Saturday, July 12, 4–7:30PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Info on our space here
Workshop capacity: 30
Performance capacity: 50

taller de libro de ejercicios / workbook workshop 4:00–5:30PM

led by Gabrielle + Daisy in both Spanish & English

¡ acciones alegres ! / performance celebrations ! 6–7:30PM

Come activate joy with Experimentos en Alegría / Experiments in Joy, a two-part event transforming joy from feeling to practice. Gabrielle Civil and Daisy Magallanes will facilitate a bilingual Spanish/English workshop using the CO—CO Press workbooks, available en Español and in English, to explore joy, creativity, and diasporic identity. Performance celebrations by Civil, Magallanes, and Megha Jairaj will follow. Participants can come to either one or both parts of the program. ¡ All are welcome!

RSVP al taller de libro de ejercicios / workbook workshop

RSVP a las ¡ acciones alegres ! / performance celebrations !

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. Her series of performance memoirs, a chronicle of performance body, includes Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), the déjà vu (2022) and In & Out of Place (2024). She organized and compiled Experiments in Joy: A Workbook (2019) and coordinated the translation for Experimentos en Alegría (2023) published by Co-Conspirator Press. Foundress of The Black Weirdo School, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space. Photo credit: Dennie Eagleson