Break Bread and Burn Baskets

Join us for a closing community potluck at the Arcata Playhouse as we break bread and bask in the glow of a burning basket and the glorious women who have performed, produced, and partaken in this years Zero to Fierce Festival.

Installation artist Mavis Muller, Homer Alaska, will create a large sculpture of an intricately woven basket as part of her traveling Weaving Watersheds series. This woven sculpture will be installed in the lobby of the Playhouse during the festival and is available for public participation by way of inscribing pressed leaves with names of favorite waterways, flyways, and the creatures that inhabit them. This is in solidarity for the protection and restoration of the ways nature connects us as communities and as a small world. All are invited to write the names of departed loved ones on a folded paper crane and place on the basket. Interactive materials are…