Perform the utterances necessary to enact a better, cooler, neater future!

Find convivial approaches to fighting fascism with your tongue!

Talk in words that say more oomph with less blah!

Finally: a workshop with practical strategies for talking about urgent social, political and cultural topics in a manner that emphasizes playfulness!

Have you ever asked yourself: How could Autosophy increase the orthagonality of my daily jibberjabber? Surely you haven't! That's where TALKINESS: Seminar on Autosophy can help.

Autosophy is a performative artgame one plays by talking to oneself and others. Together, we will play with proven methods for elocuting practical utterances for the futures that we wish to become. By practicing strategies for creative listening, we shall hack apart the talking points of mundane authoritarianism! Come with urgent ideas that you wish to say better, workshop them using autosophical methods, leave with better ways to talk about them to any audience. Practice saying the things that we all need to say better!

Previously performed at gallery venues in Los Angeles and Detroit, TALKINESS: Seminar on Autosophy will appear for a one-time showing in the chapel of The Convent Arts Collective, a beautiful communal live-work space in the Lower Haight, home to 24 artists of various creative disciplines. Participants shall receive a pamphlet, workshop materials and light refreshments during the show.

Together we will elocute the antagonym of Auden's querulous declamation:

“In Memory of W. B. Yeats“:

For poetry makes nothing happen, it survives
In the valley of its making where executives
Would never want to tamper, flows on south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth.