This summer solstice gathering will be held in Performance Space’s courtyard as well as on Zoom so you can join from home, the beach, in bed, amid your local bbq, in transit, in the hospital, and anywhere elsewhere. Watch parties welcome. Zoom is open boxes not webinar with breakout rooms for chat and quiet space; courtyard events will be livestreamed to the Zoom and Zoom events will be livestreamed into the courtyard too.  I wanna be with you everywhere is an ongoing and accessible celebration of nonlocality.

Our purpose is specifically social and our only goal is getting together, conjuring, celebrating, resting, and reveling in our means beyond ends. We’re only here to celebrate that we’re still here and to hold space for those of us that now join from other forms. We come from traditions of healing and need in and beyond any need to be healed, made whole, or cured; we come incomplete and holographic, welcoming wounds, healers, wisdom, and fools anywhere on the bodymind-spirit soul continuum in k/crip, chronic, incurable, incalculable, and quarantined, mad love.

Part of Performance Space’s Healing Series, I wanna be with you everywhere draws on a multitude of personal practices and associations with healing while underscoring a rejection of classist Western colonial mandates of health and wellness that assume an originary state of health to which people should return or move toward—and that delineate who is and isn’t already here, who can and can’t come in, and what we can do together. Crucially, I wanna be with you everywhere puts into practice a belief in care as love rather than control.

I wanna be with you everywhere first emerged through collaborations rooted in access intimacy, hospitality, and conviviality in 2019 at Performance Space New York, as a festival organized and unfolding in “crip time.” While that festival centered physical togetherness as rare and important, the 2023 edition commences at a time when considerations of crip nonlocality, deepened by the pandemic, have necessarily opened new, more accessible visions of what togetherness can be. We must make this. Together. People not policy. No one left behind.

There won’t really be an end as this is actually just the beginning again, second round around, encore before—in continual rehearsal.

With Panteha Abareshi, Amelia Bande, JJJJJerome Ellis, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Yo-Yo Lin 林友友, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha