Organized by poet, caregiver, and printmaker Amanda Huckins, Creating More Hours: A Temporal Commons offers humanly-scaled models for combining creative practice, social connection, and mutual caregiving. During a series of workshops designed to expand and reclaim time through cooperative caregiving, the gallery space functions as a "temporal commons" for caregivers and their children.
The first workshop in the series led by poet Maritza N. Estrada on Saturday, March 16th from 2pm - 4pm invites participants to consider the letter as a container for wonder, possibility, transformation, and healing with poet Maritza N. Estrada and write their own letters to something or someone.
Caregivers with children between the ages of 3- and 12-years-old are invited to participate. Please register to attend. This workshop can accommodate ten participants.
Collaborative care that allows participants to cycle between caregiving and artmaking is an integral part of this workshop. Workshop participants should expect to share in both caregiving and artmaking activities!
Generator Space is wheelchair accessible and located on a fairly busy street with a decent amount of traffic. Please use crosswalks for safety. Unmetered street parking is available on Vinton Street, 18th Street, and neighborhood streets to the north and west of the space.
Generator Series programming is presented with support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
From Maritza:
Discussion & Workshop towards the poetic form of the Letter. The letter being the messenger, accomplice, disciple. In this workshop, all walks of life are welcome in this kind, generous, & abundant space of wonder, possibility, transformation, and healing heart-matters. Attendees will look into various forms of letters/study their stories & will create their own letter(s)—reaching towards something or someone. Please be courteous as to how one may enter a space, lived experiences, griefs, etc. What beauty & a gift. To say, here, love. Here is your letter; a part of me is now, here, with you forever & always. Yours.
About the Artists:
Maritza N. Estrada earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Estrada’s recent poem “Audience” was published in the Academy of American Poets—the nation’s leading champion of American poets and poetry. Born in Toppenish, Washington to Mexican parents, she calls Phoenix, Mexico City, and Paris, home. ¡Liberar Palestina!
Amanda Huckins is a Nebraskan poet whose work has been published in booklet form as "Trying to End the War" (merrily merrily merrily merrily, 2017) and featured in A Dozen Nothing (adozennothing.com), among other places on paper and online. In her weekday hours, Amanda is an Early Head Start educator and participates in building the brain architecture for social emotional and cognitive development in infants and toddlers. In addition to her paid work, Amanda is a grassroots organizer who works alongside fellow community members to build self-determination, forge non-transactional relationships, and create radical free spaces (such as past DIY spaces The Commons in Lincoln, NE and Media Corp. in Omaha). She is also a letterpress printer who produces posters and other ephemera in her garage print studio, where she teaches typesetting to anyone who wants to learn.