Join Cara Hagan, a contemporary dancer and artist, to explore civic practice through the lens of artmaking. Learning to live mindfully in community is the first step to having what Hagan calls, a “civic practice,” which is a deep ritual practice unto itself that requires our full attention and a consistent recommitment to its existence and its health. To be clear, a civic practice means playing an active role in one’s community, driven by a concern for that community’s social, cultural, organizational, and infrastructural well-being. It includes the voluntary contribution of one’s time and talent (like any good ritual) to attend to the needs of one’s community. This looks different for everyone, and when people are tending to their communities from a place of agency, rooted in their power, participating in ways that are both manageable and productive given the shape of their lives, a civic practice is potent medicine against the forces of oppression. Hagan will share works of varied genres as a way of stitching together her experience of living in community with a passion for reimagining the world and how we exist in it.