Event details
Interactive public art performance
Location
The Chapel
Category
Arts & Culture
Event Details
Join huiyin zhou and Laura Dudu, co-directors of Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草 for this interactive experience at Dix Park as part of a SEEK Raleigh public art project.
Rooted in ethics of care, the Ciba Punch 女拳手打糍粑 is an ongoing participatory-performance series that invites multicultural community members to punch steamed sticky rice into 糍粑 (ciba – sticky rice cakes).
Ciba is a Chinese rice cake often eaten with brown sugar and other dips. By making ciba in public, CAO hopes to reclaim the feminized labor of cooking in domestic spaces and see food as a queer/feminist, processual archive for movement building. Channeling our rage, grief, and love for each other into the communal labor of food-making, the Ciba Punch invites participants to reimagine and celebrate (em)power(ment) as radical non-violence. Spiritual Figures, embodying queer/feminist ancestors and our future selves, roam around the ciba punchers to provide spiritual guidance through humming and breathing.
Come punch with us! While we will provide sanitation gloves, we cannot guarantee food safety. The sticky rice cake produced as part of the performance will be consumed at your own risk.
Registration
Free to attend. Please register so the artists ensure enough supplies for all participants.
Registration opens two weeks in advance of the event date at 12:00 pm.
See link above to sign up.
Know Before You Go
Chapel Address: 1030 Richardson Drive, Raleigh, NC 27603
- Via Western Boulevard: Enter at Hunt Drive or S. Boylan Avenue
- Via Lake Wheeler Road: Enter at Umstead Drive
- Follow signs towards Chapel
- Parking is located in Lot C. ADA parking is available in front of the Chapel.
Dix Park continues to strive to be accessible and welcoming for visitors, including those with disabilities. Currently, portions of Dix Park, including some areas where programs and events occur, have uneven surfaces and are not fully accessible. Accessibility is a primary focus for all park improvements and development.
Parking: ADA parking spaces for the Chapel are to the left and out front of the building. ADA parking spaces are available in all lots.
Chapel Entrance: Ramp and ADA push button activated door is located to the left of the front of the building.
Restrooms: Indoor accessible restrooms are available in the Chapel.
Programs and Events: Raleigh Parks Inclusion Services works with community members to support participation. To request a program modification based on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please complete and submit the Accommodation Request Form or contact Inclusion Services staff at 919-996-2147 or ParksInclusion@raleighnc.gov.
Contact Dix Park Staff at 919-996-3255 or events@dixpark.org
