About

'ALOHA ‘OE': a creative workshop with Stacy Makishi
(co-presented with Marlborough Productions)

Join us for a day-long workshop led by Hawaiian artist Stacy Makishi.

Part of Stacy’s year-long participatory project 'Walking Each Other Home', which explores where and how we gather, how ritual can heal and transform, and how we might build communities of connection; connection to ourselves, to each other, and to inspiration and mystery.

This workshop will focus on ‘creative homesickness’ and is oriented towards creatives who feel far away from their creativity, perhaps feel they have lost their way, and/or need time to focus back in in a supportive and convivial environment.

Stacy will offer a range of creative and playful tasks – from writing to image-making – designed to support you in your own creativity. These will draw on her 40-year experience of making and teaching live art, and her spirited commitment to put more ‘aloha’ into the world.

All welcome!

About Stacy Makishi

Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993. A cross-fertilization of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. Made with a strong collaborative ethos, her work has been presented in venues across the UK and internationally. Over the years she has received the ICA Attached Artist Award, a Millennium Fellowship Award, the Franklin Furnace Award, and the Live Art Development Agency Arthole Award. Also a teacher, director and mentor in international demand, Stacy believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others to put more ‘aloha’ into the world.

Bursary Places

Marlborough Productions don’t want the cost of this workshop to prevent anyone from attending. Information about their limited free bursary places are available on the ticketing link.

Access Information

The building is wheelchair accessible with hearing enhancement available in the workshop space on request.

This is a relaxed workshop where you're free to come and go, take breaks, sit or move around, and make noise as needed. There will also be a quiet space available.

You are encouraged to bring or purchase your own refreshments for throughout the day. There will be tea and coffee making facilities and nearby shops and cafés. If you have any questions about access, please contact lee@marlboroughproductions.org.uk.

'Walking Each Other Home' is supported by Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with Southbank Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, Arts on the Green at New Unity, Queen Mary University of London, Pocket Fuse Festival, Live Art Development Agency (all in London), The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tallinn), Feral Festival CIFAS (Brussels), SPILL Festival (Ipswich), Colchester Arts Centre, Bradford Producing Hub, Normal? Festival of the Brain (Folkestone), Ideas Test (Chatham), Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts & Marlborough Productions (Brighton), Home Live Art (Hastings).

📸by Kalev Lilleorg

Image Description: Stacy Mikishi is a Pacific Islander smiling warmly at people in the distance, and extending aloha with her arms outstretched. She has a black and white bob and is wearing big glasses.