, memory (loss), and collective mad ways of being.
March
Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments
co-curated by moira williams and Jeremiah Barber [virtual & in person]
Two day convening Saturday, March 9, 2024; Sunday, March 10, 2024
For more details, event schedule and to register visit here
“Mad Flora and Fauna” by Stephanie Heit and Charli Brissey will be part of the film screening Sunday beginning at 7:30pm Eastern
Crip’d Ecologies Film Screening [virtual]
Eco Poetic Dance Films by Petra Kuppers, Stephanie Heit and Charli Brissey, and Cynthia Ling Lee
Sunday March 24, 2024
5pm Eastern Email Stephanie for the zoom link.
Open Mic Night with Fine Arts Work Center [virtual]
Thursday, March 28, 2024
6-8 pm Eastern
FREE, registration here
April
National Dance Education Organization
Disability and Dance: Virtual Summit
Saturday, April 6, 2024
11am-6pm Eastern
Registration and schedule here
Mad Conductors: Dancing New Mental Health Futures [virtual]
3:30-4:00pm Eastern
Join us for a presentation about Mad Conductors, a collaborative project directed by Stephanie Heit and Alexis Riley, that arises out of a desire to transmute and transform personal experiences of electroshocks and psychiatric medication brain zaps. This project explores electricity, shock, connection, memory (loss), and collective mad ways of being. What happens when energy is transferred? Who or what conducts the ensemble? How can we hold memory as a community? How can we hold the gaps? What resources do mad ancestors and archives offer? Mad Conductors investigates and plays with these questions through writing, movement, doodling, sound, and other mediums we invent. Let’s tend ourselves and each other while we imagine and experiment with new openings, pathways, and futures of care in this offering that will include experiential invitations.
PoetTreeTown Celebration
Downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan
Month of April
My poem “Almost Spring” will be part of the community offerings as a broadside at Thistle & Bess at 222 N. 4th Ave. in Kerrytown. Listen to a recording of the poem here.
May
Memory Lanes ~ A Mad Conductors Workshop with Stephanie Heit & Alexis Riley [in person]
11am-1pm Saturday, May 25,2024
Turtle Disco in Ypsilanti, Michigan (College Heights Neighborhood, address given upon registration)
FREE
Join us for a workshop to explore memory, remembering, and forgetting. How can we hold memory as a community? How can we hold the gaps? We’ll explore improvisational scores that invite us to investigate and play through writing, movement, doodling,sound, and other mediums we invent. We will work together to create a supportive space to tend ourselves and each other while we imagine and experiment with new openings, pathways, and futures of care.
Bring: writing/art materials you desire (journal,pen, colored pencils, computer etc.). Dress in layers to support movement and stillness.
Access Info: Free. No experience necessary. All are welcome. We especially want to extend an invite to people with lived experience of psychiatric systems and/or madness, mental health difference, or however you choose to identify. Wheelchair accessible space.
Covid info: Masks welcome. Air purifier used in space.If you are sick or experiencing symptoms, please do not come.
Registration: Limited number of spots, so please register by emailing Stephanie: stephanieheit@gmail.com
July
Detroit Festival of Books
PSYCH MURDERS signing at Wayne State UP table
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Signing: noon-12:45 Festival: 10am-4pm
Eastern Market, Shed 5, Detroit, Michigan
September
Diver Beneath the Street Launch: Disability Poetry Reading with Ashwini Bhasi, Stephanie Heit & Petra Kuppers [in person]
Friday, September 6, 2024
7:00pm
Book Suey (wheelchair accessible)
10345 Joseph Campau Ave. Hamtramck, MI 48212
October
Nature & Culture Poetry Film Festival [virtual]
“Mad Flora and Fauna” videodancepoem screening
October 12-19, 2024
Copenhagen, Denmark
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Disability Poetics & Justice Symposium
October 19-22, 2024
Naropa University, Boulder, CO
In-person or register for virtual attendance here
Stumbles, Glides, Tremors: Exploring Time Signatures in a Disabled World with Stephanie Heit & Petra Kuppers [in person]
Guest artists in low residency MFA practicum
Sunday, October 20, 2024 10am-6pm
Disability Poetics & Justice Symposium Reading [in person & virtual]
lauren semblanet, Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers
Monday, October 21, 2o24
7pm, free
Nalanda Events Center, Nalanda Campus
Naropa University, Boulder, CO
In-person or register for virtual attendance here
November
Disability Arts & Culture Gathering
Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Turtle Disco, and Riverside Arts Center, Michigan
October 31-November 3, 2024
Organized by Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers, Alexis Riley
Find all the info here: https://www.petrakuppers.com/disability-arts-and-culture-gathering-2024
All public events either outdoors or masked, free
Join us for a weekend of disability culture arts-based research and community building, centered on twin inquiries of environmental and interspecies gentleness, and on mad memory and archival intermedial/technological play.
Mad Conductors & Crip/Mad Archive Dances
part of the Disability Arts & Culture Gathering
with Nazifa Islam, Stephanie Heit, Alexis Riley, Jennifer Lickers, and Petra Kuppers [in person]
Saturday, November 2, 2024
11am-1pm
Riverside Arts Center, upstairs in dance studio, accessible space, elevator entrance is from outside
76 N Huron St. Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Poetry Foundation Mad Talk: Stephanie Heit & Matt Bodett [in person & virtual]
Join us for a conversation and offering on madness, access, and art.
Friday, November 8, 2024
Noon-1:30pm Central, info and registration for attendance and to receive zoom link here. ASL interpretation.
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654, free
Mad Conductors & Crip/Mad Archive Dances
with Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers, Alexis Riley [in person]
Friday, November 8, 2024
Performance 7pm, Opening 5-9pm
The Center for Mad Culture
410 S. Michigan Ave #419 Chicago, IL 60605
Performance as part of Dunning exhibition opening, free
ASL interpreter and AI captioning
Join us for a participatory performance exploring memory, remembering, and forgetting followed by an experimental documentary that charts disability culture archives and embodied gestures of survival and creative expression.
Tending Mad Ancestors with Matt Bodett, Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers, and Alexis Riley [in person, outside]
Saturday, November 9, 2024
11am-12:30pm
on-site of old asylum grounds at Read Dunning Memorial Park
Chicago, IL FREE
Join us in an action to honor and remember those who were incarcerated in the Dunning Insane Asylum. We will meet on the old asylum grounds at Read Dunning Memorial Park, one of the sites where inmates were buried in unmarked graves. We’ll use our breath and bodies to witness the land and its presences and absences. Together we’ll respectfully activate the space with gestures of remembrance and care, through space and time, into the present moment.
Keynote: Memory Lanes & Sensorial Gardens: A Mad Conductors Workshop [in person]
Spark! Creative Engagement Conference
Monday, November 11, 2024
Museum of Wisconsin Art
West Bend, WI
Public Poetry Announcements
Detroit Public Radio WDET 101.9FM
hosted by Stephanie GlazierFriday, November, 15, 2024 RESCHEDULED tba
12:00pm Eastern, tune in for this half hour show of poetry hosted by Stephanie Glazier
2023 Schedule Archive
January
Disability Culture Video Dances by Charli Brissey, Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers, and guest Kym McDaniel [in person]
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
7:00pm Eastern, FREE, limited tickets, reserve your spot here
Duderstadt Video Performance Studio (wheelchair accessible space)
North Campus, University of Michigan
PSYCH MURDERS: A Turtle Disco Offering [in person]
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity
New College, University of Toronto
Thursday, January 26, 2023
6:30-7:30pm Eastern, FREE
William Doo Auditorium
45 Willcocks St. Toronto, Ontario
For questions, access requests email: miggy.esteban@mail.utoronto.ca
February
Disability Poetry Reading with Ashwini Bhasi, Stephanie Heit, Nazifa Islam, Petra Kuppers [in person]
Friday, February 3, 2023
7:00-8:00pm, FREE
Booksweet Bookstore (wheelchair accessible space, masks required)
1729 Plymouth Rd. Ann Arbor, MI
More info and RSVP: booksweetlink.com/feb3rsvp
Check out the article about the reading in The Michigan Daily.
Open Attention: An Interdisciplinary Weekend of Sensory Play with Stephanie & Petra [in person]
Friday-Sunday, February 10-12th, 2023
400 Center St, Altamonte Springs, FL
Option for full weekend with room and board or individual sessions
More info here: https://express.adobe.com/page/JYZJ7g0UzwqQg/
PSYCH MURDERS [virtual]
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
10:00-11:30am Eastern
Guest artist in Ittai Orr’s Neurodiversity in Literature and Film class at University of Michigan
March
Association for Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
March 8-11, 2023 Seattle, Washington
Panel: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Difference Across Genres [in person]
Thursday, March 9, 2023
3:20 p.m.–4:35 p.m.
