Creating More Hours: A Temporal Commons: Panel Discussion

Creating More Hours: A Temporal Commons offers humanly-scaled models for combining creative practice, social connection, and mutual caregiving. During a series of workshops designed to expand and reclaim time through cooperative caregiving, the gallery space functions as a "temporal commons" for caregivers and their children. Collaborative care that allows participants to cycle between caregiving and artmaking is an integral part of each workshop.

On Friday, April 12th from 6pm - 7pm, Omaha based poet, caregiver, printmaker, and project organizer Amanda Huckins will guide an Alternate Currents panel discussion at Generator Space that brings together Creating More Hours workshop participants for a conversation about mutual caregiving and its potential as an embodied practice to build solidarity within creative communities. 

Free and open to all, the discussion begins at 6pm and will end at 7pm. Generator Space will remain open until 8pm to gather, talk, and share space after the discussion. Please register in Eventbrite to attend. Face masks are welcome and encouraged. 

Generator Space is wheelchair accessible and located on a fairly busy street with a decent amount of traffic. Please use crosswalks for safety. Unmetered street parking is available on Vinton Street, 18th Street, and neighborhood streets to the north and west of the space. 

About the Moderator: 

Amanda Huckins is a Nebraskan poet whose work has been published in booklet form as "Trying to End the War" (merrily merrily merrily merrily, 2017) and featured in A Dozen Nothing (adozennothing.com), amongst other places on paper and online. In her weekday hours, Amanda assists multiple infants as they adjust to being. She deeply loves working alongside fellow community members to build self-determination, forge non-transactional relationships, and create radical free spaces (such as past projects The Commons in Lincoln, NE and Media Corp. in Omaha). She is also a letterpress printer who produces postcards (and other ephemera) in her garage print studio, where she teaches typesetting to anyone who wants to learn.

Host or Publisher Amplify Arts