Tuesday, December 20, 12 to 4pm: Participatory horseshoe crab holiday activation with Eli Nixon. Hands-on building workshop towards installing a 450 million year timeline in the Library and related primordial and futuristic festivities.
Eli Nixon is the author and illustrator of BLOODTIDE- A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs. They are proposing a floating holiday, to use whenever we need it. Everyone is invited to this emergent celebration of one of our oldest ancestors.
This event takes place in the Joan T. Boghassion Gallery, third floor.
This event is free and open to all ages; children under 11 must be accompanied by a parent; registration is preferred but drop-ins are welcome.
Eli Nixon is a Rhode Islander living on Narragansett and Wampanoag land. They build portals and give guided tours to places that don’t yet exist, or already exist but call for imaginative intervention and DIY translation.They are a settler-descended transqueer clown, a cardboard constructionist, and a maker of plays, puppets, parades, pageants, suitcase theaters, and low-tech public spectaculah. Eli collaborates with artists, activists, and the more-than-human world to create performances, installations, and civic choreography on street corners and stages.
Full list of activations with Eli, all events take place in the Joan T. Boghassion Gallery, third floor:
Saturday, December 10, 10-12pm
Wednesday, December 14, 11-3pm
Wednesday, December 21, 12-4pm