Meet ACI’s Co-Director of Emergence | micah rose

Magandang araw!

My name is micah, pronounced however those letters vibe in your language 🥰

i use they/them pronouns, i’m a gender-transcending cousin to all life, and i wield words toward us re-membering ourselves to each other. Through my Artist in Community Fellowship, i grew into deeper relations with the peoples who make ACI, and so i’ve been growing into a continuing role as a Co-Director of Emergence 🌱

here’s what i know about emergence, in no particular order:

  1. nothing

here are seven things i am learning & feeling about emergence, in an order like how poets decide line breaks ;)

  1. like in all of nature, every emergence is unique, even if they share patterns; i.e. cicadas wield long gestations for brief & spectacular emergence, but different cicada species actualize this pattern differently and no two cicada from any generation will emerge in the same way or on the same time

  2. time is a f#%@!ng mess! moving through this construct via verbs & relationships—to water and ground, to each other, to my body—is how i like to live and love on my madness. my spirit belongs to centuries that this cute lil vessel of flesh won’t reach herself!

  3. trust is a wondrous—but complex—speed to move at; how can we be honest about this to honor Source? emergence is Source: “ancient” as in transcendent and eternal ~ an original way

  4. not every seed i or we dream is one we or i need to grow; seeds can be beautiful gifts

  5. seeds (of life, of thought, of feeling) thrive in interdependence

  6. no word is universal ~ take time to learn what people mean as we use these wild inventions called vocabulary

  7. “knowing” is a construct; queerying—asking “how?” and “why?” to innovate both intimate and shared living—is one way to destabilize “knowledge” {shoutout Roger Q. Mason for “queerying” and Ocean Vuong for helping me put word to experiences—and second shoutout to Roger for showing me the path of debunking ‘the singular author’ myth!}

i’m very grateful to shape my role as we cultivate circular, horizontalizing, anti-hierarchical ways of being all over our communities. Thought Partnering and Embodying across our Co-Directors feels extremely nourishing.

Elsewhere in my creative life…i returned to acting! I voiceover-recorded, with an incredible team, for 4 audio plays that are part of A.R.T.’s Arboretum Experience—now available to engage for free throughout the greenspace 🌳😁

And through loving support from The Theater Offensive, i’m continuing mentorship in Story Circles, a method nurtured by John O’Neal at Free Southern Theater & shared with me by his student Márquez Rhyne. shouting praise - praying blessings - and singing peace to you, Márquez ~ !

i have a couple more creative excitements to share soon…but for now i’m happy to share from some of the learning i’ve been up to!

A Smol Resource Log 🪵

Our earth is abundant with amazing people and creatures who enrich this world with their presence! Here are six sources of growth, joy, challenge, love, rest and/or more sensations that i’ve been present with over this summer; in no order:

Image Description: screenshot from @adriennemareebrown on instagram. The meme is a person labelled “Yo” vigorously playing a card game labelled “una conversación casual” throwing down a card labelled “EL PROBLEMA ES EL CAPITALISMO”.

Image Description: screenshot from @adriennemareebrown on instagram. The meme is a person labelled “Yo” vigorously playing a card game labelled “una conversación casual” throwing down a card labelled “EL PROBLEMA ES EL CAPITALISMO”.

well, that’s all i have to share in this edition of field notes! i breathe into this transition from August to September greeting you with ease or other nourishment 🧡

[thumbnail image description: micah rose levitating in a gentle grove of eyes, teeth and hair sculptures lit with the trans pride colors. Photo by Mel Taing © 2021]

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