Unconventional Pathways of Expansion: The Celebration

We create a place. A safe space, one shielded keeping us and ours “in steady”. We love. We love hard to the ends of our giving.

There’s breath. There’s life. We create new life, character, ingrained learning, unresolved trauma in constant replication. Is it ever resolved? We’re safe!

We fire the same pathways, unintentionally becoming affixed with the habitual tandem of routine. Sensibility.

We’re fearless, our making indubitably painting the journey of resilience. Our hands. We hold closely ancestral narrative, ones told by our mother, and her mother’s mother, and their mother mother’s tongue, Legacy!

But, how do we allow for breath?

How do we allow for expansion in both past and present knowing?

It’s time. It’s the time we as people, as willed, boisterous, clever agents of radial and social advancement seek our tremendous potential, activate our agency, and further be acknowledged for this thunderous work.

It’s time to celebrate and BE CELEBRATED. It’s time to bridge the gap between I want and I am, inaction and effort, dissension and solidarity, we can’t and we will, the socially exiled and the accepted, the withered/angry woman and the multidimensional being. It’s time to EXIST!

To have been claimed. To be claimed. To claim. To reclaim the endless depths of your work, value, effort, time, existence is ever more fruitful to those both present and future beings of witnessing. You are the freshly budded root from the Earth’s dirt. You are the bold inspiration and expansion of a bruised lung. You are needed.

In 2018, let’s celebrate ourselves, our journeys, and each other. Let’s create new pathways, new relationships, new understanding. And, join us as we celebrate our 10th season of performance, activism, and collaboration. Submitted by: Marceia Scruggs, Company Member & Teaching Artivist