The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour in Chico, originally scheduled at the 1078 Gallery in Chico on Sunday, May 19 at 3 pm has been postponed until October 2024; a new date will be available soon. To check the latest tour dates, see the Moving Parts Press website: https://movingpartspress.com/publications/heavy-lifting-listening-tour/.

The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing, and dreaming, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens a display of the artists’ book and of the experimental film, On Heavy Lifting, that accompanies the book. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill  and the audience in which she alternates reading her poems with an invitation for audience members to read their own work or share brief stories in response to the themes and material.

It kicks off in March 2023 in Caspar and will occur monthly in communities impacted by the wildfires throughout northern California in 2023.

To learn more about the entire Heavy Lifting Project, see https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/

To see the full lineup of events for the Heavy Listening Tour, see: https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/#About-Tour