In a monumental tribute to Indigenous thrivance, Overflow Radio gathers in-person and remote audiences for 24 non-consecutive hours of performance and storytelling in an event that transcends colonial borders, languages and time. In-person audiences arrive at a powerful gathering site, among a 4,000 sq-ft quilt design carrying messages from hundreds of co-creators. Featuring dance, performance, stories, meals, intentional rest, skill shares and participatory actions—Overflow Radio channels a multitude of Indigenous call-in contributors from territories around the globe. Simultaneously, remote audiences tune into our radio broadcast, and partners are offered a tool-kit to co-create localized, listen-in Overflow Radio experiences.
Caretakers of Land/Land Acknowledgement: Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada.
We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back.
Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.
Estimated Artist Fee: $38,500/week
