PERFORMING THE APOCALYPSE: A Performance Art Workshop with Megan Arnold

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Megan Arnold presents a full-day multidisciplinary workshop that focuses on responding to the creative prompt APOCALYPSE. Participants will learn how to create something quickly, without the pressures of preciousness, perfectionism, or imposter syndrome, and share it with a group.

The first part of the workshop will involve some context around Megan’s work, improvisation games, and lots of chit-chat about what apocalypse means to everyone in a specifically queer context.

The second part of the workshop will involve creative exercises, collaborative mega-collage, storytelling, getting real, getting silly, and putting it all together to make a scrappy ensemble performance. Applause will be generous and genuine. Throughout the workshop, participants may also contribute to a shared online document resource list of suggested readings, artists to check out, videos to watch, etc., which will be available for reference ad infinitum.

Materials & Lunch provided.

Organizer

Jude Akrey

Jude Akrey was a 2023 Artist-in-Residence for the City of Guelph with the project “From One Queer to Another” (F1Q2A) which is dedicated to filling gaps in local queer communities by providing lateral opportunities for empowerment through arts-based programming. The title alludes to the ways that queer communities protect and build themselves through shared knowledge, experiences, and interconnection.

This workshop presented by Megan Arnold, with the support of Art Not Shame and Jude Akrey through F1Q2A, is the final workshop in that series of public events.