HOLDING Happy Hours for a quarantined audience, occur every Thursday 5pm PST on Zoom. Featuring studio visits, reading groups, performances, etc. (BYOB).

April 2 – HOLDING Happy Hour Intro with Iris & Tiff
Can we be “together” during this pandemic?

April 9 – Roz Crews

April 16 – Derek Franklin
Studio visit with Derek Franklin. Suggested reading for the group:
Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness. Chapter 1, Happy Objects

April 23 – Petra Szilagyi (co-hosted with The Anderson, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Artist lecture and audience participatory, guided positive intention exercise with Petra Szilagyi.

April 30 – 2020 Quarantet
(with Carl Diehl, Nat Hawks, Mack McFarland, Vinh Nguyen, and Big World)
Sharing screen time in dream time with a crafty cabal. A vidsonic constellation beamed in across space + time.

May 7 – Sheida Soleimani
Studio Visit and Conversation with Sheida Soleimani featuring new works, 
weird bird facts, and a peek inside a baby bird rehab clinic!

May 14 – Dan Paz
In light of the global COVID pandemic, Dan Paz shared their questions around decarceration and commuted sentences for youth and adults in the US carceral system. Dance improvisation/ movement artist, and longtime collaborator, Donnell Williams was also in attendance. Paz provided a comprehensive bibliography of information around COVID and incarceration, linked here.

May 21 – SCALENO
Leslie Hickey and Ana Lía Orézzoli of SCALENO shared thoughts on long-distance collaboration, details about their collective projects, and lead attendees in exercises around questioning, photography, and poetry.

May 28 – Michael Lazarus

…more TBD