Cory Tamler, Lilah Akins, and Tyler Rai’s relationships to our cultures—as Jews, as Native and settler people—have come to us each through fragments: scraps of ritual and song, totemic objects, the body’s response to ancestral waters, a piece of an archive that claims us. Over the course of two interconnected but standalone sessions, we will explore fragments from our personal archives and deeply personal fragments from “the archive” together, weaving the fragments into three-dimensional altar-collages and telling stories, writing and moving, and playing with our shared virtual environment as we do so.

Lilah, Tyler, and Cory will use the material developed within the workshops (with consent from workshop participants, and invitation to participate in the process) as source material for an artistic response—medium to be determined responsive to the workshop—to share as a work-in-progress in April 2021.

Participants will be asked to bring their own fragments with them to the workshop (i.e. objects passed down to you, grocery lists/recipes, pieces of cloth, photographs, memories you’ve transcribed). They will receive other fragments in the mail. Details will be sent following the closing of RSVPs on November 13.

Presented with the support of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship and in conversation and collaboration with In Kinship Fellowship.