A Gathering In-Person and Online
I wanna be with you everywhere, an everywhere gathering envisioned by and for disability communities, returns for another summer solstice hang – simultaneously virtual and in-person – returning to your bedroom, hospital bed, backyard, kitchen table, living room, back room, no room, Zoom room, and the Performance Space New York 122CC outdoor courtyard (located at 150 First Avenue in NYC) on Friday, June 21 from 4pm–8pm EDT and 9pm-1am BST UK Time.
The 2024 hang featured Kayla Hamilton and Elisabeth Motley of Crip Movement Lab, Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels, JJJJJerome Ellis, Conor Foran, and Kristel Kubart of People Who Stutter Create. This hybrid-online pop-up solstice gathering is the third iteration of IWBWYE, and this third time’s a real charm: we’re conjuring up an even chiller vibe than before.
On the solstice, I wanna be with you everywhere celebrates disabled activist, author, writer, editor, and community organizer, Alice Wong, for all the ways Wong has spread the wealth of k/crip love, knowledge, and resistance. Disability Visibility Project, the media platform Wong founded, is “an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.” IWBWYE honors Alice Wong for her writing on Palestinian liberation as an urgent disability justice issue. Wong’s new anthology, Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, is available now.
Audio Program for IWBYWE on Soundcloud
Performers: People Who Stutter Create (Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels, JJJJJerome Ellis, Conor Foran, Kristel Kubart) and Crip Movement Lab (Kayla Hamilton with Elisabeth Motley)
Emcees: Dickie Hearts + Anjel Piñero with online hosts Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha + Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Johanna Hedva + NEVE, and Chella Man + Oliver Stabbe
This solstice gathering is organised by Amalle Dublon, Jerron Herman, Carolyn Lazard, Park McArthur, Alice Sheppard, and Constantina Zavitsanos.
IWBWYE is a celebration of nonlocality, roaming, peripatetic (traveling) passions. It’s a stranded, stuck, slowed, stop-time love scene. 2024’s Summer Solstice launches our upcoming K/Crip School pilot with deepened invocations from kin and collectives. Our study is the get together. There won’t really be an end as this is actually just the beginning (again), third round around, encore before—in continual rehearsal.
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On Zoom, a shifting cycle of online Hosts begins: Cyrée Jarelle Johnson and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Johanna Hedva and NEVE, Chella Man and Oliver Stabbe, and Courtyard Emcees Dickie Hearts and Special Guest.
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For hanging out with old and new friends while crossing the digital, access, and geographic divides that often separate us.
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Following last year’s Performance in the spirit and celebration of Aster of Ceremonies, JJJJJerome Ellis returns to Performance Space’s courtyard with People Who Stutter Create. Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels, JJJJJerome Ellis, Conor Foran, Kristel Kubart (People Who Stutter Create) welcome us into their practice of “creating time.” They wish to acknowledge the work of other people who stutter and organizations that have greatly inspired their collective. At the Solstice, PWSC share a postcard takeaway born of this fellowship of creativity and stuttering. Across town, PWSC’s billboard is up at the corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets through August 11 as part of the 2024 Whitney Biennial.
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For hanging out with old and new friends while crossing the digital, access, and geographic divides that often separate us.
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Hamilton and Motley bring us to the studio, guiding us through their methodologies and desires for dance education to center disability as a framework for creativity. Crip Movement Lab is an accessible movement practice co-created by Kayla Hamilton and Elisabeth Motley (2021) for all disabled people and their non-disabled accomplices. If you’re feeling it (and we hope you will), join us!
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For hanging out with old and new friends while crossing the digital, access, and geographic divides that often separate us.
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