Baby on the Fire Escape (2024)
OV Theatre, Nanaimo, BC
October 28, 2024
Presented by a part of “Side Show” Showcase

Abstract:
I wanted to work through my greatest fears of becoming a parent, fully loving someone and the fear of losing them. That my acts of personhood would kill my child, when in reality my becoming, is my teaching, my gift to them. Ritual transformation, glutton haggery with Nanny’s shears. Julie Phillip’s essay work on the often decontextualization of parent, gender diverse, crip, women+ artists, and anyone challenging the creation form through privileged isolation, for me, is directly linked to social fears of those same persons. The hag, the ugly, the witch, the “other”. The bouffant who mocks the bourgeoisie and survives on the table scraps for your entertainment.

This piece is in conversation with “The Baby On The Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem” by Julie Phillips.

Thank you to @willowleaves for documentation, @ja.moggridge for your tireless assistance and @julianasech_ for website coordination. Curated by Guy

Photo documentation by Willow Sereda-Meichel