THEN A CUNNING VOICE AND A NIGHT WE SPEND GAZING AT STARS an all-night exchange of stories, dance, ideas, food, stars & sky

a project of EMILY JOHNSON / CATALYST ARTIST STATEMENT

Writing these questions with the Native American Community Development Initia- WHAT DO YOU WANT tive in 2013, we focused on the want. We focused on future imagined possibilities. We imagined people imagining, speaking, writing ideas beyond the locus of the usual. FOR YOUR WELL-BEING? We wanted ourselves, our chosen families and friends, our communities—momen- tary, long-standing, small or large—to envision a future that is different from the one we are on a path toward. We need the boundless possibility that comes from resting our bodies so deeply into the ground we feel connected to it. We need the boundless possibility that comes from the simple action of looking into the sky. We need the FOR YOUR CHOSEN boundless possibility of seeing our actions and thoughts in relation to ground and sky—as a deep part of this world. FAMILY AND FRIENDS? I want to welcome you. I want to step into this night with you. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? I want to step into a different future with you.

YOUR CITY, TOWN, We can be boundless—from ground to sky. OR RESERVE? It is celebratory, to come together like this.

—EMILY JOHNSON DANCE & PERFORMANCE RICHLY CRAFTED ENCOUNTERS

Beginning at dusk and continuing until after sunrise, Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars is a gathering that weaves together stories and performance with the exchange of ideas, the sharing of food, and the endurance of spending a night together outside under the stars and sky.

Throughout the night, the audience is guided through a series of richly crafted encounters—part ritual, part lyrical adventure—created by Emily Johnson (Yup’ik) in collaboration with performers Tania Isaac and 13-year-old Georgia Lucas, and directed by Ain Gordon.

A group walk. A series of self-illuminated duets and solos. Stories and song. Gathering around a fire, a feast, conversations, silences and welcoming a new day.

It engages audience members in a multi-layered, participatory experience designed to focus attention on the space we share, the histories we hold, and how we might envision our future, together. All this unfolds under the night sky, at an outdoor gathering space. Both the audience and performers share space in and around 84 quilts that a 4,000 square foot arena.

This interaction of place, community vision and performance relies upon individuals coming together to witness, work, experience time, rest, imagine and voice inten- tions. FOOD & FEASTING GUESTS IN THIS LAND

Food is labour. Food is knowledge. Food is technology. Food is energy.

Throughout Then a Cunning Voice... food both sustains the audience, and brings them closer together. For each location, a menu is crafted by Food Futurist Jen Rae (Metis) that represents Indigenous food system knowledge and practices. Rae uses seasonally harvested local produce and foods that are foraged, hunted, gifted, bartered, and/or indigenous to the soils locality, as well as the artists’ homelands in Alaska and Australia.

Volunteers from the audience join in the process of preparing these offerings, which include snacks delivered to the participants in self-illuminated picnic baskets. The baskets create hubs of light in the darkness that draw together new groupings and forge new connections and conversations—as people gather to taste and share.

In the heart of the night, the quilts are reconfigured into a communal “table” for a shared feast. Before the meal arrives, details are offered about the food, its source and its intentions. The perspective draws on the locality, Indigenous practices and

perspectives, and food systems knowledge. The feast sets the stage for an hour-long conversation guided by the cast that circulates a question: “What does it mean to be a guests in this land?”

In the morning, a final meal is shared featuring yoghurt that has been cultured

overnight. An apt metaphor for what has been “cultivated” during the shared time. IDEAS & VISIONS MAPPED IN COMMUNITY

Communities around the world have shared their visions for the future on 84 quilts that form a single 4,000 square foot design, created by textile artist Maggie Thompson (Ojibwe) and volunteers in over three years of community sewing bees.

These quilts transport messages from individuals in communities throughout the U.S., Australia and Taiwan, among a growing list of contributors. They are responses to the work’s central questions: “What do you want for your well-being? For the well-being of your chosen friends and family? For your neighborhood? For your town, city, reserve, tribal nation, world?”

It’s a crowd-sourced visioning process that continues even now.

The quilts serve as audience seating, performance area, resting area, and “home” for the duration. Deep in the night, young Georgia directly engages audience members in conversations about these messages. Her questions invite open responses and reflections from the audience, and gradually turn the conversation to an exchange about their individual desires for the future.

