The Henry and Meany Center for the Performing Arts invite you to join us for an interactive and contemplative journey through five altars created by Seattle-based collaborators, in response to the core theme of Daniel Alexander Jones's project,
Altar No. 3: I Choose To Remember Us Whole, currently on view at the Henry.
What would it feel like to remember and to be remembered as whole beings? What would change? What would enable wholeness? And what can we do to embrace as whole what now seems irrevocably torn asunder?
The processional experience will begin and end at the Henry, and will be led by UW Department of Dance faculty Juliet McMains and Diana Garcia-Snyder, students, and community activators. The full route is about 2.5 miles long and expected to take approximately 2.5 hours to walk. The program will conclude with a celebration at the Meany Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to wear shades of gold, red, orange and yellow — inspired by the sun.
TIMELINE
11:30 AM: Welcome with Daniel Alexander Jones & Walter Kitnudu at the Henry
12 PM:
Valerie Curtis-Newton: The Wisdom Walk
12:35 PM:
Afroditi Psarra: Altar to Interdimensional Entanglements
12:55 PM:
Leon Finley: Altar to The Death of The Sun
1:25 PM:
Althea Rao: Chestful of Whispers
2:05 PM:
Timothy White Eagle: Sacrifier Les Vivants
2:35 PM: Ending celebration in the plaza in front of the Henry
CREDITS
Altar No. 3: I Choose to Remember Us Whole is an extension of Daniel Alexander Jones’s ALTAREDSTATES project, which invites participants into intentional relationship with unseen interwoven forces that shape our lived realities, including waves of history, culture, cosmology and Soul.
This project is co-presented by Meany Center for the Performing Arts and the Henry Art Gallery as part of Becoming: At Home in the World, a curated series of events produced in partnership with Bill T. Jones and New York Live Arts.
Becoming: At Home in the World is generously sponsored by the Floyd and Dolores Jones Endowed Fund for the Arts, The College Inn Pub and by John Robinson and Maya Sonenberg.
Generous support for Altar No. 3: I Choose to Remember Us Whole comes from sponsors The U District Partnership and the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Mellon Foundation and support from the Doris Duke Foundation.
ADMISSION
Free; RSVP through Meany is encouraged using this form. Please include any important information we should know about your needs for accommodations and accessibility as we plan the processional route. Feel free to reach out to the Meany to discuss your needs: mcengage@uw.edu.
ACCESS
This event is public.
ACCESSIBILITY
The Henry strives to be accessible to all visitors. Please visit our
accessibility page for more information or contact Museum Services at 206.221.3850 or
email us with questions or needs.
