This event is free to attend with donations accepted. All ticket sales for this event will go towards The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund.

In this 3 hr storytelling workshop using the Limbs installation as a catalyst. We will use improv, body movement, writing and imaging to recreate parallel realities and possibilities which went missing with each destroyed limb or lost life. In this act of giving life to the limbs through stories, in creating for them a memorial, we activate our own capacities of reimagining history and reality and complete the natural cycle of life and death. 

"Limbs” is a series of gatherings where we can co-create our rituals of regeneration. As destruction of lands, shelter, peoples, hopes and ideals continues under the hands of out of control, self-righteous, weaponized humans, we can grow the ability and imagination to create & perform our rites of healing, instead of entrapping our wounds with trauma and despair.

In the first art making ritual we invited people from many paths to create clay limbs in honor of the countless bodies we have witnessed in pieces over the last year. The second, “Blastema” fired the clay in the earth through a collective ceremony of poetry, song and story. Staged at Indexical, the third invites you to experience and connect to the charred limbs as portals to parallel realities that are inexorably intertwined with ours, with the burning possibilities in our hearts. 

The exhibition includes workshops, performances and an installation of the Limbs sculptures. The Limbs are for sale to raise funds to support reconstructive limb surgery and grass roots relief initiatives responding to the humanitarian and shelter disaster in Gaza and Lebanon.