The night offers much-needed space for connection between people near and far, between youth and elders, between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, and between urban and rural experiences—with an emphasis on engaged citizenship. STORIES & SHARING PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Each iteration of Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars is conjured with local stewards who help enact the work, and community performers and voices who make distinct contributions to the experience.

Local song, knowledge and community visions are woven into the night.

Between dances and the sharing of food and conversations, three “fires” are held where local storytellers, elders and community leaders share histories, perspectives and hopes for this particular place. One fire is a simple grouping of tea candles. Another shines with electric light—a reconfigured costume that has been shed. One more, a wood fire tended and cared for.

The audience spends time moving among these three fires.

A time of listening to oral histories and a giving of attention to new voices. To forging new intimacies. To learning about past, present and future, grounded in this place. EXCHANGE & GROUNDED PARTNERSHIP IN THIS PLACE

The work is made possible and realized through partnership within each locality. Urban, Indigenous, agricultural, art and other community partnerships are devel- oped in collaboration with local presenters. To date, the project has received input, contributions of time, labor, space and connectivity from:

IN THE U.S. ALASKA: Anchorage Museum. ARIZONA: Pima Arts Council. CALIFORNIA: Headlands Center for the Arts, Point Arena Manchester Dancers, Ohlone Profiles Project. FLORIDA: Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. MINNESOTA: Two Rivers Gallery, Makwa Studio, Native American Community Development Institute, Northern Spark, Richfield Farmers Market, Richfield Library.ILLINOIS : City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Envision Unlimited. : Makers Mill, , Williamstown Farmers Market, The Clark, MASS MoCA, Mohawk Forest Resident Development Initiative, Common Threads Initiative. NEBRASKA: Bemis Center for the Arts. : The Lenape Center, Performance Space 122, Abrons Art Center, Broome Street Academy, Gibney Dance, Ace Hotel New York, Ideas City at New Museum, Randall’s Island Park Alliance, Urban Farm on Randall’s Island, New York Live Arts, Lower Eastside Girls Club, The Wassaic Project.

IN AUSTRALIA NARRM/MELBOURNE: ArtsHouse Melbourne, City of Melbourne, St. Joseph’s Flexible Learning Center, SHORE: Feast at MeatMarket. NATIMUK: Time Place Space Residency with ArtsHouse and City of Natimuk. SYDNEY: Critical Path. PRODUCTION DETAILS FUNDING CREDITS PRODUCTION CREDITS

Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars premiered in Created by September 2016 on Governer’s Island, presented by P.S. 122, and numerous Emily Johnson in deep collaboration with the performers community partners. Artistic Director Emily Johnson Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars was created with

generous support from MAP Fund and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Directed by National Dance Project, with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Ain Gordon and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Performers Tania Isaac, Emily Johnson, Georgia Lucas The project was developed with the support of residencies at Push Festival

(Vancouver, BC), Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (Tallahassee, FL), Designer and Textile Artist and a Forecast Public Art/RARE Residency (Richfield, MN). Maggie Thompson

Lighting Designer Lenore Doxsee

Artist and Food Futurist Jen Rae

Produced by Meredith Boggia

Stage Manager

Matt Evans

Recorded Sound and Story Contributors James Everest, Julia Bither, Margot Bassett-Silver PRESENTING DETAILS PROTOCOLS

Catalyst requires all Presenter and all Presenting Partners collaborating on the RUN TIME presentation of Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars to Approximately 15 hours, timed from dusk to after sunrise learn and comply with Indigenous Protocol and acknowledgement of its host Nation.

LOCATIONS & STAGING Additionally, the audience is provided with the following protocols, refined to reflect Suitable locations will be determined in conversation with the creative team, but the the host Nation at each location: work is best situated at a close-remove from urban centers, in parks or open spaces where ambient and artificial light can be minimized. Sites that have a direct relation- By attending Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars you ship to water are best. acknowledge:

— You are on Indigenous land [specific acknowledgements will be crafted in each ENGAGEMENT PROCESS locality], and you pay respect to their people, land, and ancestors past, present, Advance site visits are required, beginning six to ten months prior to presentation. and future.

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE — This is an Indigenous led process. Lead artists Emily Johnson and Jen Rae are in residence for a minimum of two — That you have gathered to spend a night together with friends and strangers weeks prior to the presentation, and the full company one-week prior. on Indigenous land, under the sky. In so doing, you intend to be a good guest on this land (or a good host, or both, appropriately). You can inquire as to what that PRODUCTION TEAM means if you do not know. The project travels with a total team of nine to ten.

