ALOHA ‘OE: A CREATIVE WORKSHOP
STACY MAKISHI
SAT 7 MARCH 2026 | SPILL THINK TANK
Join us for an afternoon workshop led by Hawaii-born artist Stacy Makishi!
Part of Stacy’s year-long participatory project Walking Each Other Home, which explores where and how we gather, how ritual can heal and transform, and how we might build communities of connection; connection to ourselves, to each other, and to inspiration and mystery.
This action-packed workshop will focus on ‘creative homesickness’ and is oriented towards people who feel far away from their creativity, perhaps feel they have lost their way, and/or need time to focus back in a supportive, warm but challenging environment.
Creativity requires courage and a willingness to step out into the unknown: uncertainty, risk and exposure. If your curiosity is larger than your fear, this is the one for you!
Stacy will offer a range of creative and playful tasks – from writing to image-making – designed to support you in your own creativity. These will draw on her 40-year experience of making and teaching live art, and her spirited commitment to put more ‘aloha’ into the world.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Date: Sat 7 March
Time: 13:00 - 16:00
Venue: SPILL Think Tank
Tickets: £5
Ages: 16+.
Access: If you have any access requirements you would like to discuss with us, please call 01473 210169 or email boxoffice@spillfestival.com.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993.
Like a bonsai plant, Stacy is small but old and has been making art and infecting folks with curiosity and creativity for 40 years. A cross-fertilization of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. It is as complex as it is accessible, humorous as it is challenging, visual as it is literate.
Made with a strong collaborative ethos, Stacy's solos have been presented across Europe and beyond, including TATE Modern, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Traverse Edinburgh, BRUT:Vienna, Estonia Academy, Mladi Levi, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and La Mama New York. Her large-scale participatory works include commissions for the Wellcome Collection and Contact Young Company, Manchester while as a teacher she has worked at institutions including Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Wellesley College, Goldsmiths, Central School of Speech and Drama, and Queen Mary's, University of London.
Supported by Arts Council England and by Grand Camp Maisie Fund. Produced by Nikki Tomlinson.
