“Hug Thyself: A Call to Self-Care” - An Interactive Art + Performance Installation

Temple of Infinite Love, 19 Cypress Street, Somerville

Saturday, May 3, Noon-6PM

Free & Open to All

Family Friendly

COME Participate in Self-Care Community Style!

Somerville, MA (April 23, 2014) Pampi and Lore of alpoarrentao Productions (a program of PALESCA.org) present their fourth annual production for Somerville Open Studios, “Hug Thyself: A Call to Self-Care" a six-hour interactive visual and performance installation featuring original visual art, dance, movement, song and poetry.

This installation aspires to dig deep into the often conflicting messaging internalized when protecting and caring for ourselves. It will start to deconstruct feelings of guilt, love, altruism, and destruction that unsettle us each time we consider care of self. Participating artists are creating pieces that interpret how we might achieve a more gentle resolution - how our individual best practices towards self-care might look like – and how self-care may indeed be an act towards sustainable healthy life choices and preventative care.  

“This was a beautiful event!! I loved coming to your home – making the art into the everyday and the everyday into the art. Thank you for hosting! Divinely inspiring! Love this. Thank you for hosting and loving the earth.”

- Leah, 2012 Divine Feminine installation

Confirmed Installation & Performance Artists

Pampi, featured visual artist

Mike Webber: poetry "Astrals Pools / Be" on the journey & Transformative power of self-care

Loreto: spoken narrative “Do or Die: the moment self-care became survival” on Mental Illness | OCD

Phil, Dey & Pampi: glimpse of "Jataka Fables," puppetry & movement on community's Responsibility for self-care

Singer Mali: mini Voice Movement Therapy workshop & how it pertains to self-care

Terina-Jasmine Alladin, Chloe Frankel, Melissa Huser, Gabriela Silva, Pampi: dance on what Self-Care looks like

Colin Forhan: original composition "Making the Best of a Bad Situation"

Sundog (+ Pampi): electronic music with poetry on the politics of Identity & Self-Care

Akili Jamal Haynes + Dey Hernández-Vázquez: video installation

and more!

Kindly rsvp here https://www.facebook.com/events/267598253364691