— That your participation is necessary and as a responsible entity you come FOOD & AMENITIES prepared to care for and be part of the night, the land, the community gathered. Food service is an integral part of the production, therefore locally sourced food, — There is no end to the work we begin here. kitchen equipment and supplies are required. Also, as an outdoor event, some tent- ing, services and basics audience amenities for an outdoor event are needed. ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES EMILY JOHNSON / CATALYST

Artistic Director Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. A Bessie Award winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in . Originally from Alaska, she is of Yup’ik descent and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as installations, engaging audiences within and through a space and environment—interacting with a place’s architecture, history, and role in community. Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.

Her choreography is presented across the United States and Australia, and most re- cently at Santa Fe Opera with Doctor Atomic, directed by Peter Sellars. She has been published and commissioned by Dance Research Journal, SFMOMA, Transmotion Journal, Movement Research Journal, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, and the recent collection Imagined Theaters, Edited by Daniel Sack.

Emily is a lead collaborator in the Indigenous-artist led Healing Place Collaborative

(Minneapolis, MN); she was an inaugural participant in the Headlands Center for the Arts’ Climate Change Residency; a member of Creative Change at Sundance: and served as a water protector at Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock. Currently, she hosts monthly bon-fires on the Lower East Side in Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Art Center and is, with colleagues in Australia and Canada, developing a

Global First Nations Performance Network. JEN RAE

Artist and Food Futurist Dr Jen Rae (Métis) is a Canadian/Australian artist-researcher engaged in the discursive field of contemporary environmental art and a scholar in arts-based environmental communication. Her creative practice and research interests centre around food systems knowledge, disaster scenarios and ecological futures thinking via transdisciplinary collaborative methodologies and community engagement.

Jen is a multi-art-form artist including public art, drawing, animation and cookery. She is also the Co-founder of The Riparian Project and Fair Share Fare. Jen is a board member of the Creative Recovery Network and is a Lecturer of Art & Perfor- mance at Deakin University. MAGGIE THOMPSON

Quilt Designer & Textile Artist Maggie Thompson was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. She received her Bach- elor of Fine Arts in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and derives her inspiration from the history of her Ojibwe heritage—exploring family history as well as themes and subject matter of the broader Native American experience. Thompson’s work calls attention to its materiality, pushing the viewer’s traditional understanding of textiles. She explores materials in her work by incorporating mul- timedia elements such as photographs, beer caps and 3D-printed objects. Thompson has exhibited at institutions such as the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Plains Art Museum. In addition to her fine arts practice, Thompson runs a small knitwear business known as Makwa Studio. She is also an emerging curator of contemporary Native art at Two Rivers Gallery and has worked on curating special exhibits for the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. AIN GORDON

Director Ain Gordon is a three-time -winning writer/director/actor, a two-time NYFA recipient, and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting. Gordon’s work has been seen at BAM Next Wave Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, , 651 ARTS, Dance Theater Workshop, Performance Space 122, , HERE Arts Center, Kitchen Theatre Company, and Lower Manhattan Cul- tural Council (all NY); the Mark Taper Forum (CA), the George Street Playhouse (NJ), Vermont Performance Lab, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (VT), Krannert Center (IL), OnStage at , MASS MoCA, the Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), DiverseWorks (TX), Spirit Square (NC), VSA North Fourth Arts Center (NM), Jacob’s Pillow (MA), LexArts (KY), and Dance Space (DC), and more. Gordon’s 2003 work Art Life & Show-Biz; A Non-Fiction Play is published in Palgrave Macmillan’s Dramaturgy Of The Real On The World Stage. Collaborations include: Sō Percussion, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, Bebe Miller. Gordon also wrote for NBC’s Will & Grace.

Gordon’s work has received support from The Jerome Foundation, Greenwall Foun- dation, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Stage Council on the Arts, Department of Cultural Affairs, AT&T, MAP (four times), ART NY, Mellon, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, and NPN among many others.

