'Aloha 'OE'
Stacy Makishi
A creative workshop open to all adults, held at Eastbourne Blind Society. Sunday 18 October, 2026
Stacy Makishi teaching residency at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2025). Photo Kalev Lilleorg
Sunday 18 October, 2pm - 5pm
Eastbourne Blind Society, 124-142 Longstone Rd, Eastbourne BN22 8DA
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£20, £25. Two free bursary places are available on a first-come, first-served basis, for people who would otherwise be unable to come. Please email to request one. No explanation is required.
The venue has step-free access from street to building and throughout the building. There is a wheelchair-accessible toilet. This is a relaxed workshop where you're free to come and go, take breaks, sit or move around, and make noise as needed. Please feel welcome to get in touch about specific access requirements.
Overview
Join us for an afternoon workshop led by Hawaii-born, London-based artist Stacy Makishi.
This forms part of Stacy’s participatory project Walking Each Other Home, which explores where and how we gather, how ritual can heal and transform, and how we might build creative communities of connection; connection to ourselves, to each other, and to inspiration and mystery. For the past two years, Stacy has been exploring this through workshops and performances in the UK and beyond.
The workshop will focus on ‘creative homesickness’ and is oriented towards adults who feel far away from their creativity, and/or would like time to focus in a supportive and warm environment. It’s for anyone who is curious about developing their own creativity and there is no requirement to have an existing artistic practice though artists are also very welcome.
Stacy will offer a range of creative and playful tasks – from writing to simple physical tasks to image-making – designed to support you in your own creativity. These will draw on her 40-year experience of making and teaching live art, her belief in art’s transformative power and her spirited commitment to put more ‘aloha’ into the world.
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Artist bio
Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993. A cross-fertilization of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. It is as complex as it is accessible, humorous as it is challenging, visual as it is literate.
Made with a strong collaborative ethos, Stacy's solos have been presented across Europe and beyond, in contexts including TATE Modern, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Traverse Edinburgh, BRUT:Vienna, Estonia Academy, Mladi Levi, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and La Mama New York. Her large-scale participatory works include commissions for the Wellcome Collection and Contact Young Company, Manchester while as a teacher she has worked at institutions including Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Wellesley College, Goldsmiths, Central School of Speech and Drama, and Queen Mary's, University of London.
Walking Each Other Home
Walking Each Other Home is supported by Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with Southbank Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, Arts on the Green at New Unity, Pocket Fuse Festival, Live Art Development Agency (all in London), The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tallinn), Feral Festival CIFAS (Brussels), SPILL Festival (Ipswich), Colchester Arts Centre, Bradford Producing Hub, , Bradford Black & Brown Queers, Ideas Test (Chatham), Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts & Marlborough Productions (Brighton), Home Live Art (Hastings).