Walking Each Other Home: Online workshops with Stacy Makishi and Lois Weaver
- Date
- Sunday 11 Jan 2026 - Sunday 25 Jan 2026
- Venue
Online
- Timings
Sunday 11 January, 3-6pm
Sunday 18 January, 3-6pm
Sunday 25 January, 3-6pm- Price
- Pay What You Can (£10–£20)
As part of her year-long participatory project Walking Each Other Home, Stacy Makishi will lead three online workshops with collaborator Lois Weaver. The sessions will explore where and how we gather, the transformative power of ritual, and new ways to build communities rooted in connection and care.
With a focus on ‘creative homesickness’, the workshops are oriented towards artists who feel far away from their creativity, perhaps feel they have lost their way, and/or need time to focus back in. They will involve exercises, provocations and individual and group tasks designed to support you in your own creativity.
Each workshop will be different, so folks are welcome to take one, two, or all three. Workshops are ticketed separately.
The project Walking Each Other Home is supported by Arts Council England. With generous support from Southbank Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, Arts on the Green at New Unity, Queen Mary University of London, Pocket Fuse Festival, Live Art Development Agency (all in London); The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tallinn); Feral Festival CIFAS (Brussels); SPILL Festival (Ipswich); Colchester Arts Centre; Bradford Producing Hub; Normal? Festival of the Brain (Folkestone); Ideas Test (Chatham); Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts & Marlborough Productions (Brighton); Home Live Art (Hastings).
Stacy Makishi
Stacy Makishi (she/her) is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993. A cross-fertilisation of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones and has been presented across the UK and internationally. She has received the ICA Attached Artist Award, a Millennium Fellowship Award, the Franklin Furnace Award, and the Live Art Development Agency Arthole Award. Also a teacher, director and mentor in international demand, Stacy believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others in order to put more ‘aloha’ into the world.
Lois Weaver
Lois Weaver (she/her) is an artist, activist and former Professor of Contemporary Performance Practice at Queen Mary University of London. She is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and a Wellcome Trust Fellow 2016-2018. Lois was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater and WOW Theatre in New York. She has collaborated with Peggy Shaw and Split Britches since 1980. Recent performances include Unexploded Ordinances (2016-18) and Last Gasp; A Recalibration (2021-23). Lois originally came to London to take on the role of artistic director for Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company in 1992. She lives in New York and London.
Access Information
Event information
This is an interactive online workshop held on Zoom. Closed captioning will be on throughout. You are welcome to be off camera/on mute as much as you like and to bring a support worker.
Structure
The workshops will run for 3 hours and include comfort breaks. The workshop structure will be sent ahead of time.
Content notes
Age restriction: 18+. Please email [email protected] if you would like more information on what to expect.
Banner image credit:
Stacy Makishi and Lois Weaver. Image by Thomas SG Farnetti.
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