Mouthwater Festival: Grow Green Man

Performance Party/Touch Tours + Artist Talk with Saira Barbaric

OCT 5 Performance Party | 6 PM

OCT 6 Touch Tours | 12 PM- 4 PM

PERFORMANCE PARTY 

In deference to the powers of the woods — from the maenads to the green knight to Gran Bwa — performers touch on the unruly nature of the wilderness to seed, build and dance with creatures real and unreal.  Sunset will set off a series of performances including circus, burlesque, installation art and interactive acts from a lineup of Black Disabled artists including Saira Barbaric. The audience will be invited to play, respond, move and relax throughout an evening of investigation and catharsis. Grow Green Man refuses to hide the process of preparation, repair and mounting that precedes the gallery becoming a wonderland. Grow Green Man is a performance party from Saira Barbaric, hosted at the Olympic Sculpture Park’s Paccar Pavilion. Come early to hear DJs, enjoy refreshments and experience works from Barbaric’s 2022 show, Pantheon Anew. Sunset will set off a series of performances from a lineup of Black Disabled artists including Saira Barbaric. The night will wrap up with more dancing and drinks Come on out for an evening of sensual, playful, confronting work from a bevy of PNW favorites and new-to-us powerhouses.

TOUCH TOURS + ARTIST TALK 

This is space for context and access about Saira’s installation and the party the night before. Barbaric will be offering touch and/or discussion tours of the installation space at the top of each hour. The space will be available to the public. The discussion and touch tours will be 30-40 minutes with option for ASL interpretation and an emphasis on audio descriptions by the artist. With registration, you will confirm the hour of your visit. Please arrive in the first 10 minutes to experience the full artist tour.

Mouthwater Festival is three weeks of Disabled movement genius coming to Seattle. Disabled artists from all over the country will gather in town to share their work, develop their practice, foster cross-disability solidarity and grow their creativity. Mouthwater Festival is the beginning of an arts hub by and centering Black and Indigenous Disabled artists to present, collaborate and get uplifted for their crafts. The festival’s values are anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, pro-Black, Disability Justice-informed, Afrofuturist, sex-educated and practical. The creatives and workers behind Mouthwater dream of making more spaces for Disabled artistry to thrive. The Mouthwater Festival will begin with artist incubating spaces like workshops, socials and photoshoots in late September 2024 then offer sliding scale performance-centered events during the first two weeks of October 2024.

Mouthwater Festival is over a dozen events in six different venues. All events will be ASL interpreted. All venues have step-free access to the bathrooms and performance spaces. There will be a variety of seating as well as ear plugs available in all venue spaces. Masks will be required for the audiences. Masks will be provided. All performers will be multiply tested for COVID and asked to be low-scent.

Please reach out to cripdancedoula@gmail.com for more specifics on any venues or events.

Mouthwater Festival is organized by and for Disabled artist community. Because of this, events are liable to adapt, adjust and change. Join our social media to stay up to date should changes occur. Insta: @mouthwaterdance, @velocity_seattle