Playing with Fire Symposium

Honoring and Celebrating our Environmental Art Ancestors:
a Tribute to Newton and Helen Harrison

Gather

Manifestadora del altar– Juanita Mora-Malerva
Video: Linda Montano (9 minutes)

Welcome–Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle

Ritual for the Departed & a Sevda–Nada Miljkovic
Kaddish–Ruby Barnett
Metabolism is the Fire that Burns Within Us–Lauren Bon
Poem–Ed Shanken
Open Mic– Share your stories
Closing- Beth & Annie 

Eat, drink and be grateful

Morning Gathering

Breakfast bites, coffee, tea

Panel # 1 — Smoldering Embers

Becca Fenwick, Director of UCSC’s CITRIS Program. “A Drone’s Eye View of the UCNRS”
Cláudio Bueno, Assistant Professor of Art, UC Santa Cruz. “Curupira; The Red Head”
Kim TallBear, Professor of Native Studies, University of Alberta.
“A Sharpening of the Already Present: Apocalypse and Radical Hope”

Panel #2 — Art and Artists On Fire

Michael and Heather Llewellyn– Artists and Co-Creators.
 “Creating the FOREST⇌FIRE Exhibition”
Laura Smith-Fillmore – Artist and Translator.
Fire: the Wà:šiw word for wildfire is yengi’iši’ (the plural of ‘running’) or literally ‘everything is running’
Tracy Brown–Artivist and African American Art & Culture Center Fellow–“Choose Your Punctuation from the Fire”
Justin Hoover– Artist, Director of the Chinese Historical   “Fire as Practice in Chinese American Traditional Culture” 

Break

Panel #3 — Flaming Desires

Courtney Desiree Morris, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley.  “Fire Wedding Orishas” with Martîn Perna (sound design and saxophone) & Sequoia Jane Morris-Perna (firebaby).
K-Haw of the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.) “Any Body Can Be a Rodeo Queen of the Pyrocene,”
Lady Monster, Eco-burlesque Artist, “Bringing the Camp to the Fire as the Quadra-Flame Twirl-inator”
Nicole Rudolph-Vallerga, Artist, “The Phoenix Letters, A Ritual Offering. 

Outdoor Dinner & A Sound Performance

Anna Friz & Gabriel Saloman“Between the Fires”

Feel the Heat — Live Art and Film

(Performances are listed in random order and subject to change)

Julie Weitz. “Prayer for Burnt Forest” (Film, 14 mins)
Courtney Desiree Morris “Sopera de Yemaya” (Film, 20 mins) with sound design and saxophone performance by Martin Perna
Vin Seaman as LOL McFiercen–Mistrexx of Ceremonies:
Roxi Power–“Zig Zag: Fire Poems”
K-Haw–“Rodeo Queen of the Pyrocene: Fire Ride with Me”
Shelly Truman– “Surviving”
Spyce– “Songs to Light our Fires”
Larry Bogad– “A Word From Our Sponsors”
Lady Monster– “Ignite; a Dance”
Justin Hoover–“Divine Conduits” 

Morning Gathering

Breakfast bites, coffee, tea

Lunch

Final Comments & Closing

Beth & Annie