Gordon is Co-Founder of the Urban Memory Project and has been Co-Director of

Pick Up Performance Co(s) since 1992. SAMPLE MENU This menu, taken from the program of the work’s premiere helps to demonstrate AUNTY CAROLYN: Australian muntries, macadamia and rivermint the approach, and the role of food in Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend GEORGIA: MULBERRY, almond and rosemary EMILY: black mission fig, almond and lemon myrtle Gazing at Stars. TANIA: cranberry, cashew and Myer lemon zest YUMI: sour cherry, walnut and Vallejo’s thyme Representing Indigenous food system knowledge and practice, the menu uses BEN: mango, pecan and nutmeg seasonally harvested local produce and food foraged, hunted, gifted, bartered, and/ MAGGIE: sour cherry, almond and pepperberry or indigenous to the soils of Lenapehoking and homeland, Alaska and Australia. Or- HAWTHORNE VALLEY FARM CHEESE ganic, ethically-traded and minimally processed foods is designed in four parts to reflect the protocols of the food experience. WATTLESEED DAMPER: Farmers Ground Organic Wheat Flour (half-white and whole wheat), Murray River salt flakes, organic butter and milk, and roasted ground wattleseed.

PART I :: WHERE WE LEFT OFF - Invitation/Welcoming/Offering LEMON MYRTLE BUTTER: Organic butter, lemon myrtle oil and Murray River salt flakes. The premise of the food offering is a gift of welcome and a symbolic gesture of food as energy. It also marks where Emily and I last left off in Melbourne with a morsel of pimîhkân WARRIGAL GREENS AND MACADAMIA NUT PESTO: Warrigal greens (a tasty Australian weed (Cree)/pemmican, an ‘energy bar’ that was historically a staple in many North American First similar to spinach), onion, garlic, butter, lemon, macadamia nuts and olive oil. Nations diets consisting of dried meat, rendered fat, seasonal berries, seeds, nuts and/or for- BUSH DUKKAH FLATBREAD CRISPS: Farmers Ground Organic Wheat Flour, baking powder, aged greens. olive oil, lemon, roasted macadamia nuts, black sesame and white sesame, Australian spices

The recipe and ingredients for this pimîhkân are from Canada, United States and Australia. and herbs: rivermint, lemon myrtle, saltbush, ground mountain pepper leaf.

PIMÎHKÂN (CREE)/PEMMICAN: Dried and powdered kangaroo, Dehydrated Cavolo Nero/ HARD SMOKED RED SALMON (ALASKA): Caught and made by Emily Johnson, Mary-Ellen Tuscan/Lacinato kale, Raw macadamia nuts, Fig and sour cherry, Coconut oil, Dark chocolate Johnson, Hanna Stormo

RIVERMINT AND RAINFOREST CHERRY ICED-TEA: Australian Indigenous ingredients: COLD SMOKED KIPPURED RED AND SILVER SALMON (ALASKA): Caught and made by Emily Rivermint and rainforest cherry Johnson, Mary-Ellen Johnson, Hanna Stormo

SLICED RAW GARDEN VEGETABLES FROM THE RANDALL’S ISLAND URBAN FARM: PART II :: WHEN WE COME TOGETHER - Picnic Basket Sliced tomatoes, carrots, kohlrabi, celery The offerings in the picnic basket are selected to mark a coming together to break bread and to experience the labour of food harvested, bartered, foraged, hunted, gifted and/or indig- MAPLE-LEMON MYRTLE CARAMEL CORN: Popcorn, maple syrup, butter, brown sugar, sea salt enous to the soil of the Lenapehoking homeland, Alaska and Australia. and bicarbonate of soda

HOT TULSI TEA: Tulsi provided by the Randall’s Island Urban Farm FAIR SHARE FARE ORIGIN BREADS (7 varieties): Each bread contains: Farmers Ground Organic

Wheat Flour (half-white and whole wheat), baking soda, Murray River salt flakes, sunflower KELLENSOO COFFEE (Ethiopia) - Think Coffee seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, Andrew’s Linden honey, Tonjes Farm Dairy buttermilk and ground golden flaxseed. PART III :: WHERE WE ARE HERE & NOW - Supper RANDALL’S ISLAND URBAN FARM GARDEN GREENS The premise of part three is context specific to the region and reflect food as technology— STARGAZING COOKIES: Farmers Ground Organic Wheat Flour, brown sugar, butter, pumpkin, understanding the past, present and future of food produced, harvest and distributed in the eggs, vanilla, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, allspice, currants and pumpkin seeds. area. PART IV :: WHERE WE GO FROM HERE - Wisdom from our Elders PULLED VENISON: Wild hunted venison, organic tomato sauce, hot sauce, brown sugar, seed Food is knowledge. Many of our food and cultural knowledge keepers are our Elders—Indig- mustard, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, Bragg’s liquid aminos natural soy sauce, worchestire enous and non-Indigenous. The experience of food at breakfast is a reflection on migration, sauce, garlic, onion, seasoning, parsley and vegetable stock. Venison hunted by Jason Granger hope and knowledge transfer between our Elders, communities and future generations. and Steve and Ethan Brown. At sunrise, the collective labour and knowledge of food created through the night will be

