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Performance Art with Tricia Hersey : Free Street Institute Certification Program
June 17 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$200.00
Join Tricia Hersey for an interactive course on tapping into your artistic imagination to carve out a practice for performance art.
Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry, for an experimental and interactive course on tapping into your artistic imagination to carve out an intentional practice in crafting radical performance art. We will engage in a slow and intentional discovery of sustainable community art interventions using DIY practices, liberation theory and play. Come ready to daydream.
About the Free Street Institute: Free Street’s Certification Program is designed to give you the skills of Free Street’s leaders & artists. From devising to performance art, spend time with our artists and sharpen your creative practice.
About Tricia Hersey:When you experience the work of artist Tricia Hersey you are witnessing a practice unbound, defying the lines that are often drawn between disciplines, methodologies, and schools of thought. Tricia’s craft has taken a lifetime to perfect. It is deeply influenced by her experiences as the daughter of an abolitionist pastor, as a native of the South Side of Chicago, and as the torch-bearer of her family’s Mississippi and Louisiana roots. Her upbringing is woven throughout her two decades of experience as a teaching artist, chaplain, poet, theatermaker, performance artist, and community organizer. She necessarily dissolves these boundaries to unlock mental, physical, and spiritual spaces for radical thought and imagination. The wideness of her practice opens portals and possibilities of world-building and future-casting while embodying the teachings of somatics, womanism, womanist theology, Black Liberation Theology, Afrofuturism, and her ancestors.
From these vast reservoirs of knowledge, Tricia created the ‘rest is resistance’ and ‘rest as reparations’ frameworks and founded The Nap Ministry, a global pioneer and originator of the movement to understand the liberatory power of rest. Tricia’s words and the immersive experiences she creates through and outside of The Nap Ministry are calling us to move far beyond mainstream concepts of wellness. She asks us to study the ways in which our divinity, higher purpose, and ability to resist violent and oppressive systems are intertwined with how we access our rest, imagination, and DreamSpace. Her work is a pathway to the rest practices needed to collectively build and imagine new worlds as we simultaneously dismantle and deprogram ourselves from the systems that prop up and perpetuate the racial, social, and environmental harm done by white supremacy and extractive capitalism.
When considered in its totality, Tricia’s practice is limitless and experiential in ways that words on a page can never contain. It washes us with a new consciousness that proves rest is not a luxury, but a human right and a deliberate rebuking of the oppressive structures that are snatching the souls of humanity. Every work that Tricia creates is a balm in the form of artistic and spiritual practice and each piece provokes a collective reawakening, offering us a blueprint for a rest revolution. Through her practice we can gather and grow the tools that will help us construct and unveil truly liberated worlds and futures.