Meg Foley, Queer Parent Convening
KST Presents
Saturday, May 21, 2022
3:00pm
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $0-20
What does parenting queerly mean to you? The Queer Parent Convening is an opportunity to connect and share with other queer and trans parents and to explore collectively and how we shape our families and some of what parenting queerly means to you, particularly in regards to gender and sex in family-building. Participants will be able to learn somatic and improvisational practices in order to newly consider and process parenting experiences. These conversations and energy exchange are at the core of the creative formation of the overall Blood Baby performance project.
This is a caregiver-centered space, and the facilitated conversations and exercises are intended for caregivers to center themselves and their experiences and questions, including potential discussion of sex, sex practice, gender identity and transition, and queer experience. Children and life are welcome in the space. Childcare will be provided so that caregivers can engage and be present to the extent they desire and/or need.
Blood Baby is supported by a NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant, a National Performance Network Creation Fund Award, Leeway Foundation, and an Indiana University Arts & Humanities grant. Photo Credit: Meg Foley
- ABOUT THE ARTIST
Meg Foley is a Philadelphia-based performer, choreographer, and director of various dance- and performance-based actions that explore the materiality of dance and physical identity as form. For the past nine years Foley has been researching improvisational practices and embodiment frames that engage with meaning-making through practiced attention, danced affirmation, expansion, and relationality and a concern for the action of decision and engagement as form. Foley’s work has been presented by the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival, Vox Populi Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Pilot+Projects, Bowerbird, Thirdbird, and Icebox Project Space, throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Germany, and Poland. Foley’s research has been supported by grants from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the Independence Foundation, and the Polish Cultural Institute and through residencies with Art Stations Foundation and Dancemakers Centre for Creation. Foley sometimes teaches at University of the Arts and is creative co-director of The Whole Shebang, an interdisciplinary arts space and studio in South Philadelphia that hosts workshops and classes and provides studio rental to artists at affordable rates.