This July the Schuylkill Center welcomes us for a two-week performance-in-residency. The group ─ consisting of collective members Esther Baker-Tarpaga, Raquel Monroe, and Heidi Wiren Bartlett in collaboration with guest artists Tchin, Crux, and Emma White Thunder ─ will explore collective knowledge and systemic practices in environmental justice, anti-racism and healing lineages grounded in the body. 

The performance project UNLOCK: Tree Water Land builds on the urgent contemporary movements of Black Lives Matter and WATERisLIFE. It includes dance, ephemeral interactive installations, live music, and guided embodied experiences for audiences to witness and join in. The residency is part of the collective’s multi-year effort to creatively decolonize natural spaces through visual art and dance; and ultimately their attempt to dismantle the systemic oppression of contemporary ‘isms.’

The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
July 26 – Aug 6, 2021
Organized by Tina Plokarz