Mildred’s Lane Summer Program - Sessions, Social Saturdays, and Special Events


RESIDENCY SESSION | June 10–15

Land Stewardship Skill-Share

 

Only 2 spots left! / Apply ASAP*

 

with Sandra Watanabe, Wendy Townsend, Anie Stanley, Shelley Spector, Laura Silverman, J. Morgan Puett, Nicole Peyrafitte, Maya Kutz, Mark Koeppen, Alex A. Jones, Betsy Damon, Donna Cleary, and fellows

 

A week of knowledge exchange to cultivate regenerative practices, with daily workshops, conversations, and open-ended experimentation in dialogue with the landscape-site of Mildred’s Lane, topics including:

 

Permaculture Composting  |  Protecting Biodiversity   |  Community Gardening  |  Recycled Soap-Making  |  Local and Medicinal Foraging  |   Arboreal(ity) / Land Stewardship at Mildred’s Lane  |  Conviviality & Sympoeisis  |  Fermentation & the Microbiome


*some scholarship funding available, please inquire


RESIDENCY SESSION | June 17–23

 Bibliophantics IV: Marx For Cats, and Other Interspecies Dialogues 

 

Only 3 spots left! / Apply ASAP*

 

with Leigh Claire La Berge, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Oscar Salguero, Caroline Woolard, Alex A. Jones, and fellows

 

A reading & writing retreat In tandem with the Deep Water Literary Festival, focused on writing, reading, researching and materializing more than human worlds.

*some scholarship funding available, please inquire


SOCIAL SATURDAY | June 22

 

Limited Tickets now available

 

A garden party celebrating the residency session Bibliophantics IV: Marx for Cats, and Other Interspecies Dialogues

 

Guest Digestion Choreography by Erin Montanez

Guest artist talk by Caroline Woolard


RESIDENCY SESSION | July 1–19

In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomenon

 

Some spots available July 1-13*

 

with Robert Williams, Bryan McGovern Wilson, Amanda Nedham, Darren Banks, Richard Klein, Sean Salstrom, Jane Topping, and others to be announced

 

An intensive context for artistic research into liminal phenomena, with a curriculum encompassing readings, screenings, discussions, field trips, and emergent experimentation to unpack territories of interest within the transhistorical and expansive topic of the UFO.

*some scholarship funding available, please inquire

 


SOCIAL SATURDAY | July 6

 

Limited Tickets now available

 

A garden party celebrating the residency session In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomenon

 

Guest Digestion Choreography by Julia Simon

Guest artist presentation to be announced

 


SYMPOSIUM | July 17–18

In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomenon

 

Details & Online Registration Coming Soon

 

A major symposium on the UFO phenomenon in visual culture, art, and cinema. This hybrid/online event will feature international speakers convening “in the cloud” and in-person at Mildred’s Lane.

 


SUMMIT SATURDAY | July 20

The Second Annual Corvus Summit 

 

Please inquire to request invitation

 

Annual gathering of the Mildred’s Lane Advisory Council and friends in solidarity and celebration of our continuing rebirth as a nonprofit art & ecology organization. 
 

Digestion Choreography by Julia Simon

Keynote artist presentation by Lauren Bon / Metabolic Studio
Bonfire-performance by Bryan McGovern Wilson & Robert Williams, with additional guest artist collaborations to be announced!

 


RESIDENCY SESSION | July 29–August 11

Queer Ecologies Research Collective II: CREATION/BECOMING/CHAOS

 

Some spots available August 5–11*

Apply Here

 

with Nick Bennett, Alex A. Jones, Cy X, Darian Razdar, and others to be announced!

 

A space for embodied and performative research in pursuit of creative entanglement and co-evolution. Week I (July 29–Aug 4) will explore the performance-lecture and cabaret as key media for queer ecology, while week II will present an intensive reading & screening curriculum exploring themes of adaptation, metamorphosis, and entanglement

*some scholarship funding available, please inquire

 


 SOCIAL SATURDAY | August 3  

Very Limited Tickets available

 

A hybrid/online dinner-show celebrating the residency session Queer Ecologies Research Collective II: CREATION/BECOMING/CHAOS

 

Digestion Choreography by Liza Pittard

Guest artist presentations to be announced

 


RESIDENCY SESSION | August 19–25

DISENTANGLEMENT / RE-EMBODIMENT

 

Enrollment Closed

 

with Jill Goldman, Anupama Rao, Alex A. Jones and others to be announced

 

Artists, writers, and activists gather to unravel structures of oppression, fostering collective dialogue and action at Mildred’s Lane.

 


SOCIAL SATURDAY | August 24

RSVP TBA in July

 

 A free community dinner event at Mildred’s Lane to close the summer season! Hosted with the residency session Disentanglement / Re-Embodiment

 

Digestion Choreography to be announced

Artist presentation by Jill Goldman & collaborators