For this performance lecture movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer and writer, mayfield brooks, facilitates a space for children and young people to explore an embodied practice around decomposing grief, loss, listening, and deep belly laughter. Over the past four years brooks has been researching whales and the ways in which they move as a collective through their watery worlds, sing to each other, grieve the death of their children, and feed the oceans when they die–this process is called the whale fall.

Participants will play with whale sounds, be inspired by the whale fall’s ocean compost, and dance in collective pods as a means to move, imagine, and dream up watery worlds of our own. In this watery space of infinite possibilities we will playfully, and lovingly create spaces for our unique voices and bodies as individuals and as a collective.
We the Youth – Keith Haring Lecture Series invites children and their friends and families to meet luminaries who talk about ideas and social issues that are often left off of school curriculums.

This series is supported by The Keith Haring Foundation in honor of Keith Haring who collaborated with children throughout his life and believed in art’s ability to create a more accepting society.