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WALKING EACH OTHER HOME

STACY MAKISHI

SAT 28 NOV | SPILL THINK TANK

What happens when our curiosity becomes larger than our fears?

Award-winning Hawaiian artist Stacy Makishi welcomes you just as you are – to a creative encounter celebrating the messy, imperfect parts we’re often told to hide.

In this interactive performance, Stacy moves from sharing autobiograhical stories to silly games and dance, exploring how we build connection with ourselves and with each other.

Sprinkled with a touch of her signature ‘aloha’, you’re free to take part as much or as little as you like: join in, observe, take breaks, and return when you’re ready.

Let’s walk each other home, into the unknown, together.

‘Funny, warm, alive, heartful, authentic, joyful‘

‘Wonderful, joyous, life-affirming, thought-provoking‘

Giddy Up, Home Live Art 2025

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993. 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. 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 for Contact Young Company, Manchester.

Walking Each Other Home was created with contributors: Jo Allitt, Lisa Asagi, Sue Baynton, Amy Daniels, Meg Hodgson, Mary Tooley, Claire Nolan,  Vick Ryder, Lois Weaver

Producer: Nikki Tomlinson

Production Manager: Jo Palmer

Image credit: Walking Each Other Home by Stacy Makishi at Giddy Up, Home Live Art (2025, photo by Alice Denny

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Date: Sat 28 Nov

Time: TBC

Venue: St Clements Art Centre

Tickets: £10/£7

Ages: 16+

Access: This performance will be interpreted in British Sign Language.

This performance contains references to grief and death.

If you are a wheelchair user or have any access requirements you would like to discuss with us, please call 01473 210169 or email boxoffice@spillfestival.com.

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  • Everyone is still raving about it!

    Katy Baird, Artistic Director, Home Live Art

  • What a night - such intimacy and beauty. What a team and what an audience! Safe to say we loved every minute of it.

    Southbank Centre

  • Stacy Makishi is a master of mischief. She can draw out the creative juice from any situation in the most inspiring ways.

    ​Shlomo

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