IROQUOIS WHITE CORN PROJECT HULLED WHITE CORN AND MARAFAX BEAN CHILI shared. Food will include Martha Salloum’s 47+ year old yoghurt culture that has traveled (Vegetarian): Iroquois White Corn Project hulled white corn, Greenmarket Regional Grains around the world, the Bailey sisters raw muesli served with local varieties of Andrew’s honey, Project marafax beans, tomatoes, olive oil, onion, garlic, carrot, celery, bell pepper, cumin, and a tea blended and created to honour political activist and social visionary Ruth Hope Crow. basil, chili, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, ground pepperberry leaf, parsley and cilantro. Ruth Crow A.M. (1916-1999) believed that when people came together over a cup of tea, they Adapted recipe provided by the Iroquois White Corn Project. could go on to do great things

IROQUOIS WHITE CORNBREAD: Butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, eggs, Farmers Ground THREE SISTERS/ELDERS MUESLI: (Lyndal, Margaret and Helen): Sunflower seeds (raw), Pump- Organic Wheat Flour, baking powder, Murray River salt flakes, whole organic non-homogenized kin seeds (raw), Hemp seeds (raw), Rolled organic oats, Sesame seeds (raw), Black chia seeds, milk, Martha’s yoghurt. Adapted recipe provided by the Iroquois White Corn Project, made Brown linseed, Yellow flaxseed, Goji berries, Mulberries, Coconut, Buckwheat groats, Cacao with Martha’s yoghurt. nibs, Golden raisins, Walnuts, Cashews, Almonds, Banana, Wheat puffs, Pecans

THREE SISTERS SALAD WITH IROQUOIS WHITE CORN PROJECT’S HULLED WHITE CORN: MARTHA’S HEIRLOOM YOGHURT: Yoghurt, that’s all. Made overnight from organic non- Iroquois Corn Project’s hulled white corn, Greenmarket Regional Grains Project yellow eye homogenized whole milk. beans, red onion, zucchini, yellow squash, tri-colour garden peppers, green chilies, pimentos, ANDREW’S HONEY: Linden, Sourwood, Bamboo, Rooftop – Bushwick, Rooftop – Queens jalapenos, apple cider vinegar, wildflower honey, safflower oil, Murray River pink salt and cracked pepper. Recipe provided by the Iroquois White Corn Project CALLICOON PEACHES: Handpicked from by Vallejo Gantner

WILTED KALE WITH BUSH DUKKHA AND MACADAMIA NUT OIL: Harvested kale from the RUTH CROW TEA: A blend of ethical tea partnership black tea with organically grown vanilla Randall’s Island Urban Farm with Roasted macadamia nuts, black sesame and white sesame. beans and rose. Blended in Brunswick by McIver’s Coffee & Tea Merchants (Victoria, Australia). Rivermint, lemon myrtle, saltbush, ground mountain pepper leaf and macadamia nut oil. A project by Fair Share Fare, created at Arts House.

KOHLRABI COLESLAW: Randall’s Island Urban Farm carrots and kohlrabi, red cabbage, cilantro, KELLENSOO COFFEE (Ethiopia) - by Think Coffee Hunza raisins, mayonnaise, cider vinegar, brown sugar and Murray River salt flakes.

HAWTHORNE VALLEY FARM SAUERKRAUT Menu created and prepared by Jen Rae

RANDALL’S ISLAND URBAN FARM BEETS: Sliced bulls blood, touchstone and chioggia beets. FAIR SHARE FARE www.fairsharefare.com QUILTING CREDITS The quilts for Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars were designed by Maggie Thompson and generated by many workshops and sewing bees. We have done our best to track as many sewists as we could!

