The Olimpias present: Planting Disabled Futures, a virtual reality/community performance experience. The Planting Disabled Futures project uses live performance approaches and virtual reality technologies to share environmental connection and energy, creaturely liveliness and ongoingness, crip joy and experiences of pain. Play with Plant Elders.
This community performance/virtual reality event invites you into a world of healing plants cultivated by disabled peoples' embodied ways of knowing. Come, try out a headset, hold a plushy critter, and become entangled with the ways we as disabled people honor and engage with plant elders.
Free, but spots are limited. Reserve your spot here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/planting-disabled-futures-a-virtual-reality-ritual-tickets-1980561467665?aff=oddtdtcreator
More about the event:
Planting Disabled Futures is an intimate house party: up to 10 people per night. Each person will have an opportunity to explore our tree world in the VR headset as part of a storytelling circle. We have both visual and audio pathway options available. This event is designed as a low key hang-out taking place in a supportive environment.
Multiple Access Modes provided: please let us know of any specific access needs in advance of the event you wish to attend. All events are Wheelchair accessible.
Presented by The Olimpias, director: Petra Kuppers, dramaturg: Alexis Riley, access doula: Stephanie Heit. The Planting Disabled Futures Project is supported by the Social Science Research Council's Just Tech Fellowship, with funds provided by the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Democracy Fund.
https://www.petrakuppers.com/planting-disabled-futures
Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist, writer, dance video maker and community performance artist. Petra grounds herself in disability culture methods. She uses somatics, performance, speculative writing, visual arts and media to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures.
She teaches at the University of Michigan as the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture. She was an adviser on the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College for 15 years, until the college closed in 2024.