FIRST LIGHT:
Sunlight and Class Warfare
Stedelijk Museum
Visual Design by Emirhan Akın
a Performance Lecture by CAConrad
Drawing on years of writing through (Soma)tic rituals, CAConrad will discuss their latest, titled "First Light," which is a meditation on sunrise and how that moment of returning light feeds cells, warms bodies, and illuminates the day and also how the impacts of greed have turned the best qualities of our planet's star against the most vulnerable.
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in 9 different languages. They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Spain and Portugal, and their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by the artist Augusto Cascales. Visit them at https://linktr.ee/CAConrad88