How might we build new communities of connection in our modern, fragmented world?

Artist Stacy Makishi welcomes you to a performance experiment that is part ritual, part story, and part party.

Over the course of two hours - and with generous scoops of her characteristic Hawaiian aloha - Stacy will help to connect our hearts and minds through sacred rituals, silly games with terrible prizes, and some very awkward, uncool moves (known to most as ‘dancing’).

This interactive event welcomes the imperfect, messy, awkward, and shy parts within us all.

You can take part in as much or as little of Walking Each Other Home as you like: enter the space, leave, and take breaks from the mayhem as you wish.

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 over 40 years. 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.

Walking Each Other Home is supported using public funding by Arts Council England and with generous support from partners; Southbank Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, Arts on the Green at New Unity, Queen Mary University of London, Live Art Development Agency, The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Feral Festival CIFAS, SPILL Festival, Colchester Arts Centre, Bradford Producing Hub, Normal? Festival of the Brain, Ideas Test, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts & Marlborough Productions, Home Live Art.

Creative team: Stacy Makishi, Jo Allitt, Sue Baynton, Meg Hodgson, Claire Nolan, Vick Ryder, Mary Tooley, Nikki Tomlinson, Lois Weaver