Rooms 345-346, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
Maya Beck, Stephanie Heit, Nazifa Islam, Addie Tsai
signing: PSYCH MURDERS at Wayne State UP table [in person]
Friday, March 10, 2023
11:30am-12:30pm
My Beats are Icky Poetry Reading [in person]
Friday, March 10, 2023
7:00pm
Frederick Holmes Gallery
309 Occidental Ave. S, Seattle
Surel’s Place Residency
March 12 – April 6, 2023 Boise, Idaho
Artist Chat with Poetry Out Loud
Idaho High School Poetry Finalists [in person]
March 18, 2023
10:30am Mountain
Surel’s Place
212 E. 33rd Street
Garden City, Idaho
“Windows to the Inside: Expressions of Mental Health” [virtual]
curated by Grace Heaney
virtual exhibit at Woman Made Gallery
through April 30, 2023
Link to full exhibit here
Link to Stephanie’s broadside “Solar Eclipse” from PSYCH MURDERS here.
April
Surel’s Place Workshop: Sensorial Gardens [in person]
Saturday, April 1, 2023
1:00-4:00pm Mountain
212 E. 33rd Street
Garden City, Idaho
Registration and more info here
Surel’s Place Reading: Every Horizon Turns Liquid [in person, IG live recording here]
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
7-8:30pm Mountain, FREE
212 E. 33rd Street
Garden City, Idaho
More info here
PSYCH MURDERS: How We Need Mental Health Care Beyond Closets, Attics, Prisons, and Wards [in person]
Illinois College Convocation Program: The Power of the Mind
Monday, April 10, 2023
11:00 am – noon, Central, FREE
Silbert Theater
1101 West College Avenue
Jacksonville, Illinois
PSYCH MURDERS Illinois College Class Visits
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 [in person]
Noon – 1:15pm Central
Guest artist in Kara Dorris’ Intro to Creative Writing Course
Thursday, April 13, 2023 [virtual]
2:15-3:00pm Central
Guest artist in Cynthia Cochran’s Advanced Creative Nonfiction Course
PoetTreeTown Celebration
Downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan
Month of April
Map of poem locations here
Listen to my poem “stage set for spring” here
Find in physical form at Pretzel Bell
226 S. Main St. Ann Arbor
Eco Somatic Readings, Conversations, Movements [virtual] featuring Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers, Krishna Washburn, Taja Will, and moira williams
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
6-8pm Eastern, FREE
Hosted by Culture Push
ASL interpretation and closed captioning
Recording of event here
May
Crip/Mad Archive Dances Participatory Workshop [in person NYC]
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
6:30-8pm Eastern, FREE
Dance Division – 2nd Floor Reading Room Stacks
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
More info and register here
Zoeglossia Fellows Retreat [virtual]
Sunday, May 14, 2023
3-4pm Eastern
PSYCH MURDERS reading with Raymond Luczak, Kimberly Jae
Eco-somatics Intensive [in person Toronto]
May 23-27, 2023
Guest artist with Petra Kuppers in Rebecca Caine’s graduate class
York University, Toronto
Improvisatory Meditative and Speculative Writing in the Interdisciplinary Classroom [in person Toronto]
Rebecca Caines, Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers
Monday, May 29, 2023
8:30-10am
Panel as part of Canadian Conference: ACCUTE/Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
York University, Toronto
June
SomaFlights Generative Writing Workshop [in person]
with Vidhu Aggarwal, Ashwini Bhasi, Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers, Dom Witten
Saturday, June 3, 2023
7:00-8:00pm Eastern, FREE
The Room Project
6513 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202
Midwest Book Awards Gala
PSYCH MURDERS Gold medal for poetry
Saturday, June 17, 2023
7:00pm Central
Open Book
1011 S Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55415
August
Blue Mountain Center Artist Residency [in person]
Monday, August 7 – Monday, August 14, 2023
Blue Mountain Lake, New York
September
About Place Reading Series: On Rivers [virtual]
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
8:00pm Eastern, FREE
More info and link to join live session here
Co-Dreaming: Improvisation Toward Liberatory Worlding Symposium
September 11 – 14, 2023
University of Michigan, Turtle Disco, Lakes and Rivers
Video Evening, Public Sharing [in person & virtual]
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:30-8pm Eastern, FREE
Duderstadt Video Studio, Ann Arbor & livestreamed here
For more info on the symposium visit here
