Join performance artists and poets Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit in a gentle engagement with mineral specimens in the Mineral Museum. Crip Drift is a community performance that explores methods for moving though the world as disabled people living with pain. Admission for the day will be free.
When?
Saturday May 3rd @ 1 PM and 3 PM
Where?
A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum at 1404 East Sharron Avenue, Houghton, MI
Who?
Petra Kuppers
is a German disability culture activist, community performance artist, a Professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She grounds herself in disability culture methods and uses somatics, performance, speculative writing, and media work to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and is a current Just Tech Fellow. She is the Artistic Director of the Olimpias.
Stephanie Heit is a disabled poet, dancer, and teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space on Anishinaabe territory in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is a shock/psych system survivor, bipolar, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective.
Cost?
None. Admission is free for the day!