05/26/2026
Val here. Working on the program notes for this weekend and I stopped at this — Kat Purcell and the players of un//be//done naming their lineages, because yes, we are part of many constellations.
“The players would like to name some specific beings and lineages they are bringing into the space for this work: sibs and sweet family, family (chosen and blood), a Fan Kick for Toni Pierce-Sands, air, neighbors, Edd, the last decade of resistance here in Minnesota, MonkeyBear's Harmolodic Workshop, Justice Resolution 001, Scalawag Magazine, the fragile geology of St. Anthony Falls.”
We gather, we vector in our histories. We arrive with everything that made us, broke us, held us, taught us, fed us. We name it out loud, imprinting the room — we call into the space who we are and who stands with us. Everything is everything.
What moves me about this list is what it holds together: blood family and chosen family. THE fan kick. Air. A (likely formative) magazine from North Carolina. Geological formation, ancient and fragile. The last decade of resistance in this state.
They are co-creators. They are present.
This is a propagation. These days where we don’t know what the record is, this is making a record.
Grateful to be holding space for Katie Burgess, 陳璐 / Lu, Sabrín Feels, Ashembaga (Ashe) Jaafaru, Khary Jackson, and LIPING VONG — and for Jennie with the Freckles / JML Fashion and The People's Closet, woven into the fabric of this thing.
Come this weekend.
