Happening Now: The Manoa Project 2023 | Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 at 7:00 PM | FUSION  708 1st St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102| Free to the public| Work demonstration and community conversation

https://www.fusionnm.org/upcoming/2023/8/1/the-manoa-project-2023-demonstration-and-conversation

The Manoa Project is a space for unraveling global and local issues through collaborative arts. Artists spend a week eating, talking, listening, creating, and witnessing together as they investigate an idea or action through a variety of art forms. The Manoa Project focuses on tools and techniques in active listening, empathy, peace building, and connection while using artistic exploration as a vehicle for innovation and problem solving. We find common issues or actions and approach those subjects through music & song, writing, food, performance art, play, devised theatre for peacebuilding & communication, visual processing, resiliency theatre, and conversation. 

The Manoa Project will be explored  July 16th-August 1st, 2023 at The Box Performance Space, The Albuquerque Museum, The International District Library, and Fusion Forum.

This program is made possible through partnership with the City of Albuquerque Department of Arts and Culture.

Join us for a sharing of our work and open conversation on Tuesday August 1st, 2023 at 7:00 pm at FUSION. It is free and all are welcome!

Artists should be at every table. Artists bring the gift of relationship, creative thinking, and connection to every aspect of their work. What happens when young artists are given the time and space to create work together, not in order to deliver a production, but instead to bring forth new ideas, methods, and solutions to issues impacting them and their communities? 

“Part of what keeps me alive also is the absolute assurance that what I do must be done. It is hardest to maintain this assurance alone, this is why it is so important for us to look around and decide who it is that we need to trust and reach out to . It is crucial to make support systems for ourselves to nourish us while we do what must be done.” -Audre Lorde