Writing the Self-Elegy Reading: Poetry is Normal Series [virtual] featuring Kara Dorris, Stephanie Heit, Kasey Jueds, Anne Kaier, and Rusty Morrison
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
8:00-9:00pm Eastern
Hosted by Normal Public Library in Normal, Illinois
Details and registration here
October
Co-Dreaming: Improvisation Toward Liberatory Worlding [in person] with pateldanceworks
October 16-20, 2023 Queer Dance Improvisation Residency
Oakland, California
November
Four Queens Divinatory Poetics Hour: Sensorial Gardens with Stephanie Heit [virtual]
Sunday, November 12, 2023
1:00-2:00pm Eastern, $10
Info and registration here
2022 Schedule Archive
February
Breaking the Stigma: Artist Panel & Reading [in person]
Rebecca Allen, David Feingold, Stephanie Heit Cynthia Keefe, Allise NobleThursday, February 3, 2022 Thursday, February 17, 2022 (day shift due to snowstorm)
7-8:30pm Eastern, in-person (Reserve your spot here)
Creative 360
1517 Bayliss Street, Midland, Michigan
Disability Poetry on Self-Elegy [virtual]
Kara Dorris, Stephanie Heit, Denise Leto, Rusty Morrison, Tanaya Winder
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
6:00-7:00pm Eastern, Live captioned, Register for zoom link here
University of Michigan, Disability Studies Graduate Seminar
BathHouse Reading Series [virtual]
Thursday, February 17, 2022 or check out the recording here.
11am-12:15pm Eastern, Live captioned, For Zoom link email Carla Harryman charryma@umich.edu
Eastern Michigan University
March
Wayne State Table with Petra Kuppers & Stephanie Heit
AWP Conference in Philadelphia (Association of Writers and Writing Programs)
Thursday, March 24, 2022
11:30am Eastern
Book Fair Room, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Contemporary Feminisms Panel [in person]
AWP Conference in Philadelphia (Association of Writers and Writing Programs)
Friday, March 25, 2022
9-10:15am Eastern
120AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
July
Contemplative Dance & Art Practice with Stephanie Heit [virtual]
Guest artist for DanceAbility hosted by Detroit Disability Power Friday, July 22, 2022
12:30pm-2:30pm Eastern
More info here. Registration info here.
Sensorial Gardens with Stephanie [in person]
Guest artist for DanceAbility hosted by Detroit Disability Power
Saturday, July 30, 2022
11:00am-1:00pm Eastern
Gordon Park in Detroit, cross streets Rosa Parks and Clairmount Registration info here.
Disability Pride Art ShowReception [virtual]
Sunday, July 31, 2022
6:00-8:00pm Eastern
Event info here. Watch live or recorded on the DIYabled Youtube Channel here.
Exhibit is open for viewing in person at
Revolve Art Gallery
821 Riverside Dr #179
Asheville, North Carolina
August
Starship Somatics [in person, outside] with Petra Kuppers, Charli Brissey, & Stephanie Heit
Saturday, August 13, 2022
7:30pm Eastern
The Croft Residency – on the outdoor dance deck
Boyne City, Michigan
Disability Pride Southeast Michigan Performance [in person]
ASL and CART provided, more info here
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
10:00am-3:00pm Eastern (Stephanie Heit scheduled to perform at 12:15, Petra Kuppers at 12:30)
Detroit Eastern Market, Shed #3
2934 Russell St.
September
At Home with Literati: Stephanie Heit book launch for PSYCH MURDERS with Meg Day and Vidhu Aggarwal [virtual]
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
7:00pm Eastern, free
ASL interpretation and closed captioning
No preregistration needed. More info and link to join meeting here.
PSYCH MURDERS Reading [in person]
Sunday, September 11, 2022
2:00-3:30pm Eastern, free
Hosted by Grow Benzie Art Guild, more info here
Grow Benzie Courtyard (Event Center if weather requires)
5885 Frankfort Hwy, Benzonia, Michigan
PSYCH MURDERS Reading [in person]
Friday, September 30, 2022
7:00-8:00pm Eastern, free
Ballyhoo Books, more info here
111 W. Superior Street
Alma, MI 48801
October
An Evening of Disability Culture: Readings and Performance by Stephanie Heit & Petra Kuppers [in person]
Friday, October 7, 2022
7-8:30pm Eastern, free
Creative 360
1517 Bayliss Street, Midland, Michigan
Open Attention: An Interdisciplinary Weekend of Sensory Play [in person]
Saturday, October 8 – Sunday, October 9, 2022
Join us for a weekend of workshops to engage your senses, curiosity, and creativity as we explore and experiment with different modes of expression.
No experience needed. Everyone welcome. Sign up for the whole weekend or for individual sessions. A $15 donation is requested for participation, but Stephanie, Petra and Creative 360 want to ensure that all who are interested can participate. Please do not let the fee keep you from signing up!
Saturday: 11am-1:00pm Writing Workshop
Creative 360 Galleries
142 East Ashman St. Midland, MI 48640
In this generative workshop, we will use sensory experiences as starting points for writing – in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, whatever form you most enjoy. We will engage in writing experiments for the majority of our session with the remaining time used for optional sharing.
Saturday: 3-5pm Sensorial Gardens
Chippewa Nature Center
400 S Badour Rd, Midland, MI 48640
Join us for a workshop of sensate play at Chippewa Nature Center We will tune into our bodyminds using breath and movement; explore our surroundings through a menu of texture, sound, memory, smell, language, gesture; and collaborate as a group to create support, cultivate pleasure, and tend ourselves and the space around us.
Sunday 11am-1:00pm Writing Workshop
Creative 360 Galleries
142 East Ashman St. Midland, MI 48640
In this generative workshop, we will use our environments, and how they interact with our bodymindspirits as starting points for our writing – in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, whatever form you most enjoy. We will engage in writing exercises for the majority of our session with the remaining time used for optional sharing.
Registration: Go to Creative 360 website, click register now, and then classes workshops. Or call to register: 989-837-1885 https://becreative360.org/
Disability Culture Poetry Reading with Stephanie Heit & Petra Kuppers
[in person]
Sunday, October 16, 2022
3:00pm Eastern, FREE
27th Letter Books
3546 Michigan Ave. Detroit, MI 48216 More info here
Pain and Joy on the Land: A Disability Culture Offering with Stephanie Heit & Petra Kuppers hosted at The New School by K Prevallet
[virtual]
Thursday, October 27, 2022
12-1:15pm Eastern, FREE, Register here
Join us for meditative somatic experiences and intimate engagements with non-human others through poetry, movement, and conversation in an offering that invites and celebrates inhabiting our unique bodyminds in tune with the world around us.
Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit share disability culture engagements with material creative practices on land and water. Petra will share from Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) and Gut Botany (Wayne State University Press, 2020). Stephanie will share from PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022).
November
Mad Poetry and Art – A Conversation with Stephanie Heit & Chanika Svetvilas [virtual]
Date:Monday, November 14, 7-8:30 pm EST
Access: ASL + automated captioning provided
Cost: $10 suggested donation, no one will be turned away
Hosted by IDHA, registration info here
Residency at Western University, London, Ontario [in person]
Stephanie Heit & Petra Kuppers
November 17-19, 2022
Class workshop: Crip/Mad Archive Dances
Lecture in SASAH Speakers Series: Disability Culture Perspectives: Pain and Joy on the Land
PSYCH MURDERS [virtual]
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
7:30-9:00pm Eastern
Guest artist in Christine Neufeld’s Disability Literature class & Carla Harryman’s Disability Aesthetics class at Eastern Michigan University
December
Poetry Reading [in person]
Monday, December 12, 2022
Café Libertad 8 @ 9pm
Calle Libertad 8
Madrid, Spain
2021 Schedule
January
Emergent Syllabi: A Pedagogy Retreat for the Zoom Fatigued
Hosted by Kristin Prevallet and offering of Contemplative Bodymind & Writing Practice by Stephanie Heit
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021
10am-9:30pm Eastern, off and online
sliding scale, schedule, registration and more info here.
