Please join us for a talk by poet Gabrielle Civil, A Conversation with Yolanda Wisher. Please register for this even via Zoom.

Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit. She has premiered fifty performance works around the world. Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish, Experiments in Joy, and (ghost gestures) performance writing. Her work has also appeared in Dancing While Black, Kitchen Table Translation, New Daughters of Africa, Black in the Middle, and Experiments in Joy: A Workbook. A 2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerging Artist, she currently teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.