Language for a Future Present: A Makeshop, with Books

What might a language for the future – or for this very moment, shapeshifting as it is – look like when imagined from the bodies, experiences, desires, of the other-than-human world, as it stands and as it may yet be? Join this all-genre workshop to explore the materials of our local landscape and their possible afterlives, consider alternate ways of connecting to the vulnerable but still vital spaces we inhabit, and develop language to imagine and create new ways of being. The workshop will be held within the space of The Future of Here, a new collaborative exhibition at the Peale Museum that encourages viewers to imagine a future culture of place here that might build upon the artifacts we leave behind. Working with local poet and essayist Lia Purpura, we invite you to tune into the whispers of our earthly existence and to weave a restorative tapestry through language. In partnership with the Ivy Bookshop, the event will include a pop-up bookstore where visitors can browse and purchase selected works of environmental writing, including many that inspired the exhibition itself.