What is the Butt Game?
Sep
20

What is the Butt Game?

By Savannah Reich, Directed by Connor Hogan. Cannonball Fest in Philadelphia Fringe 2024.

In 1989, Savannah Reich’s daycare was shut down by the Child Protection Agency under suspicion of child abuse related to the so-called “butt game,” part of the Satanic Panic era. These false accusations ultimately brought the community closer, forming a chosen family.

With the help of her collaborator Connor Hogan and an ensemble of local actors, Savannah attempts to answer the question: why did CPS see danger where Savannah saw love and community? How much of truth is objective? And what actually was the butt game?

Guest Performers 9/20/2024:

  • Francesca Montanile

  • Mason Rosenthal

  • Ben Rosenthal

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Creativity & the Erotic Imagination: Art-Making as a Tool for Exploring Desire
Nov
30

Creativity & the Erotic Imagination: Art-Making as a Tool for Exploring Desire

Join us as we welcome Francesca Montanile Lyons (she/her) for Creativity & the Erotic Imagination: Art-Making as a Tool for Exploring Desire on Wednesday, November 30th at 7:30 pm EST over Zoom!

​About the workshop: In this workshop, we’ll tap into our creativity to ignite and explore our erotic energy. We will use the art-making process to actively reflect on our desire and imagine how we might bring them into being through communication. Participants will be invited to bring paper and mark-making materials to the workshop (pens, crayons, markers, etc). We will work on one visual art exercise and one writing exercise throughout the workshop, and sharing will be optional.

​By the end of this workshop you will:

  • ​Discuss and reflect on your desire: what it means to you, how you recognize it, what desires you hold that are being met or unmet, and the barriers to sharing that desire with others.,

  • ​Practice naming those desires for yourself (through artmaking and sharing), and how you might communicate them to others when you're ready.

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You Art Not Alone
Jun
29
to Aug 10

You Art Not Alone

You Art Not Alone is a lightly structured comaking and coworking time for artists of any discipline, hosted by Francesca Montanile Lyons at Indy Hall. It's time and space to work individually, but in community, on whatever you need to get done: finishing a project, working on an application, responding to emails, creating something new, etc. There will be an optional warm up at the top to greet each other and get centered, and an optional group share out at the end to get feedback on something you've worked on &/or ask a question that has come up for you.

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