MARCH 21st- 31st

An experiment in community care, shared embodiment, and decentralized learning. This event offers a series of virtual gathering spaces that include workshops, skill shares, conversations, and embodiment practices focused on strategies for sustaining ourselves, each other, and the movements for liberation.

A companion to Salvage Rituals (performance in development at On The Boards), Salvage Exchange is a continued investigation of sustainability with a focus on mutual aid and embodiment. This event is organized by the Salvage Rituals creative team: Jeffrey Azevedo, Sophie Franco, Alice Gosti, Alex Harding, Erin McCarthy, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Stefan Richmond, and Tim Smith-Stewart

"I believe somatics, in coursework and/or bodywork, is one of the most effective ways to get a group of complex, contradictory humans into alignment with a liberated collective future. Seeing, feeling ourselves, as we are, with agency to shape the future … that’s the miracle." -Adrienne Maree Brown

"Gratitude and reciprocity are the currency of a gift economy, and they have the remarkable property of multiplying with every exchange, their energy concentrating as they pass from hand to hand, a truly renewable resource." -Robin Wall Kimmerer

“We’re all we’ve got. We’re all we need.”

Financial transparency statement

The Salvage Exchange artist team has committed to donating 50% of its artist fee from On the Boards to Queer The Land, and 50% of the artists fee will be distributed amongst the creative team and event facilitators.

To learn more about Queer the Land and how to support their work please visit their website: queertheland.org/who-we-are/

Accessibility

• Events will be held through Zoom video conferencing.
• Live-automated captioning will be included with each event. Each event will be conducted in English.
• Some events will be recorded and made available on the Salvage Exchange website.
• ASL interpretation will be provided for Mutual Aid events on March 21st and March 28th.
• Other access needs can be shared while purchasing tickets.
• Participation is an invitation, not a requirement. There will be opportunities for participation through discussion and embodiment practices. Participate in whatever ways feel good for you.

FULL LIST OF EVENTS
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Mutual Aid for Survival and Mobilization a talk by Dean Spade

• DATE: Sunday, March 21, 2021
• TIME: 5pm - 6:15pm

“A Ritual For Losing Oneself” or “HOMEBODY: An Embodied Practice for Gratitude and Presence
By Stefan Richmond

• DATE: Monday, March 22, 2021
• TIME: 5 pm - 6:30 pm

PIC Abolition Reading Group
Facilitated by Tim Smith-Stewart

• DATE: Tuesday, March 23, 2021
• TIME: 5 pm - 6:30 pm

Transformative Justice Reading Group
Facilitated by HATLO

• DATE: Thursday, March 25, 2021
• TIME: 5 pm - 6:30 pm

Franco to Franco— a conversation about health
Hosted by Sophie Franco featuring Dr. Al Robert Franco

• DATE: Friday, March 26, 2021
• TIME: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Bite-Size Skill Share
Facilitated by Alyza DelPan-Monley and Sophie Franco

• DATE: Saturday, March 27, 2021
• TIME: 12 pm - 1:30 pm

let’s make a mixtape to dance too, by ourselves, at a distance
Facilitated by Alice Gosti

• WHEN: Saturday, March 27, 2021
• TIME: 5 pm - 7 pm

Mutual Aid Imperfect People Doing Imperfect Work
A workshop with Dean Spade

• WHEN: Sunday, March 28, 2021
• TIME: 4 pm - 6:15 pm

SATELLITE EVENTS

Check out these additional events hosted by partners and friends presented as a part of Salvage Exchange.

BUONGIORNO CORE - EVERY MONDAY 9:30-10:30 - March 22nd, 2021

• Instagram live @gostiaa
• Suggested donation / Bring a Friend / Share it with your community

This is a dance class for anyone hungry to get their body moving. No prior dance experience is required - just a desire to have fun and learn through your body.

CHAIR AEROBICS - March 23rd, 2021

• Tuesdays from 9-9:45 am PST
• The class takes place on ZOOM. Email alice@gostia.com for link
• Suggested Donation $10

This is a 45 minutes chair exercise class designed for seniors or people recovering or working thru injuries. Please note that the last part of class transitions to standing, but the same exercises can still be done sitting.
**This class is taught in English*

TOUCHPAD with Alyza DelPan-Monley

• Wednesdays 6:30-8pm (PST)
• Satellite event in partnership with Velocity Dance Center

Feeling overwhelmed by doom-scrolling or Zoom fatigue? Does technology cause in you a sense of discomfort and anxiety that have just become a part of daily engagement with work and gathering? TOUCHPAD is a weekly gathering space for embodiment practices as a way to explore the digital realm.

Equal parts movement, discussion, and experimentation, TOUCHPAD is a place to discover expansive possibilities within these screens.

SALVAGE RITUALS TEAM

In 2017, Smith-Stewart and Azevedo premiered Awaiting Oblivion... at On the Boards and The Perpetual Insurrection of Claude Cahun at the Henry Art Gallery. They have also presented performances at On the Boards' NW New Works Festival, Risk/Reward (Portland), Velocity Dance Center, and Fresh Oysters Performance Research (Minneapolis), as well as installations at New Tomorrow, Erasure (curated by Lion’s Main Art Collective), and the Lofi Arts Festival. From 2010-2013 they co-created The Eternal Glow Project—a four part performance/installation which premiered work at The Seattle Center Next50, OtB's NW New Works Festival, and the Lofi Arts Festival.

Alice Gosti (she/her) is an Italian-American immigrant choreographer, hybrid performance artist, curator, DJ, and architect of experiences. She is based out of occupied Duwamish and Coast Salish land, now named Seattle. Raised in a bi-cultural family of installation artists, her performances live and breathe the dualities within a multicultural environment. Alice works simultaneously with film, installation, wearable art, sound, poetry, digital platforms, and audience interaction to create durational performances integral to their non-traditional sites, to create cultural moments for audiences from one to 15,000.

Gosti’s work has been recognized with numerous awards and residencies. Gosti’s work has been commissioned and presented nationally and Internationally in universities, theaters, museums and galleries. @gostiaa @malacarneco http://gostia.com

Alyza DelPan-Monley believes in the expressive power accessed in the body through movement. Living in the overlap between theater and dance, they are drawn to poetic abstraction and contextualized specificity. They strive to participate in processes where everyone can exist in their fullest selves by honoring every body’s unique form of expression.

Sophie Franco (they/them/theirs) Franco is a bilingual, Peruvian-American theatre artist and interrupter of the status quo working in the Seattle area. They have worked professionally as an actor, director, playwright, dancer, bilingual text coach and teaching artist, in addition to being Sunshine Chairman and a Resident Actor at Washington Ensemble Theatre.

Stefan (he/they) is a Colorado native, Seattle based actor/movement/performance artist & educator. After graduating from the University of Northern Colorado with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Dance, he made his way to the PNW through the Intiman Emerging Artist Program in 2016. As a creative collaborator and storyteller, he believes in the power of storytelling, and its ability to heal. His work seeks to examine and explore the intersections of stories and emotions related to physical space, natural movement within the body, and language/text. Some Seattle credits include Romeo y Julieta (Sophie Franco/Seattle Shakespeare), Black Bois (Dani Tirrell + Congregation), Time to Tell (Shawn Johnson), and The House of Dinah (Andrew Russell/Dani Tirrell/Jerome Parker).

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