How do we take care of each other in this moment? How does care shape the art we make? How can our art take care of us?
Join PlayCo and SAWCC on March 5, 2025 at 6:30 pm for “Performing Care,” a hands-on workshop for artists of all disciplines and experience levels. Theatremaker and educator Adil Mansoor will explore various contemporary artists, including sculptor Simone Leigh and theatermaker Brian Lobel, whose works embody acts of care. Participants will discuss care work and its relationship to gender, queerness, race, resistance, and survival. Through conversations, games, and writing exercises, participants will begin to brainstorm questions and research prompts for their future projects.
RSVP here to join us for a creative session full of conversation, play, and collective care. This is a limited capacity event.
PlayCo’s Idea Labs provides free public programming centered around critical questions and issues.
About the artist: Adil Mansoor is a Pakistani-American theatre director centering the stories of queer folks and people of color. In Amm(i)gone, a portmanteau of “ammi” (“mother” in Urdu) and the Greek heroine Antigone, Mansoor invites us on a journey of heartbreak and repair between mother and son as they examine and translate Sophocles’ Antigone into Urdu. Amm(i)gone runs from March 13th to April 7th at The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas St, New York, NY.