Radical Art In Action Spring Performance Tour
Our new intersectional nonprofit organization--on the road!
“Kill Relativism Not Babies”
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“Support Kansas Farms: Vote No on the Glyphosate Ban”
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“Joe Bob’s Outfitters” (headline flanked by AK47s/Extreme Guns)
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“US Pest…Whatever It Takes”
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“Hot Shingles Looking for a Nail to Pound" or was it “Hot Shingles in the Area Looking to Be Nailed"
…and last but obviously not least, an ominously colossal billboard exclaiming:
“TRUMP **SUPERSTORE** Exit Now”
Guns, Big Ag, and God…Lest we forget our Super-Sex Saturated/ Simultaneously Ragingly Body Phobic & Ecocidal cultural undercurrents… Not to mention the ominous Confederate flag flying over Hwy 24. These are the billboard messages we pass on the road—heading back east for my three-month Radical Art in Action Spring Tour. Wild and Zazu will be performing with me during the first month.
Kind of like having your right thumb cut off (see above), yesterday I learned that several of my events are now being threatened by federal DEI erasures and total annihilation of Gender & Sexuality university departments (several of my hosts over the next three months).
As with diversity of all kinds, those with appointments in multiple departments are the least threatened, the most resilient. And many of my events are not being cancelled because they are being co-sponsored by several departments—another example of the critical vitality of coalition and collaboration, of working with difference.
Because my publicity needs to now go underground for a few of my events due to the Dept. of Governmental Efficiency wipeouts, please share the following details with people in your communities…Thanks so much for helping to get out the word and support my work as well the missions of racial and gender equity programs.
Upcoming Spring Events
see https://carajudeaalhadeff.com/events/ for details
March 18-20, 3-Day Literary Festival and Art Exhibit at Barry University, Miami,
Co-Sponsored by Department of English & Foreign Languages with the library and Career & Experiential Learning
“Eco-Art: Beyond the Anthropocene”
March 18, Noon to 1pm, Barry U Library: Kickoff Event and Mobile Art Studio/ Eco-Bus Tour; Zazu Dreams Character Meet & Greet with Zazu, Cocomiso, & the Humpback Whale
March 19, Barry U Library Room 308:
10-10:50am Reading of student sci-fi stories inspired by Zazu Dreams
11-11:50am Honor Student-Curator tours of Eco Art & Zazu Dreams exhibit
12-12:50pm Reading of student Caribbean stories and poems along with ART Color Foundations class inspired by Zazu Dreams exhibit
1-2:20pm Official Opening of Eco-Art: Beyond the Anthropocene Exhibit, Artist Talk by Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff
March 20: 1pm Barry U Library 308 Folklore class/ Art in Action Demo with Wild’s Woodworking Workshop using reclaimed Miami trees
March 27, Georgia Southern University, Savannah
12-1:30pm Keynote lecture “Embodying the Apocalypse:
Unlearning What We Think We Know”
Followed by presentation for Gender in Global Contexts class
March 30, Philadelphia, Termite TV Collective - media to challenge and disrupt,
1-3pm “Mapping Our Interconnectedness,” creative community-building interactive workshop and presentation
April 2 and 3, Delaware Ohio University, Art Department, Upcycling and Sustainability Center, DEI, Art Department, & Ross Museum
“Emergency Exit*: Radical Art in Action”
*Emergency Exit does not refer to Elon Musk or escaping to Mars since we are on the brink of destroying Planet Earth. “Emergency Exit” refers to a simple reminder, a message still on the ceiling of our Love Bus--a reminder to think beyond the status quo and take individual and collective creative risks as we move toward more humane infrastructures and community relationships.
April 2nd: 10am-noon Folk Furniture Building with Wild from Menagerie Woodworking, The Upcycling Center, Haycock Hall OWU
5pm The Love Bus: Beauty & Waste in the Face of Climate Crisis, bus tour and presentation, The Tree House
April 3rd: 10:00am-noon Materials Foundation and Digital Foundations art classes Lecture/presentation at 11am, Edgar Hall
1:00-2:30pm Sustainability Practicum class, SCSC
April 4-14, Penn State University, interviews & film showings
April 14: Sustainability Class, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
April 15-22, New York City, times TBA
Recordings with former colleagues: filmmakers and performance artists
April TBD: Center for Jewish History, American Sephardi Federation
April 20: Egalitarian Sephardi Mizrahi Kehilla of NYC
April 17: Art Department with Julie Heffernan, Montclair University (NJ)
April 21: NYU-sponsored Mutual Economies Lecture & Action-Oriented Discussion
April 22: Jews for Climate Action (JCAN), Boston, “Practicing Gratitude: A Jewish Guide to Eco-Spiritual Intelligence",” 6pm
April 23-26: Harvard Divinity School, Harvard's Program for the Evolution of Spirituality, Spirituality & Art Conference
“Eco-Aesthetic Theologies: Interreligious Lessons from Zazu Dreams”
April 27: United Church of Christ with the Justice and Witness Ministries, Boston, “Interfaith Art as EcoSocial Justice Action,” Collaboration with Tom DaSilva, 10-12pm
April 27: All That Matters, RI, “Breathing the Pause: Challenging Conversations Through Asana,” Collaboration with Rebecca Briggs, 3-5pm, 6:30-8pm
May 3-7, Warren Wilson College, Fibershed
and UNC, Asheville
Eco-Gender Justice, TBA
May 10, Universalist Unitarian Church, Greensboro, NC, 2-Part Eco-Consciousness in Action events for Roots & Wings Capital Campaign Fundraiser
Part I, May 10: 7-8:30pm, lecture and interactive workshop (focus Climate Justice Literature & Film)
Part II, November 20: 7-8:30pm, lecture and interactive workshop (focus Affordable Creative Housing/ Housing with Dignity)
May 12-30, Institute for Creative Art & Technology at Virginia Tech, Visiting Artist/ Scholar Residency, Radical Symbiosis, Collaboration with Michael Borowski
Also, please read: Remembering Arthur Firstenberg - Katie Singer's Substack +
A couple of my articles on electromagnetic toxicity: