Join Bonney Hartley and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant for an evening of readings, screenings, and conversation at Performance Space New York as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Over the course of the evening, Bonney Hartley will read a selection of her poetic work and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant will screen Shinnecock Succotash Cooking and She Sits With Me, two short films made by Ayim Kutoowonk , a Shinnecock women’s language group. Hartley and Tarrant will then join Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini ), Forge Project Director of Relational Education, in conversation about their personal and community-based work.

Language, visual media, and poetics are among methods used since time immemorial to document histories, shared knowledge, and deepen political, social, and cultural practice. While the mediums we use may shift over time, this speaks to the ongoing nature of Indigenous ways of knowing and being – that endure and expand beyond the limitation of colonial imagination. Highlighting the confluence of communities from what is now New York City and Long Island, Making the Worlds (Presence) centers the ongoing relationships homeland communities maintain through embodied, creative, and relational practice.