Cry, if you Must is an excerpt of a larger work titled You Are Not a Monster (2024-2026), a lyric game (or game poem). It is a love letter to caregivers. The full game is meant to be played over the course of 28 days (a moon cycle), but it may be played or read in any way the player sees fit. For Little Giant Collective, eight somatic exercises are presented to visitors as prompts focused on the complex nature of caregiving. They are meant as meditations and a call to embody the present moment.
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. (she/they) is a Filipino-American writer, artist, and media scholar. She earned her Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media with a designated emphasis in Computational Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is an Assistant Professor of Teaching focused on Art, Justice, and Digital Media in the Art Department and Core Faculty for the Creative Technologies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Join us on Downtown Santa Cruz for our July First Friday Show! Each First Friday we feature a new artist in our Gallery. Dorothy Santos will be joining us for our September showing. Come hang out, have a drink and listen to some tunes (and yes we do have a cassette player:> ).
@115 River Street Santa Cruz, Ca 95062 (Next to Mobo Sushi)