About this Event
Photo credit: Stacy Makishi teaching residency at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2025), photo Kalev Lilleorg
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 action-packed workshop will focus on ‘creative homesickness’ and is oriented towards artists who feel far away from their creativity, perhaps feel they have lost their way, and/or need time to focus back in a supportive, warm but challenging environment. Creativity requires courage and a willingness to step out into the unknown: uncertainty, risk and exposure. If your curiosity is larger than your fear, this is the one for you.
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.
Supported by Arts Council England and by Grand Camp Maisie Fund. Produced by Nikki Tomlinson.
Location: New Unity, 277A Upper St, London, N1 2TZ.
Please note this is not Arts on the Green’s usual location in Newington Green. The location of this event is in Islington.
Access: The venue is wheelchair-accessible from street to building and there is a wheelchair-accessible toilet
Photo credit: Stacy Makishi teaching residency at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2025), photo Kalev Lilleorg
About Stacy Makishi
Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993.
Like a bonsai plant, Stacy is small but old and has been making art and infecting folks with curiosity and creativity for 40 years. 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. It is as complex as it is accessible, humorous as it is challenging, visual as it is literate.
Made with a strong collaborative ethos, Stacy's solos have been presented across Europe and beyond, including TATE Modern, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Traverse Edinburgh, BRUT:Vienna, Estonia Academy, Mladi Levi, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and La Mama New York. Her large-scale participatory works include commissions for the Wellcome Collection and Contact Young Company, Manchester while as a teacher she has worked at institutions including Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Wellesley College, Goldsmiths, Central School of Speech and Drama, and Queen Mary's, University of London.
For any specific accessibility requirements or for any queries, please email: [email protected].
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
277A Upper St, 277A Upper Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 11.55 to GBP 16.96
