Marie Garlock, PhD: Mobilizer. Educator. Co-creator.

Series Workshop Retreat Performance

 

The Eno River Fellowship Foundation, RCWMS, + Flipping Cancer Project present

Our Bodies, Our Stories: Dreaming Health Justice
Community Performance

Saturday March 2, 2024, 4:00 to 5:15 pm

Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (ERUUF), Main Sanctuary, 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham, NC, 27707

Performers in a Flipping Cancer presentation for the UNC School of Medicine — a pharmacist / metastatic cancer patient, family medicine physician, caregiver and community-based social services advocate in an InterPlay methods “gesture choir” story

Community Performance Description

In movement, stillness, story, ritual, and music, local patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers will join to reimagine what “health justice” means in our communities and beyond.

Come for a contemplative gathering — as audience supporters for the vibrancy, realness, humor, and desires for change arising in people who navigate cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.

Community ensemble and artist collaborations facilitated by Marie Garlock, PhD. Sound healing music by Rev. Stacy Grove. Disability accommodations, COVID safety, quiet indoor/outdoor areas to relax, and a family-friendly viewing/playroom onsite. …We invite you to come refill your well.

RSVP above (helps us plan) — free to all.

Performance Flyer (.pdf for print, email) — Performance Image (.png for social media) — All Media

Accessibility

COVID Precautions

  • Spaced seating available in ERUUF Sanctuary, onsite air filters

  • Masks invited (extras available) especially in close proximity to others for COVID and respiratory illness precautions, given immune-compromised and intergenerational participants

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair + walker accessible paths to sanctuary seating and nearby bathrooms

  • Microphones onstage for audio accessibility and graded seating for clear sight lines for audiences

  • Extra pillows available in addition to padded pew seating with backs, for anyone with body pain or fatigue

  • A family-friendly viewing room off the sanctuary allows children to play with their caregivers who can still see and hear what’s going on below

Sensory Input / Contemplative Experience

  • Gentle sounds and music

  • Lower lighting (lights higher only on performance / stage area) and no flashing lights

  • Ample seating to be close or far from others, and opportunities to care for yourself including indoor and outdoor areas nearby for quiet relaxation

  • An invitation to be present, just as you are, that day

Who can benefit from attending?

All are welcome! This may include…

  • People who have life-altering health diagnoses, of all ages and life experiences — and are much more than “patients” alone

  • People who care for others with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, both professionally and personally — health care providers and staff, medical educators and learners, family and friend caregivers, professional and volunteer advocates

  • Fellow community advocates, multi-disciplinary artists, and any and all supporters of this incredible group of community performance participants!

Background

  • Questions our group has held together:

    • What does “health justice” mean to us while navigating cancer and other life-threatening illnesses?

    • What do our bodies uniquely know?

    • When shared on our own terms, what can our stories do — and undo?

  • Forms we’re exploring together include:

    • InterPlay methods for easeful, improvisational movement and story

    • Image Theater and other T.O. methods for dreaming up more just and healthful worlds

    • Collaborating artists’ offerings of ritual, music, dance and more

FYIs