Name: togetherfire
Start: 2023-10-28T15:30:00-07:00
End: 2023-10-28T19:30:00-07:00
Location: Riverside

togetherfire

homeLA is an inclusive and equitable dance-centered nomadic performance organization.  We partner with individuals and communities who provide their home as a platform for site-sensitive performances, learning, and actions.  Our programming centers artistic work in conversation with one’s relationship to location and various physical and conceptual understandings of home.  homeLA produces performance events and provides education programming for all ages. www.homela.org  / @home_la

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homeLA presents togetherfire, a site-specific interdisciplinary performance event curated by taisha paggett & meital yaniv in Riverside, CA

Riverside

<h1>t﻿ogetherfire</h1><h2>c﻿urated by taisha paggett and meital yaniv and p﻿resented by homeLA</h2>

<h3>Join us on October 28th for togetherfire, a site-specific interdisciplinary performance event with artists Crystal Sepúlveda, Latipa &amp; Camilo Ontiveros, Justin Morris, Estrellx Supernova/EHQS, María Regina Firmino-Castillo &amp; Tohil (Fidel Brito Bernal), Ray Anthony Barrett, Nohely Gomez, and meital yaniv &amp; taisha paggett. togetherfire, curated and hosted by taisha paggett and meital yaniv, contemplates home as a hearth, an archetype of fire, and an alchemist of private and social realities. It will take place at yaniv and paggett’s abode located on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla, Tongva, Serrano, and Luiseño, colonially known as Riverside, CA. This is an indoor/outdoor event and takes place on Saturday, October 28th from 3:30-7:30p, during a full moon and at a time when the veil separating the worlds is its thinnest. </h3><h3>“togetherfire came about through the sharing of poetry, scores, bread, and stories amongst friends, rooted in the tensions of home, land, and belonging.” –meital yaniv and taisha paggett</h3>

<h3>togetherfire</h3>Set beyond the county line, togetherfire is a special event that de-centers the geographical boundaries of the LA Art world to foreground the work of performing and visual artists who contribute to the vitality of our arts and culture while living, working, and contributing to the arts and culture in and across the Inland Empire. As such, togetherfire is an occasion that obfuscates boundaries and welcomes audiences to come experience site-specific work by artists at their home. It is an invitation to draw closer, linger, and participate as togetherfire unfolds over the course of four hours in a gathering of dance, writing, nourishment, and performance encounters that offer the fire as spiritual, physical, political, and ancestral sustenance and contemplation with the following offerings.Dancer and choreographer Crystal Sepúlveda will perform on the outdoor patio and among the plantlife of the garden to a score and immersive sound installation by Latipa and Camilo Ontiveros. Embodying a score that centers stories of displaced people, Sepúlveda will explore movement practices that withstand and brace for the impact of colonialism, specifically the people and land impacted by environmental injustices in the Inland Empire. Her questions draw on the efforts made by climate scientists, policy-makers, and activists pushing for climate mitigation and adaptation, and writer Vinita Srivastava’s powerful words, “Instead of calling people resilient, let’s instead look at solutions for those things we should not have to be resilient for.” Visual artist and chef Ray Anthony Barrett will nourish guests, cooking over live fire in an intimate performance that embodies his assertion that communities are built through communion, and as such, gastronomy is inherently a social practice. For togetherfire, Barrett will prepare a site-specific ephemeral sculpture––a dish featuring ingredients from Southern California’s Fall harvest and inspired by the hosts garden. Guests are invited to bring their own spoon to participate.Transdisciplinary artist, Justin Morris, in collaboration with a written score provided by Estrellx Supernova/EHQS, combines elements of soft sculpture, movement tasks, and verbalizations that center the theme of etching. The theme of etching is in response to Estrellx Supernova/EHQS’s central catalysts for the mover to communicate both verbally and non-verbally as a process of digesting and deepening that which is known, unknown, hard to digest, and hard to utter. Morris responds to this provocation by questioning how words, text, and the moving body’s labor—both during and before the performance of the practice—can etch (make hollow, mark upon/within/around, dig, etc) into space and be in discovery of the power of impermanence and that which resides. This will take Morris and others on a journey through several rooms within the house that have their own history of etchings.During the twilight, María Regina Firmino-Castillo &amp; Tohil (Fidel Brito Bernal) will engage in High sea, high c Listens for the ocean: gathering fire, joining twilights, freeing stones, uncovering sky, hearing earth…. This is not a performance. Instead, it is “an experiment in crepuscular corpo/poiesis” happening “between earth and sky, and in the shadows of togetherfire,” wherein Firmino and Tohil, responding to their own score, will “edge spatiotemporal dimensions and sound the depths above and below” to connect the land upon which the home resides to past, present, and future twilights. Collaborators include ocean and river waters, 13 stones, 11 co-conspirators of twilights past, and every being present. Interspersed throughout the event, artists Nohely Gomez, taisha paggett, and meital yaniv will offer a multi-part movement and video work titled, \sweet/suites\sweets/ for \7/ directions. For this work, paggett and yaniv will perform seven “mini duets of tenderness” in seven directions, traversing the margins of their space, place, and home, exploring how they “taste the fire and prayers of another&quot; as togetherfire’s hosts, curators, and contributing artists. Choreographer and filmmaker Gomez will capture the itinerant duets and project them for an alternative experience for audiences.-﻿--------------&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<h3>Additional Details</h3> For additional information, please visit <a href="https://www.homela.org/news/homela-togetherfire-tickets" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">our website</a> and join <a href="https://view.flodesk.com/pages/61f5c16860ada4164ea6fd95" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">our mailing list</a>.homeLA events require proximity and are intimate events that include live video recording and photo for documentation and accessibility purposes.COVID: In fostering a community of care, we ask that you keep the following in mind: This event will be held indoors and outdoors. Please mask at your own discretion. We will have masks on site for folx who want to mask. If you are feeling sick at all, we ask that you please stay home. Accessibility: homeLA is dedicated to ensure that our events are as accessible as possible for our disability community members and artists. Please fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCmKEB862WbFw0fz3W84rF4OlCECl0ibbNB-ma1i9vr_8EZg/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">this form</a> to let us know about your access needs. We will do our best to meet those needs.   This event will be indoors/outdoors and includes loud sounds and music.  An ADA portable bathroom will be on site. There may be a portion of performances that take place in non-accessible places.  In this case, a live-stream video projection will accompany this proportion of the programming.  Images of the location along with their image descriptions are available upon request.  Please let us know about your access needs by October 20th and reach out to us with any questions: info@homela.org.homeLA is a platform for experimental performance that positions underrepresented narratives into the embodied exchange of ideas around space and place to reframe Los Angeles’ history and its civic and urban character through varied contextual imaginings of “home.” togetherfire is supported through the generous support of our donors. homeLA is fiscally sponsored by Fulcrum Arts.

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