About Place Journal “Works of Resistance, Resilience” Reading Series
Friday, January 15, 2021
7pm Eastern, Zoom
Zoom link and full info here
May
Zoeglossia Disabled Poets Reading: Jim Ferris, Elizabeth Theriot, Genevieve Guzmán, Margaret Ricketts, Raymond Luczak, Stephanie Heit, Jessica Stokes
Friday, May 21, 2021
6pm Eastern, Zoom Webinar Link
CC/ASL Provided
September
Eco Monsters and Somatic Takeovers: a mini-symposium of the EcoSomatics Series
Thursday, September 16 through Sunday, September 19, 2021
University of Michigan, Turtle Disco, Frog Island Park, and surroundings
October
Movement Research Workshop in NYC: Crip Mad Dance Archives (To Be Confirmed: canceled due to covid)
with Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit
Saturday, October 23 & Sunday, October 24, 2021
Join us to explore moments in disability dance and performance history, honoring ancestors and legacy through participatory performance. We will bring the archive out into the public, and activate, supplement and play with it in the streets. This workshop is part of Petra’s current dance research fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Performance Division at Lincoln Plaza. In our time together, Stephanie and Petra will use their embodied histories of mad and crip lives to explore with participants how we all can honor our pasts, our ancestors, our presents, and our futures. We will work together to make these temporalities shine in the city space, through improvisation, movement scores, and writing. We will meet in and around Lincoln Plaza and navigate access needs together.
2020 Schedule
March
AWP Conference in San Antonio, Texas (Association of Writers and Writing Programs)
Thursday, March 5, 2020 [canceled due to pandemic]
Reading: OS Fest San Antonio at Sala Diaz
7-11pm
Friday, March 6, 2020 [canceled due to pandemic]
Panel: Bipolar Writers Speak
Room 007C, Henry B. González Convention Center, River Level
1:45-3pm
Saturday, March 7, 2020 [canceled due to pandemic]
Zoeglossia Disabled Poets Reading
Room 214C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
1:45-3pm
June
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Liberatory Life Writing Workshops for Disabled Writers
Writing from the above workshop collected on the website Words of Reclamation
Care Objects: Disabled Ways of Being – generative writing playshop
7-9pm EST, free, Email Hannah at hannah-soyer@ku.edu to register.
July
Zoeglossia Zoom Disability Poetry Reading
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
6pm EDT
Readers: Jim Ferris, Stephanie Heit, Kimberly Jae, Ilya Kaminsky, and Liv Mammone MCed by Jessica Suzanne Stokes
September
Online EcoSomatics Symposium, University of Michigan
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Workshop: Water Bodies States of Mind
3-4pm Eastern, free
October
Geopoetics in Practice event with editors Eric Magrane, Linda Russo, Sarah De Leeuw and Craig Santos Perez and contributors Kimberly Blaeser, Angela Rawlings, Tyrone Williams, Tim Creswell, Angela Last, Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers, Chris Turnbull
Monday, October 26, 2020
Zoom Recording of Event
3:30-5pm Eastern, free
November
Lecture hosted by Smith College Department of Dance
Friday, November 20, 2020
Dancing Material History with Petra Kuppers & Stephanie Heit
Recording of talk on Vimeo
3:15-4:30pm Eastern, free, online link on event page (click blue above)
2019 Schedule
March
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Guest Artist in Beth Currans’
Gender, Sexuality, and Disability class
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
April
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Guest Artist in Christine Neufeld’s
Disability and Literature class
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
Tuesday, April 9 – Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Think Act Tank Intensive: Embodiment and Environmental Art Practice
Contemplative Dance & Writing Practice workshop
Ecopoetry Reading in Petra Kuppers’
Queer Feminist EcoArt Practice class
University of Michigan
Friday, April 12 – Sunday, April 14, 2019
Olimpias Workshop: Tendings
University of Toronto, Canada
May
Friday, May 3, 2019 8pm
Glyph Festival
Hannah Cut In by Carla Harryman &
Poetry reading
Riverside Arts Center
Ypsilanti, MI
Thursday, May 16 – Sunday May 19, 2019
Zoeglossia Fellowship
Our Lady of the Lake University
San Antonio, TX
Saturday, May 18, 2019 7:30pm-9pm
Zoeglossia Fellows & Faculty Reading
Gemini Ink
San Antonio, TX
June
Monday, June 3, 2019
Olimpias Workshop: Salamander
Canadian Congress Theater Conference
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Tendings and Eco-poetic Disability Culture: Bodymindspirits of the Future
ASLE conference
University of California, Davis
October
Sunday, October 6, 2019 6:30pm
Frog Island Reading Series
Poetry Reading Stephanie Heit, Petra Kuppers, Elinam Agbo
Tap Room
201 W. Michigan Ave. Ypsilanti, MI
November
Thursday, November 21, 2019 6pm-8pm
Contemplative Dance & Writing Practice
Eco-Arts Think Tank
Riverside Arts Center, Studio 2
Ypsilanti, MI
December
Monday, December 2 – Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Disability Arts and Culture Symposium
Panel: Disability Poetics & Crip Webs (1-2pm on Tuesday)
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
Sunday, December 8 6:30pm
Frog Island Reading Series
Tap Room
201 W. Michigan Ave. Ypsilanti, MI
2018 Schedule
February
Friday, February 2 – February 4, 2018
Olimpias Asylum Project Workshop
Festival of Original Theatre: Supporting Bodies/Changing Minds
University of Toronto, Canada
March
Thursday, March 8, 2018 7-8:15pm
Featured Reader: Open Mic & Share Poetry
Bookbound Bookstore
1729 Plymouth Rd. Ann Arbor, MI
April
Saturday April 21 – Monday April 23, 2018
Sat/Sun 11-4 Mon 3-6
Olimpias Workshop: Tendings
Movement Research
Abrons Art Center / Judson Church
New York City, NY
Monday April 23, 2018 8pm
Olimpias Tendings Performance
Movement Research at Judson Church
55 Washington Square S, New York, NY
2017 Schedule
February
Thursday February 9, 2017 1–3pm
Book signing: The Color She Gave Gravity
AWP Washington Convention Center DC
The Operating System table
Sunday February 19, 2017 5pm
Small Press Traffic presents:
Reading & Performance w/ Petra Kuppers and Ching-In Chen
California College of the Arts
MFA Writers Studio 195 de Haro, San Francisco
March
Wednesday March 8, 2017 7:30-9:30pm
A Day Without A Woman Action:
Tendings~Somatics/Poetics with Petra Kuppers
Otros Libros/Other Books LA
2006 E Cesar Chavez Ave, Los Angeles
Saturday March18, 2017 festival 12-6pm
Social Justice Art Festival
Trotter Multicultural Building,
1443 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI
Saturday March 25, 2017 2-4pm
The Color She Gave Gravity reading and signing
Petals and Perks
429 Main St., Frankfort, MI
April
Sunday April 9, 2017 2-4pm
Tendings, a craft talk with Petra Kuppers
The Cabin
801 S Capitol Blvd., Boise, ID
Friday April 28, 2017 7-9:30pm
Poetry Celebration with Claudia F. Savage and musical guests John C. Savage, Tim DuRoche, and Andre St. James
Ford Food & Drink
2505 SE 11TH AVE., Portland, OR
Sunday, April 30, 2017 3:30-5:30pm
Mad and Moving States: A Somatic Writing Workshop
Performance Works NW
4625 SE 67th Ave., Portland, OR
May
Wednesdays, May 10-June 14 2-4pm
Moving Words: A Contemplative Practice
The Living Yoga Yurt
4065 Waters Rd., Ann Arbor, MI
June
Friday June 2, 2017 6-8pm
Ypsi Pride: Poetry Table
Washington St. between Michigan Ave & Pearl St., Ypsilanti, MI
Thursday June 8, 2017 7pm
The Color She Gave Gravity poetry reading
Common Language Books
317 Braun Ct, Ann Arbor, MI
Sunday June 18, 2017 1-2:30pm
Tendings: Sustainable Artful Lives with Petra Kuppers
Allied Media Conference
Wayne State Student Center, Dance 025
5221 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI
Saturday June 24, 2017 1:30-3
Tendings: Disability Culture Creative Practice as Self-Care with Petra Kuppers
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
July
Wednesdays, June 28-July 26 2-4pm
Contemplative Dance Practice & Somatic Writing
Turtle Disco
August
Saturday August 12, 2017 4pm
Disability Poetry Reading with Petra Kuppers
Horizon Books
243 E Front St, Traverse City, MI
September
Sunday September 24, 2017 3pm
An Afternoon of Poetry: Disability Culture, Bodies, Landscapes and Love
with Petra Kuppers and Jill Darling
Nicola’s Books
2513 Jackson Ave, Ann Arbor, MI
October
Friday October 6, 2017 7pm
Disability Culture::Queerings
with Petra Kuppers and Lynne DeSilva-Johnson
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St, New York City, NY
Saturday October 7 – Monday October 9, 2017
Sat/Sun 11-4 Mon 3-6
Olimpias Asylum Project Workshop
Movement Research
Abrons Art Center / Judson Church
New York City, NY
Monday October 9, 2017 8pm
Olimpias Asylum Project Performance
Movement Research at Judson Church
55 Washington Square S, New York, NY