The Heavy Lifting Project includes a book exhibit, experimental film, poetry readings, and talk. At its center is an artists’ book, the result of a 4-year collaboration between artist Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press and poet Theresa Whitehill.
Heavy Lifting acknowledges the almost unbearable pace of relentless crises that have unfolded in recent years—covid, climate change, racial injustice, the threat of totalitarianism, immigration crises—and begins to dwell in what might lie beyond these times. Theresa Whitehill’s poems tread a tenuous path at the boundaries between personal and collective reckonings with work that portrays alternating grief, tenderness, defiance, and outrage.
Don’t miss the Heavy Lifting Listening Tour, a series of events that aspire to offer opportunities for healing, and dreaming, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens with a display of the artists’ book, Heavy Lifting and of the experimental film, On Heavy Lifting, that accompanies the book. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill and the audience in which she alternates reading her poems with an invitation for audience members to read their own work or share brief stories in response to the themes and material.
The series of events kick off in February 2023 in Ukiah and occur monthly in communities impacted by the wildfires throughout northern California in 2023.
Free admission
2023/03/12 - 2023/03/12
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Coffee will be served!
Caspar Shul
15071 Caspar Rd., Caspar, CA