Special Thanks to the Minneapolis-Based Team Guilford Vermont Sewing Bees Maggie Thompson, Phyllis Hupp, Renee Carey, Peggy Thompson, Jane Eichten, Mary Ahler, MJ Eric Cha-Beach, Ayano Kataoka, Luz Carime Santa-Coloma, Yumi Tamashiro, Jason Treuting Potamites, Isa Boike, Julia Bither, Debbie Woodward

New York Sewing Bees Abvee Jetley, Alan Michelson, Alec Lichtenberg, Alex Reeves, Alicia Figueroa, Alicia Howard, Minneapolis Sewing Bees Alicia Lucas, Alicia Renee, Alisha Tonsic, Allan Andre, Amanda Long, Amir Andrews, Amy Kosh- Angela Fahey, Beth Palkke, Casey Vilt, Chantz Erolin, Chrsitie Zabriski, Claire King, Deborah bin, Andrew Horwitz, Andrew Slone, Anneke Hansen, Annika Lewis, Antoniya S., Ariel Stewart, Wood, Diane Grammond, Gabe Hoelscher-Wolking, Gabe Moore, Isa Boike, Jackie Keller, Janet Ashlin Hatch, Barbara Carrelas, Ben Graetz, Ben Pryor, Benedikte Esperi, Benjamin Kimitch, Tripp, Julia Bither, Kate Bean, Kathleen Gavin, Kelly Marshall, Kelsey Squires, Lila Cherneff, Bob Bursey, Brad Burgess, Brian Rogers, Buck Romero, Cairlin Cook-Isaacson, Carin Kuoni, Maggie Thompson, Maria Asp, Mary Ahler, Mary Tholkes, Matt Conway, MJ Potamites, Nick Cartherine Jones, Cassandra Gardiner, Celia Ipiotis, Chana Widawski, Christine Murray, Chris- Bither, Peggy Thompson, Philip Bither, Phyllis Hupp, Rasah Singleton, Rebecca Gibson, Renee topher Green, Chuck Macdonald, Chuey Aparicio, Claire Bidwell, Clothild Cardinal, Coco Cafe, Carey, Sami Pffefer, Susan Schoon, Susan Thornton, Jill Johanson, Virginia Matter, Betty Carl- Colette Nguyen, Collette Brennan, Craig Reeves, Daniel Banks, Daniel Droste, Daniel Schlusser, son, Women’s Spirituality Group from Mayflower UCC, Terry Robertson, Sarah Balanger, Beth David Clark, David White, Debra Duchin, Diane Fraher, Edisa Weeks, Eleanor Savage, Elisabeth Palkki, Judyth Calabay, Jon West, Taylor Payer, Jenny Rappaport, Avnee Jetley, Amara Abdal Skjærvold, Eliza Bowman, Elizabeth R Daly, Elizabeth Zimmer, Emily Johnson, Emma Rivera, Figueroa, Thomas Rush, Topher Gent, Cory Zapatka, Christie Vergona Erin Doughton, Fenn Gordon, Florian Malzacher, Fransely Perez, Gabe Rosenberg, George Lugg, Georgia Lucas, Grace Osborne, Haleema Forson, Heather Henson, Ivan Martinez, Iviva Olenick, Jaclyn Karasik, Jaidah F., Jaime Shearn Coan, James Smith, Jane Gabriels, Jane Preston, Janet Stapleton, Janice Fongkin, Jaskiran Dhillon, Jason Treuting, Jennifer Calieness, Jenny North Adams Sewing Bees Rappaport, Jenny Schlenzka, Jeso O’Neill, Jessica Barzell, Jill Miersch, Jill Strauss, Jillian Meredith Boggia, Rachel Boggia, Barbara Boggia, Caitlin Bohmer, Sandra Burton, Adrian Sweeney, Jiqing Yu, JJ Liato, JJ Lind, John Robinson, John Scott, Jonathan Jacobs, Jonette Dunn, Randal Fippenger, Amy Hotzapfel, Ana, Anna Harlem, Anne Singleton, Cassie Lavoie, Jamison, Jordan Charles, Jordan Harrison, Josh Quillen, Judey Harquail, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Cheryl Tarcznski, Chris Janson, Donglin Zhang, Gwyneth Henke, Isaac, Jane Preston, Kate Bar- Kaite Brewer-Ball, Kambiz Shekdar, Karyn Recollet, Katie Parl, Kehaulani Kauanui, Kelsey Gal- ber, Katherine, Kirsten Rose, Laini Sporbert, Maggie Reynolds, Mia Weinland, Michael Muller, loway, Kim Chang, Kirsten Saladow, Kris Nelson, Kristina Wong, Larissa FastHorse, Laura Nicoll, Rita Sporbert, Ross Hoch, Sharif Rosen, Tess Richman, Wendy, Williamstown Elementary class Lauren Snelling, Lea Ono, Lee-Ann Buckskin, Leila Vaezazizi, Lindsay Barrenz, Lisa D’Amour, of 2026, the Williams College class of 2020. 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