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. Collaborative care that allows participants to cycle between caregiving and artmaking is an integral part of each workshop.
On Friday, April 12th from 6pm - 7pm, Omaha based poet, caregiver, printmaker, and project organizer Amanda Huckins will guide an Alternate Currents panel discussion at Generator Space that brings together Creating More Hours participants Carolyn and Eden Erickson, Maritza N. Estrada, and Kelly Seacrest for a conversation about mutual caregiving and its potential as an embodied practice to build solidarity within creative communities.
Free and open to all, the discussion begins at 6pm and will end at 7pm. Generator Space will remain open until 8pm to gather, talk, and share space after the discussion. Please register in Eventbrite to attend.
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.
About the Panelists:
Carolyn Erickson's main role is Mom now but she's always been mothering- whether it be with her friends or plants. It’s her default mode. Outside of that, she enjoys crafting of any kind and being in nature. Eden Erickson loves to play and eat (especially fruit). She loves to learn new things and play outside. She loves cats and zebras.
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!
Kelly Seacrest is an educator and artist. With her husband Peter Stegen, she founded Wild Learning in 2020, a Democratic Self Directed learning place for kids. As a facilitator at Wild Learning, she supports kids' learning by practicing democracy, engaging in conflict resolution, creating curriculum and being playful with them. Kelly also practices her art and loves painting, drawing and printmaking.
About the Moderator:
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.