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.
During the second workshop in the series on Saturday, March 23rd from 2pm - 4pm, musician and therapist Ameen Wahba will help participants use interactive musical technology to explore how touch, connection, and shared experiences can build meaningful relationships.
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.
About the Artists:
Ameen Wahba (he/him) is an arab-american multidisciplinary artist and psychotherapist living in Omaha, NE - the ancestral homeland of the Omaha, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria and Ioway tribes. He is interested in exploring the liminal space between synthetic and organic modes of being in his art, activism, and therapy practice.
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.